Monday, September 24, 2012
A man chopping wood discovers a live “pineapple” hand grenade near the Evans City Cemetery.
The Allegheny County Police Bomb Squad was called to Jackson Township Sunday to detonate a Mk 2 hand grenade that a man found while chopping wood in the area. Jackson Police Chief Terry Seilhamer said the 52-year-old, who he declined to name, was cutting firewood near the Verizon Wireless cell phone tower behind the Evans City Cemetery on Franklin Road at about 7 p.m. when he came across the Mk 2, which is commonly known as a “pineapple” hand grenade. Seilhamer said the grenade was identifiable as the World War II-era weapon by its rough texture, including raised squares on the body, and its oval shape. “It was quite weathered,” he said. (To check out the grenade as it appeared hidden in leaves that had fallen to the ground, click on the…
Thursday, September 13, 2012
A 17-year-old and three others are taken to the hospital to be treated for minor injuries.
A Seneca Valley student and his three teen passengers were injured during a collision Thursday morning on Route 19 near Tollgate Road in Jackson Township. Jackson police said the 17-year-old from Cranberry was driving north on Route 19 at about 7 a.m. when he collided with a Ford Taurus driven by James Bucek, 53, of Cranberry. Officer Zeke Reed said Bucek was turning left from Gudekunst Road north onto Route 19 when he collided with the Honda Prelude driven by the teen. Bucek was not injured, Reed said. Authorities are still determining the cause of the accident. Reed said it was not a head-on collision. “It was more of a sideswipe,” he said. The 17-year-old, who police are not identifying, was taken by ambulance to an area hospital, Reed …
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Neither of the two teen boys on board the bus Tuesday are hurt. Jackson Township police continue to investigate the incident.
Jackson Township police continue to investigate a head-on collision that injured a Seneca Valley school bus driver at the end of the first day of school Tuesday. Jackson Township Police Chief Terry Seilhamer said Connor Mincer, 20, of Evans City, was driving on Textor School Road at about 3:15 p.m. when he collided with a bus coming the opposite way from the Seneca Valley secondary campus in Jackson. Neither of the two high school students on board the bus at the time were hurt, Seilhamer said. The bus driver, 60-year-old Christine Albert of Evans City, sustained an arm injury, Seilhamer said. Mincer had facial injuries and also complained of back pain, the chief said. Both were taken by ambulance to Butler Memorial Hospital in Butler. …
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Friday, May 20, 2011
Vice president of Pittsburgh-based EQT says environmental threats linked to drilling have been exaggerated.
Concerns over the environmental impact of Marcellus Shale gas drilling have been overstated, an official from a Pittsburgh-based natural gas company said last night at a public forum at the Carnegie Science Center on the North Side. Lindell Bridges, the senior vice president for geoscience at EQT, fielded questions about the region's burgeoning drilling industry during "Drilling Down on the Marcellus Shale: Energy Potential" at the center. Audience members had the chance to question Bridges on how drilling would impact the Pittsburgh region in decades to come. Bridges touted the long-term benefits of drilling, telling the audience that Western Pennsylvania sits on one of the largest reservoirs of natural gas in the world. Tapping that …
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Township officials approved a conditional application for Keystone Midstream LLC at Thursday's meeting.
Plans are moving forward for a natural gas processing plant in Jackson Township that opponents of Marcellus Shale drilling have protested. At Thursday’s meeting, Jackson Township supervisors unanimously approved a conditional use application for the Bluestone Gas Processing plant, which would extract natural gas liquids. Keystone Midstream LLC will be the plant’s owner; the company also owns a similar processing facility on Route 528 in Forward Township.The new facility would lease 71 acres along Hartmann Road and process Marcellus Shale gas for Rex Energy. On Monday,members of Marcellus Outreach Butler attended a hearing on the application, with many of them speaking out against the plant’s proposed location about a mile from the Seneca …
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Supervisors to vote on a conditional use application by Keystone Midstream LLC at Thursday's regular board meeting.
Jackson Township’s Board of Supervisors had a packed house Monday for a hearing on a proposed natural gas processing plant on Hartmann Road. The nearly three-hour hearing reviewed a proposed conditional-use application for construction and operation of the Bluestone Gas Processing Plant, which would extract natural gas liquids. Owned by Keystone Midstream LLC, which also owns a similar processing facility on Route 528 in Forward Township, the plant would be located on 71 acres along Hartmann Road and process Marcellus Shale gas for Rex Energy. The property is zoned for manufacturing use. It is bordered by a landfill, a dairy farm, and the headquarters for Advanced Polymer Technology. Members of Marcellus Outreach Butler, who oppose the …
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Orange Chic
10:47 am on Monday, December 10, 2012
I would like to know what the average rate of car accidents per year is involving Seneca Valley student drivers in and around the campus? It has always seemed to me poor judgement by the school district to allow juniors ( recently licensed drivers) to get parking permits to drive to school...not to mention the overly large amount of student parking passes that are given out (sold) each year. Is … more ›