O-R Weekend Recap: 5 things you need to know for Monday
Did you have a good weekend? In case you might have missed out on any local news, the Observer-Reporter has you covered with this compilation of the five most-read stories on our website this weekend.
A third-grade student at Trinity South Elementary School died after contracting the flu, according to relatives and a family friend.
Payton Pierson, 10, died Thursday at UPMC-Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh after being taken off life support, said David and Carissa Worobec, the child’s great-grandfather and aunt. Her parents are James Edward Morris and Ashley Pierson of Washington.
Family friend Michelle Markley said Payton was diagnosed with the flu last Saturday at Washington Hospital and returned to her Washington area home. Twelve hours later, around 6:30 a.m. Sunday, Markley said the girl collapsed at home.
For the full details, click here to read Rick Shrum’s story.
More than an entertaining Senior Night basketball game unfolded at the Fort Cherry High School gym this evening. It was also Nicole Night.
Nicole Stewart, a Fort Cherry junior, was a focus of attention when the Rangers engaged Chartiers-Houston in a boys matchup Friday. She was recently diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system. Medical treatments have prevented her from attending class, and may keep her out of school until August.
For one evening, Fort Cherry expanded its palette of school colors to red, white and purple. The game was a “purple out,” with those who attended encouraged to wear tops and/or bottoms of that color, which is used to represent lymphoma.
For more information, click here to read Rick Shrum’s story.
A Mt. Lebanon woman died Friday night after being struck by a vehicle while she was walking across Interstate 79 in Collier Township.
Katie Musick, 40, died at the scene after being hit by the vehicle shortly before 6:45 p.m. near the Kirwan Heights/Heidelberg exit, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office.
State police said Musick had crashed her car on the southbound exit ramp and then got out of her vehicle and walked across the highway’s southbound lanes. She was struck in the left lane by a vehicle driven by a 40-year-old Canonsburg woman, who police did not identify.
For the full story, click here to read Mike Jones’ report.
A Hanover Township man has been jailed on a probation detainer after authorities reported finding handguns and a cache of suspected stolen items at the house where he was living.
Levi Stroud, 21, has been in Washington County jail since Tuesday, when police accompanied probation officers during a check of Stroud’s compliance with terms of his probation in a previous case.
Hanover Township Officer Dan McMurtrie said police and probation officers found two handguns previously reported stolen, and police obtained a warrant to search the house. Officers said they found 150 to 200 items suspected of having been stolen from cars in the area.
For more details on this case, click here to read Gideon Bradshaw’s story.
The new owners of Minteer’s Market are planning some tweaks to the longtime store on Main Street before opening in the next few weeks. Ryan Yoest, who along with several other family members own and operate Yoest Feed & Farm Supply at 2465 E. Finley Drive, said the family recently purchased Minteer’s, which has been closed since mid-January.
“We’re renovating the whole place,” Yoest said last week. “It’s almost down to the walls.”
He said that the new incarnation of the store will retain some of the market and deli items that were previously offered, “but it will also be more of a general store. There will be a little bit of the feed store mixed in,” he said of certain items the Yoests will introduce from their feed and farm supply, which is nearby.
For more information on the new Minteer’s Market, click here to read Michael Bradwell’s business notebook.