O-R Weekend Recap: 5 things you need to know for Monday
Did you have a good weekend? In case you were too busy to catch up on local news stories, we have compiled this list of the five most-read stories from the Observer-Reporter’s website from Friday through Sunday!
An Avella man was jailed Saturday on an attempted homicide charge after an altercation in Blaine Township.
State police said Victor Simonelli, 30, and another person engaged in a physical fight about 3:15 a.m. on Main Street. Simonelli allegedly struck the victim in the back and head multiple times with a metal pipe. Police said the victim was transported to a local hospital for medical treatment.
Sarah Robinson’s husband Mark Coligan of McDonald was 37 when he died of an overdose after years of struggling with heroin addiction two days before Christmas – a story Robinson told Saturday during a rally led by the group Western Pennsylvania’s Fight Against Addiction at Canonsburg Armory Youth Center.
The event, which was sponsored by sponsored by the youth center, Harbor House Cafe and Washington’s Harmony Life Center was intended not only to highlight the need to combat the surging opioid epidemic but to bring attention to the devastation wrought by addiction in general.
Click here to read Gideon Bradshaw’s coverage of the event.
One person was taken to a Pittsburgh hospital Saturday after a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 79 in Chartiers Township.
A Washington County 911 supervisor said the accident occurred about 10 a.m. on the southbound side of the interstate, just before the Racetrack Road exit. A firefighter on the scene said the victim was taken to Allegheny General Hospital. Further details were not available.
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Contractors for Range Resources who were part of a convoy of seven water tankers headed to a well pad rescued a 99-year-old woman who had fallen in a yard in the vicinity of Burgettstown and Eldersville. The woman at first did not want to seek treatment, but she was later found to have suffered a broken pelvis.
Shawn Kelley, a driver for CLB Trucking, heard a member of the convoy, led by Joe Rovny of Equipment Transport, contacting his fellow drivers by radio to help a woman in distress. One driver thought he saw something, while another said he had not, so Kelley was on alert.
“I was the fourth truck,” Kelley said of the group that was en route to the Walasik well. “I pulled off as far to the right side as I could.” Driver Bob Eder also stopped about 7:30 a.m. Thursday. The woman, Norma Paul, was lying face up, leaning on a propped elbow, and was using her other arm to try to flag down someone. She told the drivers she needed help and that a relative was inside her house.
For more details, click here to read Barbara Miller’s story.
Donegal Township has temporarily restricted traffic on a road leading to a compressor station under construction – effectively halting construction.
Delashawn Road is open only to residential motorists because of the poor condition of the pavement. The road is paved for only a quarter-mile, from the intersection with Old National Pike to Interstate Village, an 80-unit mobile home complex. The rest of Delashawn, to its intersection with Beham Ridge Road, is dirt.
“We have not often closed roads. It would take a pretty drastic situation to do that,” township Supervisor Doug Teagarden said.
Click here to read the full story from staff writer Rick Shrum.