Friday, May 17, 2013
The art show is today, Friday, and Saturday at Dormont Municipal Center.
The lobby of Dormont Municipal Center is a little more colorful this weekend. Through this Saturday, May 18, the 11th annual Spring Art Exhibit and art sale is in the lobby of municipal center. The art show is sponsored by Primary Colors Art Guild and LifeSpan's Hillsdale Community Resource Center. Artists will be at the municipal center today, Friday, between 6 and 9 p.m. and tomorrow, May 18, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. to show off their work. The event features appetizers, a Chinese auction and raffles. Pittsburgh artist Robert Daley will judge the event. The art show is free to the public, and a free shuttle to the art show from the Dormont Pool parking lot will be provided Friday evening. Join Patch for more community news or join us on …
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
The five containers buried under the Dormont Pool parking lot used to be septic tanks, and all are being repaired.
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- Erin Faulk
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Tuesday, March 19
The mystery of the five containers buried under the Dormont Pool parking lot has been solved. The containers were once septic tanks, although borough manager Jeff Naftal said they don’t appear to have been in use for more than 75 years. “We know what they are,” Naftal said. “We’re certain they were septic tanks, but we don’t know what they served.” The Allegheny County Public Works Department sent the borough plans that cleared up the issue, Naftal said. The plans, dated 1937, were for work being done on Banksville Road, but clearly showed three septic tanks at what is now the pool parking lot. The plans also included instructions for a contractor to remove the lids of those tanks and fill them. “Of course, not only did we find five tanks …
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Construction crews have found a total of four concrete containers under the Dormont Pool parking lot since the first collapsed last week.
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- Erin Faulk
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Tuesday, March 12
Four concrete boxes were found at the site of the collapse in the Dormont Pool parking lot, and officials now have a better idea of what the structures might have been used for. Borough manager Jeff Naftal said the concrete containers appear to be a water management system which would have allowed storm water to enter a concrete channel, then overflow into the first structure, and into the others as needed. The boxes likely managed water coming from the street, but Naftal said that detail is still unclear. A crew from Niando construction collapsed and partially filled two boxes over the weekend, and began excavating the third and fourth on Monday. "We are hopeful that four is the end, but won’t know until we dig that one out whether there …
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
As crews worked to clear a collapse in the Dormont Pool parking lot, a pipe was found leading into the concrete box buried underground. It is still not clear why the box is there, or what it is.
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- Erin Faulk
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Wednesday, March 6
The concrete box buried under the Dormont Pool parking lot was definitely not used for burning Christmas trees, borough manager Jeff Naftal said Monday. The bomb shelter scenario also is unlikely. But Dormont officials are getting closer to discovering what the now-collapsed box might actually have been used for. During Monday’s Dormont Council meeting, Naftal said he was hopeful crews would find pipes leading to or from the container, and on Tuesday, that hope was fulfilled. At least one pipe was found in the wall of the box, but Council President Bill McCartney, who was at the scene on Tuesday, said it’s still not clear where the pipe leads. The pipe could indicate that the box might have been some sort of overflow container, and …
Friday, March 1, 2013
The hole appears to be caused by the collapse of an underground concrete box that the borough has no records for.
A massive “sinkhole” has opened in the Dormont Pool parking lot, and what it revealed has borough officials baffled. The ground fell in Wednesday, when the roof of a concrete box buried under the parking lot collapsed—and the borough has no record, no design plans, no indication of such a container ever being buried there. Borough manager Jeff Naftal said that with no records showing why the box is there, officials don’t know much about what it was used for, or if other containers exist. “The box is ridiculously large,” Naftal said. “It’s 20 feet wide, 50 feet long, 10 feet deep and it’s buried 7 feet underground. “We had no idea it was there. It doesn’t show on any maps.” Naftal said that this is not a true sinkhole because it did not …
Friday, November 30, 2012
Need a Christmas tree? The Keystone Oaks Christmas tree sale is happening now.
If you're looking for that perfect Christmas tree to bring holiday cheer to your home, Keystone Oaks Band is ready to help. The Keystone Oaks Marching Band's annual Christmas tree sale is happening now, at the tennis and basketball courts in the Dormont Pool parking lot. Scotch Pine, Balsam, Spruce and Frasier Furs are available for prices ranging from $25 to $65, and Christmas wreaths are $20. New this year, table-top Christmas trees also are available. The sale is open on weekdays from 4 to 9 p.m. and on weekends from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Proceeds from the sale will help fund the marching band's yearly band trip. This year, the band will be marching at Disney Land in the beginning of April. Follow Dormont-Brookline Patch on Facebook and …
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