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31 Local Businesses to 'Like' on Facebook

Dormont and Brookline have great small-business districts, and a lot of those businesses use Facebook. Here are a few of their pages.

31 Local Businesses to 'Like' on Facebook

Dormont and Brookline have great small-business districts, and a lot of those businesses use Facebook. Here are a few of their pages.

If there's one thing that sets Dormont and Brookline apart as unique and active communities, it's that each of them have great small business districts. In today's social media age, Facebook can be one of the best ways to find out when these shops have sales, specials and events. Here are a few to follow, in no particular order, if you haven't already: Of course, Dormont-Brookline Patch also has a Facebook page. If you've got a favorite small business that wasn't mentioned here, share in the comments, and I'll add it to the list! Follow Dormont-Brookline Patch on Facebook and Twitter. For more news, sign up for our email Newsletter.

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Want PennDOT News? Check Facebook!

PennDOT now has a Facebook page, which will provide traffic updates to followers.

Let's face it—whether you're taking Banksville Road, West Liberty Avenue, or trying to get to the Parkway, traveling around Dormont and Brookline isn't always easy. But PennDOT’s newly launched Facebook page gives Pennsylvanians more ways to interact with the agency, and find valuable transportation news and tips that could ease a potentially frustrating commute. The new PennDOT Facebook page features: In addition to the main PennDOTNews Twitter feed, the department also maintains eight regional Twitter accounts allowing followers to get updated traffic alerts and local PennDOT news. PennDOT will not report traffic or road conditions on its Facebook page. Travelers should visit www.511PA.com or call 5-1-1 for current traffic conditions. …

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KO Residents Offer Suggestions for Better Communication

The Keystone Oaks School Board held a meeting Monday to discuss what the district could do to better communication with residents.

Audience members aren’t normally allowed to speak out of turn at public meetings, but the Keystone Oaks School Board encouraged that interaction in a communications committee meeting Monday night. The open forum meeting was proposed earlier this year to give residents from Dormont, Green Tree and Castle Shannon the opportunity to talk with school board members about improving communication between the district and the community. Much of the conversation focused on the use of Facebook. Although some groups have Keystone Oaks-based Facebook pages, such as Keystone Oaks High School Alumni, the district itself does not currently use the social networking site. The district’s public relations director, Jim Cromie, said he contacted 19 school …

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Man Charged with Using Fake Facebook Profile to Lure Girls

William Ainsworth is arrested and charged in multiple cases after traveling to the home of a 14-year-old Butler County girl for sex.

An Adams Township man who pretended to be two different surfers from Florida is charged with using Facebook to entice young girls to send him explicit photos and arrange meetings for sex, state Attorney General Linda Kelly said today. William R. Ainsworth, 53, of Raupp Lane, is charged with 68 felony counts, including involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, criminal attempted unlawful contact with a minor, criminal solicitation to commit unlawful contact with a minor, possession of child pornography and criminal use of a communications facility. Agents arrested him in September after receiving information that he had traveled to the home of a 14-year old Butler County girl to engage in sex acts. Victims identified during the investigation …

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Erin Faulk

11:11 pm on Saturday, February 11, 2012

Suz, if I had children I'd probably do the same thing you do. That seems to be the most full-proof way to keep kids safe from people who try things like this.   more ›