Thursday, April 18, 2013
Here's a list of some places to take items that should not be sent to landfills or placed at the curb.
Although Earth Day is officially April 22, it's not too early for residents of Dormont Borough and Brookline to begin to look at ways to be more environmentally friendly. The following is a list of items, provided in part by the Allegheny County Health Department, that should not be in landfills and generally aren't collected through municipal recycling. Listed below those items are places at which those items can be disposed/recycled. Appliances Tube City, West Mifflin Borough Appliance Warehouse, South Side Local Goodwill Stores may also accept some small appliances. Automotive Oils PetroMax, Collier Township Batteries Batteries Plus, Castle Shannon Borough Pennsylvania Resources Council, South Side Batteries, Automobile Batteries Plus, …
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Friends shared condolences for Andrew Guzzi, 25, of Dormont, and his family, who are from Upper St. Clair.
The death of a Dormont man who fell from a balcony in Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood has been ruled accidental, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office. Andrew W. Guzzi, 25, of Dormont, died after falling three stories from the fire escape of a home in the South Side, Pittsburgh police said. Guzzi was found near the corner of 18th and Carey streets. According to the medical examiner’s office, the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head as a result of a fall. A spokesman from the examiner’s office said the death has been ruled accidental. On Sunday and Monday, friends took to social media and to the message board of Upper St. Clair Patch to express grief for a man many described as funny and caring, who …
Sunday, November 11, 2012
A 25-year-old Dormont man died in Pittsburgh's South Side neighborhood early Sunday morning.
Pittsburgh police are investigating the death of a Dormont man in Pittsburgh's South Side neighborhood early Sunday morning. Andrew W. Guzzi, 25, of Dormont, appears to have fallen three stories from a fire escape, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He was found near the corner of 18th and Carey streets. According to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's office, the incident occurred around 2:30 a.m. Sunday. The cause of death is still under investigation, a spokesman from the medical examiner's office said. The spokesman said Pittsburgh police are investigating the case as a suspicious death. Guzzi was a 2009 graduate of Washington & Jefferson College. UPDATE: On Monday, Nov. 12, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's office …
The mother said her daughter had been abducted on the South Side but, later, the mother's boyfriend confessed to burying the toddler in Brookline.
The image of a little girl on a grocery shopping trip with her mother—then suddenly gone. That was happened the day of March 9, 1982 when Melody Childs Thomas told police that her daughter, Nicole Lynn Bryner, 3, had been abducted from a shopping cart at the Giant Eagle supermarket on the South Side of Pittsburgh. Though there were extensive searches, no trace of Nicole was ever found. Then, in 1986, Timothy Widman, Childs' boyfriend at the time, allegedly confessed he had punched Bryner and accidentally killed her. He told police that he and Childs' buried the body in a wooded area along Timberland Road in Brookline. Police searched unsuccessfully for the body. Without it, prosecutors could not pursue the case. But in 1988, a Superior …
Ed M
7:12 am on Friday, April 19, 2013
Batteries Plus charges to recycle batteries. Here is a good like as well http://www.zerowastepgh.org/ZW-PRC-hardtorecycle.html#resources more ›