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Dec 29 2011 06:56:59:367AM West Zone W-1
WEST
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2011
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June 16Bikers en-
counter a new “old covered bridge” on the Panhandle Train near the McDonald Trail Station & Meeting House in Mc-Donald.
March 3Florence
Cusano, 84, and other volunteers make ethnic specialties to sell at The Pizza Kitchen at St. John of God Church in Stowe on Fridays.
June 23 River runs
through it — Riverside’s Corey Belonzi jumps into the arms of teammate Tyler Falk after defeat-ing Salisbury, 5-2, in the PIAA Class AA baseball championship Friday in Uni-versity Park
Feb. 3South Fay-
ette Middle School stu-dents Olivia Iagnemma, Ryan McGow-an, Anna Gagliardino, Wyatt Mauti, Nicholas Karafilis and Railey Rao lead the way to the school’s “Souper Bowl” compe-tition with a middle school in Wisconsin.
Feb. 17Max
DuBois laughs after he and his wife, Joyce DuBois, gave different an-swers during “The Newly-wed Game” at the Country Meadows of South Hills in South Fay-ette.
June 2The bricks
came tum-bling down from Carn-egie’s Main Hotel on East Main Street as demolition gets under way.
Jan. 6New Brid-
geville library opens.
Sept. 29 Happy
homecom-ing — Senior Airmen Blake Graft, left, and Domenic Mash hold their new-borns at Pitts-burgh Interna-tional Airport after returning to Pittsburgh from a seven-month de-ployment in Afghanistan.
Sept. 29Dominic
Henke, 7, of Crafton, reads to Nola, a 9-year-old pit bull and her owner Mi-chele Carso as part of a program at the Crafton Public Library where kids read to a therapy dog.
Oct. 13Freshman
Luke Hunter reads an iPad in the library at the newly renovated Montour High School.
July 28Ambridge
Shop ‘n Save produce man-ager Jose-phine Grossi, 70, was hon-ored by First Lady Michelle Obama.
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By Carole Gilbert Brown
Scott taxpayers will not see a millage increase for 2012, but they also may not see some street improvements.
After haggling for nearly two hours, commissioners Tues-day approved a new budget that
includes $7.9 million in revenues and $9.7 million in expenditures for the new year. The shortfall will be made up with a fund bal-ance of $1.955 million. The prop-erty tax rate will remain 5 mills,
which includes 0.0870 mills toward the operation of the Scott Township Public Library.
The budget vote was unani-mous, but the vote to retain the millage was 7-2, with Tom Cas-tello and board President Pat
Many of the top stories and developments in West this year can be told best through the quotes of individuals who played parts in the news-mak-ing events. Here’s a month-by-month sampling:
January“There’s been far less com-
plaints about the air quality around the school over the last several months. This most recent find shows they’re con-tinuing to be vigilant in moni-toring that situation.” — West Allegheny superintendent
John DiSanti reacting to fines imposed on Allied Waste Systems of Pennsylvania for odors at the Imperial Landfill adjacent to Wilson Elementary School in Findlay.
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Roadwork trimmed to avoid increase A summary of 2011 in quotesscott