news

Early Moon budget has slim tax hike
Moon Area School District taxpayers will have their first say on an initial $57.7 million budget with an .86-mill property tax increase on Monday.

Neville development strategies weighed
Neville Island is becoming more and more two-faced -- one brown and one green.

Moon looks to address future traffic concerns now
By 2030, navigating University Boulevard and Business Route 60 in Moon Township could be a nightmare.

Ceremony marks new beginning for historic Mooncrest
Shelly Todd remembers growing up in Mooncrest decades ago, when children played outside until the streetlights flickered.

Neville Naturalist program returns
Children who participate in this year's Neville Naturalist program may take it for granted that they can turn on their faucet anytime they choose and get a glass of water that won't make them sick.

New RMU partnership offers medical school options
Junior Tia Gaston came to Robert Morris University planning a future in informational sciences.

Cost of teen drug abuse can be steep -- in more ways than one
When parents, grandparents, community leaders and interested residents left Cornell's auditorium after the Northern Area Alliance Against Highly Addictive Drugs town meeting, they left with more than the knowledge of the signs of drug use.

Anniversary of Berlin Airlift to be marked
Sixty years ago, the U.S. Air Force entered its modern age of aviation when the nation's planes saved West Germans from starvation with food parcels dropped from the sky.

sports

Playoff Prepared: Tough schedule has young Tigers ready for postseason
Moon's spot in the WPIAL baseball playoffs only became official with an 8-7 win over South Park on Monday, but the Tigers preparation for the postseason began long before that.

A truly remarkable comeback
In a span of less than three months, Devin McGrath has gone a long way to overcome her battle with meningoencephalitis -- an infection of the brain and surrounding membranes -- to return to both school and sports.

All three area schools miss on postseason
The softball teams from Moon, OLSH and Cornell will all miss out on this year's WPIAL playoffs, with the Tigers and Chargers both being eliminated in the season's final week.

New sections for many area teams
The WPIAL released its realignment for the 2008-09 and 2009-10 winter sports seasons last month, with one of the most notable changes being Moon's drop from to Class AAA, after recording the most wins in Quad-A of any WPIAL team over the last two year

opinion

New commissary a most welcome addition
At a time when good news, especially on the local economic front, seems to be as rare as a Pirates winning streak, last week's announcement that the Pentagon would build a new commissary in Moon Township was a welcome breath of fresh air.

obituaries

Obituaries for May 8, 2008

people

Annual air show a homecoming for GEICO pilot
Up, up and away. That's how Steve Kapur spends many summer weekends -- soaring high above in a vintage World War II-era SNJ-2 airplane as part of the five-plane GEICO Skytypers team.