Sunday, April 28, 2013
The Baldwin Whitehall Soccer Association claims that use of Colewood Park fields is 'excessive.'
A petition started by the Baldwin Whitehall Soccer Association (BWSA) might go for naught, as Baldwin Borough Manager John Barrett has called the association's concerns "unfounded." The association has expressed to the Baldwin Council that it is allowing "excessive" use of south Baldwin's Colewood Park fields. The petition states that borough officials granted permission for lacrosse activity on the fields even after the BWSA invested $20,000 in field repairs. "BWSA has invested heavily in time/volunteers and money to improve the fields at Colewood," the petition states on Change.org. "BWSA has decided to limit our use of the fields to allow them to grow and establish. Yet, the borough has issued a permit (for lacrosse)." Barrett maintains…
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Colewood Park
Ranchview Dr & Overland Trl, Pittsburgh, PA
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Sunday, November 18, 2012
The borough hasn't raised its millage rate since 2002.
2013 Budget Mostly in Order Whitehall Borough property owners should expect to pay about the same in local real estate taxes next year as they have since 2002. But nothing final has been decided yet. Ten years ago was the most recent time that the Whitehall Council raised the borough's millage rate, and even then, that was the first time that taxes were raised in 24 years. Actually, when the borough's final 2013 budget is approved by its council sometime before the end of 2012, the local millage rate will end up lower than 2012's rate of 5.50 mills. But that's only due to a recent countywide real estate reassessment that raised the value of most Whitehall properties. And in order to remain revenue-neutral, the borough has to adjust its …
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Borough of Whitehall Municipal Complex (Administrative Offices and Outdoor Recreation)
100 Borough Park Dr, Pittsburgh, PA
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Baldwin must start a large water basin project soon with or without its district neighbor. And other notes from Tuesday night's borough council meetings.
Going at it Alone? Baldwin Borough engineers Larry Souleret and Ned Mitrovich gave the Baldwin Council some surprising news during Tuesday night's regular council meeting. As a way of temporarily holding sewage water during periods of wet weather, Baldwin must move forward soon on a large water basin project adjacent to the Lick Run waterway, but it may have to do so without any involvement from Whitehall Borough, which also flows water to Lick Run. The water basin project is needed to satisfy a consent decree from the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), whose officials have deemed that sewage water from south Baldwin and the nearby municipalities that also contribute to the Lick Run waterway (near Colewood Park) has led to …
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Baldwin Borough Municipal Complex
3344 Churchview Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Leftovers from Tuesday night's Baldwin Council meeting.
Triangle Pet Control Services Contract Ended By a unanimous vote on Tuesday night, the Baldwin Council officially ended Baldwin Borough's contract with Triangle Pet Control Services, which was shut down by officials from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture on Oct. 1 after it allegedly defrauded the state by getting paid for services that it didn't perform. Baldwin Borough has been without animal control services throughout October as a result of the shutdown. On Oct. 2, borough Manager John Barrett said that Baldwin officials will "have to figure something out" in order to replace Triangle Pet. Borough Will Soon Stop Paying for Trash Collection at Apartments By another unanimous vote, the Baldwin Council agreed to have …
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Baldwin Borough Municipal Complex
3344 Churchview Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
It's official: These volunteers have tried EVERYTHING to raise funds.
From raffles to mattress sales to recreating a Korean guy's hit music video, the firefighters from the South Baldwin Volunteer Fire Company have made one thing very clear: They are creative. On Wednesday, a group of firemen from Baldwin Borough's southernmost station posted a four-and-a-half-minute-long music video on YouTube to the tune of "Gangnam Style" by Korean rapper Psy. Psy's original video, only on YouTube since July, has turned out to be one of the most popular Internet videos ever, racking up over 400 million hits and counting due in large part to its offbeat dancing and other content. At the end of the South Baldwin video, which appears to have been filmed in the borough itself—there are scenes at Colewood Park, for example—one…
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South Baldwin Volunteer Fire Company
5311 McAnulty Rd, Pittsburgh, PA
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Most of the money is for a Colewood Park water basin project. And other leftovers from an Oct. 9 council meeting.
Borrowing for DEP Consent Decree Forced to satisfy a consent decree from the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the Baldwin Borough Council is expected to approve a $14,175,000 general obligation bond issue on Oct. 16 that includes $9.7 million marked for sewer projects. Of the $9.7 million, $8.7 million is for a large water basin project near Colewood Park that includes the installation of a long stretch of pipeline that would run from roughly Hollowhaven Drive to the railway that crosses Horning Road. DEP officials have deemed that sewage water from south Baldwin and the nearby municipalities that also contribute to the Lick Run waterway has led to overflow in a Pleasant Hills Authority water treatment plant. The Colewood …
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Baldwin Borough Municipal Complex
3344 Churchview Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
'It's shocking.' - Borough Councilman Michael Stelmasczyk
Baldwin Borough residents who are breathing easier after learning that a Colewood Park water basin project should be much smaller than what was originally thought might want to hold their breath again. Or at least sit down. The basin, which would temporarily hold sewage water during periods of wet weather, could still be large enough to increase sewage rates for Baldwin residents by about $15 per month. And combined with that increase are potential Allegheny County Sanitary Authority (ALCOSAN) rate increases—possibly $35 per month—that would also be necessary to satisfy Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) consent decrees. Add it all up, and the average Baldwin resident could be looking at a sewage service increase of $600 per year…
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Baldwin Borough Municipal Complex
3344 Churchview Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
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Thursday, July 5, 2012
Open meeting on the subject will be held on July 10.
The firm of Lennon, Smith, Souleret Engineering, Inc., is still recommending a water basin project for Baldwin Borough, but the size—and the cost—of the basin should be much smaller than what was originally thought. The firm, whose services are employed by the borough, gave its initial recommendation during a special Lick Run Watershed meeting of the Baldwin Council on Jan. 17, with a potential price tag of $13 million. But at a borough meeting on June 19, news surfaced that that cost might be a little high. "Meetings with the Department of Environmental Protection recently have indicated that the borough will have to design repairs to the sanitary system to a two-year storm (event) rather than a 10-year storm as was originally proposed," …
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Baldwin Borough Municipal Complex
3344 Churchview Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
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Monday, May 7, 2012
Also, hydrocodone possession, gasoline theft and two DUI arrests in these Baldwin Borough police notes.
Nearly On-Fire Truck Barrels into Colewood Park After Crash Near Baldwin Towers Baldwin Borough police officers came to Colewood Park in response to a witness' report that a smoking, nearly on-fire truck had just driven into a parking lot there at around 5:39 p.m. on April 27. After stopping in the parking lot, the driver of the truck—later identified as Kenneth Lee Lowmiller, 50, of Cochran Mill Road in Jefferson Hills Borough—ran on foot into a wooded area, according to the witness, before police arrived and started searching the woods for him. Approximately 150 yards into the woods, the incident's police report reads, police officers caught up to Lowmiller lying down behind a tree stump. Lowmiller surrendered there and was questioned by…
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Brownsville Rd & Streets Run Rd, Pittsburgh, PA
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575 Coal Valley Rd, Jefferson Hills, PA
Jefferson Regional Medical Center
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300-400 Knoedler Rd, Pittsburgh, PA
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Becks Run Rd & Madeline St, Pittsburgh, PA
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Colewood Park
Ranchview Dr & Overland Trl, Pittsburgh, PA
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Baldwin Borough Police Department
3344 Churchview Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
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Baldwin Towers
200 Knoedler Rd, Pittsburgh, PA
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2:49 pm on Saturday, May 4, 2013
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