West Mifflin
By Craig Smith
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
West Mifflin Councilwoman Rhonda Popovich and resident Diane Stanesic have been ordered to their respective corners until a judge can hear Popovich’s complaint that Stanesic has been threatening her.
Senior Magisterial District Judge Edward Burnett on Tuesday ordered the two women to not have contact with each other pending a hearing on Dec. 16.
“You conduct yourself like a nun,” Burnett told Stanesic. “And you conduct yourself like a successful politician,” he said to Popovich during a brief court proceeding.
[ Full story available at: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_595628.html ]
Pittsburgh Business Times – by Tim Schooley
In a move that could stir up plenty of fizz with local bars and brewers, South Side-based Frank B. Fuhrer Wholesale Co. Inc., the region’s largest beer wholesaler, has reached an agreement to buy the region’s third largest, West Mifflin-based Alfred M. Lutheran Distributors Inc.
Fuhrer, already dominant in the region as the master distributor of such leading brands as Anheuser-Busch, Coors, Yuengling and Molson, reached an agreement to buy Lutheran on Oct. 19.
Frank Fuhrer Jr., chairman of the board of Fuhrer, confirmed that his company has bought Lutheran but couldn’t comment further as part of the terms of the sales agreement.
[ Full story available at: http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2008/10/27/story1.html ]
By Mike Seate
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Last fall, when the state Board of Control was set to close Duquesne High School, it’s fair to say the announcement wasn’t universally well-received.
At the time, I received several phone calls and letters from parents of students at two schools slated to take the Duquesne students — East Allegheny Senior High and West Mifflin Area High — who feared the influx of kids from nearby Duquesne would mean a whole world of bad.
Most of the fears that parents expressed stemmed from the poor economic conditions in Duquesne, a former steel manufacturing town on the Monongahela River whose dwindling tax base meant supporting a high school no longer was possible.
[ Full story available at: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/seate/s_594703.html ]
Former West Mifflin police Officer Noel G. Missig got a jail sentence and a lecture from Judge David R. Cashman yesterday.
After his July conviction for assaulting a juvenile suspect and later lying about it, guidelines called for a probation sentence.
But then a juror accused Mr. Missig of threatening him after the trial.
Defense witnesses testified that the contact with juror Jeffrey Perozich was always cordial and that he came to them with claims of improprieties with the jury.
But it wasn’t enough for Judge Cashman to spare Mr. Missig jail time.
He was sentenced to six to 12 months in jail and five years’ probation, during which time he cannot work as a law enforcement officer.
[ Full story available at: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08297/922162-55.stm ]
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