Concert rescheduled
Local briefs The Uniontown Downtown Business District Authority’s Storey Square Concert Series will be held Thursday as a make-up date for an earlier show that was canceled because bad weather was forecast.
The band Black Dog Hollow will perform and Caporella’s Italian Ristorante, which is planning to relocate from Perryopolis to Uniontown, is the food vendor. Golden Butterfly is donating a gift that the East End United Community Center will raffle as a fund-raiser.
The event starts at 5:30 p.m. and ends at 7:30 p.m. in Storey Square on Main Street.
Police expand area
The Southwest Regional Police Department will provide another area community with police coverage after they recently entered into an agreement with Bentleyville Borough in Washington County.
The hours of coverage remain in negotiations, but according to Southwest Regional police Chief John D. Hartman, officers assigned to Bentleyville will work out of the old Bentleyville police station.
Hartman said his department covers communities in Fayette, Washington and Westmoreland counties, including Belle Vernon, Newell, Long Branch, Coal Center and Cokeburg.
The department is headquartered in Belle Vernon.
TEA Party planned
The public is invited to attend a rally sponsored by the Greene County TEA Party Patriots (G.C.T.P.P.) on Sunday, Sept. 12, at the Greene County Fairgrounds.
The event, titled a “T.E.A. (Taxed Enough Already) Party Rally,” will feature speakers at 2 p.m.
The rally will be preceded by patriotic music beginning at 1:30 p.m. and followed by invited speakers.
Greene County TEA Party Patriots is a non-partisan, grassroots organization, and there is no charge to attend.
According to a press release, members of the group are particularly concerned about the unconstitutionality of the recently passed national health-care legislation, as well as an increase in the national debt.
Other areas of concern are pending “cap and trade” legislation threatening the economic survival of this region, together with the tens of trillions of unfunded liabilities in the big entitlement programs of Social Security and Medicare, the release states.
Anyone interested in additional information about organization is asked to attend the event.
Payments due today
Those wishing to participate in the Connellsville Area School District’s installment plan program for the payment of real estate taxes are advised that the first installment payment is due by today.
Office hours will be extended from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. today. The office does not close for lunch and payments postmarked Aug. 31 will be honored. All installment plan participants are reminded that once the payment plan is chosen, no discount can be given. Homebound residents can call the office for personal service.
For more information, call Marigrace Butela, Dunbar Township tax collector, at 724-626-0804.