Four Blocks of Artisans and Live Music Return Tonight
United, PA · August 27, 2026
Yellow school buses are easing back into their morning routes, and the calm stretch will give way to a bustling evening market just down the ridge. Keep an eye out for crossing students and take the back roads slowly today.
The Lead
Mount Pleasant Township supervisors have officially opened sealed bidding for a comprehensive residential solid waste and single-stream recycling contract. The upcoming three-year agreement will take effect in January 2027 and run through 2029, with options to extend through 2031, replacing the current municipal hauling contract set to expire at year’s end.
For households across United and neighbouring rural settlements, the contract dictates weekly refuse limits, curbside pickup routes, and access to the biannual township dumpster clean-up days in Mammoth. Officials structured the bid specifications to lock in stable rates while maintaining single-stream recycling for local property owners.
Bids remain open at the municipal building until September 14, with supervisors scheduled to review submissions and formally award the contract during their regular public meeting on September 21.
Local Pulse
Mount Pleasant Area Schools Open New Portals Families can now complete annual digital check-ins and track bus stops ahead of the fall term.
Township Fall Clean-Up Schedules Finalized Municipal crews will place collection dumpsters in Mammoth and Middle Churches starting late next month.
Today's Outlook
- High 82°F · Low 61°F — Overcast
- Cloud cover keeps the afternoon comfortable, so you can leave the sunglasses behind.
What's On Around Town
Greensburg: Homeschool Day at The Westmoreland The Westmoreland Museum of American Art (221 N Main St), 10:00 AM–1:00 PM Hands-on gallery explorations and studio projects for young artists.
Greensburg: The Greensburg Night Market Downtown Greensburg (S Pennsylvania Ave), 5:30–9:00 PM Four street blocks featuring dozens of local makers, fresh produce, and live tunes.
Latrobe: Mystery Book Club Adams Memorial Library (1112 Ligonier St), 6:00–7:30 PM Monthly evening discussion dissecting page-turning crime novels and thrillers.
Spotlight & Story
- Sewickley Creek
- Flowing thirty miles from Chestnut Ridge into the Youghiogheny River, this waterway carries a name derived from the Indigenous term for "sweet water." Long before powering nineteenth-century mills and coke operations, its clear headwaters served as the primary freshwater source for early pioneer settlements.
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