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Byline: Julia Felton Nov. 21Pittsburgh is looking for volunteers to help seniors and residents with disabilities keep their sidewalks clear of snow and ice over the winter. The city said [...]

Byline: Julia Maruca Apr. 22Rainy weather and cool temperatures didn't stop Hempfield residents on Earth Day from helping to keep their environment clean and refreshed. According to Marissa Haynes, Hempfield's [...]

Byline: Tawnya Panizzi Apr. 16People who want to get down and dirty to help Mother Nature can volunteer at an Earth Day program hosted by three local communities. Harrison, Tarentum [...]

Byline: Michael DiVittorio Mar. 15Sewickley officials hope volunteers turn out in droves for the return of the borough's Earth Day cleanup. The annual beautification was canceled the past few years [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Nov. 16Pittsburgh officials outlined the city's plans for snow removal efforts this winter in a virtual meeting Tuesday evening, saying they hope to have all of the [...]

Byline: Tawnya Panizzi April 03-- Apr. 3--Street sweeping began this week in Aspinwall and Sharpsburg but residents don't need to make a mad dash to move their cars just yet. [...]

Byline: Tawnya Panizzi May 13-- May 13--Boy Scout Pack 381, along with friends, family and other local scout members, helped spruce up Sharpsburg by collecting litter from the streets near [...]

Byline: Tom Davidson Feb. 26-- Feb. 26--It was a literal logjam Monday, especially for those in the business of cleaning up downed trees. 'I've probably given 17, 18 bids already [...]

Byline: Michael DiVittorio July 07--Cleanup continues at Verona businesses impacted by heavy rains Wednesday evening and Thursday morning. Some sustained losses in the tens of thousands of dollars and have [...]

Byline: Tawnya Panizzi July 06--After being pummeled by rain and subsequent flooding three times this week, Aspinwall on Thursday declared a state of emergency to expedite clean-up. The official order [...]

Byline: Tawnya Panizzi April 23--Earth Day was a success in Sharpsburg. More than 80 volunteers stuffed 120 garbage bags with litter during a morning clean-up, according to Mayor Matt Rudzki. [...]

Byline: Sharif Hassan KABUL - When Yar Mohammad Mohammadi joined the municipal street cleaning crew here over a decade ago, he was expecting some unpleasant tasks. But nothing prepared him [...]

Dec. 01--PennDOT District 12 is seeking 11 temporary operators in Westmoreland County among 38 total across the district, which also includes Fayette, Greene and Washington counties. Joe Szczur, District 12 [...]

Dec. 01--PennDOT District 12 is seeking 11 temporary operators in Westmoreland County. In Unity Township, relying on nine loaned plow trucks until seven replacements for trucks destroyed in a Sept. [...]

Byline: MARCUS GEE; Staff The sound gives him away first: a steady swish swish swish of bristles on concrete. Look out the window and you see an old man with [...]

Byline: Samson X Horne April 11--Joe Sedlak is hoping this is the year that Monroeville can get 1,000 residents to participate in its annual cleanup day. The 22nd Annual Jack [...]

Byline: Jason Cato April 22--Boris Weinstein years ago made it his mission to pick up trash that people discard on city streets. He wants Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto to simply [...]

HONG KONG -- Pro-democracy protests that swept onto the streets of Hong Kong 11 weeks ago faced a muted ending on Monday, when the police dismantled the last remaining road [...]

June 24--More VA questions: Veterans Affairs records show the VA's hospital in Oakland treated at least eight vets for Legionnaires' disease before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says [...]

June 01--Connellsville area residents should be proud. All too often we concentrate on the problems or the bad in the community. But there is so much good -- especially the [...]

Dec. 28--Up to 3 inches of snow is expected in the Pittsburgh region late Friday through Saturday. And if the general response to this snowfall is anything like the response [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GEORGE; Times Staff Writer TAMPA -- Rundown yards, junk cars, torn fences. They're all the target of Operation Fight the Blight, a 10-day code enforcement sweep of areas [...]

Alternate-side street-cleaning regulations will be suspended in New York City on Thursday and Friday, because of Sukkot. Other regulations will remain in [...]

July 01--He wears a cape, and a tool belt filled with cleaning supplies. But the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership's superhero mascot for its new Super Clean Program needs a name. Through [...]

Byline: Craig Smith May 15--Growing up as an Army brat, Dawn Harder started picking up litter in cities where her family lived. Denver, Orlando, Minneapolis. 'We had sort of a [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED From the air, some neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens looked like Lego masterpieces that angry children had done their best to sweep aside. Trees remained sprawled along the [...]