Update: Moon Township Bear Sighting Reported Monday Morning
A 300-pound bear is seen ambling through the Moon Plaza parking lot and later in the Mooncrest neighborhood and off Flaugherty Run Road.
Moon Police Chief Leo McCarthy called it "extremely unusual"—a 300- to 350-pound bear running through one of Moon Township's busiest shopping centers. Customers shopping at Moon Plaza spotted a black bear running through the Giant Eagle parking lot at 5:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon. A resident also reported a bear sighting just after 9 a.m. Monday near Flaugherty Run Road. "It's not the first time (a bear has been seen in Moon), but this is my 37th year working for the township and we've had maybe three bear sightings in that time," McCarthy said. "I always thought they hibernated in the winter, but we had a warm spell," he said. The bear was seen Sunday running toward Robert Morris University's campus, and was then spotted an hour later …
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Linda Bush
8:37 am on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Growing up in Ewings Mill Heights in the '60s we would spend nearly every minute of daylight in the woods. It was not unusual to see a black bear. We were taught to stay away (especially if you saw cubs) and they would stay away from you. I am not surprised to hear with all the new construction in the area that one has been displaced from it's home. People, traffic, and buildings have probably … more ›