Moon Crowne Plaza to Reopen as Sheraton

The Thorn Run Road hotel will soon operate under a new franchise.

The Crowne Plaza hotel at 1160 Thorn Run Road in Moon Township will soon operate under the Sheraton brand name.  Staff management, who declined to comment in detail on the change, said the ten-story hotel will reopen as a Sheraton in April.  The building is undergoing an extensive renovation, staff members said. Further details on the brand name change or staffing revisions at the hotel were not immediately available.  Sheraton also operates a Four Points in the township, on 1 Industry Lane.    --- Like Robinson-Moon Patch on Facebook

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Moon Police: Couple Found with Gun, Heroin After New Year's Fight

Moon Township Police blotter for Monday, Jan. 7.

A New Year's Day domestic fight at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Moon Township lead to a couple's arrest on drug charges, police said.  Staff members at the Thorn Run Road hotel called police when a woman, later identified as 19-year-old Phalonda Pollard, of Pittsburgh, came to the front desk and said her boyfriend held a gun to her head during a fight in their hotel room.  After police arrived, Pollard warned officers that her boyfriend, 30-year-old William Richard Jackson Bosley, of Penn Hills, was armed and could be coming to the lobby.  When Bosley came to the lobby, police found no weapons on him. Pollard then recanted her story, claiming she "made up the story about the gun," according to a complaint filed by Officer James Kazmierczak. …

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Impact Christian Church Hosts 'Operation Hope' Dinner

A Moon Township church hopes to make the Christmas season brighter for local families in need.

Moon Township's Impact Christian Church will bring Christmas a few weeks early to members of the community in need at its first "Operation Hope" dinner on Saturday. "We'll have turkey, ham, stuffing, pie, sort of everything you would have for a Thanksgiving dinner," said student ministry coordinator Zach Shidemantle.  Church volunteers have spent recent weeks reaching out to area food pantries, clinics and other organizations to spread the word of the event.  Shidemantle said last Christmas season, the church worked with the nonprofit Light of Life, sponsoring a clinic for the homeless in downtown Pittsburgh. This year, the church wanted to make it's mark closer to home, he said. "There are people in Moon struggling to put a meal together…

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Impact Christian Church Members Build Home for Family in Need

Members of the Moon Township church on Saturday will hammer together a church

Dale Lowry, director of worship for Impact Christian Church, said it's all about lending a helping hand. Lowry alongside more than 150 others, many of them members of the Thorn Run Road church, will meet on Saturday to construct the frame of a house, assembling interior and exterior walls for a home that will soon belong to a family in need.  "It's about being there for those who are less fortunate," Lowry said. "It's just what being a follower of Christ is all about."  The home will be taken to the tornado-hammered Holden, IN, where it will be placed on a foundation with a roof built overhead.  Church members and volunteers have few details about the family that will one day occupy the home, but they know it will go to a good cause.  "The…

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Moon Police: Arrests for Heroin Possession, DUI

Moon Township Police blotter for Tuesday, Sept. 4.

An Oakdale man was charged with heroin possession the Bruegger's parking lot on Thorn Run Road. Police said Brian Francis DiCenzo, 30, was found on Aug. 1 idling in his vehicle in the bagel shop's parking lot, according to a report.  He had been spotted driving erratically earlier in the evening, police said.  Police said discovered he was carrying heroin and drug paraphernalia during a pat down.  DiCenzo was charged with driving under the influence of a controlled substance, heroin possession and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to police records. He faces a preliminary hearing on Oct. 2 in Coraopolis District Court.   Moon Police responded to the following recent incidents and made the following recent arrests. Each item is a …

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Lunchtime Concert Series Kicks off at Robin Hill Park

Residents can stop by Robin Hill Park this summer for lunch-time entertainment.

Music lovers can stop by Robin Hill Park this summer to take in live, lunchtime performances. The Moon Township Department of Parks and Recreation on Wednesday is kicking off its annual summer season concert series. The first show takes place from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday with a performance by duo Steven Vance and John Garrick. The artists will be on hand to play classical music at the Robin Hill Park pavilion, located off Thorn Run Road. The event is free to attend and open to the public. Check back with Patch for more. 

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PennDOT Awards Grant for Thorn Run, Beaver Grade Road Intersection

The intersection will undergo a series of improvements.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has awarded Moon Township a $12,000 grant to install pedestrian and left-turn-only phases to existing traffic signals at the intersection of Thorn Run and Beaver Grade roads. PennDOT distributed more than $42,200 in funding to Allegheny County municipalities for traffic signaling improvments. Projects throughout the state were chosen for "regional impact and cost-effectiveness," according to a statement from PennDOT spokesman James Struzzi. The Moon Township Board of Supervisors on Wednesday awarded a base bid to the Pittsburgh-based Michael Facchiano Contracting in the amount of $94,569.90 to install sidewalk and handicap ramps in the intersection as well as perform traffic signal …

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Heritage Valley to Expand ConvenientCare Services in Moon

Moon clinic will provide treatment to patients who may have difficulty with travel due to the closing of the Aliquippa-Ambridge Bridge.

In light of the closing of the Aliquippa-Ambridge Bridge and its impending effect on traffic patterns, Heritage Valley is expanding clinical services in Moon Township and the airport area. A sixth ConvenientCare location at 935 Thorn Run Road in Moon is set to open Thursday to provide treatment to patients with minor illness and injuries. ConvenientCare is a walk-in clinic, open seven days a week, with extended hours and a staff of certified registered nurse practitioners.   The satellite location will complement other services offered in the Thorn Run building, including diagnostic imaging and lab draw services, Signature Rehab outpatient rehabilitation services, an office location for the Heritage Valley Heart & Vascular Center, the …

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Woodland Ridge to Light Up for the Holidays

The annual Yuletide event is scheduled for 7 p.m. Sunday.

Denise Imbrogno hears about it all year long. "Even throughout the year you'll have people coming up to you," she said. "If you say you live in Woodland Ridge, they'll say, 'Oh, that's where they have light up night.'"  The Woodland Ridge neighborhood off Thorn Run Road will play host to its 22nd annual light up night at 7 p.m. Sunday. Nearly each of the 170 homes in the residential plan will be bedecked with lights and Christmas garnishments.  Residents are invited to tour the neighborhood throughout the evening.  Imbrogno, a 15-year Woodland Ridge resident who oversees the event, said the two-decades-old celebration is a way to showcase the neighborhood.  "It's become very popular," she said. "You'll just see a line of cars driving …

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Residents Sound Off on Moon's Development in Comprehensive Plan Survey

Township officials hope to gather input from residents on Moon's future growth.

Lynn Kirkpatrick, owner of the Village Shoppe boutique on Thorn Run Road, said she worries potential customers may too readily travel to Robinson Township. She said Moon’s scattershot business district and lack of a town square drives shoppers away from the township. Instead, she said, they spend their money in nearby communities, where they find a larger selection of corporate retail stores and eateries.  “We’re pushing people to shop outside of the Moon area,” said Kirkpatrick, who has owned the Village Shoppe for 22 years. “If that continues, [Moon small businesses] will be gone eventually.” Kirkpatrick on Nov. 8 received Moon Township’s comprehensive plan survey in the mail. Opinions gathered from that survey, administered by the …

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clearfield

7:33 pm on Thursday, November 17, 2011

Susan, sidewalks have been an issue for nearly the 20 years I have lived here. The supervisors continue to give up sidewalks when deciding to approve or disapprove a preliminary and final development plan. Many supervisors allowed the developer to give up putting in sidewalks in exchange for doing something else. We have to realize that Moon is more like Monroeville than a nice, and cozy …   more ›