East Allegheny

The East Allegheny School District won the seventh annual Mon Valley Education Consortium's Carmen A. Sarnicola Creative and Collaborative Leadership Award.

It is the second time East Allegheny's 28-member Leadership Design Team composed of administrators and staff has received the award. It also won it in 1999, the first year the $10,000 prize was offered.

The award is named after the late Carmen A. Sarnicola, a co-executive director of the Mon Valley Consortium, who died in 1999.

Monroeville

The state Department of Environmental Protection has given the municipality $72,173 for recycling refuse. The grant is based on the tons of recyclable materials collected in 2003.

Monroeville collected 6,022 tons of materials from businesses, 565 tons from residences, plus 422 tons of newspapers. Additionally, 325 tons of leaves were collected but were not counted for the grant.

The Municipal Authority will break ground for a new headquarters at 11 a.m. Saturday.

The sewer and water agency's offices and maintenance building will total 47,000 square feet and cost $8.2 million. They will be built on Speelman Lane behind Monroeville Mall.

The buildings will replace the headquarters and three maintenance buildings on Old William Penn Highway and on Center Road.

Fahringer, McCarty, Grey Inc. and Architectural Innovations LLC designed the buildings. ATS-Chester Engineers will oversee construction.

Wall, Wilmerding

The Allegheny County Library Association's bookmobile once again is going to Wilmerding and Wall each week. Each borough will have the service for two hours in the evenings for a year.

The Wilmerding Library Task Force, which has been working to reinstate service for the past several years, secured the money from state Sen. Sean Logan, D-Monroeville, through the Community Revitalization Program run by the state Department of Community and Economic Development. The gift of $16,000 will cover the cost for service in both boroughs.

Woodland Hills

High school Co-principal Howard K. Weber is on medical leave.

District spokeswoman Pat Dawson said Weber, who until this year had been the sole principal at the high school since 1993, began the leave yesterday. Weber is under a $94,000 contract. He has been with the district since 1966.

Ronald Silverstein, who retired as assistant principal in 1996, will earn $250 a day as Weber's replacement. Silverstein had been with the district for 30 years.

Also, Fabian Nolan Brooks, assistant to the superintendent, formally resigned from her post this month.

Dawson said Brooks stepped down on March 1 after being on medical leave since Oct. 11. She had been on the job four months.

Dawson said former elementary school Principal John Rocco, who took over for Brooks in December, will stay on until July 1 when his contract ends, or until a replacement for Brooks is hired. Rocco earns $300 a day.

The district will hold two town meetings at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday and April 20 in the Westinghouse Research and Technology Center off Beulah Road. These meetings are to update the public about Act 72, the new law that allows school districts to opt into funding derived from slot machine gambling.

Students from the high school captured the 2005 Allegheny County Mock Trial Championship by defeating Montour High School last week. It is the sixth time Woodland Hills has won the competition.

On Friday and Saturday, the Woodland Hills group will travel to Harrisburg to compete against 12 regional winners from across the state.