To accommodate the annual Arts and Heritage Festival Sept. 9-11, traffic and parking will be prohibited beginning at 7 a.m. Wednesday on East Main Street between Washington and Elk avenues.

Parking also will be prohibited in Lot 10. Violators will be tagged and towed at the owner's expense.

Additionally, Broadway and Mary streets will be closed. Access to the Elk Avenue/Williams Way parking lots will be West Main Street, cross the bridge and make a right onto Elk Avenue, or access Williams Way from Washington Avenue.

Permit parking lease holders should call 412-276-4245.

Also, volunteers, including family groups, are needed to work three- four-hour shifts with children's games, as well as beer ticket sales and beer vending. Beer ticket and vending volunteers must be 21 or older.

Festival volunteers will receive a free tee-shirt and beverage tickets.

To volunteer: 412-559-7658, or e-mail, volunteer@carnegieartsandheritage.com.

Tables are available for $15 for individuals and businesses interested in participating in a community flea market Sept. 25 in Fairhaven Park.

The market will be held rain or shine from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the park shelters.

The event will be sponsored by the Kennedy parks and recreation board, the police department and volunteer firefighters, who will sell refreshments.

To reserve a table, call Jan Thomas, 412-331-2408.

Evidence of emerald ash borer beetles, insects that can destroy an ash tree within three years of the initial infestation, has been found in two Moon parks.

Janet Thorne, president of the township's Environmental Advisory Council, displayed samples of bark from ash trees in Moon and Robin Hill Park that appeared as squiggly lines zigzagging on the inside layer of the bark.

Ms. Thorne said that it takes the larvae three-five years to kill a tree. She said an annual chemical treatment is available at a cost of $100 an application per tree; trees must receive the chemical treatment each year.

She suggested that supervisors hire a forester to inventory the ash trees in the parks and recommended that if there are a lot of trees that are at least 2 inches in diameter that the township consider hiring a timbering company to cut them all down.

Ms. Thorne said that the township can leave the trees alone and let them die or cut them down and use them for timber.

Moon Manager Jeanne Creese said that the cost of timbering will be added to the budget.

Supervisors approved a liquor license transfer Aug. 24 from a Pittsburgh restaurant to Papaya Asia Food Inc., 210 McHolme Drive. Papaya, an Asian cuisine restaurant planned for the former Honeybaked Ham store in The Pointe at North Fayette shopping center, will feature Chinese and Thai food, as well as a sushi bar.

• Supervisors will hold a public hearing at 7 p.m. Sept. 28 in the municipal building, 400 North Branch Road, regarding revised plans for the Bateman Road development formerly called Imperial Business Park.

New owner Ashford/Imperial Associates LP will continue developing the commercial and industrial park. Plans include subdividing and developing 82 acres into 10 lots.

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