The Kittanning Street bridge will close Wednesday to make way for a new bridge.

It will close at 7 a.m. that day so state Department of Transportation crews can replace the structure between East Jefferson Street and East Butler Road.

The existing bridge that carries the state route over the Connoquenessing Creek will be replaced by a steel beam bridge.

The $2.3 million bridge project, expected to be completed by November, will be done by Mekis Construction of Fenelton.

PennDOT has listed an official detour around the bridge that will use Route 68 and Route 8.

SAXONBURG — The borough police department has a new part-timer.Council on Wednesday hired Tiffani Sintz of Lawrence County.Sintz, who also is a Butler County sheriff’s deputy, will be paid $14.50 an hour for a 90-day probationary period. After 90 days, she will be paid $15 an hour.The department now has 11 part-time officers. Chief Joe Beachem is the only full-timer.