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The article “Jeannette officials continue discussion about use of federal covid relief cash,” March 24, TribLIVE) is Jeannette in a nutshell. Our mayor wants to install crosswalk signs. Seriously? This might also explain why the old Monsour hospital site is still an empty lot. Crosswalk signs. SMH. Dale Parker Jeannette...

Elon Musk sits atop the list of the world’s richest people with an insane $287.6 billion dollar fortune, and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos right right behind him with $189.3 billion, per Forbes. All told, the website tracks about 2,755 billionaires across the world, and the website Stacker.com recently dug into the...

Regarding the recent reporting on the challenged books in the Hempfield Area School District (“Hempfield is latest district to face book ban challenge”): This is not an issue of censorship or banning. The media and those few individuals who oppose policy change for resource selection in the school have made...

It should go without saying that a wheelchair is not a bicycle. Sure, they have features in common. Wheels, obviously. Tires. There is a seat, and there are handles. Stripped down, they perform the same function: moving someone from one place to another. But use these kind of very elementary...

Publicize your community events and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Prom gown give-away planned in Harmar Free prom gowns will be available from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 9...

Regarding the op-ed “Make education a priority in Pa. budget” (March 22, TribLIVE) by Rich Askey, president of the Pennsylvania State Education Association: I am writing to encourage public school teachers and PSEA members to challenge the leadership of this organization and its policies. There is clearly a crisis in...

Blawnox Easter Egg hunt The Best of Blawnox hosts its annual Easter egg hunt April 10 from 1-3 p.m. at Blawnox Community Park on Center Avenue. The free, family-friendly event will feature games, refreshments, balloon art, refreshments and cookie decorating. The Easter egg hunt is sponsored in conjunction with Howard...

Cam Murphy doubled twice and had a pair of RBIs, helping Shaler to a 6-1 nonsection softball victory over Highlands on Friday afternoon. Cate Gordon singled three times for the Titans (3-0). Bethany Rodman gave up four hits and struck out nine in seven innings. Carrah Scardina had a solo...

High schools Baseball WPIAL Friday’s results Class 4A Section 2 Montour at Quaker Valley, ppd. Class 3A Section 1 New Brighton 13, Western Beaver 1 Class 2A Section 2 South Side 21, Summit Academy 0 South Side 29, Summit Academy 0 Section 4 Chartiers-Houston at Burgettstown, ppd. Nonsection Peters Township...

Donovan Callahan of Burrell missed several games during the season with a broken nose. But he didn’t miss much of anything Friday night as the Bucs senior cleaned up in the skills competition, the prelude to the 25th Cager Classic at Highlands High School. Callahan won the 3-point shooting contest,...

Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — By now, most voters have likely heard about the congested, double-digit field of contenders jockeying in this year’s primary...

Living with aphasia has been compared to living in a country where you don’t speak the language. Gestures, sign language or other forms of communication may not be much help. And the people who want to help you struggle to understand. “You know what things are. You are the person...

Languages rise and fall with history, in nations and university language departments alike. In 1980, when Roman Koropeckyj stepped into his classroom at Harvard to teach Polish, he was “gobsmacked” by the dozens of students awaiting him. The Polish trade unionists of the Solidarity movement, who were defying Soviet oppression...

A snowy sidewalk strewn with bloodied bodies. A beleaguered president roaming the streets of a country under attack. Missiles streaming. Sirens wailing. Teens making homemade bombs. And dead soldiers, so many of them, lying crumpled in fields and slumped in smoldering tanks. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has spawned a constant...

Pittsburgh police said a Hill District woman told them how she walked into her sons’ room early Friday and stabbed both in the neck with a kitchen knife. The children’s father was able to wrestle away from her before summoning police for his critically injured sons, police said. Sydnie Jefferson,...

I understand that Congress may be considering passing a bill requiring time to read a spending bill before voting on it. But that does not mean our representatives really understand it. The Senate is considering approving the nomination of a judge who cannot define what a woman is. She may...

As March Madness comes to a close, once again we hear that college student athletes are being unfairly “exploited” by being denied salaries for playing sports. Should the NCAA and universities be pressured or forced to change longstanding policy? This notion, while seemingly sensible at first glance, is badly misguided....

The Alzheimer’s Association 2022 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures report illustrates the continued burden of Alzheimer’s in our country, and in Pennsylvania. An estimated 6.5 million Americans 65 and older are living with Alzheimer’s, including 280,000 in Pennsylvania — a number expected to increase to 320,000 by 2025. Across the...

St. Peter’s University’s run of upsets wasn’t the only storyline from this year’s March Madness tournament. The other is that the Memphis Tigers men’s basketball team is in trouble for allegedly paying its players, in violation of NCAA rules. It is time for the NCAA to do the right thing...

Publicize your community events and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Free STEM program and camp offered to high school students The Digital Foundry of New Kensington will host a free STEM program...

I was pleased to read that Westmoreland County received a state grant to expand the mobile crisis unit for mental health emergencies (“Westmoreland County to expand mobile crisis unit for mental health emergencies,” March 1, TribLIVE). This grant is a much-needed Band-Aid over the giant lack of adequate mental health...

High schools Baseball WPIAL Thursday’s results Class 4A Section 2 Ambridge 2, Central Valley 1 Montour at Quaker Valley, ppd. Section 3 Elizabeth Forward 5, Greensburg Salem 4 Class 2A Section 2 Summit Academy at South Side, ppd. Section 4 Chartiers-Houston at Burgettstown, ppd. Fort Cherry at Brentwood, ppd. Nonsection...

Mason Ross hit a three-run homer, leading Kiski Area to a 4-2 victory over Beaver in nonsection baseball Thursday afternoon. Jake Smith pitched into the seventh inning, allowing two runs on one hit with eight strikeouts, and Dom Dininno singled twice for the Cavaliers (1-0). JJ Shallcross singled and drove...

Thanks to a forecast that calls for rain and cold, opening night at Lernerville Speedway will have to wait a week. Track officials announced Thursday that the season’s first night of racing action has been pushed back to Friday, April 8. The opening night schedule includes Peoples Natural Gas Sprint...