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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. Let us know about your Easter events The Valley News Dispatch is compiling a list of community Easter egg hunts, breakfasts with...

The op-ed “Fracked gas in Appalachia won’t help Ukraine, but will hurt our communities” (March 8, TribLIVE) by Anaïs Peterson of Earthworks, attacking Pennsylvania’s natural gas industry and their employees — our neighbors and community members — should come as no surprise. A bit about Earthworks: This extreme anti-energy organization...

High schools Basketball Boys PIAA playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals Wednesday’s schedule Lower Merion (26-3) vs. Scranton (23-2) at Bethlehem Freedom, 7:30 p.m.; Roman Catholic (21-4) vs. Cheltenham (30-1) at Cardinal O’Hara, 7:30 p.m.; North Hills (26-1) vs. Archbishop Wood (19-7) at Chambersburg, 5 p.m.; Northampton (21-7) vs. Fox Chapel (26-1)...

Alayna Rocco and Dacia Lewandowski each recorded double-doubles, leading WPIAL champion North Catholic to a 60-52 victory over Forest Hills in the PIAA Class 3A girls basketball quarterfinals Tuesday night. Rocco had 26 points and 10 rebounds. Lewandowski had 22 points and 10 boards. The Trojanettes (22-5) broke a 42-42...

Playing Cal (Pa.) for the fourth time of the season, IUP head coach Joe Lombardi said he had to come up with a way for his Crimson Hawks to be the hunter, to chase the Vulcans a little heading into Tuesday’s NCAA Atlantic Regional Championship. That’s where social media came...

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday voted 57-40 to overturn a federal requirement that passengers on U.S. airplanes and other modes of public transportation wear masks. The Congressional Review Act measure, introduced by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is the latest salvo in a fight between congressional Republicans and the Biden...

Now that it’s two years into the pandemic, most living in the United States aren’t as worried about the health risks covid-19 poses compared with the last several months — but they say they’d wear face masks if needed, according to a new poll. In fact, 3 in 4 U.S....

Pennsylvania’s state university system can proceed with plans to merge six of its 14 universities into two new entities under a decision announced Tuesday by its accrediting body. The Middle States Commission on Higher Education announced on its website the decision, which was one of the last significant hurdles for...

SAN DIEGO — A newly discovered saber-toothed catlike predator that hunted in the forests and coastal areas of this region 42 million years ago has been given the name Diegoaelurus, or “San Diego’s cat,” the San Diego Natural History Museum announced Tuesday. The discovery of Diegoaelurus — which is now...

DALLAS — Volleyball players Carli Lloyd and Alisha Glass Childress, who helped the U.S. women win bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympics, are among the newcomers for the second year of a pro volleyball team in their home country. Athletes Unlimited is returning to Dallas and will have fans at...

Another mode of transportation has been impacted by the fallout over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as gas prices soar — and it might affect Americans’ vacation plans. The cost of jet fuel for commercial airplanes has also spiked, with prices per gallon rising above $4 at one point since the...

For years, our planet has been showing us the need to move away from fossil fuels. Extreme weather, driven by excess greenhouse gas emissions, continues to get more frequent and more expensive to recover from. But today, it’s not just the climate pressuring us to get off fossil fuels. Our...

Thank you, Greensburg Salem School Board member for speaking the truth regarding traditional holiday names on school calendars (“Greensburg Salem’s use of traditional school holiday names draws dissent”): “Our society is turning everything into a gray area.” And just to correct former school board member Lynna Thomas, traditional names such...

Buying oil from our enemies has got to be the most insane idea ever. The United States produces the cheapest, cleanest oil and gas with the lowest amount of CO2 emissions in the entire world. Energy dependence has become a national security emergency. The craziness of the far left’s false...

It is both disheartening and infuriating to read about another administrator receiving a generous severance package (“Dave Heavner returns to alma mater as Valley’s new football coach,” March 2, TribLIVE) but the New Kensington-Arnold school board can’t seem to resolve a contract for their most important resource, their teachers. Board...

Counties can own a lot of real estate. There is the courthouse. The jail. There may be various other buildings housing things such as public services or district courts. Maybe some parking lots or recreation areas. The Pennsylvania Constitution lets counties buy land or buildings as necessary, provided they don’t...

President Biden ran for office with the repeated promise that he had a plan to end the covid pandemic. Before the election, Biden 1) criticized President Trump’s January 2020 action restricting travel from China as “xenophobic,” 2) promised to shut down the virus but not the country, 3) promised not...

Publicize your community Easter Egg hunts, breakfasts with the Easter Bunny 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. Irish celebration to raise funds for recovery ministry Addiction Recovery Ministry will host an Irish...

I believe the media is to blame for a lot of the racial divide due to the way news is reported. Many times, they include skin color in their news when reporting people being elected or selected to positions, or just reporting information. We see pictures of people in the...

Semiconductor chips are a strategic commodity. For the past few years, people have been saying that Intel Corp. (INTC) is at a disadvantage because most of its fabs (fabrication plants) are in the U.S. Chips can be produced more cheaply in Asia. Based in Santa Clara, Calif., Intel is the...

High schools Basketball Boys PIAA playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals Wednesday’s schedule Lower Merion (26-3) vs. Scranton (23-2) at Bethlehem Freedom, 7:30 p.m.; Roman Catholic (21-4) vs. Cheltenham (30-1) at Cardinal O’Hara, 7:30 p.m.; North Hills (26-1) vs. Archbishop Wood (19-7) at Chambersburg, 5 p.m.; Northampton (21-7) vs. Fox Chapel (26-1)...

The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas acknowledged for the first time that she attended former President Trump’s rally on Jan. 6, 2021, but insisted she did not join the attack on the Capitol that followed it. Ginni Thomas, a prominent conservative activist in her own right, attended the...

PHILADELPHIA — Wealthy investors and executives supporting Republican Senate candidate David McCormick have helped flood Pennsylvania’s airwaves with ads accusing GOP rival Mehmet Oz of being too liberal, a RINO — Republican In Name Only. But some of those same donors have also supported some of the most liberal Democrats...

The West Virginia women’s basketball team declined an invitation to play in the 2022 WNIT, according to director of athletics Shane Lyons. “While we appreciate the invitation for our women’s basketball team to participate in the 2022 WNIT, we have made the difficult decision to decline the invite this year,”...

West Virginia’s legislature has approved a proposal that could restrict the state’s work with financial institutions that have limited their business with coal and oil companies. The measure, Senate Bill 262, is now under consideration by Republican Gov. Jim Justice, after clearing both chambers over the weekend. If enacted, the...