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Sewickley area real estate transactions for the week of Sept. 18, 2022
Aleppo Estate of Doris Harris sold property at 302 Trailside Drive to Kristin Gene Morrell for $285,000. Edgeworth Vincent Delie Jr. sold property at 606 East Drive to William Francis and Kelley Morse Oplinger for $1,930,000. James Forney sold property at 106 Elm Ln to Jason and Chelsea Morris for...
Letter to the editor: Is abortion just the beginning?
“Jesus never once said anything about abortion.” This was said by Joe Scarborough on MSNBC. And Jesus never said Joe was a jerk, but … . To me that seems to be an incredible comment. Can anyone imagine that the son of God, creator of all living things, would even...
The Stroller, Sept. 18, 2022: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084. Please include a daytime telephone number. Firemen’s carnival comes to Leechburg The annual Leechburg Volunteer Fire Company carnival...
Letter to the editor: Get informed and make a plan to vote
Sept. 20 is National Voter Registration Day. The newly formed League of Women Voters of Westmoreland County (LWVWC), a nonpartisan organization, urges you to vote in the upcoming midterm elections. The right to vote is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and federal laws. The right to vote is what gives...
Letter to the editor: Do parents really want government to provide for everything?
Regarding the editorial “School breakfast will help hunger, but lunch would be better” (Sept. 13, TribLIVE): Let’s just jump to the final step like the 1930s in Germany or China or Russia. Just send your kids to the government (for everything) and they can get three meals a day (plus...
Letter to the editor: It’s always political
Isn’t it laughable when a politician claims that an action of the other party is “political”? “It’s a political witch hunt!” It’s all political. It always has been. But right now, the proverbial needle is pointing to party over country and a power grab by the few over democracy. The...
North Hills area real estate transactions for the week of Sept. 18, 2022
Bellevue Jeanne Mahlmann sold property at 25 S Jackson Ave. to Michael Keith and Crystal Freeman for $220,000. Michael Galone sold property at 124 W Riverview Ave. to Zachary Lee Snyder and Sydney Sokol for $211,500. Etna Regis Donovan Jr. sold property at 30-32 Ganster St. to Hiland Park Capital...
Real estate transactions for the week of Sept. 18, 2022
Chalfant Ashley Winston sold property at 238 Lynnwood Ave. to Douglas Nuhfer for $135,000. Churchill Benjamin Wise sold property at 2331 Forest Drive to Wesley Thorne II for $138,000. Edgewood Lucas McChesnet sold property at 103 W Hutchinson Ave. to George Christopher and Rhonda Apessos for $360,000. Jonathan Auxier sold...
Shady Side Academy hosts admissions Zoom sessions
Shady Side Academy is hosting admissions Zoom information sessions for parents interested in finding out more about the school. The sessions will be held monthly for each of SSA’s four campuses from September through December. Families must RSVP in advance at www.ShadySideAcademy.org/Visit to receive the Zoom link. A schedule of...
Pirates farm report for Sept. 17, 2022: Connor Scott homers twice in Altoona win
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 70-69) gave up two runs in the top of the eighth and lost 8-7 to Toledo (Tigers). DH Brendt Citta (.266) went 2 for 4 with a two-run homer, his fourth. LF Blake Sabol (.315) was 1 for 2 with his fourth homer and three walks. 2B Josh...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Sept. 17, 2022
High schools Football Saturday’s results WPIAL Class 2A Midwestern Neshannock 48, Western Beaver 20 Class A Big 7 Rochester 58, Summit Academy 20 Union 46, Shenango 7 Eastern Clairton 54, Riverview 0 Saturday’s summaries Neshannock 48, Western Beaver 20 Neshannock 3 14 17 14 —48 Western Beaver 6 0 8...
High school roundup for Sept. 17, 2022: Neshannock runs past Western Beaver
Jonny Huff and Matthew Ioanilli each scored three touchdowns to lead Neshannock to a 48-20 victory over Western Beaver in Class 2A Midwestern Conference football Saturday. Huff ran for 82 yards and Ioanilli 80 for the Lancers (4-0, 1-0). Xander LeFebvre threw for 110 yards and a touchdown and ran...
District college football roundup: IUP takes it to Shippensburg
Mak Sexton threw for 339 yards and two touchdowns as IUP racked up 552 yards of offense in a 44-21 win over Shippensburg (1-2) on Saturday. Apollo-Ridge grad Duane Brown caught eight passes for 160 yards for IUP (2-0) while teammate Hilton Ridley added five receptions for 126 yards and...
Clairton runs past Riverview for first win
Clairton, with its first 0-3 start in more than 40 years, finally entered the victory column Saturday in a big way. In the Eastern Conference opener, the Bears scored on each possession and rolled to a 54-0 victory over Riverview. Twelve players touched the ball as Clairton shared the load....
Sounding off: Jan. 6, Trump, our economy, second chances, Kasich, Biden’s failures, Norwin housewives
Clarifying Jan. 6 ‘hypocrisy’ The writer of the letter “Jan. 6 hypocrisy” (Sept. 1, TribLIVE) accuses the Jan. 6 committee of hypocrisy and the media of spewing propaganda. His points: • “President Trump told supporters to ‘go to … the Capitol’ (but) at no time did he call for violence...
George Guido: Dominant Leechburg proving well-rounded
Leechburg’s offense is certainly prolific, but the Blue Devils have been playing some stellar “D.” Fourth in this week’s TribHSSN Class A rankings, Leechburg shut out a third consecutive opponent Friday night with the 77-0 dominance of Springdale. It’s the first time Leechburg has blanked three in row since 1955...
Penn Township Fall Festival continues with parade, music, fireworks
The Penn Township Fall Festival parade kicked off Saturday’s events. Other events planned for Saturday included a car cruise, pumpkin pie and chili contests, and performances by The Penn-Trafford Community Band, Dynamic Music Studio, Angela Angelczyk, the Robert Michaels Band and Big Trouble, followed by fireworks. Events planned for Sunday...
Counterpoint: Let’s cut the military budget, just don’t call it ‘defund’
There is an excellent argument that the “defund” trope has become so politicized that it now gets in the way of, rather than advances, policy advocacy of any stripe. But that doesn’t mean we should reflexively dismiss the underlying idea that government funds should be shifted away from wasteful or...
Point: We should reform, not defund, necessary institutions
Sir Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Motion states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. While Newton was describing this phenomenon in relation to physics, the basic principle also applies to society in general. For instance, after the death of George Floyd in 2020, many municipalities...
Ken Burns’ new documentary reveals painful truths about ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’Video
DALLAS — Eva Schloss is no stranger to Dallas. As a Holocaust survivor willing to share her harrowing life story, she appeared in Richardson as recently as three years ago. In 2002, she flew in from London to see a play about her life, “And Then They Came for Me,”...
Young Shady Side Academy field hockey team in midst of rebuilding year
Four-time defending WPIAL Class A field hockey champion Shady Side Academy finds itself looking for some offensive punch. Goals have been hard to come by so far this season for the Bulldogs, but veteran coach Betsy Gorse feels her young team can contend soon. Shady Side lost six players from...
Fox Chapel cross country teams surprise with early success
Fox Chapel’s route to a fourth consecutive boys cross country section title won’t be an easy one with five of the top seven runners graduated. But 11th-year coach Tom Moul is happy with the progress and contributions of some newcomers. Two female runners also graduated last spring. “We’ve had two...
Mets analyst rips Pirates’ Ke’Bryan Hayes: ‘He doesn’t even have a glove on’Video
Welcome to Pittsburgh Pirates baseball in September. The New York Mets defeated the Pirates, 4-3, on Friday night, despite a towering 429-foot two-run home run by Oneil Cruz to straightaway center field. But it wasn’t Cruz’s exit velocity — 112.4 mph for those who keep track of that — that...
Letter to the editor: CMU professor’s words sad and classless
Regarding the article “Twitter removes CMU professor’s tweet wishing ‘excruciating pain’ for Queen Elizabeth II” (Sept. 8, TribLIVE): We live in such a graceless age. A human being with a family died. One would hope that when this person, who instructs our youth, dies and her supporters and their families...
Letter to the editor: If not ‘extremists,’ what are MAGA Republicans?
Carolyn Thomson’s letter “MAGA Republicans not extremists” (Sept. 8, TribLIVE) implores readers not to portray MAGA Republicans as “extremists,” “terrorists” or “neo-fascists.” I find this hard to do given 1,000 or so MAGA Republicans stormed the Capitol in the hope of overturning a free and fair election, but OK —...
