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Ligonier Valley holds on to best Southmoreland
Southmoreland took advantage of a 70-yard kickoff return to crack the scoreboard just before halftime, but Ligonier Valley responded with a big return of its own and hung on for a 27-18 nonconference victory Friday at Russ Grimm Field in Alverton. Down 21-0 with 2:33 left in the second quarter,...
Burrell pulls out overtime win against Deer Lakes
Burrell needed overtime, but the extra session was worth it as the 2-0 Bucs pulled out a 27-21 decision over Deer Lakes on Friday at Buccaneer Stadium. Burrell tried to win it in regulation, driving to the Deer Lakes 14 with 3.7 seconds to go. After two Lancers timeouts, Ryan...
Gary Franks: Student loan debt relief? How about service instead?
President Joe Biden’s student loan debt relief plan should have been debated and voted on by Congress. Even Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi once said it could only be done via a vote of Congress. For Biden to just do it is considered noble by some, political by others,...
Former coach, GM Gene Klein to be inducted into Hounds Hall of Fame
Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC will hold a ceremony to induct former coach, general manager and television broadcaster Gene Klein into the Riverhounds Hall of Fame at halftime of their Sept. 10 game against Louisville City FC at Highmark Stadium. Klein will become the sixth member of the team’s Hall of Fame....
Penn State-Purdue tops Backyard Brawl in national TV ratings
Fox’s coverage of the Penn State-Purdue game drew bigger national television ratings than ESPN’s broadcast of the Backyard Brawl between Pitt and West Virginia on Thursday night. According to showbuzzdaily.com, the Penn State-Purdue game drew 3.512 million viewers while the Pitt-West Virginia game drew 3.152 million viewers. The Pitt-West Virginia...
Mohawk football season to resume after hazing investigation
Mohawk’s football season will resume after an investigation into allegations of hazing found misconduct was limited to a “small number of individual players” and was not part of a systemic problem, the school district superintendent’s office announced in a statement released Friday. “While the incident is disturbing and unacceptable, it...
Pennsylvania Arts & Crafts Festival kicks off at Westmoreland Fairgrounds
The 29th Annual Pennsylvania Arts & Crafts Labor Day Festival kicked off Friday. It runs through Labor Day at the Westmoreland Fairgrounds in Mt. Pleasant Township. Exhibitors come from 14 states and display and sell a wide variety of arts and crafts, including jewelry, clothing, home decor items, soft sculpture,...
Section of Saltsburg Road in Penn Hills to close through end of September for slide repair
Work to fix a slide will close part of Saltsburg Road in Penn Hills for much of September, PennDOT announced Friday. Saltsburg Road between Sycamore Drive and Route 380 is scheduled to close at 7 a.m. Tuesday, weather permitting, and remain closed through late September. Through traffic will be prohibited...
Mom of Wilmerding teen killed at haunted attraction files lawsuit against business
Nearly a year after her son was killed at the Haunted Hills Hayride in North Versailles, Shantel Pizaro continues to look for answers. With no arrests, Pizaro on Friday filed a lawsuit in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court against the business, hoping that it will help reveal who killed her...
Westbound Route 910 single-lane closure to begin in Harmar
More closures are coming to Route 28 as PennDOT announced a single-lane closure next week on westbound Route 910 in Harmar. The closure will start at 6 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 7, and last until 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9. Motorists still will have access to the northbound Route 28 ramp...
Chick’s Picks back for another year of predicting high school football results
Welcome to Week 1. Chick’s Picks has been at this thing for awhile — more than two decades to be exact. Twenty-two seasons of prognosticating is a lot of wear and tear on the old crystal ball. So, this summer, like many others of late, with the football season looming,...
Sewickley-based Allegheny Land Trust earns national recognition
The Land Trust Alliance’s Land Trust Accreditation Commission granted conservation nonprofit Allegheny Land Trust with its second renewal as a nationally accredited land trust. Allegheny Land Trust, which has the Barking Slopes Conservation Area in Plum among its properties, is one of fewer than 10% of land trusts across the...
Deer Lakes grad Maxx Hammond leads Allegheny football into Presidents’ Athletic ConferenceVideo
For the first time since 1984, Allegheny’s sports teams will be playing in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference. The move back from the North Coast Athletic Conference will enable the Gators to forge rivalries with schools closer to home. And like their new PAC counterparts, the Gators have a number of...
4 things you should know about working after you turn 65
Continuing to work past the traditional retirement age gives many the opportunity to add more money to their nest egg — and delay Social Security, which will bump up their eventual benefits check. In May, 21.9% of Americans ages 65 and older were working, compared with 19.5% in May 2020,...
Letter to the editor: Mazeroski should be honored
The letter “Pirates insult great players with Hall of Fame lineup” (Aug. 18, TribLIVE) noted that the MVP of the 1960s World Series team was left off the list of inaugural inductees. In my opinion, the MVP should have been Bill Mazeroski, who ended the series with a ninth-inning walk-off...
4-year-old accidentally shot by grandmother inside Pa. home
A 4-year-old boy was accidentally shot in the stomach by his grandmother Thursday, according to a report from WPVI. It happened around 8:30 p.m. on the unit block of East Penn Street in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. According to WPVI, the grandmother owns the gun and has a valid...
Letter to the editor: Equal justice for evidence destroyers
There is a feeling among some folk, that is, those with functioning IQs, that during this reign of the WOAT (Worst Of All Time), the justice departments are biased. But I say, nuh-uh. I had to junk a PC, and so I removed the hard drive and beat the heck...
Events at Sewickley area places of worship for the week of Sept. 2, 2022
Antioch Baptist Church Antioch Baptist Church will hold its fall revival on Sept. 28-30 at 7:30 p.m. Evangelist Roberta G. Watkins of Deliverance Temple Ministries in Aliquippa will be the guest speaker. For details, call 412-741-7688 or email antiochfwbaptist@comcast.net. Antioch Baptist Church is located at 332 Elizabeth St. in Sewickley....
Student news from the Pine, Richland area for the week of Sept. 2, 2022
Helen Guo and Alec Smomo of Gibsonia, and Jiatian Qu and Jacob Weinberg of Wexford received their white coats on Aug. 6 during Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine’s 14th annual White Coat Ceremony for the Class of 2026 at the Scranton Cultural Center. Anthony Nicassio of Gibsonia and Therese Solomond...
Letter to the editor: Right, wrong and loan forgiveness
Vice President Kamala Harris, when asked about the policy on student loan forgiveness, answered, “First of all, a lot of the same people who are criticizing what we rightly did in following through on a commitment that we made to forgive student loan debt are the same people who voted...
The Stroller, Sept. 2, 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. Northmoreland Park Labor Day party planned The annual Labor United Celebration will...
Letter to the editor: Donor milk legislation can help protect sick babies
When my baby Owen was born prematurely, I didn’t know about human donor milk or that it could have helped him before I was able to provide my own milk. When Owen passed away from necrotizing enterocolitis, a complication that research shows donor milk could protect against, I was devastated....
District college roundup: Cal (Pa.) rolls in opener; St. Francis (Pa.) puts scare into Akron
Serra Catholic grad JaQuae Jackson caught 10 passes for 113 yards and two touchdowns as Cal (Pa.) jumped out to a three touchdown lead in the first half and rolled to a 35-15 victory over Fairmont State on Thursday night. Noah Mitchell was 18 for 25 for 212 yards and...
Pirates farm report for Sept. 1, 2022: Endy Rodriguez homers from both sides of plate in Curve win
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 64-60) scored three runs in the seventh inning to beat Louisville (Reds), 3-2. RF Bligh Madris (.286) went 2 for 5 with two doubles and a stolen base and reached on an error on the play that drove in the winning run. CF Travis Swaggerty (.256) went 1...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Sept. 1, 2022
High schools Field hockey Thursday’s results Nonsection Penn-Trafford 6, Mt. Lebanon 2 Peters Township 2, Shady Side Academy 0 Pine-Richland 3, Latrobe 0 Football Friday’s schedule WPIAL Class 6A North Allegheny at Canon-McMillan, 7 p.m. Nonconference Aliquippa at Armstrong, 7 p.m. Ambridge at Freedom, 7:30 p.m. Avonworth at Central Valley,...
