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Sewickley area real estate transactions for the week of June 19, 2022
Bell Acres Matthew Collavo sold property at 751 Campmeeting Road to Pamela Miller for $265,000. Bernard Phillip Slusser sold property at 1923 Big Sewickley Creek Road to Bernard Phillip Slusser for $63,960. Leet Derek Stallard sold property at 135 Kenney Drive to Geoffrey and Lauren Roebuck for $415,000. Leetsdale Eric...
Letter to the editor: Thanks to Freeport mayor Swartz for love and dedication
My family and I would like to give thanks to Freeport mayor James Swartz Jr. for his decades of dedication and love to Freeport, the most friendly, well maintained, financially responsible and, most important, safest place to live in the entire AK Valley (“Freeport Mayor James Swartz Jr. resigns: ‘It’s...
Editorial: Always check the back seat for children
Today is a day to remember fathers. Instead, it seems important to urge everyone to remember kids instead. The littlest children. The ones without words yet. The ones who fall asleep quietly in the back of cars. Dads can take care of themselves. They really don’t need another tie. What...
North Hills real estate transactions for the week of June 19, 2022
Bellevue AVBLG Ltd. sold property at 509 Forest Ave. to Praveen Bhandari and Rameswara Bobbiti for $230,000. Unity Properties LLC sold property at 561 Highland Pl to Austin Orth for $302,500. VAZ P1 LLC sold property at 201 Lincoln Ave. to Matt Simpson and Ceillum Ohare for $188,000. JNI Management...
Fox Chapel area real estate transactions for the week of June 19, 2022
Aspinwall Sara Miesse Speer sold property at 106 Tenth St. to Thomas and Stephanie Horton for $50,000. Etna Nancy Braun sold property at 76 Grant Ave. to R Stock Global Inc. for $80,000. Joseph Ford sold property at 153 Sherman Ave. to Charles and Kayla Soergel for $248,000. Fox Chapel...
Eastern Pittsburgh suburban area real estate transactions for the week of June 19, 2022
Churchill Estate of David Kurtz sold property at 1511 Williamsburg Pl to Steven John Bottjer for $114,500. Diane Carole Nichols sold property at 1519 Williamsburg Pl to Delvin Pitts for $149,900. Forest Hills Melvin Federbusch sold property at 27 Carmel Ct to Wendy McLemore for $310,500. Delores Derco sold property...
Letter to the editor: LGBTQ+ students deserve same representation in Mt. Lebanon
The lawsuit filed by three Mt. Lebanon mothers is absolutely irresponsible, harmful and a waste of our taxpayer dollars (“Mt. Lebanon mothers sue school district, teacher over gender identity lessons,” June 9, TribLIVE). As taxpayers, we are angry our award- winning school district will have to fight this bigotry in...
The Stroller, June 19, 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 15068. Please include a daytime telephone number. West Deer parish to host revival A free all-day tent revival will...
Letter to the editor: Bad guys will always get guns
In response to recent letters about sensible gun control: Background checks are a must and registration is good, but I’d like to think these writers would agree the evil element can bypass background checks and certainly won’t register illegal firearms. So where does that leave us? If guns are taken...
Pittsburgh Riverhounds come up empty in Texas
The Pittsburgh Riverhounds continued to struggle on the road, losing 1-0 to the Rio Grande Valley FC Toros on their first trip to face the club based on Edinburg, Texas. The Riverhounds (7-5-3) are 2-5-2 on the road this season. They’re 0-5-1 in their last six matches away from Highmark...
Pirates farm report for June 18, 2022: Greensboro pitchers throw pair of shutouts
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 31-32) lost to Gwinnett (Braves), 5-3. SS Oneil Cruz (.233) went 1 for 3 with a pair of RBIs. LF Ji-hwan Bae (.305) went 2 for 4 with a double and a run scored. CF Travis Swgaggerty (.276) went 1 for 4 and drove in a run. RHP...
Fox Chapel boys basketball drops to Class 5A in PIAA realignment
The biennial WPIAL basketball realignment can bring about odd situations. Take the one issued by the WPIAL Board of Directors to cover the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons. Both finalists for the 2021 Class 6A boys title — Fox Chapel and North Hills — are now part of Class 5A. Fox...
George Guido: Deer Lakes’ Dana Petruska emerged early after passing of Title IX
On March 26, 1985, the Deer Lakes girls basketball team played Bishop Guilfoyle in the PIAA Class 3A semifinal at IUP’s Memorial Fieldhouse. Deer Lakes prevailed 55-50 in triple overtime in one of the best games of the decade. But the significance of that contest was not only the excitement...
Longtime WWE, professional wrestling referee diesVideo
Longtime WWE referee Dave Hebner died on Friday. He was 73. A cause of death was not given, but Hebner had been battling a myriad of health issues across the past several years, according to multiple reports. Hebner and his twin brother, Earl, were both well-known professional wrestling referees. Dave...
Con: Mandatory voting is a bad, unconstitutional idea
A handful of countries, most notably Australia, impose mandatory voting, with citizens facing fines and punishments if they don’t appear at the polls. And every few years, somebody proposes bringing this practice to the United States as a good-government reform that allegedly would improve the health of our democracy. Luckily,...
Pro: Universal voting makes sense for a full and healthy democracy
In our book “100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting,” E.J. Dionne and I make a case for universal voting — that voting should be a required civic duty for every American citizen. Universal voting could be enacted federally or — more likely — by states or municipalities. If adopted,...
Letter to the editor: Dems will stop at nothing to take down Trump
I currently am watching, not for much longer, the Jan. 6 “hearings,” with no defendant, namely President Donald Trump. The Democrats, drowning in their own insanity, will stop at nothing to stop this great man from being reelected in 2024. What scared them in 2016 and what is scaring them...
Letter to the editor: Why still supporting Trump?
Why so many Americans support Donald Trump is beyond comprehension. I must confess that I am a DINO who bought wholeheartedly into the slogan to “Make America Great Again” in both 2016 and 2020. But Jan. 6 has caused me to do a 180-degree turnaround. Are the American people just...
Editorial: Victim’s stories have to be remembered
Homicide is a very clinical name given to the killing of one human being by another. Legally, killings can fall in a spectrum of responsibility. Vehicular homicide, involuntary and voluntary manslaughter, different degrees of murder. They all mean the same thing in the end. One person’s story ends. The drama...
Father figures: These coaches teach more than skills; they serve as role models for their players
Fathering comes in all forms. For many dads, it means getting involved with their children’s sports activities. But for fathers who go even further and become coaches, they are impacting more than their children’s lives. They are serving as father figures, as role models, for groups of kids. Meet local...
Fern Hollow Bridge inspection troubling but did not suggest imminent danger, experts say
Three months before Pittsburgh’s Fern Hollow Bridge collapsed 100 feet into a ravine below, inspectors again rated the span structurally deficient. Following a routine inspection in late September, a report submitted to the city and PennDOT gave the bridge an overall rating of 4 on a 9-point scale, said Penn...
The Stroller, June 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 15068. Please include a daytime telephone number. Lower Burrell church offers free reading workshop Redemption Church Reading Outreach Tutoring...
Letter to the editor: It’s not extreme to expect Biden to solve our problems
Recently it was disclosed that a plot to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was foiled. The intentional leak of an upcoming court document in regards to the Roe vs. Wade decision was behind it. If this misguided individual would have gotten his news somewhere other than CNN, MSNBC, “The...
What’s new at Northland Library
These programs are coming in July at Northland Public Library: Summer Reading Adult Summer Reading BOOKSHELF BINGO – Now through Aug. 31 Register online at northlandlibrary.beanstack.org/ There’s still time to start checking off the TBR list as part of our Bookshelf Bingo summer reading program! Every two weeks, registered readers...
Pirates farm report for June 17, 2022: Aaron Shackelford homers twice for Curve
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 31-31) held off Gwinnett (Braves), giving up two runs in the ninth but winning 5-4. DH Bligh Madris (.309) went 3 for 5 with a double and two RBIs. CF Jared Oliva (.226) was 2 for 4 with three runs scored. C Carter Bins (.200) went 2 for...
