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Route 28 traffic near Powers Run Road in O’Hara will be restricted starting Monday
Single-lane restrictions on Route 28 will start Monday where a bridge goes over Powers Run Road in O’Hara Township. The lane restrictions will occur in both directions weekdays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. through the end of May. The restrictions will be removed in the southbound direction two hours...
Letter to the editor: Pirates need to focus on team, not amenities
The Pirates’ announced upgrades to PNC Park are the latest smoke-and-mirrors act from the Bob Nutting Bank and Trust (“PNC Park getting enhancements in advance of Pirates’ season opener,” April 4, TribLIVE.) Ooh. Ahh. More barstools. Giant bobbleheads. More overpriced food and drink options. None of these enhancements, while nice,...
Fox Chapel Golf Club set to host Big Ten women’s golf championships
The Big Ten is coming. The prestigious, Power Five conference has selected the Fox Chapel Golf Club for the site of its women’s golf championships over the next two seasons. This year’s event will be from April 22-24, with a practice round on April 21. There will be six female...
‘Maximum depth’ helps Fox Chapel tackle boys tennis season
Fox Chapel is off to its typically strong start in boys tennis. The Foxes were 5-0 headed into a week-long spring break for the school district. Fox Chapel won four consecutive WPIAL team titles from 2016-19. Then the pandemic year of 2020 came along and the season was wiped out....
Letter to the editor: Commitment to global public health is right move
I applaud President Biden’s budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year (“Biden’s budget plan: Higher taxes on rich, lower deficits,” March 28, TribLIVE), particularly the president’s commitment to global public health initiatives. One aspect of the federal budget that should not be overlooked is our nation’s commitment to The Global...
Editorial: Avian flu precautions protect Pennsylvania economy
There is a pretty good chance that a chicken or egg eaten somewhere in the U.S. came from Pennsylvania. The Keystone State is the fourth largest producer of poultry in America. The U.S. Department of Agriculture puts the number of chickens alone at 201 million, and that doesn’t count other...
The Stroller, April 9, 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. Please include a daytime telephone number. Literacy event planned for fathers and children Allegheny Family Network and the Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books will host a Fathers...
Letter to the editor: More must be done on dangerous chemicals in our water
I was pleased to see the article “MAWC seeks damages for contamination of water system” (March 16, TribLIVE) about the Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County filing a lawsuit against chemical companies for allegedly making toxic substances that contaminate local water systems. Among the chemicals cited as being produced is the...
News from Sharpsburg, Indiana Township, Fox Chapel, O’Hara
Sharpsburg The Sharpsburg Volunteer Fire Department hosts a Good Friday fish fry on April 15 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the borough building at 1611 Main St. It is takeout and delivery only. Deliveries end at 5 p.m. Pre-orders can be made on April 14 from 6-8 p.m....
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 8, 2022
High school Baseball WPIAL Friday’s results Class 4A Section 2 Montour 6, Quaker Valley 4 Class 2A Section 3 Eden Christian at Northgate, ppd. Nonsection Butler 10, Gateway 0 Freeport 7, Kiski Area 2 Laurel Highlands 8, Trinity 6 Mars 3, North Catholic 2 Mt. Pleasant 11, Armstrong 1 North...
Pirates farm report for April 8, 2022: Travis Swaggerty delivers walk-off hit
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 1-2) beat Omaha (Royals), 3-2, on a walk-off single by DH Travis Swaggerty (.231) in the bottom of the ninth. 3B Hunter Owen (.667) walked and CF Ji-hwan Bae (.286) singled before Swaggerty’s heroics. SS Oneil Cruz (.300) went 2 for 4 with a stolen base, his second....
High school roundup for April 8, 2022: Walker’s triple sparks Montour
Nick Walker tripled home three runs to lead Montour to a 6-4 victory over Quaker Valley in Section 2-4A baseball Friday. Mason Sike picked up the win for the Spartans and Dylan Mathiesen recorded a save. Cole Fleck and Matt Luchovick doubled for Montour (6-1, 4-0). Zeke Hendricks had a...
Gary Franks: Democrat-controlled Congress should do more to help Biden on Ukraine
More than 70% of the country feels we are going in the wrong direction. If Americans did not need another reason to change direction, at least at the congressional level, the massacre at Bucha and horrors seen in Ukraine cry out for change. Where is the Democrat-controlled Congress? It is...
Penn State lands 4-star quarterback recruit
Penn State landed a four-star quarterback recruit Friday, picking up a verbal commitment from Marcus Stokes of Nease High School in Florida. Stokes is rated the 17th-best quarterback recruit in the country by 247sports.com. The 6-foot-2, 185-pound Stokes threw for 2,672 yards, 22 touchdowns and nine interceptions in Florida’s second-largest...
Another lawsuit filed against Brighton Rehab and Wellness in connection with covid-19 outbreak
The family of a Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center employee who died from covid-19 after they said he contracted the illness at work filed a wrongful death suit against the owners on Thursday. Kevin Carroll, 54, worked as part of the housing and laundry staff at the facility in Brighton...
Joseph Wright and Abel Escribà-Folch: Calling Putin a ‘war criminal’ could spark even more atrocities in Ukraine
As the war in Ukraine continues, officials in the U.S. and Europe are sounding alarms about alleged war crimes being committed by Russian troops there. President Joe Biden has called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal,” as has the U.S. Senate, on the grounds that schools, hospitals and civilian...
Allegheny County Council moves to censure member for comments following March meeting
Allegheny County Council President Pat Catena, D-Carnegie, has proposed a motion to censure a fellow councilman because of comments made during a contentious meeting last month. Catena’s motion said Councilman Thomas Duerr, D-Bethel Park, approached council Vice President John Palmiere, D-Pleasant Hills, after the March 22 meeting and “in a...
Monroeville Christian Church hosts revival April 10-13
Spring Revival is scheduled for April 10-13 at Monroeville Christian Church, 3780 Northern Pike. The church welcomes Dick Chambers as guest speaker. He has been preaching and teaching the gospel for 48 years and has held more than 500 rallies, seminars, revivals, camp meetings and retreats in 22 states and...
Tyrone McKinley Freeman: How MacKenzie Scott’s $12 billion in gifts to charity reflect an uncommon trust in the groups she supports
Editor’s note: MacKenzie Scott disclosed on March 23 that she had given $3.9 billion to 465 nonprofits in the previous nine months. These no-strings-attached donations bring the total she has given away in the past two years to at least $12 billion. Philanthropy historian Tyrone Freeman weighs in on Scott’s...
Rape exceptions to abortion bans were once widely accepted. No more
WASHINGTON — As conservative states enacted stringent abortion bans in recent decades, there was one threshold they were loath to cross: Abortion was nearly always allowed in cases of rape or incest. It was a veneer of acceptance embraced by every GOP president from Reagan to Trump, and even the...
So far, so good for traffic in Allegheny Township along Route 356 construction zone
The first few days of the summerlong renovation project on Route 356 in Allegheny Township has passed without any major problems. Route 356 will be closed in three segments, with activity underway initially in the area from Weinels Crossroads to Piper Road. The entire project is expected to last until...
Letter to the editor: Biden worst president ever
Jimmy Carter can sleep well at night knowing that he’s no longer known as the worst president in American history. Joe Biden claimed that title after only 14 months in office. Biden accomplished this by giving us record high inflation, record high gas prices, record high illegal immigration, record high...
Letter to the editor: GOP looking more like Communist Party
Maybe President Biden could be more successful if he mobilized an angry mob and sent them down to Washington to smash their way into the Capitol, erect a gallows and then chase down the disagreeable legislators. But if he did that, he wouldn’t be Democrat, he’d be a Republican. And...
Letter to the editor: Concerned Sewickley Parents should reconsider demands
We wish to address the Concerned Sewickley Parents who authored the petition advertisement on page 7 in the Sewickley Herald’s March 31 edition. In your petition, you demand that several actions be taken by Sewickley Academy’s Board of Trustees and Head of School. We studied your demands. In doing so,...
Eden Hall’s 1st business pitch competition focuses on food, agriculture
Chatham University’s Eden Hall campus in Richland hosted its first-ever “pitch” competition, for people in the region who have ideas about new or emerging food and agricultural businesses. The competition, sponsored by Chatham’s Center for Regional Agriculture, Food and Transformation, or CRAFT, was held April 2 in the Esther Barazzone...
