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Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of March 14
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High school scores, summaries and schedules for March 13, 2022
High schools Basketball Boys PIAA playoffs Class 6A Second round Sunday’s results Lower Merion 63, Abington 50 Scranton 52, Garnet Valley 49 (OT) Roman Catholic 59, Central Dauphin 26 Cheltenham 66, Penn Wood 50 North Hills 77, Norristown 57 Archbishop Wood 64, Reading 58 Northampton 60, Warwick 59 (OT) Quarterfinals...
High school roundup for March 13, 2022: North Hills routs Norristown, reaches PIAA quarters
Alex Smith scored 27 points and Royce Parham added 20 as WPIAL runner-up North Hills routed District 1 runner-up Norristown, 77-57, in a PIAA Class 6A second-round boys basketball game Sunday. Matt Seidl and Devin Burgess each added 13 points for North Hills (26-1), which led by seven at the...
George Guido: Alle-Kiski Valley loses 2 Sports Hall of Fame legends last week
On June 17, 1983, Riverview baseball coach Bill Beebe had a decision to make. Pitch the same person who threw the previous day in the PIAA championship game or take the cautious approach with a fresh arm. For Beebe, the decision was easy. “It’s not worth ruining a kid’s arm...
Penn-Trafford’s Graziano, Alexander to swim at PIAA meet
Penn-Trafford sophomore Patton Graziano earned a pair of medals at the WPIAL Class 3A swimming championships March 3-4 at Pitt’s Trees Pool. Graziano finished seventh in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 47.25 seconds and also took fifth in the 100-yard backstroke in 51.60. Graziano qualified for this week’s...
Letter to the editor: Working from home would help energy crisis
During the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, many businesses shut down. Then, as they started reopening, many of them set up ways for employees to work from home. Great idea! Business back in action, people working, things being accomplished. The country functioning again. Now, with the war waged in Ukraine...
Letter to the editor: Paying for water clean-up, oil
Two important points regarding recent topics in today’s news: First, I support Maury Fey’s comments in his letter “Another Biden failure on energy” (March 7, TribLIVE). But since our president is not willing to open our pipelines, why not use the confiscated funds of the Russian oligarchs to pay for...
Letter to the editor: Not everyone wants to do everything online
Online communications are driving me crazy. Two examples. I went to Giant Eagle and told the pharmacist I wanted to schedule a booster shot. He said I had to go online. I went home and called Walmart and went in the next day and got my shot. I wanted to...
Letter to the editor: Banning books not best for children
Parents should not be trying to have books banned. They should want their children to know more, achieve more and experience more than they did. How do we reach those goals by isolating our children from life? To make good decisions, young people should be armed with all the facts,...
Arnold Council couldn’t act on the business before it because it didn’t tell the public ahead of time
Arnold Council will meet at 7 p.m. Monday after not getting anything done when it met last week because, legally, it couldn’t. That’s because, if it had voted on anything on its agenda, it would have been in violation of a state regulation that went into effect last August. The...
Editorial: Why not a state gas tax holiday, Gov. Wolf?
On Monday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf joined his counterparts in Colorado, Michigan, New Mexico and Wisconsin in appealing to congressional leaders. Minnesota’s governor hopped on the bandwagon later. The problem is the rising gas prices that are making it more expensive by the hour to fill up a tank. When...
Letter to the editor: Biden must open access to American energy
In his State of the Union speech, President Biden promised to fight inflation. One of the biggest contributors to inflation is rising energy costs. The cost of gas, heating oil, electricity, etc., affects every aspect of our society. The price of food, consumer goods, transporting products and just about everything...
The Stroller, March 13, 2022: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
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. Kiski Area musical cast to host breakfast The cast of Kiski Area High School’s spring...
Letter to the editor: Casey, Toomey should support Jackson as justice
The selection of a Supreme Court justice has a profound effect on the well-being of our democracy. The decisions made by a justice over decades of his or her lifetime affect each and every one of us on issues of health care, a thriving environment, jobs and civil rights and...
Freeport seeking more grant funding for new sewage plant to keep consumer bills down
Freeport is continuing to seek more funding for a proposed $16.9 million sewage treatment plant. In January, the borough received an $11 million state grant. But officials are looking for more sources of funding to avoid a bank loan to finance the remaining $5.9 million. A borough analysis in February...
North Hills real estate transactions for the week of March 13, 2022
Franklin Park Estate of Stanley Hoehl sold property at 2387 Fairhill Road to Patricia Edwards for $389,000. John Keelin sold property at 1527 Field Club Drive to Joseph Fennimore and Julie Mueller for $466,000. David Fassinger III sold property at 2521 Hopkins Church Road to Jonathan Ray Crawford for $224,900....
Eastern Pittsburgh suburban real estate transactions for the week of March 13, 2022
Edgewood Eric Holtzman sold property at 430 Greendale Ave. to Harvey and Roberta Lyn Borovetz for $319,000. Forest Hills Curtis Cunningham sold property at 401 Woodside Road to Mary Joyce Connors for $171,000. Monroeville JCMR Properties LLC sold property at 1206 Bowling Green Drive to Michael and Melanie Hampton for...
Fox Chapel area real estate transactions for the week of March 13, 2022
Blawnox John Novak sold property at 27 Riverside Ct to Christina Marie Mackay for $38,253. Fox Chapel James Wolf sold property at 105 Dogwood Ln to Sean Patrick and Rachel Whelan for $1,450,000. Donald Bruce Phillips sold property at 500 Glade Run Ln to Michael Jeffrey and Chelsea Lintelman Dukovich...
Newest Riverhound makes history in season-opening win at Memphis
Dane Kelly’s debut with the Pittsburgh Riverhounds couldn’t have gone much better. Kelly, the USL Championship’s all-time leading scorer who signed with the Riverhounds in January, became the first player in league history to score 100 career goals in a 3-0 season-opening victory over Memphis 901 FC on Saturday night....
High school scores, summaries and schedules for March 12, 2022
High schools Basketball Boys PIAA playoffs Class 6A Saturday’s result Second round Fox Chapel 61, Allderdice 52 Sunday’s schedule Lower Merion (25-3) vs. Abington (17-11) at Bensalem, 3:30 p.m.; Scranton (22-2) vs. Garnet Valley (18-10) at Bethlehem Freedom, 4 p.m.; Roman Catholic (20-4) vs. Central Dauphin (18-5) at Liberty, 3...
High school roundup for March 12, 2022: Moon edges out WPIAL champion South Fayette
There hasn’t been much separating the Moon and South Fayette girls basketball teams all season. They tied for second place in Section 1-5A with 7-3 records, splitting a pair of regular-season matchups. They were evenly matched again in a PIAA Class 5A second-round matchup Saturday. This time, the Tigers got...
Freeport girls claim regional bowling title
Freeport qualified for the step-ladder finals of the Western Pennsylvania Regional girls team bowling championships Saturday in North Versailles by a narrow margin — just three pins. The rest of the field should have eliminated the Yellowjackets when they had the chance. Freeport knocked off third-seeded Penn-Trafford and second-seeded McKeesport...
Cold and snow don’t dissuade hearty Pittsburghers from St. Patrick’s Day parade
Despite ominous snowfall predictions for this year’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade, thousands of green-clad revelers and participants still gathered Saturday morning in Downtown Pittsburgh for the two-hour event. The route started at the Greyhound bus station near Liberty Avenue, moved down Grant Street before turning onto Boulevard of the Allies...
Sounding off: Why fear critical race theory?
Having read the article “Norwin director claims assignment on racism was critical race theory teaching,” I can’t help wondering what Shawna Ilagan is fearing. I am not an expert on critical race theory, but I know it is another way of looking at race and systemic racism in our country....
Lena Surzhko Harned: How a cathedral of guns and glory symbolizes Putin’s Russia
A curious new church was dedicated on the outskirts of Moscow in June 2020: The Main Church of the Russian Armed Forces. The massive, khaki-colored cathedral in a military theme park celebrates Russian might. It was originally planned to open on the 75th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over...
