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Burrell bowling teams off to strong start
While most of the attention in winter sports is pointed at the basketball court and wrestling circles, there is another sport ramping up involving hundreds athletes competing on the hardwood. WPIBL season is underway with several local teams competing on the lanes in high school bowling. There are team and...
Steelers vs. Chiefs Week 16 film study: 1st-half struggles again too much to overcome
NFL football analyst Matt Williamson will break down each of the Steelers games this season in the Trib’s Steelers Film Study. Here’s what he saw in the Steelers’ Week 16 loss to the Chiefs. Maybe the NFL’s hottest team, the Kansas City Chiefs hosted the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday afternoon....
Grads tasted a life without student debt, but that’s set to end next year
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — In the mornings, before she starts work at her software development job, St. Petersburg’s Amanda Leaders sits down with coffee and thinks about whom to send a postcard. The hobby began in September when she noticed a sale at Vistaprint. She ordered a set of postcards...
Singer Rick Astley is grateful for the Rickroll, says he’s ‘never gonna give up’ anything in 2022
With a big advertising campaign in gear and a U.S. tour on the way, ’80s pop star Rick Astley has no plans to give anything up in 2022. But first, he sportingly looked back at the Rickroll phenomenon, which he still finds hard to explain. The 55-year-old singer told the...
Letter to the editor: Actions of Biden, Democrats worrisome
The longer President Biden and Democratic leaders go without being arrested for ignoring immigration laws and their oaths of office, the more worried I get. We are getting unvetted illegals from all over the world daily. Even the mainstream media is in a low tone admitting that we have the...
Letter to the editor: ‘Time to Talk’ about Alzheimer’s
The Alzheimer’s Association has announced a new campaign called “Time to Talk,” which focuses on the benefits of early detection and diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia. More than 6 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s, but only about half of those with the disease have a diagnosis. While...
Editorial: Departing officeholders leave challenge for new public servants
In Pennsylvania, general elections are held in November. It is done by law, as the Tuesday after the first Monday of the month is named in the U.S. constitution for federal elections and it seemed to make sense to keep it there for the other years. The timing of elections...
The Stroller, Dec. 28, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your events, club meetings and fundraisers for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Knead Community Café welcomes donations Knead Community Café, New Kensington, is accepting donations to help the daily operation of the café, 1011...
Letter to the editor: Johnstown’s problems
It is ironic that, of all places, Andrew Cuff praised Johnstown in his op-ed “Western Pennsylvania is dying — or is it?” (Dec. 18, TribLIVE). I can pick two sentences and turn them on their heads. First of all, it’s disingenuous to focus on the negative? True. But Johnstown has...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Dec. 27, 2021
High schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Monday’s results Bentworth Tournament Waynesburg 60, West Greene 43 Propel Braddock Hills 76, Bentworth 52 Bethel Park Tournament Shaler 86, Burrell 59 Bethel Park 35, McDowell 25 Carmichaels Tournament Jefferson-Morgan at Mapletown, ppd. Beth-Center at Carmichaels, ppd. Charleroi Tournament East Allegheny 62, Frazier 35 Ringgold...
High school roundup for Dec. 27, 2021: North Catholic tops Gateway to go to 5-0
Andrew Maddalon scored 23 points, hitting four 3-pointers, to lead North Catholic to a 75-69 boys basketball victory over Gateway at the Holiday Bash at North Allegheny. Max Hurray added 16 points, Max Rottmann had 12 and Ben Tomer contributed 11 for North Catholic (5-0). Ryan Greggerson led Gateway (3-2)...
Quick start, 34 points from freshman push Ringgold past Southmoreland
Ringgold tallied 27 first-quarter points against Southmoreland on the first day of the cfsbank Holiday Tournament at Charleroi High School on Monday night. But the Rams went cold in the middle quarters. Despite only leading by six points in the fourth quarter, Ringgold showed its resolve and battled to a...
John Dorfman: Why I own only 2 of the Sacred Seven stocks
There are seven stocks that investors seem to worship. In the parlance of the 1970s, they are one-decision stocks: You are supposed to buy them and never sell them. Call them the Sacred Seven. The blessed septet are Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL, formerly Google), Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), Apple Inc. (AAPL), Meta...
Dave Anderson: The truth is that our citizens are not polarized
There are two problems with the conventional wisdom about polarization in American society. The first is that it mistakes widespread conflict with one master battle between conservatives and liberals. The second is that it overlooks a large percentage of Americans who do not identify with either the Democrats or the...
Penn State DB Brisker, WR Dotson won’t play in Outback Bowl to focus on NFL DraftVideo
Penn State standout receiver Jahan Dotson and safety Jaquan Brisker won’t play for the Nittany Lions against No. 22 Arkansas in the Outback Bowl on Saturday. Brisker announced Monday that he has opted out of the bowl game to prepare for the 2022 NFL Draft. “I’ve been waiting for this...
Analysis: Depleted Ravens couldn’t keep it close against BengalsVideo
The Baltimore Ravens have remained competitive all season despite injuries that have decimated the roster. Against Cincinnati, it finally looked like one team’s backups trying to stop another team’s stars. The Ravens were helpless against a Cincinnati team that wasn’t forced to punt. After losing its previous three games by...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene rants against ‘fake religion’ Kwanzaa as Black holiday begins
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has denounced Kwanzaa as a “fake religion” just as millions of Black people start to celebrate the weeklong holiday. The far-right Georgia lawmaker berated the national College Republicans for “pandering and BS” after the GOP group tweeted a seemingly innocuous happy holiday message. “Stop. It’s a...
Brian Baumgartner gets ‘meta’ about his beloved ‘The Office’ character Kevin
Brian Baumgartner hasn’t landed a high-profile role since playing awkward accountant Kevin Malone on “The Office.” But he’s too busy leading tours down memory lane to complain. Baumgartner started a podcast last year that serves as the main source for his new book, “Welcome to Dunder Mifflin: The Oral History...
5 questions to help you figure out if you’ll love ‘The Matrix Resurrections’
As a wise Oracle once said, “Everything that has a beginning has an end.” Well, maybe she meant everything but the “Matrix” movies. Four films, one “Animatrix,” video games and two decades of enormous cultural influence later, the franchise borne of Lana and Lilly Wachowski’s 1999 sci-fi opus has rebooted...
Larger roster providing hope to Latrobe swimming
Grey Arrigonie knows that depth matters. And depth, without question, is something the Latrobe swimming program has much more of this season. “We are bigger than past years,” said Arrigonie, now in his 12th year as Latrobe’s coach. “Last year we had some swimmers opt out. We were really low...
Westmoreland Senior Spotlight: Southmoreland’s Delaynie Morvosh
Delaynie Morvosh Southmoreland basketball The last three years have been very good for the Southmoreland girls basketball program, with deep playoff runs happening every season, including a trip to the WPIAL finals in 2020. That success has carried over early in the 2021-22 season, as the Scotties are off to...
Steelers vs. Chiefs: What they’re saying after K.C.’s blowout win
Talk in the Midwest in the wake of the Kansas City Chiefs’ 36-10 rout of the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday was all about division titles and possible Super Bowl runs. Meanwhile, in Pittsburgh, many are left wondering how deep of an overhaul the Steelers might consider in the offseason —...
Letter to the editor: Social justice is opposite of justice
After years of hearing the term “social justice,” you might think you understand the term. I believe we can now definitively say that the term means whatever the “woke” mob wants it to mean. One thing is for certain: It has nothing to do with justice. Taking the case of...
Letter to the editor: There are honest Democrats, unionists
In his column “Pa. Democrats have a union problem” (Dec. 12, TribLIVE), Michael Torres attempts to prove that the Democrats are in trouble because they are siding with hard-working Americans and defending unions (one of the few institutions that actually works to protect working people). Donald Trump, leader of the GOP,...
The Stroller, Dec. 27, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your events, club meetings and fundraisers for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. New award to honor Concordia employees Concordia Lutheran Ministries has announced a new honor, The Stephen W. Johnson Mission Award that will...
