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The Stroller, Nov. 21, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your club meetings, community events 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. Pajama and Book Project seeks donations The Rotary Club of Leechburg and Interact Club of Leechburg Area High School are sponsoring...
‘Getting on with my life’: Families eye nearly normal Thanksgiving after keeping distance in 2020
Thanksgiving largely will be close to normal this year, the second year the holiday will be celebrated during the coronavirus pandemic. Families are preparing feasts and there will be football, movies and the Macy’s parade. Perhaps a few political arguments amid another slice of pumpkin pie. A year after families...
Letter to the editor: Stop arguing and educate our kids
It seems as if we have forgotten the most important aspect of attending school. We have become so concerned with school mask mandates that we have overlooked the quality of education our children are receiving. Somehow many parents have equated education with mask-wearing in schools. Our kids have fallen behind...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Nov. 20, 2021
High schools Field hockey PIAA playoffs Championship Saturday’s results Class 3A Emmaus 1, Lower Dauphin 0 Class 2A Twin Valley 3, Gwynedd Mercy 2 Class A Wyoming Seminary 6, Oley Valley 0 Football WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Finals Saturday’s result Mt. Lebanon 47, Central Catholic 7 Class 5A Finals Nov....
North Allegheny wins 5th straight PIAA Class 4A girls volleyball championship
SILVER SPRING TOWNSHIP — It is said to never wake up a sleeping bear. By beating North Allegheny in the first game of their PIAA girls volleyball championship match Saturday night, Parkland might have woken the sleeping Tiger. North Allegheny rallied to win the next three games to win its...
Hampton boys soccer claims state championship with shutout
HERSHEY — Hampton won the PIAA Class 3A boys soccer title 1-0 over Archbishop Wood on Saturday night at Hersheypark Stadium, capping a successful weekend of WPIAL soccer that saw five state championships for local teams. It appeared for a while the Talbots (23-1) might be the third game in...
District college football roundup: Slippery Rock falls in Division II playoff opener
Chris Brimm threw three touchdown passes and Idris Lawrence ran 26 times for 164 yards as No. 6 Notre Dame College held off No. 19 Slippery Rock, 33-25, in the first round of the NCAA Division II playoffs Saturday afternoon. Brimm hit Devana Conliffe for a 40-yard touchdown pass to...
Mars edges Radnor in double overtime to secure PIAA girls soccer 3-peat
HERSHEY — Mars won its third straight PIAA Class 3A girls’ soccer title, but Saturday’s win held as much drama as the first two championships combined. The Planets defeated Radnor, 2-1, in double overtime at Hersheypark Stadium on Aly Cooper’s goal, assisted by Brooke Hamlet, 7 minutes, 28 seconds into...
George Guido: Leechburg is 1st in Alle-Kiski Valley to score 500
In a season of firsts, first-time-sinces and never-wases, Leechburg attained a milestone that wasn’t apparent until the season ended with a 39-18 loss to Cornell. The Blue Devils became the first Alle-Kiski Valley team in history to score 500 points in a season. It broke the local record of 499...
North Catholic captures PIAA Class 2A girls volleyball crown
SILVER SPRING TOWNSHIP — North Catholic fell behind two games to zero in its last match against Phillipsburg-Osceola and rallied to win, but many coaches don’t recommend teams do that on a regular basis. The Trojanettes didn’t waste any time Saturday as they blitzed defending state champion Trinity, 3-0, to...
Hampton finishes as PIAA runner-up after falling to Spring Grove in girls volleyball final
SILVER SPRING TOWNSHIP — Spring Grove spoiled Hampton’s dream season in the PIAA final Saturday, as it defeated the Talbots, 3-1, to win Class 3A gold for the first time in girls volleyball at Cumberland Valley High School. Individual game scores were 25-21, 25-20, 22-25 and 25-19. “It is not...
Poll: More American adults say they don’t expect to have a child
A growing share of U.S. adults who aren’t already parents say they probably won’t have children, citing reasons such as apathy, financial instability or the lack of a partner. A new survey from the Pew Research Center found that 44% of non-parents ages 18 to 49 say it’s not too...
Sounding off: Bring on the election investigations
Republicans “won” many seats in this election. Every row office in Westmoreland County is now in Republican hands, as is the governorship of Virginia. So I’m sure that they will do the responsible thing and investigate the obvious election fraud and conduct responsible audits of the voter rolls. After all,...
Ryan Shafik: Jake Corman runs for governor, Josh Shapiro rejoices
Dynastic career politician Jake Corman, president pro tempore of the Pennsylvania State Senate, is the latest Republican to toss his hat in the ring for governor of this great commonwealth. Given Corman’s insatiable ambition, his decision to enter the fray isn’t necessarily surprising. What is shocking is that someone with...
2 top executives quit giant Pa. pension fund amid FBI, SEC probes
Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — Following months of controversy and amid an ongoing federal investigation, Pennsylvania’s biggest pension fund on Thursday announced that its...
North Allegheny notebook: Tigers advance to 5th straight volleyball final
Already a four-time defending state champion, the North Allegheny girls volleyball team earned a trip to the PIAA finals for the fifth year in a row after defeating rival Shaler, 3-1, in a PIAA Class 4A semifinal Nov. 6 at Fox Chapel. The Tigers rallied from a 25-19 loss in...
Shady Side Academy celebrates ‘historically amazing’ football season
The 128th football season for Shady Side Academy was a season like no other. First, the school adopted a new nickname – the Bulldogs – and the team began a co-operative agreement with The Neighborhood Academy. “Historically amazing,” said Bulldogs coach Chuck DiNardo. “We took two groups of kids who...
Fox Chapel endured challenging schedule during run to WPIAL quarterfinals
Fox Chapel’s football schedule this season was like a bakery near closing time — no creampuffs. Ten of the 12 teams the Foxes (5-7) played this season were playoff teams. The only two non-playoff teams on the card — Shaler and Kiski Area — were competitive teams that stayed in...
James Knights: We’re not learning — genocides on rise
On Veterans Day, I was asked to give a few remarks at an exhibition hosted by the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education at Seton Hill University in Greensburg. The focus of the exhibition was a collection of my father’s wartime photographs of the little-known German massacre of 1016, mostly...
Letter to the editor: Alternatives to Thanksgiving turkey
Last week, President Biden set infrastructure aside just long enough to pardon two turkeys. With more than 200 million turkeys killed in the U.S. each year, everyone can pardon their own turkey and instead try a plant-based roast this Thanksgiving. Turkeys are bred and raised in toxic fume-filled crowded sheds,...
Letter to the editor: High-end thievery by the .1%
We recently learned that President Trump has lost $70 million on the Trump International Hotel. In 2018, Deutsche Bank gave him a six-year deferral on payment of a $170 million loan for that same hotel. In 2017, the state of New York and the UK won a $630 million lawsuit...
Editorial: Big paychecks can be bad look amid health care struggles
In 2020, Highmark CEO David Holmberg saw his paycheck dip. This isn’t surprising. Plenty of people made less money in a year when the coronavirus pandemic turned everything — especially health care — upside down. There will probably be little sympathy for Holmberg, however, as his $325,000 loss still let...
The Stroller, Nov. 20, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your club meetings, community events 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. Entries sought for Harrison holiday light contest Harrison Township is sponsoring a holiday light contest for township residents. Categories are: Clark...
Letter to the editor: Hypocritical government
We now live in the land of a hypocritical government, one that was dependent on our brave front-line workers a year ago to police our cities, put out fires and keep people alive. They were hailed as heroes. Now this czar running the country says to fire them if they...
2021 WPIAL statistical leaders for rushing, passing, receiving in Week 12
Top performers for Week 12 of high school football in Western Pennsylvania. Passing 282 - Josh Jenkins, Sto-Rox (17 of 27) 193 - Joey Prentice, North Catholic (16 of 31) 168 - Ryan Palmieri, Pine-Richland (20 of 31) 144 - Kole Olszewski, Bishop Canevin (9 of 13) 104 - Joe...
