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Publicize your club meetings, events and fundraisers in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Golf tournament to benefit St. Joseph HS The 29th annual Spartan Golf Scramble will be June 11 at Lenape Heights Golf Resort, Manor. Registration...

George Will’s March 4 column “The mildly encouraging minimum-wage debate” deals with the danger of raising the wage of workers. Will argues that raising wages kills jobs and slows economic growth. I believe there is ample evidence to suggest the exact opposite. A 1994 Princeton study compared the results of...

Trib Total Media Executive Editor Susan McFarland, who led the news organization through a period of dramatic transformation and sweeping digital growth, will retire Sept. 15, the company has announced. During her five years as the top newsroom leader, the Tribune-Review has been recognized three years in a row as...

How often have you heard the lines “We are better than this” and “This is not who we are”? To those who say this, I submit for your approval the following: • The Capitol riots in Washington, D.C. • George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn. • Andrew Brown Jr. in Elizabeth...

High schools WPIAL Baseball Saturday’s results Class 5A Section 2 Plum 16, Woodland Hills 1 Section 4 Bethel Park 2, Connellsville 0 Class 2A Section 1 Carmichaels 7, Washington 4 Nonsection Ambridge 5, Eden Christian 3 Carrick 6, Brentwood 4 Ellwood City 5, Quaker Valley 1 Greensburg Central Catholic 17,...

Olivia Ulam went 3 for 3 with a home run and five RBIs to lead Canon-McMillan to a 19-15 victory in a Section 1-6A softball slugfest Saturday afternoon. Grace Higgins, Elli Kotar and Sophia Duke also homered for the Big Macs (5-6, 2-3). Jenna Gorecki hit a grand slam and...

Carmen Ochoa’s three children each live in a different country. Two years ago, the cook from Honduras left her 10-year-old daughter, Greyvy, with her mother in their native land, where her husband, a police officer, was killed in 2008. Ochoa and her two eldest children claimed asylum at the border...

With less than two weeks left in the WPIAL baseball and softball regular season, this might be a good time to go over playoff qualification. Except it could change within the next few days. The league originally issued guidelines stating the top four teams in each section will make the...

SEATTLE — Kraken television play-by-play broadcaster John Forslund sees “an interesting frontier” ahead for the NHL now that its dual U.S. national television-rights holders have been named. Forslund, who remains one of NBC’s lead hockey broadcasters through the upcoming playoffs, said this week that new NHL partners ESPN and Turner...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ net worth is $177 billion. The three heirs to Walmart saw their fortunes grow last year by $40.7 billion. Thousands of Amazon and Walmart employees’ incomes are so low that they qualify for food stamps, meaning that taxpayers subsidize these booming businesses. Think of that —...

I am extremely concerned about the prevalence of neonics (neurotoxic insecticides), which kill bees and birds. They are even impregnated in corn seeds that farmers plant. Almost all pesticides contain neonics. Companies such as Lowe’s should refrain from selling them and Bayer should cease producing them. Richard P. Davis Saltlick...

Student-Athlete recognition Olivia Cindrich competed for the Flying Dutchmen during the Winter 2020-2021 sports season. Cindrich, a graduate of Carlynton Jr-Sr High School, is pursuing a bachelor of science in exercise science at Lebanon Valley College. Cindrich was a member of the women’s ice hockey team. She is also one...

I hate to use the term liar; however, adhering to the dictionary definition, no other word can be used to describe Joseph Sabino Mistick’s column ”Georgia’s assault on democracy” (April 3, TribLIVE). Although I quit reading his column years ago, the headline caught my eye and demands a response. It...

In some ways, the people from Western Pennsylvania who were arrested in the Capitol riot match the findings of national studies conducted by the Chicago Project on Security and Threats. Most of them are employed, and several own their own businesses — including a couple who owns a contracting company...

It has to be difficult to be a school in the pandemic. Sure, there are lots of other institutions working hard to figure out what’s happening and what to do about it. Hospitals, nursing homes, churches. Even grocery stores and baseball teams have been in turmoil because of covid-19. But...

Publicize your club meetings, events and fundraisers in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Memorial Day events to be published The Valley News Dispatch is compiling a list of Memorial Day observances to be published in the Valley...

Andrew Ridilla’s letter (“What gun control is really about”) causes me to picture him barricaded in his basement with an arsenal of weapons, ready to defend against an invasion by the U.S. government. In reality, he is, and we are, more in danger going to the supermarket or movie theater,...

TribLIVE is celebrating the graduating Class of 2021 with our second annual virtual graduation. Do you know a graduating student who deserves recognition for his or her achievement? Submit their information and a photo by clicking the link below, and we’ll include them in our celebration of this year’s graduating...

High schools WPIAL Baseball Friday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 2 Norwin at Upper St. Clair, ppd. Class 5A Section 2 Plum 10, Woodland Hills 0 Section 4 Bethel Park at Connellsville, ppd. Trinity at Albert Gallatin, ppd. Class 4A Section 3 West Mifflin 11, Elizabeth Forward 10 Class A...

Alyssa Schmidt hit a grand slam and Lauren Yuhas also homered to lead West Mifflin to an 18-10 victory over Belle Vernon in Section 2-4A softball Friday afternoon. Jaslyn Guenther had three hits and Emily Buchleitner tripled and drove in three runs for West Mifflin (13-1, 8-1). Maren Metikosh had...

A North Carolina man is facing several charges after police say he stole a maintenance truck Friday evening and moments later drove it into a building at Pittsburgh International Airport. Harry Griffith, 35, was arrested Saturday. He is charged with recklessly endangering another person, harassment, ethnic intimidation, criminal mischief, theft...

Greensburg Salem School District is partnering with Hayden’s Pharmacy to offer a Pfizer covid-19 vaccine clinic for students age 16 or older. The voluntary clinic will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Greensburg Salem Senior High School, according to the district website. School officials noted...

A few weeks ago, wildfires took out hundreds of acres of land in two areas of Ohiopyle State Park. For approximately 12 hours and initially facing dry and windy conditions, 74 crews from departments in Westmoreland and Fayette counties fought and ultimately extinguished the fires. No lives were lost, and...

Six months ago, the idea of expanding the size of the U.S. Supreme Court was side-stepped by presidential candidate Joe Biden, and the issue seemed to wane. But now, “court packing” has surfaced once again — and in two forms. The first is an executive order from President Biden creating...