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Bellevue Robert Recker Jr. sold property at Farragut Ave. to Crecker LLC for $5,000. Robert Recker Jr. sold property at 8 Farragut Ave. to Crecker LLC for $7,000. Young Mens Christian Assn. sold property at 629 Lincoln Ave. to Franklin Square L.P. for $900,000. Brian Wisniewski sold property at 638...

Bridgeville John Baselj sold property at 742 Mill St. to Tru Sky Properties LLC for $55,000. Patrick McGinnis sold property at 1052 Sarah St. to John Albert and Nicole Helene Baselj for $219,000. Pittsburgh Sports Performance & Developm sold property at 331 Station St. to 331 Station St. Associates LLC...

Baldwin Borough John Coll sold property at 186 Cheston St. to Justin Hawkins and Marquita Quinones for $209,900. Abigail Rae Nath sold property at 3355 Churchview Ave. to Owen Parham and Abigail Valero for $163,000. Brandon Enos sold property at 5072 Dolores Drive to Tanka and Lila Subedi for $416,000....

I enjoyed Bill Beckner’s article “Iowa senior, Franklin Regional grad Spencer Lee named nation’s top wrestler” (March 30, TribLIVE). The article looked at Lee being named the Hodge Trophy winner for two years in a row, which is remarkable. Lee’s career at Iowa has been incredible as was his high...

There is a lot of talk about how to handle student loan debt. There are the loans the students take out. There are the loans the parents take out to help. The Federal Reserve estimates Americans have about $1.7 trillion in student loan debt. Student loans are an overwhelming burden...

I was very impressed by Leonard Pitts Jr.’s column “Small wonder the church is shrinking” (April 6, TribLIVE). He states that for the first time since Gallup has been tracking religious membership, we are at an all-time low. In 1937, 73% of us belonged to some form of house of...

Dear state Rep. Kathy Rapp: You continue to introduce legislation about me without returning my offers to talk. You don’t consult with the health care professionals that cared for me and my baby. Instead, you choose to bury your head in the sand because you don’t want to hear the...

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. Registration open for St. Margaret Foundation Brian Demchak Hope Challenge The annual St. Margaret Foundation Brian Demchak Hope Challenge is set for May 16...

High schools Baseball Saturday’s results Nonsection Hickory 7, Laurel 6 Indiana 9, Punxsutawney 3 Serra Catholic 4, Avonworth 2 Kiski Area 3, Seneca Valley 3 Mars at North Allegheny, ppd. Hockey PIHL Penguins Cup Playoffs Finals Class AAA Monday’s schedule North Allegheny (15-5-0-2) vs. Mt. Lebanon (11-9-0-2) at RMU, 6:30...

Led by sprinter Guinness Brown, hurdler Emma Lehman and thrower Sarayne Forbes, Butler athletes put on a show at the TSTCA Invite on Saturday at West Mifflin. Brown was the only runner to crack the 11-second mark in the 100 and took the 200 by more than a second. Lehman...

Despite the absence of a formal induction banquet for the second consecutive year, the Alle-Kiski Valley Sports Hall of Fame will recognize 12 local student-athletes for recent accomplishments. A luncheon will be held May 8 at the New Kensington Quality Inn. Because of the pandemic, the event will be closed...

Bernie Madoff is dead, and it is unlikely that even the people who once were closest to him will shed a tear. Not his wife, Ruth, whose life was destroyed when Madoff’s Ponzi scheme was revealed in December 2008. Not his brother, Peter, Madoff’s former chief compliance officer, who spent...

It might surprise those listening to Gov. Tom Wolf constantly attacking public charter schools that the charter school leaders in Pennsylvania support comprehensive education reform and have supported it for years. What we don’t support are the arbitrary funding cuts the governor and anti-charter activists seek to prevent Pennsylvania families...

President Biden’s new plan to fund American public programs is by taxing the wealthiest Americans. It’s not a question of if they should, but how much. Yet the question that is never asked is, “Why do we deserve their money?” The seemingly overlooked answer is we do not. Elon Musk,...

As Black obstetrician-gynecologists, midwives and members of the UPMC family, we have come together to highlight the current state of affairs for pregnant women of color. The U.S., a developed nation, has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, with Black women affected disproportionately in comparison with...

I can’t believe that a year ago this month my university sent me home because of the “new virus.” I remember thinking, “This won’t last long; in a couple weeks I’ll be back in school and everything will be back to normal.” Now here we are, a year later, with...

SRU virtual art show The work of emerging student artists, including Meghan Joyce and Victoria Grabosky of Wexford, at Slippery Rock University is on display through April 30 via a virtual exhibition, “MOSAIC: Individually Together.” Participating student artists are enrolled in the University’s professional practices course, Art Seminar, and under...

First place Science Center award Pleasant Hills resident Liliana D’Andrea, a student at St. Elizabeth Elementary School, took first place in Chemistry, Intermediate Division, at the Carnegie Science Center’s Pittsburgh Regional Science & Engineering Fair on March 24. Her project, titled “Invasion of the Microplastics,” investigated how much microplastic her...

Participating in Syracuse Sport Business Conference Anna Genter, a junior at Syracuse University from Sewickley, is involved in a student-produced Syracuse Sport Business Conference to be held virtually on April 24. She is a sport management and business major through the Whitman School of Business and has been on the...

Kudos to Commissioner Doug Chew. When I saw the headline “Westmoreland commissioner says county voters want end to no-excuse mail-in ballots, another disputes that” (March 23, TribLIVE), I wrote a blunt, acerbic email to the commissioner that emphatically indicated that I wanted to retain the mail-in ballot option. The commissioner...

Republicans who refuse to get the covid vaccine are to be commended for making the ultimate sacrifice. Some Republicans are good people, of course, but clearly that doesn’t apply to Republicans in Congress. When they weaken American democracy, deny climate change and reject science, they create a menace to human...

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. Flea-tique season to begin May 16 The Alle-Kiski Valley Historical Society’s Flea-tique will begin the season from dawn to 1 p.m. May 16 at...

A man who was beat up in a brawl on Pittsburgh’s South Side last weekend has recanted his accusations that NFL defensive star Aaron Donald of Penn Hills was among the people who assaulted him, according to the man’s attorney. The former Pitt star actually came to his rescue and...