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Glen Osborne Matthew Ebberts sold property at 408 McKown Lane to Greg Hopkins and Lindsay Fouse for $590,000. Leet Frank Bemis sold property at 187 Oak St. to Colin Bishop and Allyson Savena for $98,000. Sewickley Edward Harrell sold property at 904 Beaver St. to Brett and Kayla Bergman for...

At this point, I don’t care which party you belong to or if you are an independent, nor do I care if you are for gun control or against it. How can you ignore the factual statistics of gun-related crimes in four of the largest U.S. cities: Los Angeles, New...

If your organization or community is planning a Memorial Day event, please send the information in as soon as possible to: Carol Pinto-Smith, Valley News Dispatch, 210 Wood St., Tarentum, PA 15084; e-mail cpinto-smith@triblive.com or fax 724-226-4677. Golf event to benefit Burrell Education Foundation Burrell Education Foundation’s 21st Annual Golf...

In 2019, U.S. Steel’s announcement of a $1.2 billion investment in its Mon Valley Works brought questions and excitement — the good, anticipatory kind. Yes, there would be a new endless casting and rolling facility at the Edgar Thomson Works in Braddock and a cogeneration facility at the Clairton Plant,...

U.S. House Democrats recently voted again to give statehood to the District of Columbia so its residents can vote for members of Congress and the U.S. Senate. D.C. residents already vote for the president with three electoral votes. D.C. is only 69 square miles, much smaller than any current state....

High schools Baseball Saturday’s results Class 6A Section 2 Hempfield 4, Norwin 1 Class 5A Section 4 Bethel Park 13, Thomas Jefferson 2 Connellsville 11, Albert Gallatin 8 Class 3A Section 3 Deer Lakes 2, Ligonier Valley 1 Class 2A Section 2 Neshannock 6, South Side 5 Class A Section...

Christian Zilli hit a two-run double in the bottom of the first inning, sparking Hempfield to a 4-1 victory over Norwin on Saturday, giving the Spartans a share of the Section 2-6A baseball title. Jake Kramer started for Hempfield, allowing one run on five hits in five innings. Zilli pitched...

The defending Eastern Conference champion Tampa Bay Rowdies blanked the Pittsburgh Riverhounds, 3-0, in the local team’s season opener Saturday night at Al Lang Stadium in St. Petersburg, Fla. “It was a good measuring stick for us,” Hounds coach Bob Lilley said. “You’re not going to learn a lot more...

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 2-2) was postponed at Iowa (Cubs) due to inclement weather. Next: Sunday at Iowa (Cubs), 2:08 p.m. ALTOONA (Double-A , 2-3) defeated Bowie (Orioles), 8-4. C Arden Pabst went 2 for 3 with a solo homer and four RBIs. Will Gardner picked up the win in relief, pitching...

Leechburg High School’s streak of 34 consecutive seasons in the WPIAL softball playoffs is special to anyone involved in that program. But on this Mother’s Day, it’s extra special for Janel Daugherty Cibik. She pitched for the Blue Devils right at the time the streak started in the late 1980s....

In his recent address to Congress, President Biden appears to have transformed himself into a champion of the “Made in America” cause. As he explained it, his jobs plan — which encompasses everything from rebuilding roads and bridges to accelerating the green energy revolution — will be guided by a...

Years ago, my testimony at a Pennsylvania Labor and Industry Committee public hearing began with two simple questions. I asked everyone in the room to please raise their hand if they had a mother (alive or deceased). Of course, everyone raised their hands. My second question was, if we all...

The Westmoreland Ballet performed Saturday at the Robertshaw Amphitheather at St. Clair Park in Greensburg. The company’s Spring Performance 2021 featured the “Precious Jewels” excerpt from “The Sleeping Beauty.”...

Taking covid vaccines, with their rare risks, is much safer than the frequent risks of actually getting covid, according to the Centers for Disease Control, this nation’s best source of information about contagious diseases. Yet we often hear people say, “My fear of the vaccines is much greater than my...

Letter-writer Ed Svitek (“We’re better off with Biden”) states, “I gladly will accept whatever we get from President Biden. … I know he never will attack or intentionally harm the good people of this country.” Well, let’s look at the Biden administration’s accomplishments in the past four months: • fracking...

BP native and ROTC cadet recognized Twenty-six cadets from Slippery Rock University’s U.S. Army ROTC program became commissioned officers during an April 30 ceremony in the university’s Smith Student Center Ballroom. Among them was Dillon Pusateri, a junior political science major from Bethel Park. Pusateri also received the American Legion...

Although we are still in the grip of the covid pandemic, we need to thank the 452 volunteers who donated their time to clean Monroeville’s roadways and parks for the 26th Annual Jack Sedlak Memorial Clean Up Day. The volunteers picked up more than 1,000 bags of litter, 40 tires,...

QVMS students win writing competition Quaker Valley Middle School students were encouraged to participate in the Waldmann International Arts and Writing Competition this year. This competition allowed students to expand on the themes of the QVMS seventh-grade social studies curriculum, utilize primary source documents, practice online researching skills and respond...

I’d like to express my support for Diana Altieri Hand, candidate for Franklin Regional School Board. Hand is running for the two-year position. I have had the pleasure of working and serving our church with her for several years now. Very seldom do you meet someone who runs toward a...

If your organization or community is planning a Memorial Day event, please send the information in as soon as possible to: Carol Pinto-Smith, Valley News Dispatch, 210 Wood St., Tarentum, PA 15084; e-mail cpinto-smith@triblive.com or fax 724-226-4677. Auditions next week at Freeport Theatre Festival The Freeport Theatre Festival will hold...

It is hard to accomplish anything when two sides refuse to negotiate. It’s true of million-dollar labor disputes and neighbors fighting about fencelines. That’s why what frequently is necessary is an mediator — a rational voice to encourage reasonable debate over a rehashing of all the disagreements. For a courtroom,...

The May 7 edition of the Trib listed the worldwide cases of covid-19 as 155,481,806. A Google search of the world population revealed a global population of 7.8 billion. Based on these numbers, 1.99% of human beings have contracted covid-19. Discuss. On a secondary note, our president is throwing trillions...

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 2-2) lost 4-3 to Iowa (Cubs) in 10 innings. With a runner on second to lead off the top of the 10th, SS Cole Tucker lined a ball off the pitcher that the second baseman collected and threw to first for an out. Tucker was ejected for arguing...

High schools Baseball Friday’s results Class 6A Section 2 Canon-McMillan 8, Baldwin 2 Norwin at Hempfield, ppd. Class 5A Section 3 Moon at West Allegheny, ppd. Section 4 Thomas Jefferson at Bethel Park, ppd. Class 4A Section 1 Indiana at Burrell, ppd. Highlands 7, North Catholic 3 Class 3A Section...

Zoe Mangan hit a walk-off three-run home run to lift Chartiers Valley to an 8-6 victory over South Fayette in Section 4-5A softball Friday. Marie Kinchington and Madison Crump also homered for the Colts (10-5, 9-2). Abbey Girman and Lexie Vetter hit home runs and Delaney Homer had three hits...