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High school scores, summaries and schedules for Sept. 2, 2021
High schools Football Thursday’s result Nonconference Perry Traditional Academy 34, Uniontown 0 Friday’s schedule Nonconference Aliquippa at Beaver Falls, 7 p.m. Allderdice at Oak Glen, W.Va., 7 p.m. Apollo-Ridge at Avonworth, 7 p.m. Avella at Fort Cherry, 7 p.m. Beaver at Central Valley, ppd. Belle Vernon at Chartiers Valley, 7...
Perry blanks Uniontown to kick off Week 1
Quarterback Ahmad Arrington had a hand in a pair of long first-half touchdowns, leading Perry Traditional Academy to a 34-0 victory over Uniontown (0-1) in nonsection football Thursday night at Cupples Stadium. In the second quarter, Arrington scored on a 43-yard run and hit Nate Cutler with a 63-yard scoring...
Seton Hill football dodges bullet, beats Wheeling in opener
Playing for the first time in almost two years, Seton Hill caught a break and opened its season with a 16-14 victory over Wheeling University on Thursday night at Offutt Field. Wheeling missed a potential game-winning, 26-yard field goal with 1:17 to play because of a botched snap. Seton Hill...
Laurels & lances: Fiscal wisdom, humane gestures and a mystery rhino
Laurel: To careful deliberation. When it comes to money, it seems like government seldom needs any encouragement to plunge forward, planning first and finding a way to underwrite a project later. That makes it refreshing to see Jeannette content to let a pot of funds sit until the right way...
Through the years: Burrell’s Cole Bush thwarts Valley comeback
Each Friday throughout the high school football season, the Valley News Dispatch will take a look back at the games, players and events that are part of local scholastic history. Cole Bush scored on a 2-yard run to lift Burrell to a 23-16 overtime win at Valley in 2011. The...
Penguins add to goalie depth, sign journeyman Louis Domingue
The Penguins signed a goaltender who figures to slot in at No. 3 on the organizational depth chart, adding Louis Domingue on a one-year deal Thursday. Domingue, 29, signed a two-way contract that will pay him $750,000 when at the NHL level and $300,000 when he’s in the minors. He...
No imposters here: Chick’s Picks has your Week 1 WPIAL football winners
Amidst the controversy unraveling this week about the football program at the alleged “fake” high school, Bishop Sycamore, Chick’s Picks reflected on a time when she, herself, was duped by an imposter. The year was 2003. Chick’s Picks was still relatively new to prognosticating, but her tremendous success early in...
Westmoreland courthouse gets purple treatment for National Recovery Month
The Westmoreland County Courthouse dome will be bathed in purple during September for National Recovery Month. Director of public works Greg McCloskey said the purple lights were to be turned on Thursday night. It was as a result of a request made by Tim Phillips, director of the Westmoreland Drug...
A.B. Stoddard: Will Democratic leaders side with progressives or moderates?
A.B. Stoddard is associate editor and a columnist at RealClearPolitics, where this first appeared. Sen. Bernie Sanders is traipsing through red states trying to sell the biggest tax increase in American history to GOP voters, knowing full well not one Republican senator will be supporting his plan to spend trillions...
U.S. sues UPMC and top surgeon, alleges care violations and false billing
The federal government on Thursday filed a civil complaint against UPMC, its longtime head of cardiothoracic surgery and a physicians group, accusing them of knowingly submitting hundreds of false claims to Medicare, failing to follow medical standards for surgery and knowingly putting patients at risk. The allegations against Dr. James...
California teacher who told students to pledge allegiance to gay pride flag instead of U.S. removedVideo
A teacher in California garnered national attention after she recorded herself instructing her students to pledge allegiance to the LGTBQIA flag instead of the United States’. The teacher has now been removed for her actions, and the district has confirmed that the matter is currently under investigation. Newsweek reports how...
Treasurer Stacy Garrity and Sen. Lisa Baker: ABLE accounts give people with disabilities chance to save
People living with disabilities often face tremendous challenges. One is striking the right balance between paying for day-to-day needs and saving for larger expenses while not saving so much that they become ineligible for critical benefits. The federal Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act of 2014 and the Pennsylvania...
Lawrence County woman charged in Capitol riot case
A Lawrence County woman was arrested Thursday for allegedly participating in January’s Capitol riots. Julia Jeanette Sizer, of Ellwood City, is charged with knowingly entering a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct; and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. She is not accused of damaging any property, harming...
Jay Ambrose: For Biden, the end justifies the means
Evacuating Afghanistan is one thing, but letting the Taliban immediately take over, kill the innocent, destroy rights and oppress is something else. Our allies are aghast, knowing this evil force will align itself with Western adversaries, threaten 9/11-style terrorism and help make egregious world trends persistent realities. Guess what? There...
Barton Goldsmith: 10 good relationship tools
Successful relationships don’t happen in a vacuum. They take work. And couples who make their relationships work are the ones who also have the most fun and feel the most love. It’s a simple program that really works. Here are 10 tools to get you started. 1. Give what you...
How Penn State’s Jaquan Brisker is fulfilling his late brother’s wish
Mijohni Brisker knew something was going to break. She’d told her boys time and time again that playing with the football was for outside, so she had no choice but to take it from them to prevent the inevitable from happening. But that didn’t stop her son Jaquan from finding...
North Allegheny School District mum on Gov. Wolf’s mask mandate
Gov. Tom Wolf’s Aug. 31 announcement that a mask mandate for all schools will go into effect Sept. 7 means it’s business as usual for students in North Allegheny School District because students are already required to wear masks there. No public comments on the matter will be made from...
Emily Burke: The explosive growth of home schooling
Parents are taking their children’s education into their own hands in record numbers after a disastrously tumultuous school year. The U.S. Census Bureau’s experimental Household Pulse Survey, which is an online survey recording social and economic impacts of the covid-19 pandemic, demonstrates a dramatic shift towards home schooling within the...
Pets Q&A: Tail-chasing in a cat could be a sign of a health issue
DEAR JOAN — What do you know about cats chasing their tails? Our cat, who found us and said “I live here now, feed me,” has chased his tail (before), although only one or two times. Within the last week he seems to be aggressively going after his tail. I...
2021 Western Pa. high school football schedule for Week 1
Today Nonconference Uniontown at Perry Traditional Academy, 7 p.m. Friday Nonconference Aliquippa at Beaver Falls, 7 p.m. (HSSN*, 1230 AM, 99.3 FM, 92.1 FM) Allderdice at Oak Glen, W.Va., 7 p.m. Apollo-Ridge at Avonworth, 7 p.m. Avella at Fort Cherry, 7 p.m. (HSSN, 95.3 FM) Beaver at Central Valley, canceled...
Letter to the editor: Republicans continue to deny facts
The election of 2020 was secure and verified. Masks and vaccinations save lives. Manmade climate change has happened. These three things are facts. There are no alternative facts or different opinions. They are undeniable facts. It is puzzling that our Republican leaders continue to deny these three facts. We can...
Supreme Court’s decision on Texas abortion ban raises stakes for Pa. governor’s race
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 — Pennsylvania abortion-rights advocates and their opponents agreed Wednesday that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to let a Texas law...
Here’s everything I missed as a covid-era student. Will any of it ever come back?
Sidhi Dhanda is about to start her sophomore year at Hopkinton High School in Hopkinton, Mass. She wrote this for the Los Angeles Times. I don’t know what most of the kids in my grade look like. I’ve never gone to a high school dance. My last “regular” school year...
Letter to the editor: More on NEA’s critical race theory position
I felt it was necessary to respond to Robert Supansic’s letter “Critical race theory misconception” (Aug. 8, TribLIVE) questioning the accuracy of my letter, “NEA’s critical race theory push” (July 30, tribLIVE). For starters, everything I wrote about centered around the National Education Association passing a resolution called New Business...
Letter to the editor: Fake news on polar bears
Speaking of an extended vacation from reality, I want to thank the author of the letter “Biden’s energy stance” (July 23, TribLIVE) for the reveal of where I can get “the real news.” Concerning his feigned umbrage at “Faux News” Tucker Carlson’s (silence?) on Alaska oil leases and the ConocoPhilips...
