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Letter to the editor: Amazon facility would degrade Churchill
I grew up in Churchill and still have family and friends living there and family members who have passed on are buried near Churchill. I lived right next door to the George Westinghouse Research Park at two different residences and knew that green space nurtured our community’s air and peaceful...
Editorial: Hospitals shouldn’t have to force vaccines on employees
In December 2020, after months of wondering when a vaccine for covid-19 would be finished and when it would be available, bringing the end of the pandemic into view, people watched as trucks left loaded with shipments bound for hospitals across the country. The delivery was highly anticipated. Once in...
The Stroller, July 25, 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. Free Covid-19 vaccines available Thursday in Natrona park A mobile covid-19 vaccination site will be held from 4 to 6:30 p.m....
Letter to the editor: We must de-politicize our rhetoric, resolutions
Jonah Goldberg’s “Defenders, opponents of critical race theory prone to exaggeration” (July 9, TribLIVE) is probably one of his better columns, but I don’t agree that there is equal exaggeration. However, it is useful in understanding our current racial climate. It is axiomatic and understandable that a proportion of Black...
Letter to the editor: Schools need to plan for student success
There is a reckoning coming in Westmoreland County schools, and we are not prepared for it. The lack of consistent schooling over the past 18 months, combined with the rising levels of racial consciousness in our youth, will bring unprecedented challenges to the public school system. We have a choice:...
Pirates farm report for July 25, 2021: Mason Martin hits 19th long ball for Curve
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 34-35) lost 6-4 to Toledo (Tigers). RHP Mitch Keller (1-1, 3.21) was knocked around, giving up six runs, four earned, on seven hits and three walks in five innings. He struck out nine and allowed a home run. 1B Christian Bethancourt (.284) went 2 for 4 with his...
Water Sports Teen clocks fastest time during Adios eliminations
Water Sports Teen turned in the fastest time as three eliminations for the Delvin Miller Adios Pace for the Orchids were run Saturday at The Meadows. Hellabalou and Abuckabett Hanover also won eliminations, and their connections will get first choice of post positions for the $375,000 final Saturday, July 31....
Olympics version of streetball, 3-on-3 basketball, makes debutVideo
TOKYO — Anyone who’s ever jacked up a fadeaway 3 in a pickup basketball game knows there are two sure ways to start a fight on the playground. Talk trash about someone’s mom. Or call an offensive foul. In the debut of 3-on-3 halfcourt hoops at the Olympics on Saturday,...
Facing headwinds on new Alzheimer’s drug, Biogen launches controversial campaign
Do you sometimes lose your train of thought or feel a bit more anxious than is typical for you? Those are two of the six questions in a quiz on a website co-sponsored by the makers of Aduhelm, a controversial new Alzheimer’s drug. But even when all responses to the...
Rep. Emily Kinkead: Pa. leaders must focus on recovery
More than 75% of Pennsylvania adults have received at least one covid vaccination dose and 61.5% are fully vaccinated. Our state is finally reopening. But the long road to economic recovery is just beginning. With campaigns for 2021 and even 2022 underway, new statewide and local leadership is on the...
Penn State’s Sean Clifford talks NIL at 1st public event in Mechanicsburg
After Pennsylvania passed legislation and the NCAA instituted an interim policy allowing college athletes to profit off their names, images and likenesses this past month, Penn State quarterback Sean Clifford quickly figured out his priorities. Firstly, he didn’t want any potential opportunities to interfere with football. And second, after a...
As delta variant spreads, CDC is pressured to revise mask guidance
A growing number of public-health experts are urging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to recommend that even fully vaccinated people wear face masks in public amid the resurgence of virus cases fed by the delta variant. Doctors including former surgeon general Jerome Adams say the CDC acted prematurely...
Michael Churchill: School funding lawsuit could help students across Pa. get what they need
In the article “Massive boost in state education funding is not much help to Franklin Regional” (July 14, TribLIVE), Franklin Regional School District Finance Director Jon Perry suggested that a ruling in the school funding lawsuit headed for trial this fall could cause his district to lose revenue. I am...
Sounding off: TV’s influence on conspiracy theories
TV may be at fault with the problem we have today with QAnon and other conspiracy theories. Once upon a time, History and the Travel Channel were my favorites. Now they should be renamed Pseudoscience Channels 1 and 2, as they are filled with programs about UFOs, Bigfoot, ghosts, ancient...
Alexandra Wimberly and Shawna Murray-Browne: Want to reduce overdose rates? Treat poverty first.
Overdose rates are higher in areas where people live in poverty and even higher among people of color living in poverty. In the last decade in Maryland, the proportion of opioid-overdose deaths involving Black people has continually risen, while the proportion involving white people has declined, mirroring nationwide trends. This...
Pa. GOP strategist running for governor being investigated for fatal crash on Turnpike
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 — Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Gerow was involved in a crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Chester County this week...
Letter to the editor: Police fitness standards unfair to those who are out of shape
A settlement was reached in April after the U.S. Justice Department sued the Pennsylvania State Police for sex discrimination for giving applicants a physical fitness test that many women could not pass. Under the terms of the agreement, the police have lowered their standards, paid $2.2 million into a compensation...
Student news: Carnegie area students entering college, securing internships
Accepted to Kutztown Genevieve Krueger will enter Kutztown University in Berks County in the fall as the newest member of the Golden Bear family. The fall semester begins Aug. 30. Chiropractic intern Kayla Garbera is now seeing patients at the Sherman College Chiropractic Health Center, a teaching clinic in South...
Letter to the editor: Red-light camera grants tainted
I’m glad to see Wimmerton residents opposing the project for a Route 30 light to be funded by a grant from PennDOT’s Automated Red Light Enforcement (ARLE) funding program (“Wimmerton residents protest plan to end left turns onto Route 30 in Unity,” July 9, TribLIVE). While many ARLE grant projects...
Editorial: Nursing homes, covid and what’s right
Just because something isn’t illegal doesn’t mean it is acceptable. On Thursday, the U.S. Justice Department informed Gov. Tom Wolf that it would not be opening an investigation into whether this order to Pennsylvania nursing homes requiring admission of residents treated for covid-19 in hospitals violated federal law. Pennsylvania wasn’t...
The Stroller, July 24, 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. Free Narcan to be distributed in Apollo A free community Narcan distribution will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at...
Letter to the editor: A pro-choice/pro-life bird dilemma
I try to dissuade birds from building nests around my house … too many areas to nest and too much bird crap to clean up. Well, one robin probed my defenses and built a nest in a previously unprotected area. I decided to dump the nest. But I got up...
Pirates farm report for July 23, 2021: Steven Brault pitches 4 perfect innings for Indy
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 34-34) beat Toledo (Tigers), 2-1. LHP Steven Brault (0-1, 1.29) made a brilliant rehab start as he continues to recover from a lat strain that has kept him out most of the season, pitching four perfect innings with six strikeouts. RHP Beau Sulser (5-3, 3.29) went the rest...
Chief: Spark from fire pit caused Penn Township house fire
A spark from a log in a back porch fire pit is being blamed for a fire that destroyed a Penn Township house late Friday night. An outdoor couch at the home of Kayleigh and Skyler Burkland of 1083 Wedgewood Drive, caught on fire from the log and the fire...
Riverhounds beat New York, move into 1st place
Russell Cicerone and Albert Dikwa scored about 10 minutes apart in the second half, leading the Pittsburgh Riverhounds to a 3-1 victory over the New York Red Bulls II on Friday night in Montclair, N.J. With the win, the Riverhounds (8-4-3) moved into first place in the USL Championship’s Atlantic...
