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Letter to the editor: Cats don’t vanish under cruel feeding bans
By imposing a feeding ban on cats, Plum is disregarding what so many other communities have already learned the hard way — outlawing feeding policies are cruel and consistently fail as a means of managing populations of community cats (“Plum officials pass law discouraging the feeding, care of feral cats.”)...
The Stroller, July 4, 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. Freeport Theatre Festival to open 2021 season The Freeport Theatre Festival will present, “The Rainmaker,” at 7 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and...
Letter to the editor: Voter ID ensures election integrity
A bill requiring voter ID recently passed in the Pennsylvania Senate, and Gov. Tom Wolf’s office has already stated he would veto the bill. Wolf and his party claim that requiring voter ID somehow violates individual rights, that it is racist. The term racist is thrown out there so frequently...
Letter to the editor: Celebrate Fourth by helping a veteran
The eruption and crackle of vibrant fireworks across the July night sky isn’t always beautiful. The sight of the American flag being brandished, and sported on T-shirts, tank tops and sneakers isn’t always fashion. For many veterans, the Fourth of July is not a time of celebration and patriotism. The...
Pirates farm report for July 3, 2021: Max Kranick knocked around in Indy
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 27-25) was outslugged by Iowa (Cubs), 9-7. RHP Max Kranick, coming off five perfect innings in his MLB debut last Sunday, started and went three innings, getting tagged for five runs on six hits, including a grand slam. 3B Hunter Owen went 2 for 3 with his seventh...
Britain’s Raducanu, 18, joins Gauff, 17, in Wimbledon Week 2Video
WIMBLEDON, England — Coco Gauff now has some company when it comes to being a teen in Week 2 at the All England Club. Shortly before Gauff, a 17-year-old American, made her way to the fourth round at the grass-court Grand Slam tournament for the second time in a row...
Kucherov leads Lightning to verge of back-to-back Cup titlesVideo
It is impossible for Nikita Kucherov to fly under the radar while leading the Tampa Bay Lightning to the verge of a second consecutive Stanley Cup championship. Just how much he is producing still can come as a surprise. “I didn’t even realize he had 32 points,” coach Jon Cooper...
George Guido: Remembering a wild Burrell baseball run
The 2001 Burrell baseball season had a little of everything. Start with a quest for a school-first undefeated regular season, then a game that took three days to complete, three games decided by wild pitches, capped with a trip to the PIAA title game. As that 22-2 team looks back...
Jay Corrigan, Matthew Rousu and Nick Clark: Pa. should consider a vaccine lottery
In May, Ohio announced that five lucky adults who’ve received at least one dose of covid-19 vaccine will win $1 million in weekly drawings starting May 26. Nearly 5 million Ohioans have already been vaccinated, meaning each has a one-in-a-million chance of winning $1 million. Can that move the needle...
Sounding off: Ready-to-drink cocktails are good for Pa.
Expanding the sale of ready-to-drink (RTD) cocktails to additional retail outlets that already sell beverage alcohol is a commonsense way to increase consumer convenience and generate millions of dollars for the commonwealth (“Pa. Senate passes bill to legalize cocktails-to-go, sends to House with modifications”). In fact, allowing spirits-based RTDs to...
Alison Bell: Helping women get back to work
We’ve all encountered a year of hardship and obstacles that none of us saw coming. But unfortunately, women have been disproportionately affected from the start — notably working mothers and women of color. About 1 in 12 Black women and 1 in 11 Latina women remain unemployed, and these women...
Failure by Pa. officials to clarify rules around medical marijuana, addiction treatment had serious consequences
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. BENSALEM — Tyler Cordeiro slept on a couch outside his mother’s Bucks County home, suffering from opioid withdrawal. His sister took a photo of his mother, Susan...
Letter to the editor: Acknowledging Jewish holidays
Dear Catholic bishops: Jesus was Jewish, as are his chosen people. Could we honor Jesus more by acknowledging the Jewish holy days throughout the year? On Sundays at Mass, could we announce approaching Jewish holy days? The Jewish feasts derive from the Old Testament and ours from the New Testament....
Academic achievements, MAC Sportsmanship Team and more from Carnegie area students
SUNYAC Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll Natalie Wasielewski, a resident of Carnegie, was one of 100 SUNY Potsdam student-athletes to earn a spot on the State University of New York Athletic Conference Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll for the 2020-21 school year. Wasielewski is a senior member of the SUNY Potsdam women’s...
Letter to the editor: Hidden beauty in Western Pa.
We can live in a town or city our whole life not knowing the treasures that are hidden just down the street, places full of history and beauty. Being part of a social group that gathers for outings weekly, I have discovered so many fun and interesting places in Western...
The Stroller, July 3, 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. HOPE Center offers shelter for families and pets The Alle-Kiski HOPE Center offers a Sheltering Animals and Families Together (SAF-T) Kennel...
Editorial: The legal lessons of the Cosby debacle
Bill Cosby is at home now, free from SCI Phoenix for the first time in more than two years after a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision Wednesday overturned his sexual assault conviction. The move did not come because of new evidence or something that fell apart in the case that sent...
Letter to the editor: Protecting women’s sports
Here in the United States, Title IX, enacted in 1972, defined sports as education. That opened the door for a wide-ranging menu of choices for girls and women from elementary school to college to feel the joy of winning and the emptiness of defeat. Many learned how to compete, and...
Harrison family displaced by fire; kids’ fears of trapped mom unfoundedVideo
As fire engulfed their Fourth Street house Friday, Antoine and Alyssa McDaniel of Harrison thought their mother was trapped in her bedroom. “We were freaking out and screaming,” said Alyssa McDaniel, 20. “But we couldn’t go in her bedroom. It was all in flames.” It turns out their mother, Dana...
Pirates farm report for July 2, 2021: Curve’s Trey McGough strikes out 9 in victory
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 27-24) fell 5-2 to Iowa (Cubs). The Indians managed just four hits. RF Christian Bethancourt (.294) had an RBI single, his 23rd of the season. 2B T.J. Rivera (.265) hit an RBI double. SS Cole Tucker (.208) was 1 for 4. RHP Steven Wright (3-4, 5.80) allowed three...
Cowboys to be featured in ‘Hard Knocks’ on HBO this summerVideo
DALLAS — The Cowboys will be featured on the “Hard Knocks” documentary series this summer for the third time in the program’s 16 seasons. HBO and NFL Films announced Friday five hourlong episodes, beginning Aug. 10 at 10 p.m., will profile the Cowboys during training camp and the preseason. The...
With family ties, American Sebastian Korda heads to Wimbledon’s 4th roundVideo
WIMBLEDON, England — When Sebastian Korda struck his last competitive shot as a 20-year-old — an overhead winner that closed out a third-round victory over Wimbledon’s No. 22 seed Friday — the American raised both arms, then doubled over and rested his hands on his knees. Up in a Centre...
Marks bypasses charters to buy entire Ganassi NASCAR teamVideo
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Immediately after the bombshell announcement that Justin Marks had purchased Chip Ganassi’s NASCAR team, the outgoing owner took the soon-to-be new boss back to the shop to address a room full of anxious employees. “It was important to me to get in front of people and look...
It’s now Hurricane Elsa: South Florida is in forecast track with possible landfall early next week
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Elsa became the season’s first hurricane Friday morning and South Florida along with most of the rest of the state remains in the forecast path for a possible landfall early next week, according to the National Hurricane Center. Elsa is located 20 miles west-southwest of Barbados,...
What will happen to the collapsed Surfside condo if Hurricane Elsa affects Florida?
SURFSIDE, Fla. — Authorities managing the search under the rubble of the partially collapsed building in Surfside are worried that Hurricane Elsa could bring down the portion of Champlain Towers South Condo that remains standing. Ray Jadallah, assistant Miami-Dade fire chief, said at a private briefing Friday morning that while...
