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High school scores, summaries and schedules for May 29, 2021
High schools Baseball WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Championship Tuesday’s schedule North Allegheny (19-3) vs. Hempfield (15-7) at Wild Things Park, 7:30 p.m. Class 5A Championship Tuesday’s schedule Franklin Regional (18-1) vs. Bethel Park (18-3) at Wild Things Park, 4:30 p.m. Consolation Wednesday’s schedule Peters Township (10-11) vs. West Allegheny (17-4)...
PIAA Class AAA track and field championships results
Boys At Shippensburg University Class AAA 100: 1. Jaden Brown, Norristown, 10.65; 2. Tyler Yurich, Seneca Valley, 10.71; 3. Julian Saunders, Boyertown, 10.71; 4. Daamon Simpson, Wilson, 10.76; 5. Kristian Phennicie, Dallastown, 10.78; 6. Randy Fizer, Red Lion, 10.84; 7. Drew Gallen, WC Rustin, 10.96. 200: 1. Kristian Phennicie, Dallastown,...
North Catholic’s Nicolas Scheller falls in state tennis finals
Nicolas Scheller’s run through the boys tennis postseason hit a wall in the state finals Saturday afternoon. The North Catholic junior who hadn’t dropped a postseason set won the first set of the finals at the PIAA Class 2A boys singles championships in Hershey but then lost the next two...
Seton Hill baseball moves 1 win from national finals
The Seton Hill baseball team is one win away from advancing to the finals of the NCAA Division II tournament. Vincenzo Rauso hit a three-run home run and starting pitcher Ben Vicini threw five effective innings as the Griffins defeated Millersville 5-2 in their second game at the Atlantic Regional...
Johnstown’s Rosedale banishment, Tulsa Massacre occurred in same era of racial tension
The most infamous event in the history of Johnstown race relations occurred just two years after the Tulsa Race Massacre. On Aug. 30, 1923, a shootout in the Rosedale neighborhood resulted in the death of Robert Young, a Black man, who, by accounts from the time, was drunk, as well...
Police looking for missing man in McDonald
Police are looking for a missing man in McDonald. John Terrell, 58, was last seen wearing blue jeans and blue tennis shoes, police said in a Facebook post. He was described as a Black man with brown hair, who is 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs about 215 pounds....
Ex-Steeler Hines Ward announces ‘little MVP coming soon’ as wife is pregnant
Steelers Nation could soon be cheering for another MVP named Ward. This as fan-favorite wide receiver, Hines Ward, announced on Instagram that he and second wife, Lindsey Georgalas-Ward, whom he married in 2014, are pregnant. Ward posted a picture of the soon-to-be-proud parents, with Ward cradling her stomach like a...
Sounding off: All in Pennsylvania are deserving of an honest living
Thought experiment for Gene Barr, president of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, who, according to the article “Is extra $300 in federal unemployment assistance stopping people from applying for jobs?” thinks we should take “that extra $300 (per week of unemployment benefit) and offer it to jobless workers...
Coroner: 1 dead after shooting in Donora Friday night
A Donora man was killed at his home Friday night, according to the Washington County Coroner’s office. Dakota Johnston, 26, of Donora was shot at his house on 3rd Street in Donora at about 11:45 p.m. Saturday. He was transported to the Monongahela Valley Hospital emergency department, where he was...
Police: Teen killed in Allentown shooting
A 17-year-old man was killed in a shooting in Allentown on Thursday, authorities said. Pittsburgh police responded to a Shotspotter alert for five rounds fired about 9:30 p.m. on Thursday in the 700 block of Allentown’s East Warrington Avenue around . Officers found a man who’d been shot, who was...
Little Rubies Learning Academy celebrates opening of new early learning center in Shaler
Little Rubies Learning Academy had a ribbon-cutting ceremony May 7 to celebrate the opening of their brand-new, early learning center. The ceremony highlighted the business’ mission of providing a secure educational and nurturing environment for children. Opening a daycare in a pandemic was no easy task, but Little Rubies reached...
Letter to the editor: Real world vs. fantasy world
There are people who live in the real world (conservatives) and people who live in a fantasy world (liberals). Now that Democrats control the White House, Senate and House of Representatives, their No. 1 goal seems to be taking away the rights of law-abiding citizens to defend themselves, their loved...
Letter to the editor: Reasons to join RGGI
As a soon-to-be college graduate, I know that my generation sees environmental issues as important because we know our future is at stake. Addressing climate change cannot be postponed any longer, especially in Pennsylvania, the fifth largest greenhouse gas emitter in the nation. To address climate change, Pennsylvania should join...
The Stroller, May 29, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your club meetings, 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. Peoples Library to reopen at both locations Beginning June 1 Peoples Library will be open to all visitors in accordance with the...
Letter to the editor: Ideas for dealing with rioters
In this letter I use two portmanteau words. A portmanteau is a word blended from two distinct words, such as crack and addict to form craddict, and dead and derriere to form deadierre. I, and many of my fellow Americans, are fed up with the anarchy that prevails in many...
Introducing the Springdale High School Class of 2021
Here is the Springdale High School Class of 2021: Daleon Phillip Albo-Hovet, James Wilson Anderson III, Bryson James Andrews, Alexis Rae Arce, Renee Elizabeth Arlotti, Grant William Becker, Nicholas Reno Biagi, Shane Carrington Blanchflower, Haley Marie Bonidie, Theodore Henry Bosshart, Dakota Michael-John Boyce, Madalyn Maxine Byrnes, Alexzander Thomas Caldwell, Duncan...
Pirates farm report for May 28, 2021: Jase Bowen homers twice for Bradenton
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 11-10) lost to Omaha (Royals), 3-0. Four Omaha pitchers combined to throw a two-hitter. RHP Steven Wright, the veteran knuckleballer, allowed two runs on six hits in 5.2 innings, striking out five. He’s 1-1 with a 1.84 ERA. LHP Austin Davis pitched 1.1 scoreless innings of relief. DH...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for May 28, 2021
High schools Baseball WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Championship Tuesday’s schedule North Allegheny (19-3) vs. Hempfield (15-7) at Wild Things Park, 7:30 p.m. Class 5A Championship Tuesday’s schedule Franklin Regional (18-1) vs. Bethel Park (18-3) at Wild Things Park, 4:30 p.m. Consolation Wednesday’s schedule Peters Township (10-11) vs. West Allegheny (17-4)...
Alex Dixon powers Riverhounds to 1st win of season
Alex Dixon had a goal and a highlight-reel assist to help the Pittsburgh Riverhounds to a 3-0 victory over New York Red Bulls II Friday night in Montclair, N.J. It was the first win of the season for the Riverhounds (1-2-1). Dixon and Danny Griffin scored seven minutes apart as...
North Catholic’s Nicolas Scheller storms into PIAA semifinals
North Catholic’s Nicolas Scheller continued his dominant run through the tennis postseason Friday in Hershey. The junior won his first two matches in the PIAA Class 2A single tournament in convincing fashion, advancing to Saturday’s semifinals with relative ease. Scheller defeated Pequea Valley’s Brady Burns, 6-0, 6-1, and Bethlehem Catholic’s...
Late Ace Heberling focal point of WPIAL Hall of Fame ceremony
The 14th annual WPIAL Hall of Fame induction banquet was the first since the passing of the league’s first executive director, Chuck “Ace” Heberling. And Heberling’s strong, forceful personality was a focal point of several inductees’ speeches Friday at the Green Tree Double Tree Hotel ballroom. Joe Maize, inducted for...
After transition, Pa.’s unemployment system will be faster, easier to use, state officials say
Pennsylvania’s 40-year-old unemployment filing system will go offline next week and a new system that officials say will be faster and easier to use will take its place. The transition means the state will not take new applications for unemployment benefits from Monday to June 7, and people already receiving...
PIAA Class AA track and field championships results
Track and field Boys Friday’s results PIAA championships At Shippensburg University Class AA 100: 1. Braeden Wisloski, Southern Columbia, 10.81; 2. Michael Fellin, Marian Catholic, 10.85; 3. London Montgomery, Scranton Prep, 11.0; 4. Nigel Rossman, Deer Lakes, 11.01; 5. Marcel Jackson, West Catholic, 11.02; 6. Cristian Buckley, Dunmore, 11.03; 7....
Biden’s $6T budget: Social spending, taxes on business
President Joe Biden on Friday unveiled a $6 trillion budget for next year that’s piled high with new safety net programs for the poor and middle class, but his generosity depends on taxing corporations and the wealthy to keep the nation’s spiking debt from spiraling totally out of control. Biden...
Family cries foul after White Sox change name of food area
CHICAGO — A food area at the home of the Chicago White Sox now is called La Russa’s Lounge after being named years ago in honor of a woman who sold beer and hot dogs for more than six decades. Loretta Micele’s family is crying foul after the title of...
