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Editorial: An unsatisfactory finding of state incompetence
Sometimes, an investigation can turn up answers. Sometimes, they turn up questions. It would have been nice if the Office of the State Inspector General discovered either in the dive into why a constitutional amendment never made it to the Pennsylvania primary ballot. On May 18, the voters were supposed...
South Fayette, Scott area real estate transactions for the week of May 30, 2021
Bridgeville Anne Fitzgibbon Wrightman sold property at 1495 Critchfield Drive to Aaron and David Graham for $226,000. Carnegie Sayed Abouabdalla sold property at 554 Boquet St. to Manal Shouman for $20,000. James Kuntz sold property at 245 Mountain Drive to Chelsea Rice for $209,900. Jason Tremblay sold property at 419...
South Hills real estate transactions for the week of May 30, 2021
Baldwin Borough Beech Charles Properties 100 LLC sold property at 1713 Elderslee Road to Kelaen Welch for $148,000. Estate of Bernard Seiler sold property at 207 Revo Road to Rino and Christine Delbianco for $120,000. Baldwin Township Joshua Oswald sold property at 636 Highview Road to William Putnam et al....
Sewickley area real estate transactions for the week of May 30, 2021
Aleppo Ferndale Development Group LLC sold property at 103 Ferndale Ave. to David and Michael Ann Cerniglia for $375,000. Allen Uhrine sold property at 1306 Merriman Road to Masonic Villages Grand Lodge PA for $176,000. Edgeworth Thomas Schlosser sold property at 411 Woodland Road to James and Amy Dantonio for...
North Hills real estate transactions for the week of May 30, 2021
Bellevue SIH Projects LLC sold property at Unknown Address to Ciccarelli & Sons LLC for $175,000. TKJ Properties LLC sold property at 115 Cedar Ave. to Grand Old Properties LLC for $50,000. Garin Linell Lee sold property at 149 N Sprague Ave. to Kenneth and Sara Draim for $289,900. WJK...
Bethel Park real estate transactions for the week of May 30, 2021
Jeffrey David Houghtelling sold property at 2710 Bethel Crest Drive to Gregg and Lois Kretchun for $415,000. David Fournier sold property at 5489 California Ave. to Mark Babic and Dena Mastromatteo for $260,000. CY Fortune Realty LLC sold property at 214 Cambridge Road to David Seymour and Jennie August for...
Letter to the editor: GOP’s election plans will take away voters’ rights
In his letter “How about we all make our own mask decisions?” (May 23, TribLIVE), George Silowash said he believed state mask mandates have taken our rights away. I wonder if he feels as strongly about these changes to state election laws being pushed by Republican state Rep. Seth Grove:...
The Stroller, May 30, 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. Summer day camp planned at NK Salvation Army The New Kensington Salvation Army will host a summer day camp June 15 to...
Letter to the editor: Enabling disabled to marry
I am disabled. And this past year, I watched my able-bodied friends struggle with postponing and downsizing weddings, while living with the reality that I can never ,marry without risking loss of life-sustaining health care. Marriage should be an equal option for all, including disabled people. As long as we...
Letter to the editor: A history lesson on slavery
Contrary to statements made by some of our current political leaders, white slavery predates Black slavery in America. The white slaves not indentured, who began to arrive here in 1618, included hundreds of children who had been rounded up from the streets of London. Other slaves came from the ranks...
Pirates farm report for May 29, 2021: Ke’Bryan Hayes hits 2nd homer for Indy
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 11-11) lost 6-2 to Omaha (Royals). 3B Ke’Bryan Hayes hit his second home run since starting a rehab assignment as he recovers from a wrist injury. He’s 6 for 20 (.300) with a 1.064 OPS. DH Bligh Madris went 2 for 4 with a pair of doubles and...
George Guido: Riverview chasing WPIAL title but almost never existed
As Riverview prepares for its WPIAL Class A baseball title game Tuesday against Union, now might be a good time to recall that the high school almost never came into existence. Riverview is wrapping up 50 academic years, but the school’s creation wasn’t on the list of proposed school mergers...
A year after George Floyd’s death, protesters reflect on what’s changed in Western Pennsylvania
The year since George Floyd was killed by a former Minneapolis police officer has brought with it protests, anguish and, perhaps louder than anything, calls for change. The year also has been one of realization for some. “A lot of people are aware of something they weren’t aware of before,”...
Editorial: Masks, flu and listening to the doctor
There was a lot of pushback against masks during the coronavirus pandemic. While some people embraced even the simplest homemade fabric coverings for whatever layer of protection they might afford, others rejected them. They sometimes claimed the cloth was useless, stopping nothing and just acting as a prop in a...
Jessie Carmichael: Pediatric shift nurses crucial for fragile children
Every day, thousands of medically fragile children across Pennsylvania rely on the state’s pediatric shift nursing program to stay safe and healthy at home. Since 1993, this program has allowed these children to be cared for at home by skilled, professional nurses. It keeps families together, out of hospitals and...
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...
