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Lawmakers report receiving fewer gifts during pandemic as push for ban continues
Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan 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. Every May, state legislators and other public officials are required to file reports detailing, among other items, whether they received pricey...
Pine, Richland real estate transactions for the week of May 23, 2021
Pine Nvr INC sold property at unknown address to Dayna Lazzaro for $279,895. Nvr INC sold property at unknown address to Suzanne Duff for $309,435. Jaime Morgan sold property at 160 Blue Heron Drive to Collin and Jenna Foster for $430,000. Villas English Farms L.P. sold property at 517 Cambridge...
Hampton area real estate transactions for the week of May 23, 2021
Hampton Kurt Henzler sold property at 2807 E Elfinwild Road to Keith and Lynne Herchenroether for $120,000. Justin Novi sold property at 2584 Lah Road to Brandon Ledonne for $207,500. Mark Visnic sold property at 2689 Oak Hill Drive to Theodore and Christal Yuo for $910,000. McCandless Evan Dull trustee...
The Herald area real estate transactions for the week of May 23, 2021
Aspinwall Deborah Lamanna sold property at 404 Lexington Ave., Unit 4, to George Lee for $52,000. Charles Friday sold property at 211 Western Ave. to Amanda Saenz for $670,000. Fox Chapel Thomas James Gillespie IV sold property at 611 Berkshire Drive to Ralph and Kristine Cannata for $630,000. Estate of...
Eastern area real estate transactions for the week of May 23, 2021
Chalfant GMS Global Investments LLC sold property at 827 Greensburg Pike to Desire White Price for $176,000. Churchill Thien Le Nguyen sold property at 70 Locksley Drive to Karthik and Grace Hariharan for $263,970. Delmont Vivian French sold property at 708 Cherry Blossom Court to Loretta Riddle for $249,900. Matthew...
Penn-Trafford notebook: Hauck secures trip to PIAA championships
Penn-Trafford senior Julia Hauck will cap off her high school track and field career by competing against the state’s best. Hauck finished fourth in the shot put (36 feet, 1.75 inches) at the WPIAL Class AAA championship May 19 at Slippery Rock University. Her effort earned her a trip to...
Pine-Richland celebrates long-awaited WPIAL playoff victory
No matter the sport, starting the game strong is crucial to a team’s victory, especially when it’s in the playoffs. That’s what the Pine-Richland softball team did in its WPIAL quarterfinal playoff game, taking down Mt. Lebanon, 6-1, on May 19 to earn the program’s first playoff win in more...
Letter to the editor: Pittsburgh’s mayor should put city’s best interests first
Pittsburgh will soon have a new mayor. It doesn’t matter if he is a Democrat or Republican, Black, white, blue or green. The question to be asked is, is he the right person to lead this city in the right direction? Is he honest and trustworthy, and does he prioritize...
Letter to the editor: How about we all make our own mask decisions?
I was both saddened and amused by the front-page story in the May 18 print edition with the headline “On? Off? Mandate on masks confuses.” Let me propose a novel idea. How about letting people decide for themselves whether or not they want to wear a mask? It is called...
Letter to the editor: 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...
Sewickley area real estate transactions for the week of May 23, 2021
Bell Acres William Marcotte sold property at 115 Fox Hill Drive to John Eddie Braswell III and Ashley Bess Braswell for $695,000. Osborne Robert Fusco sold property at unknown address to William and Barbara Boswell for $1,402. Peter Lundquist sold property at 1519 Beaver St. to Jonathan and Jennifer Lynn...
Bethel Park real estate transactions for the week of May 23, 2021
Bethel Park David Ursenbach sold property at 3345 Appel Road to John Rirchard and Danielle Nicole Nagurney for $275,000. Linda Ann Swazuk sold property at 6085 Baptist Road to George John Cobert IV and Heather Leann Cobert for $160,000. Ezell Lindsey sold property at 108 Sandstone Court to Ryan and...
North Hills real estate transactions for the week of May 23, 2021
Bellevue GB14 Property Fund LLC sold property at 181 Dakota Ave. to Donald Gray III and Renata Goncalves Dasilva for $230,000. William Kaigler trustee sold property at 552 Dawson Ave. to Triple T Res LLC for $206,000. Tyler Hesidence sold property at 62 Kendall Ave. to Pembroke Properties LLC for...
South Hills real estate transactions for the week of May 23, 2021
Baldwin Borough Rajendra Basnet sold property at 1511 Evelyn Road to Harka Maya Pakwal for $145,000. Passang Wangyal Sherpa sold property at 2008 Michael Drive 104-e to Amkit Tiwari for $180,000. Estate of Ralph Degenes sold property at 1472 Prospect Road to Padam Gurung and Unisha Biswakarma for $220,000. Colescott...
Carnegie, Scott area real estate transactions for the week of May 23, 2021
Bridgeville David Rimmel sold property at 839 McLaughlin Run Road to M & MK Properties LLC for $32,000. Carnegie Sayed Abouabdalla sold property at 717 Charles St. to Debabrata Misra for $70,000. Luke Ratke sold property at 122 Sita Ct to Elizabeth Ellison for $229,500. Kirk Dodson sold property at...
Letter to the editor: Kelly and Reschenthaler’s loyalty
Regarding Reps. Mike Kelly and Guy Reschenthaler, the cancellation of Liz Cheney and their support for Sean Parnell (“Parnell is the leader Pa. needs in Senate”): Two weeks before Election Day, I stood in line at the Butler County courthouse because my mail ballot was delayed, and I did not...
The Stroller, May 23, 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. Lower Burrell PD to host Coffee with a Cop “Coffee with a Cop” will be sponsored by the Lower Burrell Police Department...
Editorial: The Pitcairn election shows the political need for wisdom and youth
Government is often seen as an old folks’ game. The math shows why. The average age of a U.S. governor is 64.5 — old enough to be planning a retirement party. For a member of Congress, it swings between 58 for the House of Representatives and 63 for the Senate....
Letter to the editor: Denying science on masks
In no small part due to the Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in the U.S., the spread of covid-19 has been significantly decreased across Pennsylvania. Nationally as of May 10, more than 115 million Americans are fully vaccinated, yet there are less than 1,000 cases of hospitalizations...
Letter to the editor: Respecting all sides in covid experience
Let’s commend the Trump administration for orchestrating rollout of multiple covid-19 vaccines in a time frame that was considered impossible by experts, and the Biden administration for grabbing the baton and seeing that a large portion of the country gets vaccinated in quick order. Let’s respect the concerns of those...
Pirates farm report for May 22, 2021: Ke’Bryan Hayes starts rehab assignment, goes 1 for 2
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 11-5) beat St. Paul (Twins), 5-1. 3B Ke’Bryan Hayes began a rehab assignment, going 1 for 2 with a first-pitch single through the right side of the infield in his first at-bat and a strikeout in his second. He played three innings in the field. Hayes has been...
Avonworth baseball rolls past Valley in WPIAL Class 3A quarters
Second-seeded Avonworth used a five-run fourth inning to pull away for a 9-1 victory over No. 7 Valley in the WPIAL 3A baseball quarterfinals Saturday at North Allegheny. Sean McAleer pitched four shutout innings to earn the win. The senior right-hander gave up five hits, struck out three and didn’t...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for May 22, 2021
High schools Baseball WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals Saturday’s results Butler 5, Mt. Lebanon 1 Hempfield 6, Central Catholic 4 North Allegheny 12, Upper St. Clair 2 Norwin 4, Seneca Valley 2 Semifinals Monday’s schedule North Allegheny (18-3) vs. Butler (14-6) at Shaler, 4:30 p.m.; Norwin (14-3) vs. Hempfield (14-7)...
McGuffey baseball beats Derry in WPIAL quarters
McGuffey’s historic baseball season continued Saturday afternoon in the WPIAL Class 3A quarterfinals. The Highlanders scored twice in the bottom of the fifth, and that was all Austin Beattie needed as the right-hander blanked Derry, 2-0, at West Mifflin. After the first two wins in school playoff history the past...
Man electrocuted while cleaning gutters in Hopewell
A man died Saturday after he was electrocuted while cleaning gutters in Hopewell, according to the Washington County coroner’s office. Joseph Bevec, 57, of Canonsburg was working as a handyman and using an aluminum ladder to clean gutters at a residence on Brush Run Road when the ladder came in...
