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Pine, Richland real estate transactions for the week of April 4, 2021
Pine NVR INC sold property at Unknown Address to Molly Siegel for $341,065. Nvr INC sold property at Unknown Address to Ganapathy Murugan and Meenakshi Valli Thanumalayan for $310,695. Valerie Pearce sold property at 10995 Babcock Blvd. to Daniel and Ralph Ruffolo for $277,500. Villas English Farms L.P. sold property...
Sewickley area real estate transactions for the week of April 4, 2021
Aleppo Norman Meanor sold property at 608 Sewickley Heights Drive to Barrante Properties 1031 LLC for $188,000. Bell Acres Joseph Sikora trustee sold property at 114 Magura Road to William and Erin White for $65,000. Wayne Croyle sold property at 4 Partridge Court to Timothy and Bethany Ley for $552,500....
South Hills real estate transactions for the week of April 4, 2021
Baldwin Borough Wayne Dagostino sold property at 653 Brinwood Ave. to Matthew Otto Yasko for $125,000. Joseph Tirschler sold property at 476 Holdsworth Drive to Steven Stern and Melinda Perry for $64,236. Kenneth Morran sold property at 933 Horning Road to Shelby Rodgers for $142,000. Matthew Walsh sold property at...
Collier, South Fayette area real estate transactions for the week of April 4, 2021
Bridgeville DPMMO LLC sold property at 950 Ridge Road to Black Bear Homes LLC for $45,000. Carnegie Garlin & Assoc. Inc. sold property at 306-308 Seventh Ave. to Daniel Defallo and Brian Defranco for $159,900. Scott Phelan sold property at 313 Seventh Ave. to Mashukur and Najmun Nahar Khan for...
Letter to the editor: Zero Waste legislation will help stop plastic pollution
I recently explored my school’s campus woods for the first time in a year, and I saw some disturbing sights. There was plastic waste everywhere. Even after a year without students on campus, the trees, the soil, the water — it was all contaminated with plastic trash. PennEnvironment just published...
Letter to the editor: Mariah Fisher ready to represent
Mariah Fisher, a Democrat, is already effective as an elected official and now offers voters a real choice for Pennsylvania’s 59th District. Have you seen the beautiful new Diamond in Ligonier? Through Ligonier Borough Council, Fisher chaired the parks and recreation committee that guided that project. In the past year,...
Letter to the editor: Abolishing the death penalty
At a recent virtual event on Catholicism and capital punishment, people with personal experience with the death penalty shared powerful stories. Vickie and Syl Schieber’s daughter, Shannon, a 23-year-old Wharton School doctoral student, was raped and murdered in Philadelphia. Kirk Bloodsworth, an honorably discharged Marine, was wrongfully convicted and sentenced...
The Stroller, April 4, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your club meetings, events and fundraisers in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Volunteers needed Saturday for cleanup Kiski Watershed Association will hold a cleanup from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the West Leechburg Native...
Faye Flam: Don’t believe the doomsayers. Vaccines will end the pandemic.
Following pandemic news too closely can be an emotional roller coaster, with dire public health warnings immediately followed by hopeful new studies. The latest soaring discovery: a new CDC study showing vaccines sharply cut all covid-19 infections — not just symptoms. That news puts to rest one worst-case-scenario: that vaccines...
George Guido: Strong A-K Valley connection to movie project about Penn State’s Wally Triplett
Word came out recently that a movie will be made about the life of former Penn State football standout Wally Triplett who, with supportive teammates and coaches, helped integrate the Cotton Bowl in 1948. In a piece by Trib colleague Paul Guggenheimer, the idea came from movie producer and Penn...
Pittsburgh police looking for vehicle thought to be involved in Knoxville shooting
Pittsburgh police are looking for a car seen fleeing a shooting on Reifert Street in Knoxville around noon Saturday. A police spokesman said police responded to ShotSpotter alert for the 300 block of Reifert Street at about 12:05 p.m. When Zone 3 officers arrived, they were alerted to a male...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 3, 2021
High schools WPIAL Baseball Saturday’s results Class 5A Section 1 Laurel Highlands 11, West Mifflin 1 Section 4 Plum 7, Armstrong 2 Plum 10, Armstrong 0 Nonsection Mars 20, Shenango 8 Penn-Trafford 4, Connellsville 3 Pine-Richland 9, Hempfield 8 Riverside 15, Ellwood City 13 Seneca Valley 8, Avonworth 2 Hockey...
High school roundup for April 3, 2021: Tanner Singh delivers walkoff win for Pine-Richland
Tanner Singh hit a walkoff RBI single in the bottom of the seventh inning to lead Pine-Richland to a 9-8 victory over Hempfield in a nonsection slugfest Saturday afternoon. Chase Vrabel went 3 for 3 and Joey Woodrow doubled, tripled and drove in three for the Rams (2-0). Joe Fiedor...
Rapper DMX on life support after heart attack, lawyer says
DMX’s longtime New York-based lawyer, Murray Richman, said the rapper was on life support Saturday evening at White Plains Hospital. “He had a heart attack. He’s quite ill,” Richman said. Richman said he could not confirm reports that DMX, 50, overdosed on drugs and was not sure what caused the...
ACC basketball faces peril as the latest great generation of coaches begins to move on
RALEIGH, N.C. — What odds could a gambler have gotten back in 2003, when Roy Williams finally heeded the call to come home to North Carolina, that Jim Boeheim and Mike Krzyzewski would both still be grinding on the recruiting trail while Williams was grinding to play an extra nine...
Student news: Dean’s list, science awards, National Technical Honor Society, speech league accolades and more
Fox Chapel Area High School and Dorseyville Middle School students won awards as part of the virtual 87th Annual Region 7 Meeting of the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science (PJAS). District first-place winners were seniors Jackson Romero and Sanjay Seshan; juniors Zoe Lakkis and Siddharth Yende; sophomores Lawrence Liu and...
Letter to the editor: Pa. lawmakers’ undocumented expenses disgraceful
It’s an absolute disgrace that, as you reported, the Pennsylvania state representatives and senators are collectively charging the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars each year for “per diem” expense without supporting receipts (“State lawmakers need daily expenses accountability,” March 21, TribLIVE). Any company or organization that I’ve ever been...
College honors and accolades for Carnegie area students for the week of April 3, 2021
Organized Freedom Seder Daniel Kratovil, a member of Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine’s MD Class of 2023, was among the student organizers of the school’s annual Freedom Seder, held on March 23. Freedom Seders intertwine the archetypal story of the Israelites’ deliverance from slavery in ancient Egypt with more modern...
Letter to the editor: Thanks to Trump for vaccines
Thank you, President Trump: Thanks to you and your staff my wife and I received our first dose of the Moderna vaccine. Fortunately you were in office when this non-American virus was let loose on the world. Had a Democrat been in the White House, I bet we would still...
Letter to the editor: Trump’s world
I believe in President Trump’s world, truth is a foreign word. Lies rule the day. He is a self-appointed king, minus the crown (his coiffure would be disturbed). It seems a perfect day for Trump is when he flaunts himself onstage before a highly motivated audience. More clapping and enthusiasm...
Letter to the editor: Second Amendment is absolute
I must disagree with David Millstein’s letter “Commissioners misguided on gun-rights resolution” (March 21, TribLIVE). He wrote that the Second Amendment’s language is not absolute. That is incorrect. The intended scope and reach are binding forever. Absolute means total and complete, not diminished in any way. The Second Amendment is...
The Stroller, April 3, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your club meetings, events and fundraisers in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Traffic stoppages planned Monday on Tarentum Bridge PennDOT will conduct 15-minute traffic stoppages as needed between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday in each...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 2, 2021
High schools WPIAL Baseball Saturday’s schedule Class 5A Section 1 West Mifflin at Laurel Highlands, 1 p.m. Section 4 Plum at Armstrong, 11 a.m. Armstrong at Plum, 1:30 p.m. Nonsection Connellsville at Penn-Trafford, 12 p.m. Hempfield at Pine-Richland, 12 p.m. Riverside at Ellwood City, 1 p.m. Hockey PIHL Penguins Cup...
Mschf stops shipping Lil Nas X’s ‘Satan Shoes’ after Nike gets a restraining order
Looks like Lil Nas X’s “Satan Shoes” collaboration has taken a step too far. The Hollywood Reporter said this week that fulfillment of orders of the controversial sneaker has stopped after a U.S. District Court in New York approved Nike’s request for a temporary restraining order against Mschf, the Brooklyn-based...
Johnson & Johnson testing covid-19 vaccine in adolescents between 12 and 17 years old
Johnson & Johnson has expanded a clinical trial of its experimental coronavirus vaccine to include adolescents 12 to 17 years old, the drugmaker announced Friday. The ongoing, placebo-controlled trial was initially designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the shots for people ages 18 and older. The company now...
