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In Brief: Radon detectors available for loan, kindergarten registration and more in the North Hills
Radon detectors available for loan Northland Public Library in McCandless is offering Airthings radon detectors for checkout thanks to a generous donation. Radon detectors can tell when harmful radon gas is in the air of a home or building. The new detectors available at the library are easy to use...
In brief: Virtual networking, career moves and more in the South Hills
Women’s Business Network Women’s Business Network is part networking group, part mastermind group and part educational resource. The McMurray Chapter meets the first and third Wednesdays at 8:30 a.m., and meetings are held virtually until further notice. The next meeting is Jan. 20. For more information, contact chapter representative Diane...
High school schedules for Jan. 11, 2021
Basketball Boys Monday’s schedule Nonsection Aquinas Academy at Riverview, 7:30 p.m. Avonworth at Valley, 7:30 p.m. California at Beth-Center, 7:30 p.m. Indiana at West Shamokin, 7:30 p.m. Montour at South Fayette, 7:30 p.m. Thomas Jefferson at Uniontown, 7:30 p.m. Girls WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 North Hills at Penn-Trafford, 7:30...
Schwarzenegger compares attack on Capitol to Nazi violenceVideo
Arnold Schwarzenegger likened this week’s siege of the U.S. Capitol to Nazi attacks on Jews in Europe ahead of World War II in a scathing video in which the former California governor also called President Trump “the worst president ever.” Schwarzenegger wasn’t yet alive when Nazis rampaged through Germany and...
Eastern area real estate transactions for the week of Jan. 10
Churchill LSF9 Master Participation Trust sold property at 43 Bowstone Road to Jonathan Miller and Kala Markel for $289,000. Anthony Amendola sold property at 3404 McCrady Road to Robert and Jamie Fritz for $262,500. Delmont Paul Lapcevic sold property at 37 Terrace Drive to Kevin and Gia Edwards for $48,000....
The Herald area real estate transactions for the week of Jan. 10
Aspinwall Patrick Frank sold property at 407 Emerson Ave. to Helena Knapp for $340,000. Etna Ross Morgan Jr. sold property at 288 Butler St. to Romero Development LLC for $127,500. Harmar Edward Zawadzki trustee sold property at 469 Dover Drive to Stephen Sean and Deirdre Ann Ohearn for $429,000. Susan...
Hampton area real estate transactions for the week of Jan. 10
Hampton Lesley Cowles sold property at 3181 Beechwood Drive to Todd and Laura Gummerman for $295,000. Mark Harshman sold property at 2737 Brunton Court to Kevin and Jennifer Cox for $425,000. Estate of Barbara Ann White sold property at 4580 Bucktail Drive to Dawn Lindsay for $255,000. William Wheeler sold...
Shaler area real estate transactions for the week of Jan. 10
Etna Ross Morgan Jr. sold property at 288 Butler St. to Romero Development LLC for $127,500. Millvale Jennie Lorkovic sold property at 222 Meade St. to Janet Burkhardt for $16,000. Shaler Alfred Pagan sold property at 1425 Burchfield Road to Wayne Butler and Katherine Pagan for $265,000. Estate of Dolores...
Letter to the editor: End chaos, accept results and come together
What has happened to our great country? Regardless of party, we are all Americans living in a democracy, not a dictatorship. We have the privilege to vote for a person we want to run our country. We have all the freedoms given to us by our forefathers. Yet we now...
Letter to the editor: Schools taking care of employees
This letter is in response to Michael Sierk’s letter criticizing local schools for moving to online learning during an out-of-control pandemic (“Closing schools is not containing spread,” Jan. 1, TribLIVE). Mr. Sierk, I am an itinerant teacher in schools all over Westmoreland County. Our custodians, cafeteria workers, secretarial staff, classroom...
Letter to the editor: Thornburgh an example for all politicians
Many years ago, I started a second career in the Washington, D.C., office of the law firm K&L Gates. One of the first people who wandered into my office to welcome me to the firm was Dick Thornburgh. I had gone to college in Pennsylvania and knew people who worked...
Letter to the editor: Keep following the covid-19 rules
The year 2020 was a year of daunting challenge. Covid-19 created significant negative impacts on all aspects of life. We’ve all been touched in one way or another by this virus. We’ve mourned the loss of friends and family, we’ve lost income, we’ve lost touch with those we love. 2020...
The Stroller, Jan. 10, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your non-profit’s fundraiser or community event in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Online parenting program offered Wesley Family Services and United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania will sponsor an online parenting program, “The Incredible Years, “from 6...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Jan. 9, 2021
Basketball Boys Saturday’s results Class A Section 1 Union 79, Cornell 41 Nonsection Beth-Center 65, Jefferson-Morgan 49 Burrell 67, Northgate 39 Lincoln Park 59, Central Catholic 47 Chartiers Valley 66, Fox Chapel 63 Eden Christian 72, Cheswick Christian Academy 28 Ellwood City 60, Wilmington 36 McGuffey 60, Burgettstown 28 McKeesport...
High school roundup for Jan. 9, 2021: Brayden Reynolds powers Chartiers Valley to 3-0 start
Brayden Reynolds scored a game-high 33 points, hit four 3-pointers and grabbed seven rebounds to lead Chartiers Valley (3-0) to a 66-63 boys basketball nonsection win over Fox Chapel on Saturday afternoon. Carter Mastovich scored 13 points, including four 3-pointers, in the win. Eli Yofan led Fox Chapel (2-1) with...
Editorial: Making companies immune from misconduct is sick
When we think about immunity, we usually think about being resistant to a disease. Immunity is the ability to shrug off an infection, to ignore a virus. It’s an idea that has occupied us for much of the last year. The possibility of being immune to covid-19 because of having...
Sheldon Jacobson and Janet Jokela: Airport security checkpoints are nation’s covid-19 canary
We welcome the new year with nearly 22 million confirmed covid-19 cases and 365,000 deaths. The U.S. leads the world in total confirmed cases and deaths, while also ranking second in confirmed cases per capita and seventh in deaths per capita (for countries with a population over 10 million). The...
Sounding off: We don’t have freedom to harm others
I weep with all the health care workers, families and caregivers who, on top of dealing with covid-19, must listen to the hate spewed forth in the name of “personal freedoms.” Yes, it is hate. It is total disregard for the lives of others. It is like you are driving...
Letter to the editor: Police actions during DC chaos
How come the police were not told to stand down like they were at some of the Black Lives Matter riots? Was it because the politicians were in danger, not private citizens’ businesses? Clem Zahrobsky Delmont...
Student news: Food donations, debate winners, kindergarten registration and more
A group of Shady Side Academy Junior and Middle School families organized a “No Hungry Kids!” fundraiser to support the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank in December and raised more than $5,300. The Delfyett, Iannetti, Khalil, Walsh and Zureikat families created a video that was shown during Zoom assemblies at...
Letter to the editor: Reschenthaler and Joyce are patriots
I felt compelled to respond to letters from Scott Huber claiming the presidential election was the “most secure election in modern history” (“Will Joyce and Reschenthaler need pardons?”) and Edward Svitek that Biden won “fairly and squarely” (“Does Trump love America?”) when the facts and statistics say otherwise. Joe Biden...
High school winter sports set to attempt season with coronavirus waiting around every cornerVideo
In a normal year, real estate is hard to come by on the mats in the Kiski Area wrestling room. Cavaliers wrestlers usually stretch wall to wall as they drill with practice partners and try avoid other teammates doing the same. Over the course of a two- or three-hour practice,...
Varying mask policies create conundrum for high school athletics
Just before the PIAA soccer finals, Gov. Tom Wolf and Pa. Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine announced ramped-up guidelines that would make sports teams wear face coverings during competition. The rules later were loosened, and athletes did not have to wear masks during play, only on the sidelines, if...
Letter to the editor: Lying to Congress is a crime
Sen. Ted Cruz proposed a congressional inquiry to determine the legitimacy of the 2020 election (and it failed, on Jan. 6). The idea was fine with me — but note that the line between freedom of speech and slander, defamation and sedition is not a fine one. If you’re lying...
The Stroller, Jan. 9, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your non-profit’s fundraiser or community event in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Help available from HOPE Center hotline If social distancing has forced you into an unsafe situation, help is available by calling the Alle-Kiski HOPE...
