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The U.S. House and Speaker Nancy Pelosi passed a $3 trillion package to help save the economy during the covid-19 pandemic. It is titled the Heroes Act. Certainly there are many still suffering, and we can acknowledge there have been heroes all around us. But in a bill to help...

Allegheny County has announced that polling locations are being consolidated due to coronavirus (“Allegheny County votes to consolidate primary polling locations”). Monroeville’s one polling location will be at the Monroeville Convention Center. I believe the proposed consolidation plan is counterproductive from the perspective of both public health and voters’ rights....

Reunions The 1965 Hurst High School class reunion scheduled Aug. 8 in Mammoth Park in Mt. Pleasant Township has been canceled. Organizers of the 55th reunion said the event will be rescheduled sometime in 2021....

Read The Stroller daily for announcements of how everyone can ease the pressure and stress of others, even while maintaining social distancing. Information for The Stroller should be emailed to vndnews@tribweb.com. Donations welcome for the Friendship Garden Food Pantry Donations for the food pantry in the Tarentum Friendship Garden can...

Monroeville Estate of Laverne Stewart sold property at 3958 Rear Logans Ferry Road to Joseph Zinchini for $126,400. Christine Kuntz sold property at 115 Old Suffolk Drive to Gary Alan and Kimberly Rader for $263,000. Equity Trust Co. Cust FBO Z139646 IRA sold property at 212 Poplar St. to Cameron...

Bridgeville Kathleen Lento sold property at 237 Missouri Ave. to UCG Thirty Three LLC for $100,000. Carnegie Matthew Blair sold property at 102 Cathedral Ct to MS Blair Investments LLC for $145,487. Phillip Thornburg sold property at 418 Center Ave. to Jasmine Baldwin for $140,000. Karen Jancel sold property at...

Aspinwall Jeffrey Berman sold property at 328 Second St. to Eric and Francoise Lagasse for $210,000. Blawnox Michael Voit sold property at 128 Third St. to J & D Campbell Holdings LLC for $298,000. Harmar Robert White sold property at 608 Poplar Ct to Norbert Garbisch III and Sandra Garbisch...

Baldwin Borough Thomas Higgins III sold property at 715 Baldwin Drive to Blake Campbell for $155,000. Estate of Lois Karos sold property at 623 Blossom Drive to Rupindra Regmi for $210,100. Estate of Joanne Sujannsky sold property at 5035 Debra Drive to Bhola and Laxima Dhungana for $182,000. Danielle Brendel...

Penn Hills Daniel Babuscio sold property at 11412 Azalea Drive to UCG Forty LLC for $44,500. Robert Adams sold property at 2604 Blackridge Ave. to Sarah L Tafel for $103,000. Joy Bowser sold property at 243 Bramble St. to Bank New York Mellon trustee for $15,000. Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency...

Bellevue Sarah Mendak sold property at 195 Dakota Ave. to Krypton LLC for $17,500. Jason Harrell sold property at 49 Kendall Ave. to Paul Jeffrey Hubert for $180,000. Franklin Park Paul Fleiner sold property at 2509 Adele Ct to Matthew Maloney for $475,000. Todd Harbaugh sold property at 2640 Big...

Oakmont Anthony Spinola sold property at 312 Second St. to Molly Culleiton for $199,000. Vincent Siciliano sold property at 97 Delaware Ave. to Terence Lee and Patricia Churilla for $535,000. Plum Christopher Terry sold property at 127 Beech Road to Phillip Barnett and Rachel Paiano for $198,000. Dana Cupples sold...

Bell Acres Alfredo Escudero Hernandez sold property at 216 Dilworth Road to Cartus Financial Corp. for $657,500. Maronda Homes LLC sold property at 193 Witherow Road Ext. to Jared and Alexa Bovalino for $720,000. Sewickley RLS Asset Holding LLC sold property at 321 Centennial Ave. to Jeffrey and Deborah King...

Shaler R & M Homes LLC sold property at 301 College Park Road to Bradley Allen Dunlap and Jeffrey Michael Sahim for $257,000. Philip Dellavalle sold property at 35 Colony Oaks Drive to David Jordan for $365,000. Christopher Portman sold property at 6211 Elter Ct to Zeng Rong Zheng for...

Pine Cavalier Land Partn. L.P. sold property at 2009 Cherry Road to NVR Inc. for $120,000. Santaclair Properties LLC sold property at 805 Mt. Pleasant Road to Sean Kelly trustee for $285,000. Kent Kelly sold property at 319 Osprey Ct to Jeffrey and Kathryn Abraham for $442,500. Sireesha Johnson Kolli...

SAN DIEGO — He lives in La Jolla Village, near a cove that will be crowded this weekend by sunbathers who are no longer willing to shelter in place from the coronavirus. Peter Salk’s favorite stores and restaurants are nearby. Many are beginning to reopen now that the pandemic is...

DALLAS — Storms carrying large hail and damaging winds, including tornadoes, caused severe damage to parts of North Texas, officials said Saturday. The town of Bowie, about 65 miles northwest of Fort Worth, was hit hard by one tornado about 9 p.m. Friday, the National Weather Service confirmed Saturday. A...

Pennsylvania is a state with a lot of sports history. There is no major sport that doesn’t happen in the Keystone State. Whether you want your games as all-American as baseball or as global as soccer, it happens here. As grassroots as NASCAR or as high class as horse racing....

A bicyclist died Saturday after being struck by a pickup in a hit-and-run in Bell Acres, according to Allegheny County Police. The bicyclist was identified by the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office as Curtis Brown, 51. No address was provided. Allegheny County Police said the pickup driver, Justin Michael Miller,...

Firefighters were able to save an historic warship after a massive fire ripped through a warehouse at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco on Saturday morning. The fire broke out about 4:15 a.m. in a large warehouse at the end of Pier 45, said Lt. Jonathan Baxter, public information officer for...

The criticism of Gov. Tom Wolf by legislators, district attorneys and state representatives exposes the hypocrisy behind their “live free or die” recommendations that counties open businesses earlier than considered safe. We need to support leaders of courage who risk threats when they make unpopular, necessarily restrictive decisions. This virus...

Rachel Maddow has dunked on One America News Network yet again — this time in a courtroom. A judge ruled on Friday that the host of the MSNBC program “The Rachel Maddow Show” did not malign the ultraconservative political network when she called it “Russian propaganda” and dismissed OAN’s $10...

Fellow taxpayers: I find it particularly insensitive and even downright vulgar to allow our exalted ruler of the state, Gov. Tom Wolf, to be able to give a “pep talk” in TV ads. He talks about the resolve of the people of Pennsylvania, and yadda, yadda, yadda, during this crisis....

What is the big deal about wearing a mask when you are out in public? No one is asking you to storm the beaches of Normandy, or fight in southeast Asia or the Middle East. All that is being asked of you is to wear a mask in public because...

The Franklin Regional budget for 2020-21 confirms the coming school district’s financial implosion, to be precipitated by the Sloan campus debt. Current operations and growing debt payments are producing massive deficits that will consume all general funds within four years, even with annual Pennsylvania maximum tax increases. This follows the...

Read The Stroller daily for announcements of how everyone can ease the pressure and stress of others, even while maintaining social distancing. Information for The Stroller should be emailed to vndnews@tribweb.com. Free shredding event planned in Lower Burrell A free paper shredding event will be hosted by Rep. Bob Brooks...