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Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Nov. 16
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Nov. 16....
Editorial: This holiday season, let’s put seniors at the center
The holidays tend to make us focus on one area of family more than any other. Kids. It makes sense. So much of the period between Thanksgiving and the New Year is child-centric, or at the very least, family friendly. School pageants. Pictures in those adorable outfits that moms love...
Joe Welch: Teachers resolve to do best for students
“Character is who you are when nobody else is watching.” A middle-school English teacher introduced this phrase to me. We recited it each day in class, and it is a lesson that I have carried with me throughout my life and into my teaching career. Now, in 2020, I think...
Delayed start to transition of power hurts coronavirus-fighting effort, Biden team saysVideo
WASHINGTON — With President Trump still balking at conceding electoral defeat and public health experts forecasting a horrific new phase of the covid-19 pandemic, calls intensified Sunday for the start of a formal transition to the administration of President-elect Joe Biden. The nationwide virus caseload last week touched unprecedented heights...
Trump urges judge to preserve suit over Pennsylvania ballots
The Trump campaign urged a judge to preserve its bid to block Pennsylvania from certifying President-elect Joe Biden as the winner, claiming there’s evidence that voters in Democratic-leaning counties were improperly allowed to fix errors with their ballots. In a filing Sunday in federal court, the campaign said a half-dozen...
New cases prompt Penn-Trafford to close Penn Middle School through Wednesday
Penn Middle School will be closed Monday through Wednesday because of an increase in covid-19 cases. Penn-Trafford School District officials notified parents in a letter emailed Sunday from Superintendent Matthew Harris. There are five active covid-19 cases at the school, two of which were added over the weekend. Four of...
Newsmax chief says he’d welcome Trump to his cable channel but ‘we don’t want to be Trump TV’
All the talk about Donald Trump going from the White House to cable TV mogul doesn’t mean the president is going to take over Newsmax and turn it into Trump TV. “I would welcome the president’s involvement in the channel,” Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy said. But even for the longtime...
Biden team to meet with pharma companies soon on coronavirus fight
President-elect Joe Biden’s team will begin meeting with Pfizer Inc. and other pharmaceutical companies within days as they continue the transition to a new administration amid the escalating coronavirus pandemic, his chief of staff said Sunday. “We’re going to have meetings between our top scientific advisers and the officials of...
High winds, power outages hit region as storms blow through Western Pa.
More than 13,000 customers of West Penn Power Co. and Duquesne Light were without power Sunday afternoon as a result of high winds that swept through Southwestern Pennsylvania, toppling trees and down power lines, the utility companies and emergency dispatching centers reported. Wind gusts of 50-to-60 mph were widespread, National...
Time to discuss potentially unpleasant side effects of covid-19 shots? Scientists say yes
Drugmaker Pfizer is expected to seek federal permission to release its covid-19 vaccine by the end of November, a move that holds promise for quelling the pandemic, but also sets up a tight time frame for making sure consumers understand what it will mean to actually get the shots. This...
Letter to the editor: Trump-Haley a great ticket
I keep thinking how amusing it’s going to be if one of President Trump’s sons decides to run for president in four years and what a hit it would be if he chose Nikki Haley as his running mate. Lordy, Lordy, I would pay money to see that happen. Talk...
Letter to the editor: Americans must move past our divide
The 2020 presidential election will be ingrained in the minds of Americans for decades. The current numbers show the divide that our country faces. There is no red wave or blue wave that the candidates promised. So what is the future of our country? Joe Biden has consistently promised that...
Eastern area real estate transactions for the week of Nov. 15
Chalfant John Byron sold property at 250 Elizabeth Ave. to Megan Barker for $181,000. Irwin Jesse Neal sold property at 409 Sixth St. to Allison Karissa Glazar for $122,500. Manor William Hearn sold property at 1235 First St. to Westmoreland Co. Land Bank for $1,840. Katie Oliver sold property at...
Hampton area real estate transactions for the week of Nov. 15
Hampton Arthur Chapman sold property at 2130 Coventry Drive to Ricardo Hayden Jr. and Merissa Hayden for $325,000. Bernard Ignacic sold property at 2360 Saddle Drive to Bernard Ignacic trustee and Darla Gerlach trustee for $188,100. Real estate transactions provided by RealSTATs. Contact RealSTATs at 412-381-3880 or visit RealSTATs.net....
Shaler area real estate transactions for the week of Nov. 15
Etna RGYKRE LLC sold property at 1 Dewey St. to 1 Dewey Street LLC for $125,000. Julie Marie Shreckengast trustee sold property at 3 S Spring St. to Deborah Contestabile for $115,000. Millvale James Windisch sold property at 130 Logan St. to Scott and Deborah Olbert for $28,000. Reserve Charles...
Fox Chapel area real estate transactions for the week of Nov. 15
Aspinwall Katherine Holzworth sold property at 221 Third St. to Joshua and Tara Cook for $450,000. Etna RGYKRE LLC sold property at 1 Dewey St. to 1 Dewey Street LLC for $125,000. Julie Marie Shreckengast trustee sold property at 3 S Spring St. to Deborah Contestabile for $115,000. Indiana Estate...
Letter to the editor: We need capitalism that considers long-term effects
Your Sept. 27 print edition featured side-by-side op-eds with incompatible objectives (“Making clean air a priority in Pittsburgh,” Sept. 26, TribLIVE; “Trump’s manufacturing, energy revival supports Pa. workers,” Sept. 22, TribLIVE). The people of Southwestern Pennsylvania do want a pollution-free environment, but that is not possible with fracking. Just ask...
Letter to the editor: Polio was conquered; covid-19 will be, too
There was a virus that consumed our country some years ago called polio, poliomyelitis or infantile paralysis, since it affected many children. In its early stages, its symptoms acted as the common cold or the flu, but in the advanced stage, it attacked the spine and lungs. This caused paralysis...
Letter to the editor: We all should support fixing election system
Approximately 70 million Americans are questioning the U.S. election results due primarily to distrust of the use of the new mail-in ballots and alleged irregularities in the processing and counting of ballots at polls around the country. Pennsylvania did not escape criticism. If mail-in ballots are the wave of the...
The Stroller, Nov. 15, 2020: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Is your church or organization going to host a community holiday event? Send information to The Stroller as soon as possible to vndnews@tribweb.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Free online science, technology program for middle school students offered Penn State New Kensington will offer the COMETS program, a free...
Pine, Richland real estate transactions for the week of Nov. 15
Pine Villas of English Farms L.P. sold property at 512 Cambridge Ct to NVR Inc. for $182,900. Joseph Schmidt sold property at 211 E Wild Cherry Drive to Peter and Megan Rooke for $737,500. Eugene Golembiewski trustee sold property at 4107 Fairway Drive to William and Laura Pesa Wolfe for...
North Hills real estate transactions for the week of Nov. 15
Franklin Park Estate of Raymond Henning sold property at 1776 Locust Road to Donald and Sharyn Lammers for $195,000. Jason Huzzard sold property at 2597 Matterhorn Drive to David Machesney and Jessie Modrall for $310,000. Lightner Properties LLC sold property at 2279 Rochester Road to Teresa Helene Jadhav for $295,000....
Sewickley area real estate transactions for the week of Nov. 15
Edgeworth Patrick Reilly sold property at 320 Woodland Road to Neil and Brooke Napolitano for $625,000. Leet Michele L Slomka Foradori sold property at 7 Ambridge Ave. to Kari Gilbert for $110,000. Sewickley Riverstone Property Solutions LLC sold property at 913 Nevin Ave. to Philip and Katherine Diemert for $380,000....
Carnegie, Upper St. Clair real estate transactions for the week of Nov. 15
Bridgeville Kimberly Aul trustee sold property at 953 Edna St. to Eric and Chelsey Cook for $138,000. Carnegie Donald Kaercher sold property at 215 Second Ave. to New Horizon Financial LLC for $65,000. William Streiff sold property at 409 Cubbage St. to Gina Leigh Thornberg for $152,500. Estate of Earl...
South Hills real estate transactions for the week of Nov. 15
Baldwin Borough Estate of Wilbert Michael Kottler sold property at 382 Jean Drive to Nicholas Dorfner for $130,000. Almond H Hudson Maleski sold property at 2815 Waterman Ave. to Tylar Miller for $102,450. Estate of Paul Rollin sold property at 3521 Willett Road to Nicholas Feltovich for $90,000. Baldwin Township...
