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Letter to the editor: What Biden-Harris ads should say
I have been so disappointed with the political ads presented by the Biden/Harris campaign. I hope they consider one such as this: Universal health care — FREE. Note: We furnish your doctor and only six to eight months for an appointment. College education/tuition — FREE. Raise taxes by $4 trillion...
Food Podcast: Greater Pittsburgh food bank partnering with Latino Community Center
The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank will partner with the Latino Community Center the week of Oct. 12 to raise awareness for the organization’s mission to empower, advocate with and celebrate Latinos in Allegheny County. The initiative is part of the food bank’s ongoing Food Justice is Social Justice campaign,...
Letter to the editor: Election cheating underway
Caught again, it looks like the Pennsylvania Republican Party doesn’t think it can win an election without cheating. According to reporting last month by Barton Gellman in The Atlantic, they have been coordinating a plan/plot with the Trump campaign to set aside the results of the presidential election and appoint...
Laurels & lances: Returning, reclosing, remembering
Laurel: To being back on the job. On an October 2018 morning, Pittsburgh Police SWAT Officer Timothy Matson suffered multiple gunshot wounds responding to the mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill. Eleven people were killed and seven wounded that day. It has been almost two...
The Stroller, Oct. 9, 2020: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
The Valley News Dispatch is compiling a list of autumn events and Halloween parades, parties and trick-or-treat nights. Send information to cpinto-smith@triblive.com. Campfire ghost story events planned in Allegheny County parks Allegheny County Parks Department will host four nights of Campfire Ghost Stories during October. All events begin at 7...
Renovations underway at Sewickley’s St. Matthew A.M.E. Zion Church
Last November, the congregation of St. Matthew A.M.E. Zion Church announced the start of an ambitious renovation project. The first phase, repair of sidewalk and stairs and replacement of doors, was completed, funded by a grant from Sewickley Valley Historical Society along with generous matching donations from the congregation and...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 8, 2020
Football Thursday’s results District 8 City League Westinghouse 36, Perry 0 Friday’s schedule WPIAL Class 6A Hempfield at Baldwin, 7 p.m. Mt. Lebanon at Central Catholic, 7 p.m. North Allegheny at Norwin, 7 p.m. Seneca Valley at Canon-McMillan, 7 p.m. Class 5A Allegheny 6 South Fayette at Bethel Park, 7...
High school roundup for Oct. 8, 2020: Peters Township wins on Andrew Massucci OT header
Andrew Massucci scored the winning goal on a diving header less than two minutes into overtime to lead Peters Township (8-0-1, 7-0-1) to a 2-1 boys soccer victory over Mt. Lebanon (3-5, 3-5) in Section 2-4A on Thursday night. Austin Marmol also scored. Anthony Schullek assisted on the game winner....
Trump says military families may be source of covid. But their tests are negativeVideo
WASHINGTON — The families who attended a White House event honoring the loss of a member of the military are all doing well and do not have covid-19, the organization that arranged their trip said Thursday after President Donald Trump suggested he might have been infected at that event. In...
CDC expands covid risk warning to include overweight people
NEW YORK — The link between extra pounds and severe covid-19 grew stronger as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that people who are merely overweight, not just the obese, may be at high risk of serious disease from the infection. The warning, posted on the agency’s website...
Foxwall EMS wears pink throughout October
Foxwall EMS members are wearing pink this month to support Breast Cancer Awareness. The crew at the Fox Chapel-based EMS is sporting pink T-shirts in a first-time effort that Acting Chief Tony Cuda said will become a yearly effort. With October designated for the national campaign, Cuda said it is...
Mitch McConnell hasn’t been to White House in months, citing lax covid-19 measures
Sen. Mitch McConnell has been avoiding the White House like the plague. The Republican majority leader said Thursday that has purposely refused to see President Donald Trump in person at the White House, citing lax precautions against the spread of covid-19. “Their approach to how to handle this was different...
Vice presidential debate draws more than 50 million TV viewers, a major spike over 2016Video
The vice presidential debate drew more than 50.7 million viewers on Wednesday, a significant jump over the last meeting of running mates in 2016. Preliminary Nielsen data showed the total audience across the major broadcast and cable networks for the showdown between Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris...
High school football schedule, broadcasts for Week 5
Today WPIAL Class 6A Hempfield at Baldwin, 7 p.m. Mt. Lebanon at Central Catholic, 7 p.m. (HSSN, 1320 AM) North Allegheny at Norwin, 7 p.m. (HSSN, 107.1 FM) Seneca Valley at Canon-McMillan, 7 p.m. (HSSN, 1450 AM) Class 5A Allegheny 6 South Fayette at Bethel Park, 7 p.m. West Allegheny...
The Birdie wants bowl season to come to Westmoreland County
Last week: 8-4 (66.7 %) Season: 34-19 (64.1 %) The Birdie sympathizes with the WPIAL football steering committee, which met this week to tackle the unenviable task of patchworking together a postseason during covid-19 times. “I wouldn’t want to be the guys who have to decide how this mess is...
Red-hot Birdie picking A-K Valley games with expert precision
Last Week: 8-1 (89%) Overall: 33-6 (85%) It’s October or as the Birdie likes to call it, hoodie and shorts season. “There’s nothing better than this time of the year, but you won’t catch me in a hoodie just yet. I’m too hot this season,” the prep high school fanatic...
2 injured in fall from ladder in East Liberty
Two men were injured when one fell from a ladder Thursday in Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood, according to police. The incident happened about 11:15 a.m. on Mellon Street, police said. One man had been three stories up on a ladder while the other was on the ground holding the ladder...
Chick’s Picks: Basking in fantasy football glory, prognosticator gives out winning predictions
It was the week Chick’s Picks had been waiting for — the week when she faced off against The Boss in a friendly game of fantasy football. Chick’s Picks did her usual due diligence in preparation for the week, studying player potential and keeping abreast of this season’s ever-changing player...
Trump coming to Pittsburgh? National reporters say it’s in the works
Itching to jump out of quarantine and back onto the campaign trail, President Donald Trump could be planning a visit to Pittsburgh early next week, according to national political reporters. Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent with The New York Times, first posted to Twitter Wednesday evening that Trump could...
Ron Klink: Trump’s reference pricing order imports joblessness
Never in the history of the modern world has there been such a desperate need for the pharmaceutical industry to be able to save our world and return all of us to a form of normality. Covid-19 is impacting everyone, including the leader of the free world and his family....
Student news: Fox Chapel Area School District students recognized for achievements
Two Fox Chapel Area High School seniors were named national winners in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2020. Amara Ostroff received a Silver Medal for her mosaic art titled “Lost in the Mass.” Annabella Zgurzynski won a Silver Medal for her enameling project titled “Overgrown Cottage.” Hundreds of...
Letter to the editor: What BLM really wants
In 2015, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors said in an interview that she and co-founder Alicia Garza are “trained organizers … We are trained Marxists.” The BLM website reads like a communist manifesto, using terms like “comrades” and “communal networks.” Cullors spent more than 10 years being mentored by...
Letter to the editor: Debate was a debacle
The Sept. 29 uncivil presidential “debate” produced no winner; however, the American people were the losers in the most juvenile presidential debate in our nation’s history. In fact, what I witnessed wasn’t a debate at all, but an exchange of attacks and counterattacks between President Trump and Joe Biden. The...
Letter to the editor: News flashes for today’s situation
People enjoying well-cooled workplaces should not dictate, enact or recommend mask requirements for warm or hot workplaces. Further astounding news: My face is inseparable from my rights, these superseded by nothing short of God. I am, like everyone else, above mask requirements beyond medical facilities. Freedom is the heart of...
Halloween activities in the Alle-Kiski Valley – Oct. 8, 2020
To have your event listed, send information to Carol Pinto-Smith, Valley News Dispatch, 210 Wood St., Tarentum, PA 15084; or email cpinto-smith@triblive.com. Community events Trick-or-treat and events open only to residents of the designated community include: • Allegheny Township: 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 31 • Apollo: Trick-or-treat: 6 to...
