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Letter to the editor: Businessman Trump best at running country
Whether you like him or not, Donald Trump is our president. He is proving to me that a businessman can run this country better than any politician in spite of all of the resistance from the Democrats, RINOS, never-Trumpers and the Deep State. There were 266,000 jobs added in November...
Letter to the editor: Therapy dogs in order?
Letter-writer Oren Spiegler (“Attack on Yovanovitch cruel,” Nov. 30, TribLIVE) is probably a fine human being, but he really should let go of the impeachment hearings/Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch issue, which seems to have twisted his knickers greatly. In my 25 years with the State Department, I was microwaved by the...
Chartiers Valley students shop with Collier, Bridgeville and Scott cops 
Bridgeville police Chief Chad King filled a shopping cart full of plastic cups and Brillo pads with the help of his new friend, Brady. The two talked about their shared love of World War II history and Bethel Bakery as they made their way through the Scott Township Walmart on...
Four miniature trains stolen during annual Ambridge show
Four miniature locomotives on display at this year’s Ohio Valley Lines annual holiday show were stolen from the tracks during a busy day of fundraising on Dec. 15, leaders say. Club members noticed the locomotives, owned by four individual members, were missing shortly before closing up for the day, just...
Sewickley Presbyterian youth perform for Masonic Village residents
Students in Sewickley Presbyterian’s after-school program recently performed holiday songs for Masonic Village residents....
Top 19 of ’19: Trib HSSN breaks down the top stories of the year — No. 13
The 2019 high school sports season is nearly in the books. While we anxiously look ahead to 2020, let’s reflect on the district high school sports scene over the last 12 months. Here is a look back at the top 19 stories from around the WPIAL in 2019. HSSN Top...
West Deer adopts 2020 budget without tax increase
West Deer Supervisors on Wednesday adopted a $6.5 million budget for 2020 that keeps the property tax rate at 2.99 mills. At that rate, the owner of a median-priced home of $115,650 would owe $345.79 in taxes, the same as this year. The biggest line item in the budget calls...
Winter cacti are hard to name but easy to grow
Years ago, I had one of those spineless cacti that once a year splash colorful flowers out the ends of their flat, arching stems. Such plants are usually named for when they are supposed to bloom: Thanksgiving, Christmas or Easter cacti. I just call them “holiday” cacti because they rarely...
The Stroller, Dec. 20, 2019: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Free Christmas dinners planned Free holiday dinners will be served in Lower Burrell, Harrison and Tarentum to the needy or those who might otherwise be eating alone. • Abundant Joy Fellowship, 101 Allegheny St., Tarentum, 1 to 3 p.m. Christmas Day. Reservations are suggested, but not required. Children will receive...
No tax increase in Brentwood for the fifth straight year
While Brentwood leaders are planning ribbon-cuttings for a new municipal building and renovated borough pool in 2020, residents won’t be feeling the pinch at the bank. Council members on Dec. 9 approved the borough’s 2020 budget that keeps real estate taxes at 10 mills for the fifth straight year. The...
Hampton council passes 2020 budget with no tax increase
The 2020 budget for the Township of Hampton was passed 5-0 at the council’s voting meeting on Dec. 18, with no increase in taxes. Township Municipal Manager Christopher Lochner presented the budget at the Dec. 4 meeting as his position calls to do every year at this time. This will...
New plants sure to make 2020 gardens lush, colorful
Every year we see new and interesting plants introduced. It’s exciting to see what gardening professionals are interested in growing this season. Cultivate ’19 is a trade show spanning eight acres at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. During a visit to Cultivate over the summer, those pros showed some exciting...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Dec. 19, 2019
Basketball Boys Thursday’s results WPIAL Class 3A Section 3 South Allegheny 91, Steel Valley 79 Class 2A Section 3 Shenango 50, Sewickley Academy 40 Nonsection Beth-Center 84, Bentworth 55 Keystone Oaks 49, Northgate 46 Winchester Thurston 53, Carrick 48 Bobcat Classic At Greensboro, N.C. Upper St. Clair 72, Woodberry Forest...
High school roundup for Dec. 19, 2019: Butler girls beat Pine-Richland with fourth-quarter comeback
Emma Monteleone hit a layup with 3.7 seconds left to complete a comeback for Butler in a 49-47 Section 1-6A girls basketball victory over Pine-Richland on Thursday night. Down 45-35, Butler (4-2, 2-1) closed the game on a 14-2 run. Makenna Maier led Butler with 14 points. Sarayne added 12...
Top-ranked Bethel Park pulls away to beat Mt. Lebanon in 6A showdown
Top-ranked Bethel Park showed a strong kick at the end of each half to pull away from Mt. Lebanon and remain undefeated. Maddie Dziezgowski led all scorers with 21 points as the Black Hawks improved to 3-0 atop Section 2-6A with a 65-52 win over the visiting Blue Devils. “This...
CNN's feed of Democratic debate goes dark in China when candidates mention human rights 
The live feed on CNN of the Democratic presidential debate went black on Thursday in Beijing when the candidates veered into the discussion of China’s human rights abuses. Former vice president Joe Biden criticized China over its mass detention in Xinjiang for Uighurs, a Muslim minority in the country. “We...
Top 5 teams go head-to-head in WPIAL boys basketball section action
For many district boys basketball teams, Friday will be the final section game played until 2020. For Seton LaSalle and North Catholic, Friday is the first of two huge meetings that will eventually decide the Section 2 standings and help shape the top seeds in the Class 3A postseason. A...
Putin defends Trump against ‘spurious’ impeachment by Democrats 
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin rode to the defense of Donald Trump by dismissing the “spurious” impeachment of the American leader as an attempt by his political opponents to oust him. The vote against Trump in the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives reflects a continuing “domestic political battle” in the...
J.K. Rowling stirs transphobia debate again with new tweet 
“Harry Potter” scribe J.K. Rowling brewed up a whole new controversy Thursday after she tweeted her support for a British woman who had been fired for making transphobic remarks. The outspoken billionaire author chimed in on the trending hashtag, #IStandWithMaya, a campaign backing researcher Maya Forstater. The researcher claimed online...
Plum library hosts 'Elf on the Shelf' show
Families with children of all ages packed the Plum Community Library Dec. 18 for a special Christmas performance of “The Elf on the Shelf Saves Christmas” presented by Stage Right, a performing arts and theater company based in Greensburg....
Laurels & lances: Giving, pleading and delivering
Laurel: To really giving back. For Trafford Borough Council President Kris Cardiff, the idea of giving back to the community is more than lip service. He is actually returning his $600 a year in pay for being a public official. It’s something he says he has been doing for a...
Review: ‘Bombshell’ is another sneaky, fact-adjacent docudrama 
One week after the tepid box office reception for “Richard Jewell,” a well-acted, sneakily political, fact-adjacent drama of no little controversy, here comes “Bombshell” — another well-acted, sneakily political and fact-adjacent picture, representing the other side of what’s left of the aisle in this country. It’s hard to assess the...
How Christmas decorations sent hundreds to the ER last year
On the first day of Christmas, the universe gave to me: A new toy and an injury … OK. That was bad. But things were worse for the 423 people who had a not-so-joyous Christmas last year, thanks to the injuries that sent them to emergency rooms because of the...
Review: Love it or hate it, ‘Cats’ is a pop culture phenomenon 
There’s apparently enough groundbreaking technology used in “Cats” for NASA to send a rocket to unexplored parts of the universe — perhaps to a far-off planet where cats sing, dance on two legs and recite T.S. Eliot poetry in half-Cockney accents. But let’s forget the much-discussed “digital fur technology” used...
Western Pennsylvania lawmaker wants hunting licenses revoked for animal cruelty
A state lawmaker from Western Pennsylvania wants to give the Pennsylvania Game Commission the power to revoke or deny a hunting license to someone convicted of cruelty to animals. The proposed legislation was prompted by the investigation of two teenagers from Jefferson County’s Brookville area who appeared to torture an...


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