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North Hills real estate transactions for the week of June 8, 2025
Bellevue Estate of Robert Bane sold property at 615 Cliff Ave. to Sam The Painter LLC for $139,000. Etna PWP1 LLC sold property at 41 High St. to David Miller Jr. and Valerie Miller for $204,000. Kara Paul sold property at 19 Highland Ave. to Elizabeth Cullen for $185,000. Gary...
Aspinwall area real estate transactions for the week of June 8, 2025
Aspinwall Jan Beumer sold property at 109 Second St. to National Residential Nominee Services In for $580,000. National Residential Nominee Services In sold property at 109 Second St. to Jeremy Philip Kamil for $580,000. Estate of Joan Louise Brindle sold property at 223 Seventh St. to North Side Property Holdings...
Letter to the editor: Better speed limit enforcement would make Cedar Street exit safer
Route 30 near Cedar Street has long been a concern for motorists and local residents alike (“Cedar Street exit improvements planned to boost safety on Route 30 in Hempfield,” May 22, TribLive). While the posted speed limit stands at 55 mph, many drivers consistently exceed this limit, traveling at 65...
Editorial: Database would help protect property values and empower municipalities
Blight isn’t interesting. No one wants to talk about abandoned buildings. No one wants to think about old structures left to rot. Those properties already haunt their neighborhoods. Can’t we just ignore them? Yeah, we don’t like to talk about blight, either. So let’s talk about the state taking action...
The Stroller, June 8, 2025: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your non-profit’s community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least two weeks in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084. Please include a daytime telephone number. Follow the Stroller on X at @VNDStroller. Drive-thru food distribution set...
Letter to the editor: Supporting public education will make US great
School vouchers and cyber charter tuition payments are causing irreparable harm to public schools. They take money away from public schools and funnel it to people who don’t need it. Most surveys show that around two-thirds of voucher money goes to students whose families were already paying for private school....
Penn-Trafford grad Grabowski turns juco baseball opportunity into spot with Division I LibertyVideo
As he wound down his scholastic baseball career at Penn-Trafford, Dylan Grabowski wondered what his next move would be. He had only lukewarm interest from college recruiters, so he considered putting his cleats in the closet and going to trade school. That’s when a Westmoreland County connection nearly 400 miles...
Pirates farm report for June 7, 2025: Konnor Griffin rips inside-the-park homer in Bradenton win
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 33-27) lost 10-2 to Memphis (Cardinals). LF Ronny Simon (.357) went 1 for 4 with his second home run. RF Matt Fraizer (.270) went 1 for 3 with a double and an RBI. 1B Billy Cook (.253) went 2 for 5 with a run scored. RHP Drake Fellows...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for June 7, 2025
High schools Baseball PIAA tournament Semifinals Monday’s schedule Class 6A Neshaminy (16-7) vs. North Penn (21-5) at Villanova Ballpark, 3 p.m.; Cedar Cliff (19-6) vs. Bethlehem Liberty (22-6) at Wenger Field, Fredericksburg, 4:30 p.m. Class 5A Upper Dublin (16-5) vs. Elizabethtown (16-9) at Muhlenberg, 11 a.m.; Shaler (19-6) vs. Lampeter-Strasburg...
High school roundup for June 7, 2025: Shady Side Academy boys lacrosse rolls on
The last WPIAL lacrosse team standing in the PIAA playoffs is Class 3A district runner-up Shady Side Academy. Seamus Riordan and James Rost had hat tricks as the Bulldogs (14-9) earned 1n 11-8 victory over District 3 champion Manheim Township (16-3) in the quarterfinals Saturday. Shady Side Academy will face...
Bishop Shanahan pulls away, ends season for Mt. Lebanon girls lacrosse
MECHANICSBURG — It started as a back-and-forth, neck-and-neck game, but that’s not the way it ended on Saturday evening between Mt. Lebanon and Bishop Shanahan in the PIAA Class 3A girls lacrosse quarterfinals. It was 0-0, 1-1, 2-2, 4-4 and 5-5, but it was also 11-5, 12-5, 13-5, and eventually,...
Mt. Lebanon boys lacrosse runs into roadblock in state power Radnor in PIAA quarters
MECHANICSBURG — The Radnor Raptors of Wayne in Delaware County are 5-0 all-time in PIAA boys lacrosse championship games, and that program was the challenge facing Mt. Lebanon on Saturday afternoon. As the goals racked up early and often in the first quarter, Mt. Lebanon coach Mike Ermer said he...
Allentown Central Catholic fends off Mars in PIAA boys lacrosse quarterfinals
MECHANICSBURG — As Allentown Central Catholic started to pull away in Saturday’s PIAA Class 2A boys lacrosse quarterfinal matchup, the Mars Fightin’ Planets maintained hope. First, it was 8-6, the first two-goal lead for either team, with 5:40 to go in the third quarter. Then it was 9-7, 10-7 and...
Mister Rogers Family Days features week of events in and around Latrobe
Mister Rogers Family Days featured a series of events held each day last week in downtown Latrobe. On June 2 an open house at the Fred Rogers Institute in Unity and Greater Latrobe High School featured Fred Rogers themed exhibits Daily activities included a farmer’s market, night market, children’s book...
Scottdale man celebrates 200,000 miles of bicycle riding
Lorne Peachey of Scottdale has ridden across the United States and on almost every rail-to-trail path imaginable on his way to 200,000 miles on a bicycle. Peachey, 86, celebrated his achievement with about 150 family, friends and bicycling acquaintances Saturday afternoon at the West Overton Village events barn near Scottdale....
Point: Trump’s unconstitutional actions threaten democracy
President Donald Trump is pursuing a path that is actively destabilizing the guardrails of our Constitution. Unless he changes course, our nation — the world’s oldest continuing democracy — risks a crisis where the president is no longer beholden to the rule of law. Americans will suffer the consequences. America’s...
Fellowship: Religious school, summer workship schedules and more at Sewickley area churches
Antioch Baptist Church 332 Elizabeth St., Sewickley. 412-741-7688. antiochfwbaptistsewickley.org. Morning worship and praise service is at 10:45 a.m. First Sunday Sunday School is at 9:30 a.m. First Friday virtual Bible study is at 7 p.m. A link is available via Pastor Dean’s Facebook page. Beth Samuel Jewish Center 810 Kennedy...
Sounding off: Pirates, politics among week’s topics
Nutting has an obligation to do better A message to Pittsburgh Pirates owner Bob Nutting: Mr. Nutting, as an owner, you have a moral obligation to the fans, the city, the region and the MLB to field a winning team. Reinvest your MLB earnings to pay Paul Skenes real money...
Editorial: Federal disruption response team may be best way to react
This week has been a carousel of action and information for a program that serves low-income youth and young adults. It started when news broke that the U.S. Department of Labor was hitting the pause button on Job Corps. Job Corps provides residential and nonresidential job training and GED programs...
A look at the good, the bad, the ugly and the champs from 9 U.S. Opens at Oakmont CC
A look back at the nine previous U.S. Opens held at Oakmont Country Club: 1927 The good: The U.S. Open makes its debut at Oakmont. The bad: There are only two under-par rounds in the tournament. The ugly: Somebody had to win: Tommy Armour and Harry Cooper go to a...
Oakmont Country Club has provided the stage for major championship breakthroughs
Oakmont Country Club finally had done it: exposed Angel Cabrera as a pretender rather than a contender. Cabrera held the halfway lead during the 2007 U.S. Open but shot 76 in the third round, and, suddenly, his chances of winning a major championship seemed slim. Not that anyone in attendance...
Letter to the editor: Fetterman transformed
Sen. John Fetterman, given his wardrobe and trash talking vocabulary, may appear different, but unfortunately he has proven to fit right in when it comes to those in Congress, who have become a class unto themselves when it comes to pay and benefits. Despite what I see as the rampant...
Letter to the editor: Easy to see where we’re headed with Trump
The letter “Rantings about Trump” (May 15, TribLive) mentioned “deep personal hatred” for President Trump. The hatred is for what he and his propaganda minister Steven Miller are doing to our country and democracy. Let’s talk about rantings. I will stop the war in Ukraine and conflict in Israel in...
The Stroller, June 7, 2025: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your non-profit’s community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least two weeks in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084. Please include a daytime telephone number. Follow the Stroller on X at @VNDStroller. Leechburg Borough to celebrate...
SummerSounds opens season with The Seven Wonders
The Seven Wonders, a Fleetwood Mac tribute band, opened the SummerSounds concert series in Greensburg’s St. Clair Park. The concert series amassed a combined attendance of 28,500 people and drew more than $1 million in economic impact to Greensburg last season, co-founder Gene James said. SummerSounds has focused on best...
