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Sewickley area real estate transactions for the week of Feb. 23
Aleppo Susan L Crawford Kinser sold property at 506 Sewickley Heights Drive to Raymond Pen Canada and Lauren Elise Taiclet for $185,000. Bell Acres Bala Properties GP sold property at 724 Campmeeting Road to Weststar Realty LLC for $1 (state deed transfer stamps indicate a value of $128,876). Edgeworth Frederick...
Lenten fish fries in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Fish fries are scheduled Fridays during Lent throughout the Valley, including: Allegheny Township Markle Volunteer Fire Department, 470 Joyce St., 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday. Take out only. Menu: fish sandwich with two sides, $10. Additional sides available. All items will be sold as long as supplies last. Benefits...
Fox Chapel area real estate transactions for the week of Feb. 23
Blawnox Ingeburg Miller sold property at 300 Freeport Road to PAMMA LLC for $135,000. Fox Chapel Bernard Stoecklein Jr. sold property at 592 E Squaw Run Road to BES 9 Trillium LLC for $1 (state deed transfer stamps indicate a value of $2,009,120). Harmar Estate of Josephine Klemencic sold property...
The Stroller, Feb. 23, 2020: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
The Stroller is your go-to place for local meeting notices, charitable events and volunteer opportunities. Information for The Stroller may be dropped off or mailed at least a week in advance to: The Stroller, Valley News Dispatch, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084, email vndnews@tribweb.com or fax 724-226-4677. Bouquet Pool...
Living with Children: The biggest mistakes parents make, part 3
This concludes my three-part series on the 10 Biggest Mistakes Parents Make (and how to stop making them!). For the first two columns in the series, go to johnrosemond.com. The mistakes covered to date include: 1. Explaining oneself to one’s children. This common blunder is why so many children are...
High school scores, schedules for Feb. 22, 2020
High schools Basketball Boys WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals Saturday’s results Butler 78, Peters Township 76 Central Catholic 42 , Fox Chapel 34 Mt. Lebanon 70, Bethel Park 48 Upper St. Clair 62, Pine-Richland 59 Semifinals Wednesday’s schedule (Sites & times TBD) Butler (18-4) vs. Upper St. Clair (20-3) Central...
Top wrestlers earn berths to WPIAL Class AAA wrestling tournament
Ten members of the Kiski Area wrestling team advanced to the WPIAL Class AAA championships next weekend after finishing in the top five of their weight classes Saturday at the Section 1-AAA tournament at Kiski Area. The Cavaliers had five champions — Sammy Starr (152 pounds), Jack Blumer (160), Nick...
AHN donates AED, trains employees of South Park Theatre in CPR
Allegheny Health Network’s Jefferson Hospital, alongside AHN prehospital services, recently donated an AED device to the South Park Theatre, benefitting employees, community members and theatergoers. The Feb. 17 presentation was followed by an in-depth training session. “I am very pleased and proud to have a staff that now has this...
Pine Township real estate sales the week of Feb. 23
Pine Dan Ryan Builders Mid Atlantic LLC sold property at 163 Alder Drive to Joseph Francis and Heidi Moeller for $685,021. 2500 Brooktree L.P. sold property at 2500 Brooktree Road to 2500 Brooktree L.P. for $1 (state deed transfer stamps indicate a value of $1,529,228). Sheila Mollica trustee sold property...
A look at real estate sales in the North Suburbs the week of Feb. 23
Franklin Park NVR Inc. sold property at 1404 Olivian Ct to Michael and Amanda Hreha for $682,760. Marshall Christiana Trust trustee sold property at 824 Foxridge Ct to Daniel and Jean Turack for $469,900. NVR Inc. sold property at 3006 Mahican Cir to Namrata Chhibber for $349,440. Brennan Builders Inc....
Real estate transactions in Hampton the week of Feb. 23
Hampton Paul Mihalek sold property at 2455 Hampton Ave. to Jana Spencer for $70,000. Robert Laughery sold property at 3848 Mt. Royal Blvd. to Adam Michael Bauer and Kimberly Linden for $176,500. Twin Property Solutions LLC sold property at 2500 Oakhill Road to Thimothy and Cassandra Carricato for $290,000. Real...
High school roundup for Feb. 22, 2020: Woodland Hills girls fend off Moon upset bid
The Moon Tigers had a lot going for them in a WPIAL Class 5A girls basketball quarterfinal Saturday afternoon. They outscored second-seeded Woodland Hills by six points in the fourth quarter, and they had the game’s top two scorers on their side. The Wolverines, however, were just too tough to...
Jake Hoffman scores 40 as defending champ Mt. Lebanon pounds Bethel Park
Mt. Lebanon senior Jake Hoffman started the regular season with a statistical anomaly: four straight games in which he scored exactly 30 points. The defending champion’s leading scorer decided to raise the stakes in the Blue Devils’ postseason debut as he dropped 40 points in a runaway 70-48 win over...
Tackling a top killer of New Jersey’s bald eagles: electrocution
A female bald eagle took flight in September 2014 from the Maurice River in New Jersey’s Cumberland County, soaring westward thousands of feet over the Delaware Bay. Nicknamed Millville after her hometown, she made her way to the upper Chesapeake Bay, 50 miles away, according to GPS tracking. Two months...
New York readies to say goodbye to a staple of city life: plastic shopping bags
NEW YORK — Bag the ban, say some business leaders and New Yorkers ahead of regulations barring a staple of city life. “I can’t do without it!” Barbara White, 70, said while clutching her plastic bags Saturday outside an East Harlem grocery store. “I’m so used to this kind of...
Decade’s best WPIAL finals: Boys basketball No. 3
There were a lot of changes to the WPIAL basketball championships over the past 10 years. They expanded from two days to three days and from eight boys and girls finals to a dozen championship games. The district also switched venues, moving from Duquesne’s Palumbo Center to Pitt’s Petersen Events...
North Allegheny girls, Fox Chapel’s Manelis dominate at WPIAL diving championships
Going into the 31-diver girls event at the WPIAL Class AAA diving championships Saturday, the host North Allegheny Tigers had the top three seeds: freshman Zoe Ky first, junior Maya Ennis second and freshman Christina Shi third. When the dust settled, the order had reversed, but the Tigers still dominated...
Matthew Brouillette: The truth behind the turnpike nightmare
It’s like a recurring bad dream. A new year, a new Pennsylvania Turnpike toll hike. Now, driving the length of the highway costs upwards of $65.70 — not counting the return trip. Only, this nightmare is real. We know the usual suspects: infrastructure needs, mandates that the turnpike fund mass...
Rev. Sandra Strauss: Lawmakers should clamp down on illegal gambling
There is no question that Pennsylvania is under siege from an out-of-control explosion of illegal gambling that is occurring in gas stations, convenience stores, corner stores and pizza parlors where teens gather. Currently, there are at least 15,000 so-called “skilled games” machines in operation in communities across the state. Despite...
By decoding the coronavirus genome, scientists seek the upper hand against COVID-19
The genetic code of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is only about 30,000 characters long, but what a story it tells. Those nucleotides conceal secrets of the virus’ past, including its origins, its passage among families and its journey to distant ports. They signal how long it has been at...
Death of Prince heir complicates estate settlement even more
MINNEAPOLIS — The death of Prince’s brother Alfred Jackson, along with his contested will, are raising new questions in the endlessly complicated efforts to settle the legendary musician’s estate, including whether a California man with a reputation for cozying up to celebrities will end up with one-sixth of Prince’s riches....
Outdoors notices for Feb. 23, 2020
Outdoors Notices RIFLE LEAGUES • In the Allegheny Valley Rifle League on Feb. 14, Murrysville (8-7) defeated Fort Hand (6-8), 1,172-1,168, and Butler (9-6) beat Clymer (6-8), 1,164-1,163, in the A-team standings. In the B-team division, Murrysville (8.5-6.5) defeated Fort Hand (2.5-11.5), 1,150-1,109, and Clymer (12-2) beat Butler (6-9), 1,147-1,107....
This comedian says Border Patrol pulled him off a bus. Now he’s suing the government
SEATTLE — Libyan funny guy Mohanad Elshieky often riffs on cross-cultural quirks, such as the tendency of Americans to tell him that in this country, his name is pronounced “Mohammed.” “It’s just not how names work, they’re not based on location,” the New York-based comedian said in a Comedy Central...
White supremacists greater threat to NJ citizens than Al-Qaida and ISIS, study says
New Jersey residents are more likely to be attacked by a white supremacist than Al-Qaida. That is the grim assessment of a comprehensive New Jersey terrorism study released Friday. The state’s “Terrorism Threat Assessment” report — 42 pages long — noted that officials have raised the threat level from white...
Tobacco company must pay $12.5 million to widow of man who died of lung disease, jury finds
MIAMI — James “Jim” McHugh started smoking when he was a teenager and continued to do so for nearly five decades. He tried quitting cold turkey. He tried chewing gum. He even tried hypnosis. By the time he found a prescription medicine that could help him, he was a very...
