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Highlands rolls past Ringgold in Class 4A boys quarterfinal
So much for problems getting untracked after a 15-day layoff. No. 1-seeded Highlands scored early and often, rolling to an 80-57 victory over Ringgold in a WPIAL Class 4A quarterfinal Saturday afternoon at North Hills Middle School. Highlands (20-3) staged a 13-0 run in the first half, holding Ringgold (12-10)...
Editorial: Legislation strangled by partisanship
The political landscape is as partisan as a war zone, but “bipartisan” seems to be every politician’s favorite word. If a legislator does something with even one member of the opposing party, you will hear crows of “bipartisan support.” Without that one member, there is a great wailing and mourning...
Sounding off: No ‘gray area’ on guns
Lori Falce’s column “The black and white of guns” starts out lumping seven hot topics with gun rights/control as having “gray area” that must be understood before both sides of any issue are settled. When it comes to gun rights/gun control, it is black and white. Because the “gray area”...
Real estate transactions in Signal Item area the week of Feb. 23
Bridgeville Craig Lessler sold property at Baldwin St. to OB1 Properties LLC for $242,250. Carnegie Barbara Lee Starr sold property at 39 Lexington Ct to PGH Property Management LLC for $45,000. Collier Janice Klein sold property at 749 Marigold Ct to Diane Inserra for $365,000. Green Tree Compro sold property...
Letter to the editor: Disgusted by litter on our roads
The article “Study: Pa. roads average 1,030 litter items per mile” (Feb. 5, TribLIVE) is right on. On my walks, the litter is constant. I walk on a wooded township road, but the same is true on the roads as we drive out of our area. Over the years, I’ve...
Letter to the editor: ‘We the people’ is the answer
I woke up this morning after another troubling night. My first thoughts were about the nation, democracy, fairness, justice, fault, blame … enough. People, policies, truth, lies, honor, future, past …enough. Trump, Romney, Biden, Pelosi, McConnell, Schumer … enough. Socialism, capitalism, democracy, autocracy, oligarchy, investigation, witnesses, fake news, above the...
Letter to the editor: Managing wildlife
Silvie Pomicter of Voice of the Animals wrote a letter to inform everyone about how inhumane the trapping of animals is “Fur belongs to the animals” (Feb. 3, TribLIVE). Her organization is basically against all forms of animal use, whether you are wearing a fur or eating a steak. If...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 21, 2020
Basketball Boys WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals Saturday’s schedule Butler (17-4) vs. Peters Township (14-9) at Mt. Lebanon, noon Upper St. Clair (19-3) vs. Pine-Richland (15-8) at North Hills, 3:15 p.m. Fox Chapel (21-1) vs. Central Catholic (13-10) at Plum, 1 p.m. Mt. Lebanon (16-6) vs. Bethel Park (14-8) at...
The Stroller, Feb. 22, 2020: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
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The Lumineers will ‘pepper in’ new songs during Pittsburgh stopVideo
The Lumineers qualify as a bona fide hit-making band. Since the group’s debut single, “Ho Hey,” became a 2012 blockbuster single, topping 10 different Billboard magazine singles charts, while spending 62 weeks on Billboard’s all-genre Hot 100 singles chart, the band has enjoyed one success after another. Listen to those...
Monessen grad Justice Rice helps Grove City basketball reach top of PAC
As all teams do, the Grove City men set goals at the beginning of the basketball season. Among them was, of course, to win the Presidents’ Athletic Conference championship. But no team with conference-title aspirations figures on starting 0-4. Granted, those were nonconference games, but Wolverines coach Steve Lamie, in...
Decade’s best WPIAL finals: Girls basketball No. 3
There were a lot of changes to the WPIAL basketball championships over the last 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 the Palumbo Center at Duquesne to the...
Michael Carmody’s big game leads Mars past South FayetteVideo
Mars didn’t have its A game Friday night in its 2020 playoff debut, but the Fightin’ Planets survived and advanced to their fourth straight Class 5A final four. Senior Michael Carmody scored 23 points and dominated the glass with 19 rebounds as the two-time defending WPIAL champions knocked off South...
High school roundup for Feb. 21, 2020: Thomas Jefferson shrugs off West Allegheny
With top-seeded Penn Hills falling victim to a quarterfinals upset, the Path to the Pete in WPIAL Class 5A boys basketball took a left turn Friday night. Thomas Jefferson is still chugging along down that road. Jake Pugh scored 14 points and Ethan Dunsey came off the bench to add...
Wrestling and diving and hoops, oh my. All the action Saturday on Trib HSSN
The second round of the WPIAL basketball playoffs concludes Saturday afternoon with quarterfinals games in boys 6A, boys 4A, girls 5A and girls 3A. On the boys side, Upper St. Clair against Pine-Richland is a standout matchup among many good contests Saturday. The Panthers and Rams each finished second in...
O’Hara Elementary Multicultural Night, Shady Side athletes commit to colleges and more student news
• Two Fox Chapel Area High School students were octofinalists in the Bethel Park Black Hawk Invitational Speech and Debate Tournament. The Public Forum Debate team of seniors Boomba Nishikawa and Felix Veser advanced to the octofinal round and finished in the top 16 teams at the tournament. The competition...
Phenomenal freshman leads Upper St. Clair girls to upset win over Norwin
It’s not to be confused with the 1950s harmony group, the Four Freshmen, but four freshmen starters contributed to a big upset Friday night. Sixth-seeded Upper St. Clair surprised No. 3 Norwin, 52-39, in a WPIAL 6-A playoff quarterfinal at Charleroi High School. One of the ninth-graders, Katelyn Robbins, had...
Kobe Bryant’s pilot had been disciplined by FAA over weather-related flight violation
LOS ANGELES — The pilot of the helicopter that crashed into a Calabasas hillside last month, killing NBA star Kobe Bryant and eight others, violated federal flight rules in 2015 when he flew into busy airspace near Los Angeles International Airport despite being ordered not to by air traffic control,...
Penn State says it has settled all claims with the family of Joe Paterno
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Following eight years of rocky relations in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, Pennsylvania State University has made peace with the family of Joe Paterno. The head of Penn State’s board of trustees announced Friday that the school had resolved all outstanding...
North Catholic sweeps WPIAL Class AA diving championships
North Catholic, on the backs of a freshman and a senior, dominated the girls and boys events at the WPIAL Class AA diving championships Friday at South Park. Freshman Maggie Foley led the 14-team girls field the entire way through 11 dives, winning by 41.40 points with a score of...
The toxic legacy of old oil wells: California’s multibillion-dollar problem
ARVIN, Calif. — Across much of California, fossil fuel companies are leaving thousands of oil and gas wells unplugged and idle, potentially threatening the health of people living nearby and handing taxpayers a multibillion-dollar bill for the environmental cleanup. From Kern County to Los Angeles, companies haven’t set aside anywhere...
Editorial: Boy Scouts bend their own laws
A Scout is trustworthy. That is the first point of the Scout Law, the 12 principles outlined by Boy Scouts of America as rules to live by. The organization defines the idea. “Tell the truth and keep promises. People can depend on you.” It will be surprising if at least...
South Buffalo sign project aims to improve safety, curb appeal
South Buffalo plans to replace all of its street signs and install ones at intersections where no signs are posted in a project aimed at improving safety and curb appeal. “We have been discussing for some time redoing all of our street signs just to bring the township up to...
Carlynton freshman Brandebura hopes WPIAL wrestling title is just the beginning
When Chase Brandebura returned from the WPIAL Class AA wrestling championships, he set down his gold medal and collapsed into bed. At some point, he said, he will find a special place in his room to display it. Over the next three years, he hopes to turn that one medal...
Letter to the editor: Paying for police
Regarding the article “Local officials say paying for state police would be tough pill to swallow”: When is it ever enough? We in Penn Township are known as a bedroom community while having little business. With our own million-plus 2019-20 township budget, our police have been allotted over $4 million...
