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Sewickley Community Center, 15 Chadwick St., will celebrate Juneteenth from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday. The annual holiday is one of the oldest celebrations of the abolition of slavery in the world. According to the center, the festival dates back to June 19, 1865, when news arrived in Texas that...

In the news this week 43 years ago: • A major fire in the heart of Sewickley Village made the front page. On Sunday, June 13, a fire was reported at the Jesters Lounge, a bar and restaurant on Beaver Street. It took six fire companies two hours to put...

Eric Kasperowicz often was told by coaches and those close to him that he would make a good coach one day. When his playing days were over, he decided to find out. “I had a feeling that if I wasn’t going to play, I’d be a coach,” Kasperowicz said in...

Last year, Yes hit the half- century mark as a band that has been touring and recording music. Aside from a hiatus that ran from 2004 to 2008, some lineup of the group has existed for the past five decades. Guitarist Steve Howe was not a founding member and came aboard...

Located near a Ross shopping center, Alex and Sue Colaizzi’s property manages to feel secluded thanks to its gated entryway and curved gardens filled with Japanese maples, evergreens, hydrangeas and rare trees. The gardens surrounding their 1929 stone home are among five stops on the 12th annual Shaler Great Gardens...

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 37-32) were defeated 6-3 by Buffalo (Blue Jays). RHP Eduardo Vera (3-5, 5.94) gave up five runs in 5 1/3 innings with five strikeouts and nine hits allowed in a losing performance. SS Cole Tucker (.300) went 1 for 4 with a RBI. Tucker and CF Jason Martin...

PHILADELPHIA — Four additional crew members were charged Wednesday in connection with a record-breaking 16-ton cocaine seizure aboard a cargo ship docked in the Port of Philadelphia, sources with knowledge of the investigation said. But details surrounding the arrests, including the names of the defendants, what role they are alleged...

State lawmakers are heading into budget negotiations with wages rising, record-low unemployment and state revenues surpassing projections — an economic windfall largely due to federal tax reform. With all this great economic news, it would be easy to grow complacent. But here’s the reality: Pennsylvania still lags other states. To...

What are you OK paying more for every year? Automatically. Without question. What would you sign up for today knowing that it could — and would — escalate annually every Jan. 1? Is there anything? Gov. Tom Wolf vetoed a bill to that effect. The topic of the bill is...

Congratulations Penn Hills Class of 2019! It was a beautiful summer evening and parents, family and friends of graduating seniors packed the stands at Yuhas-McGinley Stadium for the Penn Hills High School 2019 Commencement Exercises on Friday, June 14....

St. Margaret Foundation and Atrias Fox Chapel hosted a Summer Patio Party on June 13 to heighten awareness of the Foundation’s work to fill in the gaps with hope for patients. Guests enjoyed appetizers, DJ music, specialty drinks and happy hour prices....

I am a cancer survivor who also has lymphedema, which is painful, debilitating and incurable but is treatable with compression garments and a systemic massage/pumping system that assists in removing the excess fluids from affected tissue. Medicare and many insurances currently do not cover these treatments, and many lymphedema patients...

Pittsburgh’s air As someone who just moved to Pittsburgh, I was shocked to discover the gruesome facts surrounding air quality. One out of every three days has unhealthy air quality. The area has become unhealthy to live in. You, your family and your neighbors can play a role in paving...

free adjective 1. not under the control or power of another; able to act or be done as one wishes. 2. not or no longer confined or in prison. free adverb 1. without cost or payment. free verb 1. release from captivity, confinement or slavery. Seventy-five years have passed since...

Having rejected bids for work on the 2019 road program, Sewickley council may not seek additional proposals until spring. During the June 11 meeting, council passed a motion to reject the bids contractors submitted to perform paving, storm sewer improvement and other work included in the program. The decision was...

Hello, Sewickley, Sewickley Valley YMCA’s Good Deed for June will benefit the Beaver County Humane Society. Their mission is to protect all domestic animals in Beaver County by providing shelter and care. The Y is collecting the following: cat toys, dog toys, peanut butter, dryer sheets, pens, pencils and Sharpie...

As a 1993 Parade All-American, then-North Hills standout quarterback Eric Kasperowicz had more scholarship offers than he could count. In the end, his choice came down to Pitt, Penn State, Georgia Tech, Michigan State and Syracuse. “Being a family guy, I knew deep down I wasn’t going to go far...

Blessed Trinity Academy’s JV soccer team won the Diocesan Championship on June 9 at La Roche University. It was a hard-fought game that saw Blessed Trinity Academy grind out a 1-0 win against Holy Trinity....

A year after Antwon Rose II’s death, a look at the status of his family’s civil cases, policing in East Pittsburgh and legislative actions on standards for police use of deadly force. Federal lawsuit The federal lawsuit filed by Rose’s parents, Michelle Kenney and Antwon Rose Sr., against Michael Rosfeld...

The Woodland Hills School District is not unique in the problems we face. Yet, we are uniquely forged from the steel-making roots of our past. Like all districts, we strive to provide a top-notch educational institution for our student body. We also seek to lay the foundation of a brick-and-mortar...

Three gunshots on a late-spring evening in 2018 continue to echo throughout the region a year after they left Antwon Rose II dying in a grassy East Pittsburgh lot. Wednesday marks one year since the 17-year-old and another teen, Zaijuan Hester, ran from the traffic stop conducted by then-East Pittsburgh...

Chatham University’s Eden Hall campus was the site of a three-hour sourbread workshop on June 15 to teach interested community members how to make fougasse. This bread that originated in France benefits from slow fermentation, offering unique flavor and texture. The workshop included making the bread from scratch, tasting the...

River Road reopened Wednesday after landslides had closed the road Tuesday, according to PennDOT. The road was open before 2:30 p.m., a PennDOT spokeswoman said. The road had been closed at the Leechburg and Parks Township borders, from the the intersection of Main Street in Leechburg and to Airport Road...

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 37-31) defeated Buffalo (Blue Jays), 5-2. LHP Cam Vieaux (2-0, 4.15) earned the victory after pitching six innings with six strikeouts and two runs allowed on four hits. Vieaux did not surrender a hit through five innings. 1B Will Craig (.279) went 2 for 4 with a two-run...