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It’s a fundraiser you can sink your teeth into. Leechburg Area High School’s art club will present its annual “Eat Your Art Out” event Saturday, April 13. Now in its 16th year, the competition among students in grades 6-12 will showcase creations made entirely out of food. Anything edible is...

I believe we are teetering dangerously on the verge of a civil war over the heart and soul of our country. The conservatives want to preserve this country as it was founded, based on the Constitution and with all of its freedoms and opportunity. I believe the leftist/progressives want to...

I hate to admit it, but I learned some moral lessons from the TV Westerns I watched as a kid. For example, I learned that a lawman was a coward if he shot another man in the back, even if the man he shot was a gunslinger or a horse...

As a veteran I find it disgusting that the president of the United States would insult a decorated combat veteran, POW and U.S. senator. President Trump’s continuing childish comments about the late Sen. John McCain are insulting to not only the McCain family, but to all veterans. This from a...

Hello, Sewickley, A mentored youth trout-fishing day will be held Saturday at King’s Lake. Sponsored by the Sewickley Valley Conservation Association and Fern Hollow Nature Center, youth can learn to fish for free from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The lake will be stocked with rainbow trout, and equipment, lures,...

Beverly McQuone is the first person many people meet when they come to Sewickley. A Realtor of nearly four decades, McQuone uses her profession to share her appreciation for her hometown with anyone who’s interested. “I love this town,” said McQuone of the neighborhood she came to more than 40...

In the news this week 10 years ago: • A front-page story reported 20 vacant storefronts in Sewickley’s main business district of Beaver and Broad streets, an unusually high number for the thriving area. Three years earlier, Sewickley officials brought in Town Center Associates, a Beaver-based economic development firm, to...

Two Shaler Area High School juniors were recently recognized for their entries in the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh (SACP) High School Essay Contest. Allison McAninch earned third place and Amber McGaffick received an honorable mention for their essays that addressed climate change, rising sea levels, increased temperatures and...

Science fiction icon William Shatner, best known as Capt. James T. Kirk on the original “Star Trek” series, is the keynote celebrity appearing this weekend at the pop-culture memorabilia show, Steel City Con. Fellow Star Trek crewmate Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov) will also be on hand. For fans of the...

A new tenant has been unveiled for Newbury Market, which is doubling down on becoming an entertainment destination for Allegheny County. EQA Landmark Communities President and Newbury founder Brett Malky announced Cinergy will build a 90,000-square-foot facility at Newbury. Cinergy, a Texas-based entertainment company, is looking to expand. This will...

Funding strategies for the proposed high school renovation was presented to the Hampton Township School Board at their regular voting meeting April 8. A Hampton High School Project Debt Service Funding Proposal was presented by Superintendent Dr. Michael Loughead and HTSD Director of Administration Services Jeff Kline. This presentation detailed...

“The Obligatory PSU Pregame Show” stars former Penn State defensive tackle (1992-96) Brandon Noble, beloved campus icon Mike “The Mailman” Herr and other cast members Kevin Horne and Chris Buchignani. This week, however, the crew is joined by a special guest: former Penn State offensive lineman Paris Palmer. To open...

Big changes took place in the TribLive High School Sports Network weekly Power Rankings in both baseball and softball. This week’s rankings have four new baseball and two new softball teams, along with changes at the top in both pools. These rankings have zero classification boundaries. Here are the rankings...

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 3-3) won 4-3 over Toledo (Tigers). Three of the Indians’ runs came on solo home runs in three consecutive innings: the second, third and fourth. 1B Will Craig (.261), SS Cole Tucker (.321) and CF Bryan Reynolds (.391) went deep. Tucker finished 3 for 5 with two singles...

High Schools Baseball Wednesday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 North Allegheny 9, Butler 3 Pine-Richland 10, Central Catholic 0 Seneca Valley 12, Allderdice 1 (6 inn.) Section 2 Connellsville 7, Norwin 6 Latrobe 4, Plum 0 Penn-Trafford 1, Hempfield 0 Section 3 Baldwin 7, Canon-McMillan 5 Bethel Park 8,...

Teddy Ruffner homered and had two RBIs, and Tyler Kowalski and Alex Heavner also knocked in a pair of runs as No. 2-ranked Mars defeated No. 5 South Fayette, 7-3, in a Section 2-5A baseball game Wednesday afternoon. John Wetherholt had two doubles for the Planets (6-3, 1-1). Richie Dell...

Kylie Gosliak hit a walk-off fielder’s choice in the eighth inning to help Ringgold upset No. 3 Thomas Jefferson, 7-6, in a Section 2-4A softball game Wednesday afternoon. Jillian Scherer had two RBIs, and Ashlee Selembo hit a two-run home run for the Rams (2-4, 2-3). Abby Chalovich hit a...

Coming into Wednesday’s game, Upper St. Clair and Peters Township tied for fourth place in Section 1-6A with 3-2 records. But on the Boyce-Mayview Park field on this particular afternoon, the Panthers and Indians were worlds apart. Trailing 1-0, Upper St. Clair scored five runs in the third inning and...

In a game that featured a number of strange plays and extra-base hits, a key was a single that traveled five feet. Deer Lakes used the short single as a catalyst for a six-run sixth-inning to defeat Burrell, 10-6, in an early-season, Class 3A, Section 1 baseball showdown. No. 4...

Michael Pietropola was 11 when his sister Janice was killed while vacationing in Virginia Beach. Her death hit the family hard, Pietropola, now 57, told the Tribune-Review in a telephone interview Wednesday from his home in the Atlanta suburb of Johns Creek, Ga. “It was beyond words to describe the...

Listen to squabbles about gun control and you are bound to hear one question come up, either from frustrated proponents of limits or aggrieved champions of the Second Amendment. Why don’t we just enforce the rules we already have? If the two sides would actually listen to each other, they...

While solutions to the flooding problem in Bridgeville Borough are still being devised, one option for some residents has been put on the table: Get out. Borough Council authorized an application to participate in the Federal Emergency Management Agency Hazard Mitigation Program. The application is for residents of Baldwin Street....

Consumers want “natural” meat — and the biggest meat companies want to sell it to them. American shoppers are reaching for healthier, more environmentally and animal-friendly meat products, with 39 percent saying “all-natural” is the most important claim when purchasing red meat, according to a recent survey by Mintel. But...

I’m writing to deliver the same message as letter-writer John Waite (“Legal pot is a Pandora’s box,” March 21, TribLIVE). It is a disgrace to all Pennsylvanians that the vultures in our government can attempt to legalize recreational marijuana. We pay and pay, and they don’t care — they just...

Yet again Democrats seek to increase the minimum wage. But that is a bad idea because it will hurt those it is supposed to help. If the minimum wage were raised to $15 an hour, those already making $15, $20 and up would need raises also. These raises would drastically...