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Antioch Baptist Church 332 Elizabeth St., Sewickley. 412-741-7688. antiochfw baptistsewickley.org. Antioch Baptist Church will be hosting its second annual 3 vs. 3 basketball tournament on May 18 at noon at Quaker Valley High School. All are welcome. The tournament is for children, men and women ages 8–11, 12–14, 15–17 and...

Public schools in this state face any number of problems, from student discipline to staff retention. But, as per usual in the public sphere, the most pressing problem is posed by money. Pennsylvania school districts fund most of their operations with the often onerous and always unpopular local property tax....

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. Leechburg church to rededicate bell tower and carillon First Evangelical Lutheran...

Cinco de Mayo! May the Fourth be with you! There are plenty of reasons to celebrate this weekend. Here are five fun events going on around town. May the Fourth Be With You at the Symphony On Saturday, May 4, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra presents “Music of Star Wars.” The...

Two staple 2000s indie bands are on an epic anniversary tour, and Pittsburgh concertgoers were lucky to see it Thursday night at the Petersen Events Center in Oakland. Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service have a few things in common. First, they both released landmark albums in 2003...

May the Fourth be with you! Here are some things to do this weekend in Westmore­land County. Ligonier Valley Free Museum Day On Sunday, several museums in the Ligonier Valley will be opening their doors to visitors for free. Participating museums include the Compass Inn Museum, Fort Ligonier, the Ligonier...

Laurel: To recognizing worth. The cost of a college education has skyrocketed in the past decades. Pennsylvania’s college costs, in particular, are higher than in many other states. Auditor General Timothy DeFoor visited Westmoreland County Community College on Tuesday to talk about opportunities in his office. The department is expanding...

What would you have Israel do? Hamas brutally attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing over 1,200 Israelis, concertgoers, old men, women (raping many before killing them), children and babies. A proportional number of Americans would be over 30,000 Americans killed. Hamas has promised more attacks into Israel. Hamas’ stated goal...

High schools Baseball Thursday’s results Class 6A Section 1 Seneca Valley 7, Butler 4 Pine-Richland 9, North Allegheny 8 Section 2 Mt. Lebanon 6, Baldwin 0 Central Catholic 6, Canon-McMillan 4 Hempfield 10, Norwin 9 Class 3A Section 4 Greensburg Salem 14, Brownsville 0 Class 2A Section 2 Northgate 15,...

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 16-13) beat Buffalo (Blue Jays), 6-4. LF Billy McKinney went 2 for 4 with a double and a two-run homer, his second of the season. 1B Jake Lamb (.388) went 1 for 3 with a double. DH Canaan Smith-Njigba (.281) went 2 for 4 with a double and...

CJ Proch doubled, homered and drove in five runs as Central Catholic defeated Canon-McMillan, 6-4, to clinch the fourth and final WPIAL playoff spot in Section 2-6A baseball Thursday. Adam Sarkis added two hits and an RBI for the Vikings (10-9, 7-8). Sam Meredith went 3 for 3 with three...

Food manufacturing giant Cargill has recalled more than eight tons of ground beef sold at Walmart stores over potential E. coli contamination. The manufacturer this week recalled ” approximately 16,243 pounds of raw ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7,” according to a media release from...

Nearly 75 volunteers turned out on April 20 for Fern Hollow Nature Center’s spring clean-up event. Sunny skies and cool temperatures were the perfect combination for the clean-up event. Elementary to high school students from Quaker Valley School District, Sewickley Academy and North Allegheny School District, homeschoolers and multiple Girl...

When you think about economic activities that society tends to frown on — like offering bribes, paying for the services of a sex worker or even selling human organs — “trust” and “loyalty” might not be the first things that come to mind. But these seemingly positive characteristics play a...

Gateway school board members are planning a fundraising event to mark the opening of the updated $35 million middle school in Monroeville. Board President Robin Mungo suggested that the district hold a fundraising event to celebrate the school, which is set to reopen at the start of the 2024-25 academic...

Grief. Fury. Sadness. Guilt. Heartache. Regret. Rage. As each of the victims’ loved ones stood to explain the impact of Heather Pressdee’s actions on their families, the defendant sat between her attorneys at counsel table, hair pulled back, handcuffed, staring straight ahead. She never looked at them. For hours, she...

Interrogations of university leaders spearheaded by conservative congressional representatives. Calls from right-wing senators for troops to intervene in campus demonstrations. Hundreds of student and faculty arrests, with nonviolent dissenters thrown to the ground, tear-gassed and tased. We’ve been here before. In my book “Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the...

Pennsylvania’s governor, once the state’s top law enforcement officer, is supporting an Allegheny County man’s appeal of his life sentence for second-degree murder without parole. Gov. Josh Shapiro took the unusual step last week of filing a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of inmate Derek Lee because he believes that the...

Aquinas Academy of Pittsburgh’s middle school students performed “The Phantom Tollbooth,” a play by Susan Nanus closely based on the classic children’s novel of the same name by Norton Juster. The cast of 61 students performed the evenings of March 22 and 23 in the Rhodora J. Donahue Multipurpose Building...

Today is the National Day of Prayer. We should be going to our war rooms in prayer daily, but let us make this day special. Visit a local church celebration and fellowship in prayer. Visit www.nationaldayofprayer.org to learn about the National Day of Prayer Task Force and a beautiful prayer...

The trial of former President Donald Trump saddens me. It is unlike any other in our nation’s history. Outcomes will be the subject of books, classroom studies and debate. A person being above the law will be argued. While I am saddened, I’m not sympathetic to Trump. I have been...

Bryan Burhans has stepped down from his position as executive director of the Pennsylvania Game Commission. The move came suddenly after lawmakers and other commission members questioned a limited liability company he operated. “That’s not to suggest there were any ethical violations on his part, but there were questions about...

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. Red Cross to offer free smoke detector installations, safety information Volunteers...

Your anti-Trump letter-writers most likely get their “facts” from CNN, MSNBC and the New York Times, while your anti-Biden letter writers, from Fox News, NEWSMAX and The Wall Street Journal. If you are confused as to which side to believe, it might make more sense to simply decide if our...

High schools Baseball Wednesday’s results Class 6A Section 2 Hempfield 14, Norwin 3 Class 5A Section 1 Fox Chapel 7, Armstrong 4 Section 2 Connellsville 4, Peters Township 2 Class 4A Section 2 Belle Vernon 6, Latrobe 5 Class 3A Section 3 Valley 9, Derry 6 Section 4 Mt. Pleasant...