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North Hills area real estate transactions, week of Oct. 29, 2023
Franklin Park Rajesh Patwari sold property at 1911 Kimberly Ct to Cartus Financial Corp. for $855,100. Cartus Financial Corp. sold property at 1911 Kimberly Ct to Rajil and Sonali Mehta for $855,100. David Lee sold property at 3730 Lyndell St. to Infinium Investments LLC for $150,000 (state deed transfer stamps...
East suburban real estate transactions, week of Oct. 29, 2023
Churchill Andrew Michael Bell sold property at 1912 Garrick Drive to Hiral Patel for $420,000. Estate of Leonard Hornak sold property at 2525 Greensburg Pike Apt 201 to Francis Tomasic for $192,500. Edgewood Dominic Rugani sold property at 149-151 Race St. to ODUWA Realty LLC for $297,500. Forest Hills Eponymous...
Letter to the editor: Minimum wage conundrum
I write this to enrich the thinking about minimum wages as addressed in the recent letter “Westmoreland needs higher wages to grow population” (Oct. 22, TribLIVE). I’m a former employer (retired now), and have an economics degree. The economic argument for not having a minimum wage is, I believe, irrefutable....
Editorial: Should Pennsylvania require schools to have armed security?
Whether we are talking about individual incidents or the attacks with high casualty numbers like those in Uvalde, Texas, or Newtown, Conn., everyone agrees that children should be safe at school. They just don’t agree on how to make that happen. Some want more gun control. Some want more mental...
Letter to the editor: Be an informed voter, use VOTE411.org
The League of Women Voters of Westmoreland County (LWVWC) wants voters to be informed and make their voices heard in the upcoming general election. The election has more than 300 candidates in 150 local races and will determine the people directly responsible for the services and finances of our local...
The Stroller, Oct. 29, 2023: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
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. Westmoreland County Marines to supply Christmas groceries Westmoreland County Marines will...
Letter to the editor: There are only losers in war
The Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Hamas attack on Israel: What is to be accomplished? History has shown us time and again that the answer is nothing. There will only be losers. The lost human lives will never be recovered. The destruction of property will take generations to replace. The...
Challenger Dugan threatens Zappala’s 25-year grip on Allegheny County DA’s Office
For the past 25 years, the name Zappala has been synonymous with law enforcement in Allegheny County. As one of the longest-serving district attorneys in Pennsylvania, Stephen A. Zappala Jr. has set the tone for criminal justice for a generation of lawyers, police officers, judges and criminals. That could change...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 28, 2023
High schools Field hockey WPIAL playoffs Class 3A Semifinals Saturday’s results Peters Township 1, Mt. Lebanon 0 Pine-Richland 3, North Allegheny 0 Finals Nov. 4 schedule Pine-Richland (18-0) vs. Peters Township (13-4-2) at Washington & Jefferson, 4 p.m. Class 2A Semifinals Saturday’s results Fox Chapel 3, Upper St. Clair 0...
High school roundup for Oct. 28, 2023: Norwin stuns top seed Seneca Valley in boys soccer quarterfinals
Even though his team’s recent track record against defending state champion Seneca Valley wasn’t exactly impressive, Norwin boys soccer coach Scott Schuchert was happy when the WPIAL playoff pairings came out. “Love it. To be the best, you have to beat the best,” Schuchert said. The Knights beat the best...
Nursing home rating system criticized over reliability, accuracy
Tools designed to help families researching a nursing home are obscure and often criticized by industry experts over their reliability and accuracy. The Care Compare website maintained by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services houses detailed data about nursing homes, provides quality-of-care ratings and flags homes for incidents...
Some fear patient care threatened as staffing shortages plague nursing homes
An employee at a Westmoreland County nursing home says the conditions of her job have brought her to tears. Residents regularly have to wait for help and often go hungry because of a lack of people to feed them. A single staffer sometimes is asked to care for 60 residents...
Staffing shortages leave nursing homes overwhelmed, patients vulnerable, experts say
Mary Ellen Cross lived some of the best days of her life each December when she spent hour upon hour baking cookies and wrapping gifts, carefully crafting what she hoped would be the perfect, magical Christmas for her family. The baking began weeks in advance, sometimes with her eclectic playlist...
List of nursing homes cited for abuse can be incomplete, arbitrary, experts say
A review of state nursing home inspection reports reveals no mention of two patients who died about a year ago at Quality Life Services-Chicora after being given fatal doses of insulin. Registered nurse Heather Pressdee, who is charged in the killings, told investigators “she felt bad for their quality of...
List of nursing homes cited for abuse can be incomplete, arbitrary, experts say
A review of state nursing home inspection reports reveals no mention of two patients who died about a year ago at Quality Life Services-Chicora after being given fatal doses of insulin. Registered nurse Heather Pressdee, who is charged in the killings, told investigators “she felt bad for their quality of...
Staffing shortages leave nursing homes overwhelmed, patients vulnerable, experts sayVideo
Mary Ellen Cross lived some of the best days of her life each December when she spent hour upon hour baking cookies and wrapping gifts, carefully crafting what she hoped would be the perfect, magical Christmas for her family. The baking began weeks in advance, sometimes with her eclectic playlist...
Staffing shortages plague nursing homes; some fear patient care threatened
An employee at a Westmoreland County nursing home says the conditions of her job have brought her to tears. Residents regularly have to wait for help and often go hungry because of a lack of people to feed them. A single staffer sometimes is asked to care for 60 residents...
Nursing home rating system criticized over reliability, accuracy
Tools designed to help families researching a nursing home are obscure and often criticized by industry experts over their reliability and accuracy. The Care Compare website maintained by the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services houses detailed data about nursing homes, provides quality-of-care ratings and flags homes for incidents...
District college football roundup: Ky’Ron Craggette powers Seton Hill past Edinboro
Ky’Ron Craggette ran for 208 yards and two touchdowns to lead Seton Hill to a 38-28 victory over Edinboro in PSAC football Saturday afternoon. Jake Cruz threw for 175 yards and a touchdown to Mark Bails Jr., who had five receptions for 165 yards for the Griffins (4-5, 3-3). Isaac...
Jim Warren: Misinformation about the Israeli-Hamas war is rampant. Here’s how to fight it
The fog of the Israeli-Hamas war is made more intimidating by the thick mist of misinformation. What are smart news consumers, and impressionable students in classrooms nationwide, supposed to do as rampant falsehoods spread? NewsGuard, the anti-misinformation company I work for, is toiling 24/7 with a tsunami of wrongheaded claims...
North Allegheny notebook: Tigers cross country teams defend WPIAL titles
North Allegheny again swept the WPIAL Class 3A cross country championships as the boys and girls teams captured titles last Thursday at White Oak Park. The boys won their sixth straight title, scoring 59 points to edge Butler (67), Fox Chapel (124), Norwin (155) and Upper St. Clair (179). North...
Michael Peregrine: Richard Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre has particular relevance for our political climate
The Saturday Night Massacre refers to the extraordinary clash between the commitment to democratic principles and the outer limits of presidential power that created the most memorable constitutional crisis of the Watergate era. And it carries exceptional relevance for today’s political climate. The defining moment of the “massacre” was the...
Rebecca Saltzman: Americans fall victim to Jew Derangement Syndrome
There’s just something about the Jews. (I’m Jewish, so I can say that.) For thousands of years, from the Romans to the Nazis to Kanye West, we have possessed that je ne sais quois that drives people mad. To paraphrase Regina George, “Why are you so obsessed with us?” In...
Letter to the editor: Keep Peck Yakopec as district judge
Hopefully, this letter ends all of the lies, half-truths and misleading information that has been circulated about District Judge Cheryl Peck Yakopec. Most of us know she has been our judge in the Lower Burrell, Upper Burrell, Allegheny Township, Vandergrift, etc., area for the past 29 years. Peck Yakopec has...
Letter to the editor: Girardi has integrity needed for district judge
In judicial races, it’s common to hear buzzwords like “fair,” “neutral” or “impartial.” While a candidate may use these words, too often the same candidate will take campaign funds from special interest groups or from those with commercial interests in district court, pay to receive political endorsements or seek the...
