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Community Day Pleasant Hills Community Day will take place from noon-9:45 p.m. Aug. 12 at Mowry Park. Details are still being finalized and more information can be found online at pleasanthillspa.com. Elizabeth Township Historical Society Living off the land and food preservation weren’t hobbies but a way of life for...

Annual Joey Fabus race set The Joey Fabus Superhero “Run Over DIPG” 5K Race/Walk will take place at 9 a.m. Sept. 17, with the course starting at Bethel Park High School and traversing local neighborhoods. Joey Fabus was an 8-year-old boy diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor in May 2014....

Football practice will begin next week at Pennsylvania’s big state-related universities, but the Legislature’s game of political football with the institutions’ funding is a year-round, far-less-entertaining spectacle. Teams from Penn State and Temple universities and the University of Pittsburgh all will have played at least three games by the time...

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. Baseball camp planned at Northmoreland Park fields A baseball camp for...

The air is smoky again, and the media smoke is all about how climate change (warming) is causing more and more wildfires. As a retired U.S. Forest Service employee and one who has been recognized by federal courts as an expert in public lands policy and history, I can say...

Editorial cartoons for the week of July 24....

Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of July 24....

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 44-51) dropped a 9-4 decision to Iowa (Cubs). 2B Alika Williams (.305) was 2 for 4 with three RBIs. RF/LF Canaan Smith-Njigba (.254) was 2 for 3 with a double and RBI. SS Rodolfo Castro (.115) was 1 for 5 with a run scored. C Jason Delay (.214)...

The article, “Hempfield book policies up for future vote with further revision” (July 10, TribLIVE), states that the school district is banning pictures of female breasts. How perverse. I believe this book banning thing has gone too far. Are we going back to the Spanish Inquisition with banning books and...

Here is a weekly look at recent images captured throughout the Alle-Kiski Valley. From major news events to routine gatherings, the Tribune-Review’s “Scenes from the Valley” photo package brings to life activities and moments happening in your backyard. To have a photo considered as a “Scenes from the Valley” candidate,...

Thomas Laurent will be inducted into the Isshinryu Karate Hall of Fame in July at an event in Gatlinburg, Tenn. The Baldwin resident has been practicing and teaching Isshinryu karate for more than 40 years. He and his colleagues have operated a non-profit dojo, Isshinryu Karate Academy, in Pittsburgh for...

President Biden’s plan to cancel an estimated $430 billion of student loan debt that is now held by more than 40 million borrowers was struck down by the Supreme Court. He has now proposed a “Plan B,” which, like his original scheme, is intended to minimize the cost of, or...

Education is a touchy subject in Pennsylvania. There is the question of funding for state-related universities. There are the concerns about tuition; Penn State just opted to increase the cost of attending its main campus yet again. There are school vouchers. The tug of war over them is behind the...

Aleppo Foxlane Homes At Glen Minogue LLC sold property at 1222 Glenn Mitchell Road to James Michael and Allison Johnston for $954,152. Connie Nelson sold property at 322 Weber Road to Jose Arrillaga for $365,000. Franklin Park Maronda Homes LLC sold property at 1105 Deerfield Drive to Naveen Kumar Hanuman...

Etna Gia Realty L.P. sold property at 1 Higgins St. to TNT Capital LLC for $90,000. Fox Chapel Hunter Huston sold property at 200 Guyasuta Road to Gabriel and Kwon Sica for $960,000. Edward Dipasquale sold property at 9 Meadowood Ln to Matthew and Margo Litwin for $1,627,475. Dustin Franklin...

Bellevue James McGurgan sold property at 713-715 Clinton Pl to Stefania James for $239,700. Katherine Beattie sold property at 509 Highland Pl to Jonathan Hyslop and Kathryn Senko for $125,000. Kenneth Draim sold property at 149 N Sprague Ave. to Andrew and Patricia Folmer for $324,000. Bradford Woods Nancy Snyder...

Churchill Janice Schano sold property at 3737 E. Rural Ct to Lamont Coleman for $150,000. Monroeville Allen Horton sold property at 522 California Ave. to Vince and Carol Scala for $50,000. Marcia Conklin sold property at 107 College Park Drive to Sangill Properties LLC for $50,000. Randy Rossi sold property...

Bridgeville Jay Welsh sold property at 107 Eisner Ave. to Kathleen Corazza for $186,000. Catherine McElwee sold property at 1421 Union St. to JAAS Renovations LLC for $100,000. Robert Conner sold property at 117 Vesper St. to Triple It LLC for $93,000. Nicholas Pensyl sold property at 794 Bower Hill...

Baldwin Borough Estate of Virginia Ruth Stirling sold property at 494 Balconade Drive to Brianne Lee Scott for $145,000. Nicholas Kerber sold property at 378 Carmen Drive to Harriet Anne Wallace for $261,000. Steven Anthony Dziadyk sold property at 3045 Custer Ave. to Douglas and Donna Fry for $185,000. David...

Bethel Park Mark Kieler sold property at Bethel Church Road to Paul and Mari Ulicny for $12,000. Estate of John Moore sold property at 1301 Buckskin Trl to Deborah and Kaitlin Vavrek for $189,900. Estate of John Zaharsky sold property at 601 Clifton Road to Jeffrey Pawlosky and Kerrie King...

I disagree with Colin McNickle’s op-ed “The lose-lose situation of a $15 Pa. minimum wage” (June 30, TribLIVE), which begins with “the Law of Unintended Consequences” — implying that unknown bad things will happen. But we know the consequences of raising the minimum wage from the myriad of recent examples....

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. Honeybee festival planned at Burtner House Burtner House Restoration Society will...

My husband and I, and many others I’m sure, would like to thank St. Bartholomew Catholic Church and the businesses and patron saints of Crabtree for the spectacular display of fireworks July 15. Coming to Crabtree on this evening has been a 70-year tradition for my family. My dad would...

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 44-50) lost 5-3 to Iowa (Cubs) on a two-out, three-run walk-off homer by Edwin Rios in the bottom of the ninth. RHP Cody Bolton (1-4, 3.62) gave up the decisive homer. RHP Jared Jones (5.08) started and went four innings, allowing two runs on three hits and two...

The longest unbeaten streak in USL Championship play this season ended with a thud Saturday night. Juan Sebastian Palma scored in the 11th minute and the Charleston Battery didn’t look back, rolling to a 3-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Riverhounds. It was the first loss for the Hounds since an...