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High school renovation options and cost cutting measures remain under consideration at Freeport Area School District
Freeport Area School District officials continue to struggle with cutting the costs of renovating their high school. The school board, administration and architects from HHSDR Architects spent most of last week’s board meeting discussing two master plans with varying options. The initial plan carries a $71.6 million price tag, while...
Letter to the editor: $3.6 million too much for homeless shelter
An open letter to Westmoreland County Commissioners Doug Chew, Sean Kertes and Gina Cerilli Thrasher: Last week you approved a $3.6 million plan for construction of a new homeless shelter with 12 beds. Is this right? $300,000 a bed? Even a third of that cost is outrageous. Then it needs...
Editorial: Pittsburgh’s bridge report needs to create urgent timeline
When Pittsburgh makes a bridge a priority, exactly what does that mean? In December, Mayor Ed Gainey released a comprehensive bridge report that assessed the spans that cross the city’s rivers, roads and valleys. The $1.5 million report was commissioned after the collapse of the poorly rated Fern Hollow Bridge...
East suburban real estate transactions, week of Feb. 12, 2023
Churchill Peter Katz sold property at 1642 Georgetown Pl to Ebony Amoroso for $278,000. Edgewood Anthony Conant sold property at 206 Beech St. to David Scarborough and Amanda Thomas for $485,000. Debra Docherty sold property at 145 Lloyd Ave. to James Sidel and Nicole Brodsky for $285,000. Fifth Ave Capital...
North Hills area real estate transactions, week of Feb. 12, 2023
Bellevue Michelle Jacobs sold property at 120 S Harrison Ave. to Kezabu Burangere and Emmanuel Kisembo for $185,000. Elizabeth Bolen sold property at 19 S Jackson Ave. to Robert and Venisa Reichert for $239,900. Bradford Woods Mary Castle Dobson sold property at 79 Mystic Hbr to Rebecca Mussett for $360,000....
The Stroller, Feb. 12, 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. Tickets on sale now for annual bowling party fundraiser The Pins...
Letter to the editor: Trump, Biden make for poor presidential choices
Both the Democratic and Republican parties are presently in a quandary regarding the 2024 president election. The Democrats are saddled with an 80-year-old President Biden, who I believe is mentally and physically feeble. In addition, Kamala Harris has bombed as vice president. No would-be challenger could defeat Biden in the...
Church news from St. Aidan Parish, St. Brendan’s Episcopal
St. Alphonsus Church St. Alphonsus Church and Blessed Francis Seelos Academy, 201 Church Road in Pine, will host a fish fry every Friday during Lent. Dine-in hours are 4:30-7:30 p.m. Takeout hours are 4:30-7 p.m. Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and Friday March 31 will be take-0ut only due to Passion Play...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 11, 2023
High schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Saturday’s results Class 5A Section 1 Thomas Jefferson 71, Bethel Park 53 Section 3 Gateway 75, Latrobe 58 NA Hoops for a Cure At North Allegheny Highlands 75, North Allegheny 46 Our Savior Lutheran (NY) 69, Imani Christian 68 Hampton 63, Seneca Valley 44 Nonsection...
High school roundup for Feb. 11, 2023: Gateway ends Latrobe’s playoff hopes
Jaydon Carr scored 26 points and Kaleb Pryor added 17 as Gateway defeated Latrobe, 75-58, in Section 3-5A boys basketball Saturday afternoon, knocking the Wildcats out of playoff contention. MJ Stevenson added 10 points for the Gators (15-5, 9-1), the section champs. Max Butler scored 18 points, Landon Butler added...
Baldwin’s Abby Rexrode edges out Freedom’s Daisy Lewis for all-around gold at WPIAL gymnastics championships
Baldwin sophomore Abby Rexrode won her second consecutive all-around title in the Advanced division at the WPIAL gymnastics championships Saturday at Moon, edging out Freedom junior Daisy Lewis in a classic duel. Rexrode finished with an overall score of 38.225, just ahead of Lewis’ 38.1 Rexrode and Lewis finished 1-2...
Tracking Josh Shapiro’s biggest campaign promises
Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — Gov. Josh Shapiro made a lot of promises on the campaign trail. Now, he faces the new challenge of...
SUV crashes into New Kensington hotel, driver leaves scene; ‘Barbra’ and ‘Frank’ still to sing tonight
Just less than a year after a similar crash that severed a natural gas line, another vehicle struck the Quality Inn in New Kensington early Saturday morning. Emergency officials responded to the Tarentum Bridge Road hotel about 12:45 a.m. Saturday for a report of an SUV that had crashed into...
Chris Talgo: This Valentine’s Day, show some love for America
Although the last few years have been difficult for most Americans, there still is much to love about the country President Abraham Lincoln called “the last best hope of Earth” and President Ronald Reagan labeled “the shining city on a hill.” So, with Valentine’s Day right around the corner, here...
Patrice Onwuka: ‘Only in America,’ not ‘Once Upon a Time’
I love America because only in America can a poor “guy off the boat” speaking with a thick Croatian accent rise to become one of the most successful businessmen and recognizable TV personalities today, “Shark Tank’s” Robert Herjavec. Only in America can an aspiring female screenwriter from communist Russia (Ayn...
Fast start lifts No. 2 Peters Township past No. 4 Bethel Park as Indians secure 1st section title since ’09
No. 4 Bethel Park and No. 2 Peters Township both controlled their own destiny for a title in Section 1-5A going into the final Friday night of the 2022-23 boys basketball regular season. Peters Township secured its first section championship since 2009 with a dominant 72-45 victory at the AHN...
Letter to the editor: Take care of us first
How many borders of other countries does the United States defend? I’m sure none of us really know. We have defended the border of South Korea from North Korea forever, and at what cost? We have already spent $113 billion defending Ukraine’s border with Russia. What about our borders? Don’t...
Sounding off: On gun violence, Bushy Run, Ukraine, pope’s call on homosexuality, Trump
We must address our gun violence problem Our region has a gun violence problem that threatens to undo all progress we’ve made on equity and economic development. Public safety is a just expectation from every person. Our day-to-day existence is shaken to its core without the feeling of safety. Tragically,...
Letter to the editor: We need someone like Trump to speak the truth
A recent letter-writer described an independent as “a liberal embarrassed by his or her party’s policies” (“Trump, like Reagan, was a great president,” Jan. 23, TribLIVE). I have been an independent for years, but I am not a liberal! I changed because, to my shock, there are a few good...
Editorial: Government and media need to serve the people
The relationship between government and journalism frequently focuses on the adversarial. This is because there is a three-legged stool of public information. The government has the information, the people need the information, and journalists are the conduit for the exchange of that information. The adversarial nature comes about because, sometimes,...
The Stroller, Feb. 11, 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. Nominations wanted for award to honor Concordia employees Concordia Lutheran Ministries...
Letter to the editor: ‘Free markets’ must have rules
It is noticeable that many of the Trib’s opinion pieces are written by the Commonwealth Foundation and Allegheny Institute for Public Policy. I consider these two organizations to have extreme right-wing conservative and libertarian beliefs. To me their objectives are no taxes, no regulations and privatize everything, and they worship...
Moon repeats as WPIAL team gymnastics champion
Moon, the dominant team in WPIAL gymnastics over the past decade, captured another team title Friday night, topping Pine-Richland to repeat as district champs. Moon finished with a total of 144.842, ahead of Pine-Richland’s total of 140.599. Baldwin (140.383) was third, followed by Thomas Jefferson (136.351), Central Valley (134.642) and...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 10, 2023
High schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Friday’s results Class 6A Section 1 Pine-Richland 76, Butler 72 New Castle 65, Seneca Valley 60 Central Catholic 59, North Allegheny 42 Section 2 Upper St. Clair 66, Baldwin 64 Mt. Lebanon 58, Canon-McMillan 38 Norwin 56, Hempfield 47 Class 5A Section 1 Peters Township...
High school roundup for Feb. 10, 2023: Rowan Carmichael’s heroics send Avonworth to playoffs with dramatic win
Rowan Carmichael nailed a buzzer-beater to send the game to overtime and finished with 46 points as Avonworth clinched a playoff spot with a 67-60 overtime win over West Mifflin in Section 4-4A. Carmichael hit four 3-pointers and was 14 of 15 from the free-throw line. The Antelopes (8-13, 4-6)...
