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Bethel Park Estate of Lawrence Mitzen sold property at 117 Great Rock Drive to Jeffrey Taylor and Diane Marie Hall for $399,000. Patricia Ann Devine sold property at 3552 Ridgeway Drive to Drake Croushore for $202,000. Braden Christopher sold property at 105 Sandstone Ct to Andrew Eckles Gee for $400,000....

Mason Kernan ended his four-year reign on the mats at Bethel Park with a 124-18 record. A 133-pound senior and West Virginia recruit, Kernan captured a WPIAL Class 3A championship and placed third in the state this season. “Mason competed hard this season and gave everything he had,” Bethel Park...

Bethel Park has won two PIAA baseball championships and two WPIAL runner-up trophies over the last three years. The Black Hawks were WPIAL finalists in 2023 but saw their two-year run as PIAA 5A champions end with a 2-1 playoff loss to Bonner-Pendergast out of District 12. “We graduated 14...

Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. April 6 for an event that sold out in under 30 minutes last year. The annual Gilfillan Farm Barnyard Beer Benefit is scheduled for May 25 at the corner of Route 19 and Orr Road in Upper St. Clair, near South Hills Village...

When Pam Maniet greets visitors at Bethel Presbyterian Church on April 6, she will be emotional. It will be the first Tartan Day, a day to celebrate Scottish heritage, without her father, Angus MacDonald. He died Dec. 27. “I know I will have a knot in my stomach at the...

Maria Rovers knows the feeling of caring for a child with health issues. There is intense worry and incredible fear, sleepless nights and unpredictable days. “I have been there,” the Bethel Park resident said. “It’s hard to understand unless you’ve lived it.” Rovers’ son Sean, 16, was diagnosed in 2017...

The bison herd at Allegheny County’s South Park has grown by two. County officials announced that two baby bison were born in South Park’s game preserve since Friday. The preserve is along Sesqui Drive, between Corrigan Drive and McConkey Road, in South Park. “We’re really glad to have them come...

It is St. Patrick’s Day weekend, which includes the annual parade at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Downtown. The Pittsburgh Home & Garden Show is happening all weekend and the Penguins host games on Saturday and Sunday, so plan accordingly. Here are some ways to spend it. Go to the movies...

Yes, these are the state playoffs, but WPIAL champion Moon is back fighting its way through teams from its own league. Aiden Reesman scored 10 of his season-high 26 points in the fourth quarter Friday night to fuel a strong finish as Moon outlasted Bethel Park, 67-51, in a PIAA...

Blake Babin led a stellar career as a Bethel Park police officer, rising to lieutenant over more than three decades. Friends and former colleagues said he acted as a mentor to others, organized community programs, participated in an annual food drive and was compassionate to those he served. But Babin,...

After a half in which his team made five shots and scored 13 points, Bethel Park coach Dante Calabria said he kept his message brief. He just asked his players to bring more energy and leave it all out there in the final 16 minutes. The Black Hawks responded accordingly....

Mention “Buffalo Soldier,” and the first thought may be of the Bob Marley song by that name. A dive into America’s past, though, reveals accounts of the actual Buffalo Soldiers: members of all-Black Army regiments who helped rebuild the nation after the Civil War by building telegraph lines, repairing and...

When family members, friends and neighbors needed help, Gloria Levine was willing to talk them through some tough times. Her preteen son noticed and asked, “Mom, why are you doing all that?” “What, Allen, being nice?’” she replied. “You don’t know the problems that people have. So just be nice.”...

PIAA basketball playoffs Boys Class 5A Second round Fox Chapel (16-11) vs. Bethel Park (14-13) 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at AHN Arena, Peters Township District seeds: Fox Chapel 7-5; Bethel Park 7-6 Winner plays: Winner of 3-3 York Suburban (21-6)/7-1 Moon (24-3) on Friday in quarterfinals (time, site TBD) Players to...

In 1995, a Bethel Park resident in his early 30s attended a public hearing to address the possible placement of lights at a municipal park near his home. Called Village Green Park at the time, the recreational area at the end of Alicia Drive has a new name: Moury Park....

It may not have been a triple-dog dare, but friends of a teenager convinced him to trespass into a Bethel Park yard. “Hey, jump the fence,” the conversation approximately went. “I know he’s growing peppers over there.” The kid complied. “He picks one and starts eating it,” the property owner,...

Metal drive at George Washington George Washington Elementary School’s Fourth-Grade Green Team will hold its second annual metal Drive from 9 a.m. to noon March 23 in the school’s front parking lot. The Green Team is again partnering with Michael Brothers and Verichek Technical Services to help keep metal out...

Bethel Park Christopher Whitehead sold property at 4468-4470 Third St. to Stanwich Mortgage Loan Tr for $75,000. Rebecca Brizzi sold property at 6200 Brush Run Road to Anton Knaus for $429,000. Toomey Hancock LLC sold property at 110 Horning Road to Modern Legacy LLC for $225,000. Adam Rousseau sold property...

Bethel Park junior Cally Edner made a big splash in the pool again this year. Edner qualified for the WPIAL Class 3A swim finals Feb. 29-March 1 at Pitt’s Trees pool in every individual event. “We call that the WPIAL sweep,” said Kathy Strock, Bethel Park’s girls coach. “Cally is...

The Bethel Park hockey team found itself in a battle for a PIHL Class 3A playoff spot coming down the stretch in the regular season. The senior-laden Black Hawks were tied with Central Catholic in seventh place with a 9-7-0-1 record and 19 points, trailing Seneca Valley (30 points), Pine-Richland...

Bethel Park’s girls basketball team ended its season in a most positive way — with six consecutive victories. The Black Hawks fell a game short, however, of qualifying for the WPIAL Class 6A playoffs. “We played a really competitive schedule (against) some of the 5A teams,” coach Steve Norman said....

The numbers on the scoreboard sure seemed to be stuck. A few days after scoring more than 70 in its playoff opener, Shaler finished the third quarter Thursday tied at 24 in a grinding game that was playing right into its opponent’s plans. The Titans then made only one basket...

On this date 37 years ago, the world lost its king of pop art. Pittsburgh native Andy Warhol died suddenly of complications after a routine gallbladder surgery Feb. 22, 1987, in New York. He was 58. The world knew him as pop artist Andy Warhol. But to his nephew Donald...

Bethel Park relied on various defenses Monday night to slow down a South Fayette team that had been averaging nearly 60 points per game this season. However, in the end of what felt like a heavyweight boxing championship rather than a WPIAL boys basketball Class 5A first-round playoff game, the...

Bethel Park’s new police chief is a 23-year veteran of the department. Following his unanimous approval by municipal council on Feb. 12, Dave Arnold was sworn in by District Judge Ron Arnoni. In leading the department, Arnold succeeds the late Timothy O’Connor, who served as chief from 2015 until his...