Bethel Park Journal category, Page 11
Fisher’s Files: Bethel Park spring athletes earn high marks
Keaira Griffiths and Julia Hoppe are just two of the many integral athletes on the Bethel Park girls track and field team. The displayed their mettle at the Tri-State Track Coaches Association outdoor championships at West Mifflin in April. Griffiths, a junior, took third place in the javelin event with...
Bethel Park relay builds momentum after 1st-place finish at Baldwin Invitational
Bethel Park’s girls 1,600-meter relayers waited patiently all day. It finally was their turn to compete May 3 at the rain-soaked 50th annual Baldwin Invitational at Baldwin Stadium. Bethel Park seniors Artemis Conaboy and Jenna Lang were joined by freshmen Katelyn Coates and Iyonna Sloan in the relay event, and...
Northwestern recruit Ryan Petras leads Bethel Park baseball into WPIAL playoffs
Football and baseball are the two main sports for Bethel Park’s junior super athlete Ryan Petras. Petras led the Bethel Park football team in receiving and scoring last fall and ranked second in rushing. He has received offers from some Ivy League schools to play college football. But it’s on...
Upper St. Clair Bethel Park Rotary gives $55,000 to 30 local charities
The Upper St Clair Bethel Park Rotary, Breakfast Club, may have hosted its most successful Night of Giving ever. More than 100 guests, Rotarians, sponsors and representatives of nonprofits gathered in April to celebrate the fruits of the club’s annual Chicken BBQ: donating $55,000 to 30 local charities. “The list...
United Way STEM program brings new equipment to Bethel Park High School
Bethel Park High School students have new equipment for their video and media production classes. Thanks to funding from Arconic Foundation, United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania has launched the STEM School Champions program, inviting schools in Allegheny, Butler and Westmoreland counties to apply for up to $20,000 in funding to...
Bethel Park Memorial Day program features Army veteran as speaker
Bethel Park will be holding its annual Memorial Day program on May 27, rain or shine. The program will feature a 7:55 a.m. ceremony at the Veterans Memorial Plaza at the municipal building, 5100 W. Library Ave., followed by a parade starting at 9 o’clock from the site and ending...
Bethel Park splash park opens May 25
Bethel Park’s new splash park will open May 25 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10:45 a.m. featuring local, state and federal officials. The facility is located on Park Avenue next to the Bethel Park Community Center. It will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. for opening day, with...
Bethel Park student wins Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful award
George Washington Elementary School student Nora Buchanan won first place among third graders in the statewide Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful’s Litter Hawk Youth Award Program. The poster she made for the contest features people picking up trash, with the declaration: “We must all pitch in … open your eyes to litter.”...
Bethel Park trainer offers free guide to flexibility after 50
Getting off the couch — or out of the car, or up and down the stairs — used to be a cinch. Once you pass the half-century mark, probably not so much. Although they have a while to go in that regard, Bethel Park residents Jason and Rachel Zawodniak understand....
Penn-Trafford softball escapes with victory over Bethel Park in 1st round
Since Denny Little took over as coach of the Penn-Trafford softball team in 2017, his teams had made it a habit of playing in the Class 5A quarterfinals. That tradition ended last season, when the rebuilding Warriors qualified for the playoffs but were bounced in the first round by eventual...
South Hills Interfaith Movement nears completion of Bethel Park renovation
In 2009, the nonprofit assistance organization then known as South Hills Interfaith Ministries moved into its Bethel Park center on South Park Road. “We knew then there were issues with the building that we wanted to address at some point going forward,” executive director Jim Guffey recalled. Improvements such as...
‘Equal-opportunity offender’: Bethel Park native pulls no punches as ventriloquist
Complete with frosty hair, even whiter teeth and ever-present sunglasses, meet Joe Bidentime. “He came into my life at the end of 2020. And the reason he came into my life was he was president, and I’m an equal-opportunity offender,” Bethel Park native April Brucker said. Four years earlier, she’d...
Artists show talent at Schoolhouse event in Bethel Park
For going on eight years, members of the Bethel Park Historical Society have worked diligently on renovations to the former Bethel High School building, with origins dating back to 1905. As the Schoolhouse Arts and History Center on South Park Road, the building serves as an applicable gathering place for...
Federal jury convicts Oakmont native in 2019 kidnapping, death of Bethel Park woman
An Oakmont native is facing a potential sentence of life in prison after a federal jury Wednesday convicted him of kidnapping a Bethel Park woman, driving her to Nevada and killing her in the desert. John Matthew Chapman, 44, of Oakland, Md., who previously lived in Allegheny County, was found...
In brief: Bethel Park happenings, week of April 22, 2024
Farmers’ market opens May 7 The Bethel Park Farmers’ Market opens for the season on May 7. The market is scheduled from 3 to 7 p.m. Tuesdays through Sept. 25 in the parking lot in South Park along Corrigan Drive. Enjoy musical guests, special educational speakers, story time with friends...
Bethel Park real estate transactions, week of April 21, 2024
Bethel Park Samantha DeMicheli sold property at 2642 Bethel Crest Drive to Christopher and Ashley Hall for $400,000. Martha Hankowitz sold property at 262 Horning Road to Sandra Wesson and Cindy Diaz for $190,000. Barbara Jo Vogel sold property at 1002 Lenox Drive to Timothy and Sandra Kelly for $195,000....
Bethel Park’s Artemis Conaboy picks up where she left off last season
Artemis Conaboy’s favorite track and field event is the 400-meter dash. “I love the length of the race and the how anyone can win and catch up at different points of the race,” said the athletic Bethel Park senior. Well, Conaboy picked up where she left off last season at...
Bethel Park’s Ryan Petras, Eddie Cebula make early season impact
Bethel Park athletes Ryan Petras and Eddie Cebula recently were cited as players of the week on back-to-back days in their respective sports. Petras, on April 7, was named Trib HSSN baseball player of the week. A day later, Cebula was lauded as a Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association player...
Bethel Park’s Justin Meis aims to keep climbing Pirates farm system ladder
It’s been nearly three years since the Pittsburgh Pirates drafted pitcher Justin Meis in the 10th round (No. 283 overall) of the 2021 MLB Draft, but the euphoria has yet to wear off for the Bethel Park native, who played collegiately at Eastern Michigan. Adding to the still-surreal feeling of...
‘Apis’ tells environmental story with a cast of mostly puppets
The last creature on Earth travels through time in order to try and change history in “Apis,” the final production in the New Hazlett Theater’s 11th season of Community Supported Art productions. And who is that last creature? He’s a little blue bee named Bob. And he’s one of several...
Bethel Park music students selected for state festival
Six Bethel Park High School students earned seats through multiple competitive auditions to participate in the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association’s 2024 All-State Festival and Annual In-Service Conference, scheduled for April 17-20 in Erie. The students are Ethan Alberter, junior, All-State Concert Band, trombone; Maria Catana, junior, All-State Chorus, Soprano 1;...
Metal collection at Bethel Park’s Washington Elementary nets more than 2 tons
You could build, say, a pickup truck with the amount of scrap brought in during a metal-collection event in March at Bethel Park’s George Washington Elementary School. Michael Brothers Hauling and Recycling reported a total of 2.34 tons, or 4,680 pounds. The Baldwin Borough company collaborated with Verichek Technical Services...
In another tight game, Bethel Park gets past Peters Township to split series
When it comes to Bethel Park against Peters Township on the baseball diamond, expect the unexpected. The one thing you can anticipate is a close game. Less than 24 hours after Peters Township came back to win in dramatic fashion, Bethel Park scored an unearned run in the sixth inning...
Children’s book author sparks Bethel Park students’ creativity
When she was young, Jean Reidy wrote stories and stapled the pages together to make books. She continues to do so, minus the stapler. The native of suburban Chicago recently visited two Bethel Park elementary schools to talk in part about her experience as an award-winning children’s author. Her main...
Upper St. Clair graduate’s cabaret show celebrates friendship with Elizabeth Taylor
In 1981, Ann Talman placed a call from New York City to her hometown Upper St. Clair, announcing: “Dad! I got the Broadway show. And guess what? Guess who’s playing my mother? Elizabeth Taylor!” What followed was 18 months of touring with a cast that also included Maureen Stapleton and...
