Fox Chapel Herald category, Page 110
SSA students named National Merit finalists
Five members of the Shady Side Academy Class of 2022 have been named finalists in the 67th annual National Merit Scholarship Program by the National Merit Scholarship Corp. They will compete for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarship awards worth more than $30 million, which will be offered this spring. The...
Dalton Bacco fund aids foster children
Kerri and Frank Bacco of West View are channeling their grief by honoring their late son with a fund created to assist foster children in Western Pennsylvania. The couple, both 44 and teachers, created The Dalton Bacco “Living the Dream” Fund in June 2017 after the tragic death of their...
Fox Chapel’s Emi Kartsonas makes mark in multiple sports at Aquinas Academy
Emi Kartsonas has been one of the area’s busiest student-athletes, and it looks like she won’t be slowing down anytime soon. The Aquinas Academy senior has had an outstanding high school career, lettering in basketball, field hockey and lacrosse, and those teams have all made the WPIAL playoffs each of...
Fox Chapel community mourns Mark Bellinger, who revitalized crew program
In the early 1990s, Dr. Mark Bellinger bought a scull and took up rowing for personal exercise. His daughter, Katie, thought it looked fun and began urging her father to help start a rowing team at Fox Chapel Area High School. It turned out to be the start of a...
Fox Chapel Area School District police chief to become treasurer of national nonprofit
Joseph Kozarian, Fox Chapel Area School District’s chief of police, will soon add a new title to his resume. The law enforcement veteran takes over as treasurer for the National Association of School Resource Officers in July. “It’s a great honor, great organization and wonderful people,” said Kozarian, 55, of...
Western Pennsylvania athletes ready for Dick’s Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon
Every time Tom Weir has participated in the Dick’s Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon, he has turned left to venture into Downtown at the Birmingham Bridge. On May 1, Weir, 60, of Hempfield, plans to make a right turn, hoping it’s the correct one. The bridge from Pittsburgh’s South Side is...
Some Fox Chapel Area parents lobby for masks to be optional at schools
Several Fox Chapel Area School District parents want administrators and elected leaders to rethink their health and safety plan and lift the district’s mask mandate. They have brought their concerns before the school board. Protests also have occurred outside the district’s administration offices. “Covid has affected every aspect of our...
Northbound Route 28 in Aspinwall to have single-lane restriction during the day starting Monday
Lane restrictions will start Monday on northbound Route 28 in Aspinwall, PennDOT announced. Single-lane and shoulder restrictions are planned between the on-ramp from the Highland Park Bridge to the Delafield Avenue exit starting Monday, weather permitting. Officials said they will continue as needed weekdays from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m....
Juices are flowing as Juicery at Oakmont opens along Allegheny Avenue
A Fox Chapel couple has opened a new business at the former Oakmont Bakery location along Allegheny Avenue. The Juicery at Oakmont has replaced Rev22 Salud Juice and Wellness Bar. The new smoothie and shake shop had a soft opening in November after some renovations and adding a new menu....
Briefs from Fox Chapel Area High School
Fox Chapel Area High School’s speech and debate team participated in the annual North Catholic High School Invitational Speech and Debate Tournament, held in-person on Dec. 11. Senior Patrick Alexander won an Outstanding Performance award by finishing in the top five. Approximately 270 students from 27 public and private high...
Crews respond to Fox Chapel gas leak
First responders from Fox Chapel and Aspinwall, along with crews from People’s Gas, responded to shut off natural gas to a home on Delafield Road in Fox Chapel on Wednesday, Feb. 16, officials said. Fox Chapel Assistant Fire Chief Brian Zimmerman said workers apparently damaged a gas line. The house...
Group of Fox Chapel Area School District parents continue push to make masks optional
Protests against masks for Fox Chapel Area School District students continued Wednesday outside of the administrative offices, marking the third such gathering against the district’s policies this month. About 13 protesters, including two children, gathered along Field Club Road about 2:30 p.m. during dismissal at the high school. They later...
Lifeguard certification classes offered for Allegheny County pools
Lifeguard certification classes begin Feb. 25, and will continue throughout the next few months for those interested in working as a lifeguard at one of Allegheny County’s four swimming pools, including North Park. The first set of classes will be Feb. 25-27 at Upper St. Clair Recreation Center, followed by...
Fox Chapel Area school board approves needs assessment to bolster district mental health services
Fox Chapel Area School District officials have taken another step this year to address mental health issues. The board unanimously voted Monday night to have a University of Pittsburgh professor do a school mental health needs assessment of prevention and intervention services and resources. Cost of the assessment is expected...
New York jazz trio’s newest songs named for Pennsylvania disaster townsVideo
To call Moppa Elliott’s approach to music composition “loose” might be an understatement. The Pennsylvania native is a music teacher at Information Technology High School in Long Island City, N.Y., and the bassist for jazz collective Mostly Other People Do the Killing, which will perform in Pittsburgh on Feb. 23...
Late Fox Chapel Area teacher’s love of travel lives on in student scholarships
Late Fox Chapel Area English teacher Conroy Guyer traveled so frequently after retirement that he earned enough airline miles to fly on the supersonic Concorde from Paris to New York for free. Guyer, who passed away in 2021, wanted to ensure that his passion for exploring lived on. He bequeathed...
Fox Chapel area real estate transactions for the week of Feb. 13, 2022
Etna Housing & Urban Development sold property at 52 Greeley Ave. to Christopher and Amy Leya for $78,000. Robert Alt sold property at 163 Vista St. to Kyle Marcus Kowalewski for $135,000. Harmar Diana Biordi sold property at 509 White Birch Ct to Robert Paul and Mary Jill Brannigan for...
A-K Valley athletes of the week: Burrell’s Riley Sterlitz, Fox Chapel’s Eli Yofan
Riley Sterlitz Class: Junior School: Burrell Sport: Basketball Report card: Sterlitz helped Burrell close the season strong with three section wins in one week. She had a team-high 23 points to help Burrell upend Derry, 51-43, on Monday and 11 points in a 60-16 win over Valley on Wednesday. The...
Neighborhood Academy, Shady Side Academy team up in volleyball
After a successful co-operative experience in football this past fall, Shady Side Academy and The Neighborhood Academy will now pursue a partnership in girls volleyball. The WPIAL and the PIAA both gave the OK recently for the schools to combine forces starting this with this fall’s schedule. Shady Side has...
Fox Chapel’s Zach Skrinjar, Eli Yofan hits major milestones
Early February turned into a time for milestones with the Fox Chapel boys basketball team. Coach Zach Skrinjar reached the 200-victory mark in just his 13th season with the Foxes and Eli Yofan became the school’s all-time career scorer. Skrinjar hit the mark on Feb. 1 when the Foxes visited...
O’Hara student designs inspirational painting for nursing home memory unit
A Dorseyville middle schooler is giving back to a local senior center in memory of her great-grandmother. Ella Golomb, 12, of O’Hara created a positive painting project as her required charitable project for her upcoming Bat Mitzvah. Golomb is a congregant at Adat Shalom synagogue in Cheswick and social action...
Applications accepted for Rotary scholarship
The Bob Williams Rotary Memorial Scholarship Program is offering scholarships for the 2022-2023 academic year. In recent years, the club has awarded at least eight scholarships at $5,000 each. High school seniors in Allegheny and Beaver counties are eligible to apply. Vocational students, G.E.D students and those attending parochial, charter...
Fox Chapel survives Eli Yofan injury scare, clinches sole possession of section title
Fox Chapel’s Eli Yofan went from laying under the hoop in pain in the third quarter to swinging on the rim in celebration in the fourth. The second-ranked Foxes extended their winning streak to 19 games and clinched the section title outright Friday night with a 75-65 victory over No....
State grant expected to bring Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre outdoor shows to Aspinwall, Sharpsburg
In just a few months from now, people might be able to prop a lawn chair along the shores of the Allegheny River and watch ballet dancers glide across an outdoor stage. A mobile performance area is expected to facilitate riverfront shows on a strip of property between Aspinwall and...
Chicken wings price may cause football fans, eateries to alter Super Bowl menu
The only thing that might be more important than football on Super Bowl Sunday is the food people consume. The Super Bowl is an event that calls for super eating. The most popular items fans consume on the day of the big game are pizza, chips and dips and, of...
