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Sweet tooth alert: Cookie tour comes to Blawnox
The holidays mean cookie time for many people, and Blawnox is welcoming the holidays with the community’s first-ever Holiday Cookie Tour of the business district. The event, sponsored by the community group, Best of Blawnox, is scheduled for Dec. 4 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. It is free and...
Police: Law student from Pittsburgh killed by train in Vermont
ROYALTON, Vt. — A driver who died after being hit by an Amtrak train had crossed the tracks, backed into a driveway to turn around, and was attempting to cross back when he was hit, investigators in Vermont said Wednesday. The crash happened at about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in the...
Sharpsburg Community Library lands STEAM grant from state
Bee-Bots, robots, circuits and coding will be on the children’s program menu at Sharpsburg Community Library this winter thanks to a state grant. The library at 1212 Main Street was awarded a Tinkering Kit from the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, through the state Department of Education. The kit is contains...
Christ the Divine continues tradition of donating Thanksgiving meals
Christ the Divine Teacher Catholic Academy in Aspinwall continued its tradition of making the Thanksgiving holiday a little warmer for area families. Student council Co-Presidents Gemma Spadacene and Jimmy Darcy, along with Vice President Clara LoPresti, shopped for frozen turkeys, potatoes, gravy and all the other fixings on Nov. 16...
Peeps at Shady Side Academy rule the roost
Meet the new chicks of Shady Side Academy. Momo, Dawn, Cricket and Pippy are four peeps hatched from an incubator Oct. 11 in Bonnie Maxwell’s biology class at the middle school campus in Fox Chapel. “Momo is ruling the roost,” said sixth-grader Amalia Guttridge. “Chickens are so cool, and they...
Brackenridge Salvation Army awarded grant from Fox Chapel Rotary to provide holiday meals, gifts
A grant to the Brackenridge Salvation Army from a Fox Chapel service organization will help put holiday meals on dozens of tables and distribute warm clothes to those in need, Captain Alex Senak said. The Salvation Army along Brackenridge Avenue received $3,000 from the Rotary Club of Fox Chapel area....
Turning grief to action, O’Hara family creates ‘Positive Painting Project’ to spread messages of hope
Local projects to promote mental health awareness and support the arts are spreading hope, one canvas at a time. The Positive Painting Project and The Katie Whysong Scholarship for the Arts were created this year by Alisa and Todd Whysong of O’Hara, in honor of their daughter, Katie. Katie died...
Fox Chapel area real estate transactions for the week of Nov. 14, 2021
Fox Chapel Joseph Lundy sold property at 216 N. Grandview Drive to Scott William and Jessica Brooke Berry for $1,470,000. Melissa McConnell sold property at 137 Riverview Ter to Joseph Vennare for $346,000. Paul Buncher sold property at 1 Whispering Pines Ln to Kenneth and Andrea Jaycox for $315,000. Harmar...
George Guido: Leechburg’s Burke completes one of A-K Valley’s top all-time seasons
With Leechburg’s loss in the WPIAL Class A quarterfinals Friday, it brought the curtain down on one of the best seasons an A-K Valley quarterback ever has had. Blue Devils senior Thomas Burke III finished the season with 2,213 yards, which is third best in local history. In 2019, Burrell’s...
Another banner year for Shady Side Academy field hockey
It was another outstanding season for the Shady Side Academy field hockey team. The Bulldogs rolled to their fourth consecutive WPIAL title with a 1-0 victory over Aquinas Academy at Washington & Jefferson College’s Cameron Stadium. It was Shady Side’s 11th straight appearance in the WPIAL finals. The season came...
Penn-Trafford makes short work of upset-minded Fox Chapel
It didn’t take long for the Penn-Trafford football team to let upset-minded Fox Chapel know what was in store: a long Friday night in Harrison City. The second-seeded Warriors scored less than two minutes into the game, scored on all five of their possessions in the first half and rolled...
Friends continue direct delivery of Thanksgiving meals to those alone, in need
Two friends are teaming up again to help folks living alone enjoy a traditional Thanksgiving meal. Last year, as the pandemic highlighted social isolation during the holidays, Molly O’Brien of Fox Chapel and Bethanie Stein of Aspinwall started their own, small-scale effort to provide meals directly to people in need....
Garden club hosts glittering craft show
Glitter, Shiver and Glow The Fox Chapel Garden Club will host its annual holiday event with a twist this year. The club’s Glitter, Shiver and Glow event will offer crafts, floral arrangements, bulbs and house plants and more for sale in the open air at Allegheny RiverTrail Park. Admission is...
New Fox Chapel council members seek to boost communication with residents
Improved communications between Fox Chapel and its residents will be the priority for two newly elected council members, each said. Democrat Sarah Hanna and Republican Brad Harrison earned four-year terms in the Nov. 2 general election, along with Republican incumbents Harrison Lauer and Andy Bennett. “The number one thing that...
Fox Chapel will try to outfox No. 2 Penn-Trafford in WPIAL quarterfinals
Fox Chapel has already pulled off a playoff upset this season, but can it outfox Penn-Trafford in the quarterfinals Friday? The No. 10-seeded Foxes (5-6) opened the WPIAL Class 5A first round by defeating seventh-seeded Upper St. Clair, 13-10, last Friday. Now they face well-rested Penn-Trafford (8-2), which is seeded...
New assistant principal joins O’Hara Elementary
An elementary school in the Fox Chapel Area School District has a new assistant principal. Benjamin Canan, 34, joined O’Hara Elementary School this month as program principal, the official name for the role. He said he seeks to bring a personalized approach to helping lead the school and promises to...
Police memorial flag causes a flap in Aspinwall
A flag honoring fallen police officers is causing a flap in Aspinwall. Council members fielded comments during last week’s meeting from about 15 residents either supporting or opposing the flag that has flown outside the borough building for 12 years. Aspinwall resident Karen Hart took to social media to express...
Clean Eatz, a healthy food chain, opening 1st regional location in Blawnox
A national chain focused on healthy eating is opening Wednesday in Blawnox, the first location in the Pittsburgh area. Clean Eatz is opening at 175 Freeport Road, in a new retail plaza at the corner of Center Avenue. Owner Darryl Duncan, 58, hails from the corporate health care field and...
Former Pitt, Fox Chapel soccer standout to play in pro league in Israel
Former Fox Chapel High School soccer standout Dixon Veltri is taking her game overseas. Veltri signed last week with Maccabi Emek Hefer of Israel and plans to join the professional team in December after she is done with postgraduate studies at Pitt, where she played for the last three seasons....
Fox Chapel area real estate transactions for the week of Nov. 7, 2021
Blawnox John Novak sold property at 7 Riverside Ct to Marcus Edge for $20,000. Fox Chapel Hossam Kandil sold property at 608 Delafield Road to Nathan and Ashley Loden for $512,500. Nishan Williams sold property at 40 Easton Road to Andre and Marlaina Peters for $515,000. Martha Hildebrandt sold property...
Sto-Rox beats Shady Side Academy, pushes way into WPIAL Class 2A quarterfinals
After Friday’s game, Sto-Rox’s football players lined up in the end zone, got down and started doing push-ups. It was far from a punishment. Instead, the Vikings went up and down, loudly spelling out their ultimate goal in the 2021 season: S-T-A-T-E-C-H-A-M-P-S. No. 2 Sto-Rox (11-0) took a step in...
Part of Sixth Street in Sharpsburg to close for about a month
Long-term closures are planned for a portion of Sixth Street in Sharpsburg. PennDOT officials said starting Monday at 7 a.m. the street will close between Clay and Penn streets through Monday, Dec. 13. Here is the detour: • From Main Street, take Ninth Street north; • Turn left onto Penn...
Sun shines on recess at O’Hara Elementary
A sunny, fall day on Nov. 3, 2021, makes recess all the more fun at O’Hara Elementary School in O’Hara Township....
‘She Kills Monsters’ at Shady Side Academy full of nostalgia, adventure
Shady Side Academy Performing Arts Chairman Dek Ingraham said he chose this year’s fall play as a celebration of the return to live theater at the Fox Chapel-based campus. “She Kills Monsters: Young Adventurer’s Edition,” is bold, theatrical, funny, heartbreaking — a little odd, Ingraham said. “This show helps us...
‘Pumpkin Guy’ on target to hit goal for Project Bundle-Up
It’s the gourd that keeps on giving. Donations are still rolling in for Pittsburgh’s Project Bundle-Up, thanks to the dedication of one Aspinwall resident. Joel “The Pumpkin Guy” Keefer, 70, of Fourth Street began carving elaborate oversized pumpkins for the public 25 years ago. After collecting and donating $89,000 over...
