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Sewickley area real estate transactions for the week of Jan. 9, 2022
Aleppo 79 North Land Owner LLC sold property at 301 Deer Run Road to Sewickley PA LLC for $1,500,000. Dale Cannister sold property at 201 Sewickley Heights Drive to Andrew Sulka and Colleen McLaughlin for $225,000. Bell Acres Jennifer Ross sold property at 104 Skymark Ln to Paul and Linda...
North Hills area real estate transactions for the week of Jan. 9, 2022
Bellevue Matthew Catherwood sold property at 194 N Balph Ave. to Christopher and Tracey Hicks for $252,000. Bradford Woods Patricia Mirth sold property at 104 Saybrook Hbr to Mark and Heather Budnik for $322,500. Etna Anthony Ferraro sold property at 177 Dewey St. to Erin Kristin McCreary for $260,000. Estate...
Capping a 64-year career, Larry Cervi directs Gateway’s ‘The Glass Menagerie’
Capping a career directing plays spanning 64 years, Larry Cervi helped put on “The Glass Menagerie” from Jan. 6-8 at Gateway High School. Cervi, 86, had directed productions at local high schools since taking his first teaching job as a 22-year-old in 1958. For more than two decades, Cervi has...
Allegheny Township officer retires after 35 years in law enforcement
A generous high school graduation gift has served Todd Veselicky well. Veselicky, 53, graduated from Kiski Area High School in 1986 and was pondering his next move. “I was not college material,” said Veselicky, a lifelong resident of East Vandergrift. Veselicky was friends with numerous police officers and first responders...
The Stroller, Jan. 9, 2022: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Start the new year off right! Publicize your events, club meetings and fundraisers for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Concert to benefit Leechburg Pink Day A concert featuring King Lou Hock and his Flying Circus...
Drivers seeing red over flashing yellow signal at Route 30 intersection in Hempfield
Some motorists are having a tough time getting used to a newly installed left-turn-yield traffic signal at North Greengate Road and Route 30, according to social media chatter. The traffic signal is among 11 upgrades PennDOT has made since last spring along a 3-mile stretch of Route 30 between Jeannette and...
Eastern area real estate transaction for the week of Jan. 9, 2022
Churchill End Poverty Now Inc. sold property at Beulah Road to Fortunae LLC for $3,600. Rhonda Wexler sold property at 1703 Jamestown Pl to Christopher and Rebecca Havrilla for $214,800. Donald Evans sold property at 3435 Ridgewood Drive to Luis Carlos and Melissa Cherie Hernandez for $315,000. Edgewood Pamela Miele...
Medical examiner IDs body found in shed behind Knoxville home
A body was found Saturday behind a home in Pittsburgh’s Knoxville neighborhood, Pittsburgh police said. Officers responded to a report of a possible body in the 300 block of Reifert Street around 4:30 p.m. There, police said officers found a dead person in a shed. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner...
PennDOT, Turnpike Commission announce road restrictions ahead of approaching winter storm
PennDOT and the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission are advising drivers to avoid unnecessary travel during a storm expected to bring frozen precipitation and potentially icy road conditions in most of the state Saturday night. The agencies said they anticipate implementing various speed and vehicle restrictions throughout the storm. Restrictions are scheduled...
Westmoreland Archaeological Society hosts artifacts display at Bushy Run Battlefield museumVideo
More than a dozen people filtered through the Bushy Run Battlefield museum Saturday morning for their chance to see arrowheads and other artifacts found throughout the region. Archaeology Day at Bushy Run featured members of the Westmoreland Archaeological Society who displayed cases of artifacts discovered throughout Westmoreland County. “It gives...
Family, friends pray for healing, call for justice for mom, daughter hurt in Tarentum hit-and-run
Prayers for healing, calls for justice and balloons rose from near the Tarentum Bridge on Saturday afternoon, not far from where a Brackenridge woman and her 9-year-old daughter were struck by a car in a hit-and-run just over a week ago. Family and friends of Lyric Manley Jackson, 26, and...
Hardy souls shrug off frigid temperature for polar plunge in Derry Township
Despite temperatures in the teens, dozens of hardy souls participated in the Greater Latrobe Parks and Recreation’s first ever Polar Plunge on Saturday morning. In all, more than 75 people had registered for the event at the Keystone State Park boat ramp in Derry Township, officials with the Loyalhanna Watershed...
Pittsburgh mother’s milk bank seeking additional donors
Thanks to the efforts of nearly 2,000 carefully screened volunteer donors, the Mid-Atlantic Mother’s Milk Bank distributed its 1 millionth ounce of pasteurized human donor milk since its establishment in 2016. Pasteurized donor human milk provides critical nutrients and immunological support for medically fragile babies, and is used regularly in...
1 dead after Second Avenue crash in Pittsburgh
One person is dead after a single-vehicle crash in Pittsburgh’s Bluff neighborhood Friday night. Emergency crews responded just before 10:15 p.m. to the 1700 block of Second Avenue, under Interstate 376, for reports of a vehicle crashed into a pole. The unidentified driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The...
Pittsburgh quilt artist reveals life journey in Westmoreland Museum show
In some ways, it takes a village for Pittsburgh fiber artist Tina Williams Brewer to create her story quilts. In other ways, it takes the sweep of human history and the spiritual forces of the universe. A retrospective of her career, “Cultivation: The Journey of the Work,” is showing through...
Duquesne students must show negative covid test before returning to campus
Duquesne University students are required to have a negative covid-19 test prior to returning to campus for the spring semester as case counts inch toward record highs. In guidance released Thursday, officials said proof of a negative test must be provided 48 hours before a student arrives on campus. The...
Documentary aims to bring attention, solution to ‘Food Desert’ in downtown New Kensington
To feed his 6-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter, Joel Gabelli relies on what he can find at Family Dollar, Dollar General and — sometimes, when he feels like walking farther — Sheetz. With rare access to a vehicle, Gabelli isn’t able to get from his Kensington Manor home in downtown...
PennDOT looks to start major projects on I-70, Route 981 in Westmoreland
The latest in a series of interchange improvements along Interstate 70 and a long-discussed upgrade of the Route 981 corridor north of Mt. Pleasant are among major projects PennDOT plans to tackle in Westmoreland County this year. Officials with Uniontown-based PennDOT District 12 said they expect to move forward with...
The Stroller, Jan. 8, 2022: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Start the new year off right! Publicize your events, club meetings and fundraisers for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Drive-through food distribution set Tuesday at Pittsburgh Mills Allegheny Valley Association of Churches and the Greater...
Diamond run: After more than 80 years in business, Pittsburgh’s Schiffman’s Jewelers closing Saturday
At 3 p.m. Saturday only the sparkling memories will remain. Schiffman’s Jewelers, a staple in the Clark Building in Downtown Pittsburgh for more than eight decades, is closing. “In the words of King Solomon in the Book of Ecclesiastes, there is ‘A time to be born and a time to...
Police: Lower Burrell woman hit a mom, daughter at Tarentum Bridge, kept driving and went shopping
Police say a Lower Burrell woman stopped at a nearby Giant Eagle for 20 minutes just after hitting a woman and her daughter with her SUV near the foot of the Tarentum Bridge in Tarentum on Dec. 30. Allegheny County Police on Friday charged Lois A. Davis, 55, with two...
Allegheny County Jail circumventing ban on solitary confinement, non-lethal weapons, critic says
Allegheny County Jail officials sought assistance early last year from the Department of Justice’s National Institute of Corrections, which provides training and services to local and state facilities. The jail for years has been the subject of criticism and repeated lawsuits for violations ranging from the use of excessive force...
Ice, slick conditions impact region’s northern counties; Allegheny, Westmoreland miss the worst
Westmoreland and Allegheny counties largely missed a weather system that moved through the state this weekend, bringing with it freezing rain and slick conditions for several counties in northern parts of the region. Freezing rain impacted several areas north of Interstate 80, which were under a winter weather advisory for...
Report: Pittsburgh on short-list for potential 2024 Republican National Convention sites
Could Pittsburgh potentially host the next Republican National Convention? The city is on the GOP national committee’s shortlist for 2024, according to a report in Politico.com, along with Milwaukee, Nashville and Salt Lake City. “We always welcome commerce in the City of Pittsburgh, whether it’s filling our hotel rooms or...
Allegheny County Jail circumventing ban on solitary confinement, non-lethal weapons, critic says
Allegheny County Jail officials sought assistance early last year from the Department of Justice’s National Institute of Corrections, which provides training and services to local and state facilities. The jail for years has been the subject of criticism and repeated lawsuits for violations ranging from the use of excessive force...
