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Red Cross volunteers from Pittsburgh headed to Louisiana to assist in Hurricane Ida relief
Two volunteers from the Red Cross in Pittsburgh are among 14 volunteers from across Pennsylvania heading to Louisiana Sunday to aid in Hurricane Ida relief efforts. Volunteers Charlie Williamson and John Breitweiser will depart from the Red Cross office on Liberty Avenue just before noon Sunday, according to Red Cross...
A letter to readers of the Tribune-Review
To the readers of the Tribune-Review: Our readers tell us that they want more: more stories, more news, more of everything that makes the Tribune-Review the best overall newspaper in Pennsylvania. Today, I am pleased to announce that soon, you will be getting more. Starting Wednesday, subscribers to the print...
Police find Apollo woman who skipped sentencing for case of burning a child with a cigarette
Acting on a tip, Kiski Township police found an Apollo woman Tuesday who is accused of not showing up for her court sentencing in a case in which she pleaded guilty to burning a child with a cigarette in 2020. Lisa Marie Culp, 47, of Apollo was taken to Armstrong...
Unity native, medical student caps undergrad swim career with Academic All-American honor
Time is precious for Mikayla Bisignani as she begins her first year as a Pitt medical student. Still, the Unity native hopes to find the opportunity to take her standout swimming career in a new direction, as a coach. She’s been offered a part-time assistant swimming/strength and conditioning position at...
Police: Man found with multiple gunshot wounds in South Side Flats
Pittsburgh police detectives are investigating a shooting early Sunday that critically injured a man in Pittsburgh’s South Side Flats neighborhood. Police reported just prior to 2 a.m., police officers from Zone 3 responded to a ShotSpotter alert in the 80 block of S.13th Street and reports of a gunshot victim...
Lawrenceville’s Row House Cinema to host drive-in movies at The Strip District Terminal
Make it a movie night. Row House Cinema announced Friday that its drive-in film experience is back, starting Oct. 1 in the Strip District. The theater is collaborating with The Terminal in the Strip District for a second year of outdoor viewing. Doors open at 6:30 pm. Films begin around...
Sewickley area real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 29, 2021
Aleppo Glenfield Road LLC sold property at Glenfield Road to Charles and Elizabeth Burnette for $33,750. William Tranter Jr. sold property at 311 Sewickley Ridge Drive to Susan Reuter for $520,800. Edgeworth Bryan Motzel sold property at 423 Meadow Lane to Thomas Hay Jr. and Janice Hay for $990,000. Leet...
Bethel Park real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 29, 2021
Chad Revak sold property at 202 Berrington Ct to Gregory Domonkos and Michele Hershberger for $190,000. Housing & Urban Development sold property at 1415 Berryman Ave. to Anthony L Ameel Kovacs for $159,000. Robert Milliken Jr. sold property at 5570 Florida Ave. to Luann Munsky and Tori Giglio for $210,000....
South Hills real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 29, 2021
Baldwin Borough Ronald Balash sold property at 1633 Carmella Drive to Brett Balash and Stephanie Zewe for $150,000. Estate of George Nasci sold property at 5224 Gerry Drive to Nathan Abt and Tara Miller for $220,000. Joshua Millslagle sold property at 127 Hollowhaven Drive to Corey Beard and Coriana Fitz...
Collier, Scott area real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 29, 2021
Bridgeville Daniel Livingston sold property at 1431 Bower Hill Road to Susan Sams for $125,000. Victorian Finance LLC sold property at 347 Prestley Road to Revival Today Inc. for $350,000. Carnegie David Filipek sold property at 311 Fifth Ave. to Armando Ocando and Betsabe Siso for $155,000. Estate of Garry...
Mutual Aid Ambulance named Mt. Pleasant Township EMS provider
Repeating a scene that has become more common in recent years, another municipality — Mt. Pleasant Township — is turning to Mutual Aid Ambulance Service to provide coverage 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Township supervisors last week unanimously approved a resolution that calls for Greensburg-based Mutual Aid...
The Stroller, Aug. 29, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your club meetings, community events 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. Casino Theater looking for volunteers The Casino Theater in Vandergrift is seeking volunteers to check in ticketed guests for productions. Volunteers...
‘I wasn’t getting better’: Fox Chapel woman endures battle with long haul covid
More than a year and a half after she contracted covid-19, Andrea Berlin almost feels completely normal. The Fox Chapel native-turned-Londoner said she fell ill with the virus in March 2020 — early in the pandemic by most standards — and she thinks she probably picked it up on the...
Schools prepare for a mixed bag as kindergarten enrollment numbers bounce back
Nicole Roberts Bitar was encouraged to see the numbers ramping up for kindergarten registration in the New Kensington-Arnold School District this summer. Last year, the district was among many across the U.S. that saw kindergarten enrollment decline unexpectedly as families weighed their options: Should they send their 5- and 6-year-olds...
Tarentum holds 1st craft beer festival to benefit fire and ambulance crews
Judging from the crowd enjoying the beer, bands, food and the arts at Dreshar Stadium, the first Tarentum Borough craft beer festival was a success. The festival, benefiting Tarentum’s three volunteer fire departments, was scheduled to run from 3 to 10 p.m. As of 7 p.m., an estimated 300 to...
Hill Crest Country Club hosts 10th and, possibly, last Derek Kotecki memorial scholarship golf outing
If this is to be the last K-9 Officer Derek Kotecki golf outing and craft show, the event certainly went out strong on Saturday afternoon at Hill Crest Country Club. Kotecki was a Lower Burrell patrolman and K-9 officer who was ambushed and murdered by a fugitive in 2011. Since...
Ellwood City man arrested for DUI, fleeing charges after crashing SUV into building on South Side
Police say a drunken Ellwood city man crashed his car into a Port Authority bus, hit a utility pole head-on, and then fled through Pittsburgh’s South Side, hitting several cars before crashing his car more than halfway into a building. Despite the trail of damage, police said no one was...
Longtime community leader Hank Commodore coordinates event to honor others — only to receive surprise honor
Hank Commodore was too busy focusing on the police, firefighters, other first responders and educators he was honoring at a community event at Arnold’s Roosevelt Park to notice he was being honored as well. To his surprise, Commodore, a longtime New Ken-Arnold basketball coach, teacher and guidance counselor, was presented...
Westmoreland coroner: Plum motorcycle rider, 20, dies in Lower Burrell crash
A 20-year-old Plum man died at the scene of a motorcycle vehicle crash Saturday in Lower Burrell, according to Westmoreland County Coroner Ken Bacha. Bacha did not have the victim’s name Saturday night. According to a 911 dispatch supervisor, the collision between the motorcyclist and an unspecified vehicle occurred at...
Marker recognizing works over 151 years of Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill dedicated in GreensburgVideo
For 151 years, the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill have overcome many obstacles and rejections in an effort to better the many communities around the world they have served. On Saturday, about 100 members of the congregation, Seton Hill University administrators, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and friends...
Norman Nardini and Curtis & the Shakerz to play at first responders concert at Shrine Center
A Tribute to First Responders concert will feature Curtis and the Shakerz and Norman Nardini on Saturday, Sept. 11 at the Pittsburgh Shrine Center pavilion in Harmar. The show will pay tribute to local first responders and offer the public live entertainment, food and a cash bar. Admission is $5....
Kids benefit from 1st ‘Back 2 School Jam’ event in GreensburgVideo
Eleven-year-old Aujanae McCreary is looking forward her first day at Greensburg Salem Middle School on Wednesday, and what’s a better way to prepare than picking out your own book bag with classmates and getting your face painted? McCreary was among several dozen children who took advantage of the first “Back...
Crabtree woman recalls groundbreaking career for PCN show
As a young girl, Natalie Carbone Mangini liked building sparklers and bombs and burned a hole in her family’s kitchen floor. “My mother got me … a chemistry set and I started doing it,” she said. “It those days, chemistry sets were a lot different than they are now.” At...
Join in on upcoming programs and activities at the Hampton Community Library
T is for Toddler The T is for Toddler program will be at the Rotary Pavilion on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11 to 11:30 a.m. on Sept. 8 through Oct. 27. Join for an autumn full of songs, rhymes and stories about letters and numbers. All ages welcome. In Your...
The Stroller, Aug. 28, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your club meetings, community events 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. Allegheny Valley Association of Churches accepting donations for food bank Donations are welcome for the Allegheny Valley Association of Churches food...
