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Blood drive B Three Solutions Spring will be hosting a blood drive from 12:30 to 6:30 p.m. May 18 at the Plum Community Center, 499 Center New Texas Road. To make an appointment, visit Vitalant.org and click the “donate now” button. On the new window, search with group code P953...

Sewickley StoryWalks return Starting May 3, families can visit the five Sewickley StoryWalk sites to take a self-guided walk around the parks and read a book as they go. Different spring-themed picture book stories are featured at each site. The StoryWalk runs from May 3-23. All participants are encouraged to...

McCort recognized Kiersten McCort, CRPC a Private Wealth Advisor with Ameriprise Financial in Wexford, has been named a recipient of the 2021 Five Star Wealth Manager award by Five Star Professional for the 12th consecutive year. The award goes to less than seven percent of the wealth managers in the...

Baldwin High School Musical Baldwin High School will perform the musical “Once Upon a Mattress” April 29-30 and May 1 at 7 p.m. Box office hours are Tuesdays 4-6 p.m. and Saturdays 9-11 a.m. Tickets are $12. For more information, visit baldwindrama.weebly.com. Jefferson Hills paving approved Jefferson Hills officials recently...

Glass recycling set in South Fayette A free household glass recycling collection is set from 7 a.m. to sundown daily May 1-6 in the South Fayette Township building back parking lot, 515 Millers Run Road. The bin offers a contact-free drop-off service and provides a safe method of recycling glass...

Publicize your club meetings, events and fundraisers in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Advice available for those with financial troubles Allegheny Valley Association of Churches has free support services available for anyone who is having trouble making...

The Norwin High School Theatre Company’s production of “The Little Mermaid” is not going under the sea, but it will be heading outside. The musical will be performed under the lights in the Norwin Knights Stadium at 8 p.m. May 6-9. Performance of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” was canceled last...

Three peregrine falcons hatched Sunday in the nest atop the Cathedral of Learning, according to Pittsburgh’s National Aviary. The first chick hatched around 3 a.m., according to social media posts from the Aviary. The second and third had emerged by about 10:45 a.m. A fourth egg remains. Morela, a female...

Making a reservation on Lower Burrell’s new website to see the Easter Bunny this year was so easy that officials hope more residents will visit for a host of other reasons. The city launched its new website early this year to offer online, for the first time, services such as...

There was never much of a question over the charity that would benefit from Ginny’s Neighborhood Pizza Joint’s first fundraiser Sunday celebrating the return of warm weather and the 7-month-old Export pizza restaurant and ice cream parlor, owner Nick Juricich said. “Our general manager, Samantha Leger, has a young son...

Joseph T. Rothrock dedicated much of his life to educating Pennsylvanians about the importance of the forests and natural areas that were once much more abundant in the Keystone State. Born in 1839 in Mifflin County, Rothrock began his career as a botanist and surgeon before starting the “Michaux Forestry...

Lower Burrell and Upper Burrell aren’t considering raising the $15 annual per capita tax on residents but collecting it in a shorter time frame from 11 months to six months within the same year. Most residents in both municipalities older than 18 years of age have been paying the $15...

The newly established Kiski Township Sewage Authority will hold its first meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday to organize and chart plans for a townshipwide $16 million sewerage project. With only about 10% of township homes and businesses connected to public sewer lines, supervisors in the past several years have been...

Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley is offering its first public event at its new facility in New Kensington — a drive-through rabies clinic on May 1 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The shelter’s new Church Street facility has been closed to public events during the pandemic, but a rabies...

The Burrellton Garden Club of Lower Burrell will present its annual May Market to pay for the club’s beautification of six public gardens, which the club designs, plants and maintains. The market will offer up annual and perennial flowers, hanging baskets, herbs and other items. It will be held at...

Churchill Silas Watkins sold property at 3857 Greensburg Pike to Matthew Zamba and Alexandra Hay for $151,965. Delmont Lee Adams sold property at 138 Freeport St. to James Tobin for $99,900. Edgewood William Weaver sold property at 1109 E End Ave. to Dane Brody for $363,000. Nicholas Gasparro sold property...

Pine Douglas Hall sold property at 118 Lyndhurst Circle to Frank Kowalkowski Jr. and Yuliya Kowalkowski for $799,000. NVR Inc. sold property at 724 Mulkerrin Court to Stephen and Kristina McNees for $691,090. Richland Charles Pastva sold property at 3700 Centerview Road to Jacob and Erica Schurer for $51,100. Real...

Aspinwall Shlomo Taasan sold property at 105 Lexington Ave. to Mary Heinauer for $305,000. Jillian Barnet sold property at 415 Virginia Ave. to Linda Schmidt for $400,500. Blawnox Donna Kolody sold property at 710 Carla Drive to Mak Wong and Kenny Zhan for $157,000. Fox Chapel Christopher Doughton sold property...

Hampton David Lindell sold property at 3030 Apache Court to Robert Alan and Peya Robinson for $405,057. Glenn Miller sold property at 4571 Bucktail Drive to Sandra Burns for $274,000. Robert Ostryniec sold property at 2128 Grandeur Drive to Richard and Patricia Kwiatkowski for $834,500. Catherine Harshman sold property at...

Light of Life Rescue Mission had a vaccine clinic planned to help vaccinate homeless people earlier this month. The shelter, which operates short- and long-term programs for the homeless, as well as addiction recovery and employment assistance, planned to administer the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Then, about three hours...

No injuries were reported Saturday after a Unity home was extensively damaged by fire. Dryridge Volunteer Fire Department Chief Rich Levay said firefighters from multiple central Westmoreland County fire departments responded to the blaze at the residence on McClellan Drive that was reported at 6:49 p.m. He said firefighters were...

Pittsburgh police are investigating the fatal shooting of a teenage boy in the Hill District Saturday night. Police responded to 911 calls for shots fired in the 2400 block of Bedford Avenue at about 7:40 p.m. When responding officers arrived on scene, officers said they witnessed the boy being loaded...

Pittsburgh police are searching for a woman they allege ran down her paramour after an argument in the city’s Homewood section last week. Ausha Dakisha Brown, 25, is charged with homicide, homicide by vehicle, reckless endangerment and multiple traffic violations. The charges stem from the April 19 hit-and-run death of...

Dozens of Leechburg High School students and parents, decked out in Blue Devils gear, crowded outside a borough council meeting Tuesday. They huddled on the steps and crammed into the doorway of the overflowing gallery, there to support a proposal by the school district to upgrade stormwater management at Veterans...

Republicans James Morabito and Kathy Starr are vying for one open seat on Allegheny Township’s board of supervisors. Township supervisors serve six-year terms. Starr is the incumbent supervisors chairwoman since 2003. A lifelong township resident, Starr, 78, owns a catering business in the township. A newcomer to the political scene,...