Penn Hills Progress category, Page 12

ALLEGHENY COUNTY Edgewood George Pettrone sold property at 111 Harlow St. to Alex Clyde Bates for $290,000. Forest Hills Jin Xiu Yang sold property at 417 Braddock Road to James Alm Jr. for $50,000. Estate of Charles Caputo sold property at 122 Cherry Valley Road to Russell John Lawryk and...

Robert Cash has been through this before with the Penn Hills girls basketball program. The Indians have a young group that needs to play as underclassmen because Penn Hills doesn’t have many older players on the roster. That has led to growing pains for the Indians. Penn Hills suffered its...

Penn Hills picking up a win over Shaler in a game that was televised locally provided the Indians with a significant boost of confidence. But how the Indians followed up their performance against the Titans may do even more to improve Penn Hills’ psyche. The Indians shot 67% (10-of-15) from...

Open forum to discuss transportation rescheduled The Penn Hills School Board has postponed an open forum to discuss transportation services in the school district after there was a heating system failure at Linton Middle School. According to a post on the district’s website, the forum will be hosted later in...

ALLEGHENY COUNTY Churchill Martha Mazerov sold property at 128 Thornberry Drive to Maximilian and Daniella Staudacher for $315,000. Michael Rucker sold property at 1632 Jamestown Pl to FES Property LLC for $274,900. Edgewood Georgianne Arnold sold property at 121 W Hutchinson Ave. to Bret Sheeley and Carmen Claesson for $426,000....

Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Thursday, Jan. 2: No injuries reported in Penn Hills house fire Emergency services were called to a fire Wednesday night at a home along Michigan Road in Penn Hills. According to TribLive news partner WTAE, crews were called to...

Holy Family parishioners and neighbors enjoyed brunch on Christmas morning at the church halls of Our Lady of Joy in Plum and St. Joseph in Verona. The Christmas brunches at the parish, which includes congregants from Plum, Oakmont, Verona and Penn Hills, started as a way to ensure no one...

After two years of inactivity, the large pool at Linton Middle School is back in business. School district leaders gathered at the pool for a ribbon-cutting ceremony Dec. 11. The project cost the district just under $650,000 out of the capital funds budget. School board President Erin Vecchio reminisced about...

Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Monday, Dec. 30: Penn Hills house fire displaces family A family was left without a home over the weekend after a fire Sunday morning in Penn Hills. According to a Facebook post from the Penn Hills Volunteer Fire Department,...

School board reorganization retains top leadership Penn Hills School Board members gathered Dec. 3 in the newly minted Sen. Jay Costa Media Center in Linton Middle School for their annual reorganization meeting. With eight out of nine members present, Erin Vecchio was voted in as school board president for the...

Penn Hills guard Milani Oliver crammed a game’s worth of moments during the final two minutes against Woodland Hills on Dec. 10. With Penn Hills trailing by four, Oliver chased down a loose ball, pulled up at the 3-point line and knocked down a key jumper. Less than 30 seconds...

The growing process for the Penn Hills boys basketball program will have many layers this season. One of the most important ones will be becoming comfortable with being in the varisty atmosphere. With the Indians having so many new players in starting roles on varsity, the season’s first few weeks...

ALLEGHENY COUNTY Churchill GMS Global Investments LLC sold property at 3758 E Rural Ct to Femi and Lola Kolawole for $153,000. David Lippock sold property at 2146 Garrick Drive to Moktar Abdou Kerime for $299,900. Edgewood Thomas Lockner trustee sold property at 507 Greendale Ave. to MB Trade LLC for...

Erik Kust only wants to be known as a good neighbor. Others call him a hero. Thursday night, Kust was heading home from the grocery store. He was about four blocks away from his Verona home when he stopped at an intersection and noticed heavy smoke billowing from the windows...

At least six people were left homeless Thursday evening after a fire ripped through an apartment building in Verona. Multiple fire departments responded to the call for a fire with entrapment shortly before 5 p.m. in the 400 block of Center Avenue. Bystanders and borough police were kicking in doors...

Isabella Pivirotto is a busy young woman. The 17-year-old has never shied away from a full schedule and didn’t hesitate to add resurrecting the club culture in Penn Hills High School to her to-do list. “My freshman year was kind of that weird year where people were coming back to...

Turner Dairy Farms in Penn Hills, long known for its milk and iced tea, isn’t satisfied with just sticking to tradition. Take its limited-run chocolate marshmallow milk, for instance, or hard iced tea collaboration with Pittsburgh Brewing Co. This evolution is part of why Turner’s recently was named the Business...

Whether reflected by actual data or not, one thing is clear: Verona business owners are feeling less safe these days. Borough business owners and managers — 21 of whom signed a letter to Verona officials — say they’ve seen an increase in crime in the business district over the past...

Penn Hills has stuck with the pack as one of nearly 100 municipalities that pay Hoffman Kennels for animal control. The two-year deal, approved in November, comes at a base rate of $2,000 a month plus $100 for each call after working hours. The kennel, which has handled the municipality’s...

After years of inactivity, the large pool at Linton Middle School will be back in use for the district’s swim team. The pool has been inoperable because of maintenance issues and repairs since the spring of 2022. Since then, Penn Hills swim team members have hosted home meets at the...

Deadline looms for Santa letters, holiday lights contest Penn Hills Parks & Recreation has these remaining holiday events for the community: • Letters to Santa: Drop off your letters through Dec. 19 at Penn Hills Library. You also can mail them to 102 Duff Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15235 or email...

ALLEGHENY COUNTY Edgewood Jeremy Hopkins sold property at 1115 E End Ave. to Juris and Madeleine Pukinskis for $610,000. Forest Hills Mark Fallone sold property at 238 Cascade Road to David and Kelsey Peart for $317,500. Vincent Bongiorno sold property at 141 Cherry Valley Road to Autumn Rose Williams and...

Denairo Price hardly had to break a sweat during his first varsity wrestling match. Thankfully, the Penn Hills freshman heavyweight doubled up on his matches during a triangular with Woodland Hills and Riverview on Dec. 4. Price, who transferred to Penn Hills from Kiski Area, claimed two pins to open...

There was plenty to celebrate for the Penn Hills wrestling program as the season opened with a triangular against Riverview and Woodland Hills on Dec. 4. While the Indians varsity boys program picked up wins against the Raiders and the Wolverines, the girls program also got an opportunity to get...

One man was killed and another is in stable condition following a shooting late Thursday night in Penn Hills, police said. First responders were called to the 200 block of Universal Road shortly before midnight and arrived to find Vanderlee Stevenson, 21, of Penn Hills with multiple gunshot wounds, according...