Penn Hills Progress category, Page 13
Penn Hills’ Tymere Alston hitting his stride in 400 meters during indoor season
Penn Hills indoor track coach Lee Zelkowitz believes junior Tymere Alston is ready to take a step forward. During the offseason, Alston dedicated a lot of his time to becoming one of the best 400-meter runners in the WPIAL. “He trained hard during the preseason and during the fall months,”...
New Penn Hills baseball coach out to rejuvenate program
Joe Capobianco Jr. kept tabs on the Penn Hills baseball program long after he graduated. Seeing the program slowly decline wasn’t something he ever wanted to see. Capobianco didn’t want to be one of the people standing by and complaining about the program’s current status. This offseason, Capobianco, who is...
Pittsburgh eastern suburban real estate transactions for the week of Jan. 19, 2025
ALLEGHENY COUNTY Churchill Bart Biamonte sold property at 1067 Black Forest Drive to Carroll and Kimberly Wynne for $265,706. Danielle Diane Stoken sold property at 2310 Marbury Road to Keith and Karen Ortiz for $450,955. Forest Hills Richard Friberg sold property at 244 Berkley Ave. to Hillsfre Partners LLC for...
Penn Hills teacher killed in crash remembered for inspiring devotion to students
Joshua “Josh” Willy was a popular social studies and gifted program instructor at Penn Hills High School who was known for warmly welcoming students at the start of the school day and offering them inspiration and encouragement. The 49-year-old husband and father of three died Friday morning after his car...
Family of late Penn Hills EMS paramedic raises money for memorial scholarship
Nick Theofilis had a passion for helping others. “Throughout Nick’s life, he was a helper. He helped anybody,” said his mother, Lori. A son of Penn Hills, Theofilis was a member of the high school’s Navy Junior ROTC until he graduated in 2017, an Eagle Scout and a volunteer firefighter...
Seneca Hills Village Singers spread cheer with holiday concerts
The Seneca Hills Village Singers spread some holiday cheer in December. The chorus performed Christmas concerts on Dec. 12 at Seneca Manor, an assistant living facility, and Dec. 13 at Seneca Senior Living, an independent facility, both in Penn Hills. Members of the Seneca Hills Village Singers include Janet Agnew,...
In brief: Penn Hills and Verona area happenings, week of Jan. 13, 2025
8% tax hike approved Penn Hills Council approved an 8% property tax increase last month. Council members Joanne Fascio, Shawn Kerestus and Alan Waldron voted for the tax increase, while Mayor Pauline Calabrese and Deputy Mayor Catherine Sapp opposed it. The millage rate is up from 6.444 mills to 6.944...
Eastern Pittsburgh suburban real estate transactions for the week of Jan. 12, 2025
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...
With young roster, Penn Hills girls working on paying attention to detail
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 boys shake off early struggles, begin to hit stride
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...
In brief: Penn Hills and Verona area happenings, week of Jan. 6, 2025
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...
East suburban real estate transactions, week of Jan. 5, 2025
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....
Morning Roundup: Penn Hills house fire; Pittsburgh blood drives
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 Parish Christmas brunches feed more than 155 guests
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...
Penn Hills School District hosts official reopening of Linton Middle School pool
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...
Morning Roundup: House fire displaces Penn Hills family; Donation Day at Pittsburgh Zoo
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,...
In brief: Penn Hills and Verona area happenings, week of Dec. 16, 2024
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...
Junior guard making things happen for Penn Hills girls basketball
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...
Penn Hills boys off to rare slow start
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...
East suburban real estate transactions, week of Dec. 15, 2024
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...
‘I was raised to always help’: Verona man rushes to help residents escape apartment fire
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...
Fire at Verona apartment leaves at least 6 people homeless
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...
Penn Hills student reinvigorates club programs, leads by example
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...
Penn Hills-based Turner Dairy Farms wins Pitt award for innovative flavors, practices
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...
Verona business owners bring policing concerns to council
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...
