Penn Hills Progress category, Page 48

In the market for a building with serious pillar presence? A former bank in downtown Verona that towers above its neighboring buildings along Allegheny River Boulevard is listed for sale at $424,900. The property was previously a PNC bank and most recently the Verona Variety Store. It originally listed for...

Volunteers have planted more than 300 trees along busy roadways, in quiet neighborhoods and in parks, and now they’re setting their sights on the busy, winding and cluttered Rodi Road, which leads into the heart of Penn Hills’ commercial district. The volunteers of the Penn Hills Shade Tree Commission and...

Verona kicked off the borough’s Halloween celebration with its second annual Trunk or Treat event, which took place Oct. 27 at Railroad Park alongside the Verona Farmers Market. Riverview School Board member Stefanie Garibay helped organize the event and said the goal was to help bring more awareness to the...

The Penn Hills school board made a bold new change to the district’s safety capabilities on Oct. 27 when they approved the hire of new chief of school police/school resource officer Keith Lazaron. Lazaron comes to the district with 21 years of experience and was working as a School Resource...

Senior citizens were able to get free dental screenings, cleanings and x-rays during a Highmark Wholecare wellness event at the Allegheny County Housing Authority Jefferson Manor in Penn Hills on Oct. 21. In 2021, the American Dental Association Health Policy Institute surveyed a group of dentists and more than 30...

A Penn Hills man awaiting trial on multiple gun charges faces additional felony counts after his former girlfriend accused him of breaking into her Tarentum home and stealing her belongings. Finel Javon Thompson, 20, of the 1600 block of Nash Avenue in Penn Hills was charged by Tarentum police with...

Thanksgiving reunion luncheon Kerr Presbyterian Church, located at 157 Bridge St. in Verona, will hold a Thanksgiving homecoming/reunion luncheon on Nov. 13. Service begins at 11 a.m., followed by the luncheon. RSVP at 412-793-5508 or kerrchurch.com by Nov. 4. Psychic fair 3 Rivers Psychic Fair, the newest psychic fair in...

Lucy Brayton accomplished her goal of being the first Penn Hills golfer in over a decade to compete at the PIAA Class 3A golf championships at Penn State Unviersity’s White Course earlier this month. What Brayton proved at PIAAs that she was able to bounce back. After shooting a first-round...

Caroline McDevitt didn’t find the prospect of ironwoman soccer too taxing. When it comes to playing for the Penn Hills girls soccer program, McDevitt has become accustomed to having to play many minutes. The Indians, who finished the season 4-14 overall and 1-11 in Section 3-3A, couldn’t quite muster up...

Churchill Gregory Rudolph sold property at 3466 Ridgewood Drive to Angel Mangual for $430,000. Edgewood HSBC BANK USA NA trustee sold property at 221 Elm St. to GKR LLC for $112,000. Scott Johnson sold property at 8005 Westmoreland Ave. to Kelly Filiak for $235,000. Forest Hills Elliot Niznik sold property...

Police investigated a fatal shooting late Friday in Penn Hills in which someone shot two unoccupied cars in a driveway before shooting into a house, killing a 31-year-old man. Allegheny County Police reported that the incident took place shortly after 8:30 p.m. in the 300 block of Crescent Gardens Drive....

Vehicles in the area of Hoover and Rodi roads in Penn Hills were struck by gunfire late Thursday. First responders were called to the area around 11 p.m. Thursday. Tribune-Review news partner WPXI-TV reported seeing evidence markers on the ground and what appeared to be bullet holes in vehicles. Officials...

The beginning of the Oct. 17 Penn Hills council meeting was somber, as Mayor Pauline Calabrese offered her condolences to the DeLuca family on behalf of council. Pennsylvania State Rep. Tony DeLuca died on Oct. 9. He served as State Representative for 39 years. “Representative DeLuca was deeply passionate about...

A Penn Hills man will spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance of being released after being sentenced Tuesday in the beating death of a man during a home invasion. A jury found Charles Pershing, 40, guilty of second-degree murder for killing Loxley Johns, 65, at...

A Penn Hills woman was arrested Monday after police said she sold five bricks of suspected heroin/fentanyl to a confidential informant in Murrysville, according to court papers. Summer L. Kerley-Webster, 38, is facing drug and criminal use of a communication facility charges. Police from North Huntingdon and Murrysville were assisted...

Penn Hills Charter School of Entrepreneurship has been named one of America’s Healthiest Schools for the 2021-2022 school year. The recognition — awarded by Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a leading children’s health organization — celebrates schools’ dedication to supporting the health and well-being of students, staff and families. The...

A Penn Hills man was accused of being a drug dealer after a state police trooper pulled over his SUV in Armstrong County for speeding and having windows that were tinted too dark. Tyrone Linwood Freeman, 57, of the 300 block of Princeton Drive was charged with four felony counts...

Nadine Road to close Beginning at 7 a.m. Oct. 25, the Allegheny County Department of Public Works has announced that Nadine Road will be closed. The closure will last through Nov. 4 and is to repair a storm drain. Traffic will be detoured using Allegheny River Boulevard (Route 130), Sandy...

Sixty-six miles of a roundtrip drive from his home in North Versailles to the Cal (Pa.) campus didn’t deter Brian Tarrant from grabbing an opportunity. After serving as a Penn Hills coach under Jon LeDonne, Tarrant had initially planned to follow LeDonne to Pine-Richland when LeDonne took the job with...

This season, section realignment wasn’t kind to the Penn Hills girls soccer team. With some of the added powers from the East suburbs coming into the picture, the Indians had difficulty keeping up. However, Penn Hills has found a way to pick up a few wins down the stretch. Goals...

Edgewood Panagiotis Benos sold property at 314 Dewey Ave. to Ying Zhang for $485,000. Harold Niebanck sold property at 1440 Walnut St. to Anthony Rosato and Daniel Davis for $640,000. Forest Hills Antonio Lodovico sold property at 2211 Ardmore Blvd. to JDS Ardmore Holdings LLC for $325,000. Andrew Soltis sold...

As a 6-foot-4, 270-pound offensive lineman, Anthony Shovlin says he’d accepted the fact that scoring touchdowns wasn’t in his future, but that changed dramatically Friday night. The Central Catholic junior scored an almost unbelievable winning touchdown after a blocked field goal with no time left, earning him and the Vikings...

Trailing by a point with one second left, Central Catholic lined up for a 49-yard field goal that would have won its nonconference game with Penn Hills on Friday night. Instead, the Vikings won in an even more improbable way. The kick was blocked, but while Penn Hills players celebrated...

State Rep. Tony DeLuca’s name will remain on the Nov. 8 ballot despite his death Sunday after a brief battle with lymphoma. The late DeLuca, a Democrat from Penn Hills who was the longest-­serving member of the state House, is matched up against Queonia “Zarah” Livingston of the Green Party....

A Penn Hills man wanted as a juvenile on sexual assault charges was charged as an adult after police said he resisted arrest on Thursday morning. Westmoreland County Sheriff’s Office deputies took Dabiaun A. Davidson, 18, of Penn Hills into custody during their search of a home on Sweetbriar Drive...