Penn Hills Progress category, Page 92
Chief: Leftover embers from backyard campfire damage porch in Penn Hills
A Penn Hills home suffered minimal damage Sunday morning after leftover materials from a campfire burned through a storage container on the back porch, a fire chief said. The fire was reported around 2 a.m. at 252 Springwood Drive. No one was injured. Chief Al Wickline of Penn Hills Station...
Penn Hills School District officials delay action on dropping Indians nickname, logo
Penn Hills School District officials tabled any action to change the district’s Indians nickname and mascot until next year. They’re delaying action, they said, so they can focus on schools reopening and how to best educate students in the covid-19 pandemic. “This is the worst time this could ever come...
Penn Hills School District reopening plans call for mix of in-person, online classes
Penn Hills School District administrators recommend a hybrid in-person learning model, and an online learning option for families to start the upcoming school year. “This is not forever,” Superintendent Nancy Hines said after Wednesday’s safety/buildings and grounds committee meeting. “This is just to start.” Back-to-school plans were formally revealed that...
Allegheny Land Trust receives more grant funding toward acquisition of former Churchill Country Club
A conservation project to preserve the defunct Churchill Valley Country Club for public recreation and environmental education recently received a $300,000 grant. Donations acquired within the past few months toward the green space project in Penn Hills and Churchill include $25,000 from the Sierra Club, $125,000 from the Colcom Foundation...
Penn Hills assisted living facility brightens up with art from the BOB ProjectVideo
Residents at a Penn Hills assisted living facility will have brighter days thanks to some district students and staffers. Middle and high school students involved with the charity Bring out the Best Project, also known as the BOB Project, brought some color to Seneca Manor this week. They painted butterflies,...
Assault, DUI cases among those recently handled in Judge DeLuca’s Penn Hills court – Aug. 3, 2020
Penn Hills District Judge Anthony L. DeLuca handled the following cases recently. Defendants will have court dates set in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court. Charges were filed by Penn Hills police unless otherwise noted. Held for court • Ricco Sears, 34, of Pittsburgh on charges of driving with a suspended...
Penn Hills real estate transactions, Aug. 2
Penn Hills Royi Pinchas Elcabas sold property at 205 Collins Drive to Brandy Clark for $89,500. Yvette Lynn Taylor sold property at 478 Darrell Drive to Herbert Hill Jr. and Dorietta Hill for $228,500. Daniel Oconnor sold property at 208 Evaline St. to RS Holdings 201 LLC for $35,000. Christa...
WPIAL football recruits share written scholarship offers as Aug. 1 arrives
Now, it’s in writing. Aug. 1 is the date each year that college football teams are first able to give written scholarship offers to high school seniors, and many of the recruits shared them Saturday on social media. The Class of 2021 still can’t sign a National Letter of Intent...
Bridge work will close Pa. Turnpike between Allegheny Valley, Pittsburgh exits early Sunday
The placement of beams for the Unity-Trestle Road bridge in Plum will require a five-hour closure of the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s eastbound lanes beginning late Saturday night. The Turnpike will be closed between the Allegheny Valley (Exit 48) in Harmar and Pittsburgh (Exit 57) exit in Monroeville, from 11:49 p.m. on...
Work along Nadine Road in Penn Hills again delayed
The closure of a portion of Nadine Road in Penn Hills has been delayed for the second time in eight days, the Allegheny County Department of Public Works announced Friday. Work along a stretch of Nadine near Lincoln Road will now begin Aug. 10 at 7 a.m. The delay is...
Penn Hills School District’s reopening plans to focus on hybrid learning
Penn Hills School District officials plan to welcome students back to school with a hybrid in-person learning model, as well as a continued online learning option for families who might not be comfortable sending children back into the buildings. Administrators are expected to officially present the two options during a...
Western Pa. residents among those receiving ‘mystery seed’ packets
Shawn O’Mahony of Penn Hills ordered a bunch of seeds online to jump-start his 2020 garden. So, when a couple of packets he didn’t recognize showed up in the spring, it didn’t seem like a big deal. “I received two of them a couple months ago,” O’Mahony said. “They were...
Fox Chapel man charged in 2 homicides deemed legally incompetent, hearing delayed
A Fox Chapel man accused of killing another man and leaving his body near the Settlers Ridge Road home he shared with his parents has been deemed “legally incompetent” to stand trial, his attorney said Tuesday. Adam Rosenberg, 22, is charged with homicide and other offenses in connection with the...
4-star 2022 guard Jalen Hood-Schifino decommits from Pitt basketball
Jeff Capel’s quest to rebuild the Pitt basketball program hit what he hopes is a temporary roadblock Monday when four-star guard and Penn Hills native Jalen Hood-Schifino re-opened his recruitment. Hood-Schifino, 6-foot-4, verbally committed to Pitt last year as a sophomore. Schifino is ranked as the 33rd overall prospect by...
Penn Hills real estate transactions, July 27
Penn Hills R. Eugene Malek sold property at an unknown address to Three Suns Property Solutions LLC for $53,000. Leonard Baklarz sold property at 11666 Althea Drive to Ashley Marie Jones for $90,500. Estate of Marie Hoey sold property at 321 Auburn St. to Peter Katz for $32,125. Wells Fargo...
Life experiences help mold Sojourner House leader’s understanding of clients’ challenges
For De’netta Benjamin-Miller, the new executive director of Sojourner House, it wasn’t until life hit her with its ugliness that she was able to find the beauty in a calling she gets to answer every day. “It was through therapy where I found myself,” she said. Benjamin-Miller, 45, of Homewood...
Nature education serves as inspiration for Penn Hills womanVideo
During her junior year in high school, Nyjah Cephas said she wouldn’t really have described herself as a “school kid.” But when The Ellis School’s long-standing partnership with Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy brought her to Frick Park for a few stewardship days, something clicked. “I could have some experiential learning and...
Nadine Road closure delayed until Aug. 3 in Penn Hills
The closure of Nadine Road in Penn Hills will now begin in August, Allegheny County public works announced Thursday. The road closure, originally scheduled to begin July 28, will now begin at 7 a.m. Aug. 3 because of ongoing nearby utility work, officials said. The closure is expected to last...
Western PA Bruins director John Tate among 100 most influential people in women’s college basketball
The Western PA Bruins girls basketball program is known for producing Division I college recruits. Girls receiving scholarship offers and committing to top-level teams seems like an almost daily occurrence during the summer months. The outfit is like a factory when it comes to connecting talent to the next level....
Penn Hills police chief receives new contract despite mayor’s strong objection
Penn Hills Council narrowly approved a contract July 20 with the municipality’s police chief, a role that has remained unchanged since 1999. Council voted 3-2 to approve the agreement, which runs through the end of 2021, with Police Chief Howard Burton. Mayor Pauline Calabrese and Councilman Frank Pecora dissented. In...
Penn Hills real estate transactions, July 20
Penn Hills Karmen Pugh sold property at 2600 Blackridge Ave. to Alexis Jackson for $170,000. Jean Coates sold property at 126 Charleston Drive to RS Holdings 201 LLC for $20,600. James Cox Jr. sold property at 308 Fielding Drive to Tammera Townes for $168,900. James Zerfoss sold property at 23...
Appeal contends identical twin brother could have been killer in Jeannette homicide
An Allegheny County man serving a life prison term for first-degree murder claims the jury got it wrong when they didn’t believe that his dead identical twin brother was the killer. In an appeal filed in Westmoreland County, Darrelle Tolbert-McGhee, 31, of Penn Hills, contends his conviction should be overturned...
Penn Hills receives $2.5 million grant for transportation and infrastructure
Penn Hills will receive $2.5 million for transportation-related projects in the state’s latest round of Multimodal Transportation Fund money. Gov. Tom Wolf announced in a news release on July 16 that Allegheny County will receive $5.5 million for transportation and other infrastructure projects in Penn Hills Municipality and Harrison Township....
Police: Man arrested after allegedly driving through protest in Penn Hills
A Penn Hills man was arrested after allegedly driving through a group of protesters Wednesday afternoon. Police Chief Howard Burton said several people were gathered near the intersection of Saltsburg and Stotler roads when a man drove his vehicle through the crowd. No injuries were reported. Burton said officers spoke...
Pittsburgh photographer embarks on project to discover who’s ‘Behind the Mask’
Widespread mask mandates are meant to slow the spread of covid-19. But they’re also stopping the spread of smiles. To remind people that behind every mask is a person with a story — and a smile — Pittsburgh-based photographer Beth Kukucka launched a photography project titled “Behind the Mask.” The...
