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Churchill Lois Miller sold property at 38 Churchill Road to Kevin and Jamie Hamilton for $310,000. Agate Realty LLC sold property at 3839 Greensburg Pike to Kimberly Kaplan for $200,000. Edgewood Nathaniel Rosi sold property at 182 Gordon St. to Clinton and Lisa Marie Graham for $340,000. Donald Manner sold...

Penn-Trafford has a year-end girls basketball banquet coming up, but coaches, players and their families won’t be talking about what might have been. No, a new topic has suddenly entered the chat with this team: state playoffs. The Warriors were not ready to surrender their season yet as they held...

Women’s club to hold ’80s party fundraiser The Community Women’s Club of Level Green is going back in time for its fundraiser planned for 5 p. m. April 1 at Club ’80s, 427 Cavitt Ave., Trafford. The event, “I Want My MTV,” will feature a Radical gift basket raffle that...

WPIAL basketball playoffs Boys Class 2A Consolation round Third-place game Greensburg Central Catholic (17-6) at Bishop Canevin (20-5) 6 p.m. Thursday, Upper St. Clair High School, Upper St. Clair Winner: Clinches third place out of the WPIAL for the PIAA playoffs. The loser is the fourth seed. Players to watch:...

HARRISBURG — This year’s Battle of Bushy Run reenactment is back on after Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission members unanimously voted to allow the Penn Township site to hold the event this August. The fate of future reenactments has yet to be determined. The commission plans to conduct a study...

The battle over Bushy Run’s annual reenactment is coming to a head Wednesday morning in Harrisburg. There, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission members plan to vote on the future of force-on-force reenactments at PHMC sites, including Bushy Run Battlefield in Penn Township. PHMC’s staff previously decided to halt such reenactments,...

Neighbors of a proposed indoor recreation center in Penn Township are concerned it could impact traffic and parking in their residential area. The facility, to be known as “Battlefield Sports Complex,” is on the table for discussion before the township planning commission and zoning hearing boards. Originally presented to the...

Penn-Trafford had to work for it, but the feeling was all worthwhile. Junior guard Olivia Pepple made a layup with 3.8 seconds left to lift the eighth-seeded Warriors to a 29-28 victory over No. 9 Shaler in a WPIAL Class 5A first-round game Tuesday night in Harrison City. It was...

Diana Cholock described Penn-Trafford’s rifle season as crazy after her team captured the school’s first state title on Feb. 14. Penn-Trafford had five shooters in the Top 16, including the No. 1 shooter in junior Ivy Thomas. The Warriors finished with 1,023.3 points, out-shooting WPIAL champion Butler, 1,018.9. Thomas shot...

It’s been a roller-coaster type season for the 2022-23 Penn-Trafford hockey team. There were highs at the being of the season when the team started 7-2 and finished second in a holiday tournament. That was followed by a poor month of January where the team posted a 1-5 record. But...

Those who thought No. 1 Peters Township would have an easy first-round game in the WPIAL Class 5A playoffs forgot to tell No. 16 Penn-Trafford. Peters Township (20-3) used a big first half and then held on to defeat a gritty Penn-Trafford squad, 66-55, on Friday at home. The Indians...

Penn-Trafford coed rifle coach Diana Cholock said she had mixed feelings about the team’s second-place finish at the WPIAL team championships Feb. 7, at Dormont-Mt. Lebanon Sportsmen’s Club in Canonsburg. She was happy for the high finish, falling to Butler by a point, but also disappointed that some of her...

The Penn-Trafford hockey team ended a three-game losing streak by posting two impressive victories. The Warriors got two goals each from Xavier Solomon and Jack Blank to defeat Latrobe, 4-3, in a PIHL contest. Solomon, Cam Kiste and Nate Loughner each had two assists while goaltender Jackson Kerrigan saved eight...

Penn-Trafford is hot at the right time. In a playoff atmosphere on the Warriors’ home court Friday night, P-T won its third consecutive boys basketball game and fourth in the past five to clinch a WPIAL playoff spot in its final test of the regular season. Jason Sabol scored 18...

Penn Township police on Friday were investigating a social media post that was circulating around Penn Middle School, according to Chief John Otto. A school official learned of the post and contacted authorities around 11 a.m. It was believed to have been sent through Snapchat. The nature of the post...

Local lawmakers are pressing the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission for more transparency and a possible reversal of its decision to end Bushy Run’s annual battle reenactment. As a result of her and other lawmakers’ actions, state Sen. Kim Ward, R-Hempfield, is hopeful that PHMC’s “no force-on-force” policy will at...

Until two months ago, Penn-Trafford School District nurse Rhaeann Shepler had never performed CPR on a real person. Her first shot at it saved not one life but two. A little before 9 a.m. on a chilly Dec. 12 morning, Shepler sprang into action along with six of her co-workers...

An excess of the additive that gives natural gas its “rotten-egg” smell caused more than 300 calls to Westmoreland County 911 since Tuesday night, reporting an odor of natural gas, according to Peoples Natural Gas officials. Calls began coming in to Westmoreland County 911 around 9 p.m., according to a...

From the bottom of the section to the WPIAL playoffs? Penn-Trafford just might pull it off. The Road Warriors did it again. Penn-Trafford, saving its best for last, won for the third time in four games to keep their flickering postseason hopes alive. The Warriors rallied from a slow start...

The end to battle reenactments at Bushy Run Battlefield has left many members of the community saddened and frustrated. But in Harrisburg, officials with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission consider the new “no force-on-force” policy a positive for state history. “There are more impactful and safer educational methods through...

Penn-Trafford’s wrestling team can now focus on getting individuals ready for their part of the season after losing to Canon-McMillan in the first round of the WPIAL Class 3A team tournament Feb. 1. The Big Macs defeated the Warriors, 49-15. The individual competitions begin with the section tournament Feb. 25,...

Junior Patton Graziano captured the 100-yard freestyle title at the annual Westmoreland County Coaches’ Association Swimming Championship Jan. 28 at Derry Area. Graziano won the race with a time of 47.72 seconds. He also was on two relay teams that earned medals — the 200 medley team that finished fourth,...

Churchill Kara Marie Burgard sold property at 2513 Greensburg Pike to Anthony Costa for $150,000. Mary Clouse trustee sold property at 5 Lewin Ln to John and Sarah Maynard for $330,000. Edgewood David Scarborough sold property at 544 Greendale Ave. to Charles Hadlock for $333,000. Forest Hills John Scott sold...

The highly anticipated quarterfinal match between No. 2 Canon-McMillan and No. 7 Latrobe didn’t happen Wednesday night in the WPIAL Class 3A team tournament. An elbow injury to Latrobe heavyweight Wyatt Held helped Norwin to a 36-30 victory, instead. Held was leading Norwin heavyweight Josiah Pastories, 3-0, when he landed...

Penn-Trafford stunned wrestling fans a week ago when it defeated Norwin to create a three-way tie in Section 3-3A. The Warriors kept that momentum going Monday in the preliminary round of the WPIAL Class 3A team championships. Penn-Trafford reversed an early season loss to Kiski Area by defeating the Cavaliers,...