Penn-Trafford Star category, Page 42
Penn Township Police Department swears in new sergeant
Penn Township native Robert Broome has been an officer with the Penn Township Police Department for nearly nine years, but June 15 marked the start of his first year as sergeant. Surrounded by family, friends and fellow officers, Broome was sworn in by District Justice Rebecca Tyburski at the township...
Wolf sightings are Penn Township man’s reward in latest Yellowstone visit
(Editor’s note: Penn Township resident Robert Szypulski — a computer programmer with Windstream Communications — is a regular visitor to Yellowstone National Park and documented his most recent visit to the park’s northern range in April. In the wake of the historic flooding this month of the Yellowstone River and...
2022 Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star Team: Penn-Trafford’s Joe Enick
Editor’s note: The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 15 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. Referred to as “the best finisher” Penn-Trafford has had in the John...
Eastern Pittsburgh suburban real estate transactions for the week of June 26, 2022
Chalfant Daniel Alder trustee sold property at 220 Fairview Ave. to Karen Curtis for $65,000. Edgewood Michael Doyle sold property at 116 Oakview Ave. to Juan and Christine Rivera for $295,000. Forest Hills New NBNC Trust sold property at 2300 Ardmore Blvd. to Forest Hill Investors LLC for $2,413,506. William...
Penn-Trafford area: Car cruise at Bushy Run, teachers hired, more
Bushy Run Classic Car Cruise is July 9 Classic and custom cars, trucks or modified vehicles will compete for trophies at the Bushy Run Classic Car Cruise from noon to 4 p.m. July 9 at the Bushy Run Battlefield along Route 993 in Penn Township. There is no charge for...
Eastern Pittsburgh suburban area real estate transactions for the week of June 19, 2022
Churchill Estate of David Kurtz sold property at 1511 Williamsburg Pl to Steven John Bottjer for $114,500. Diane Carole Nichols sold property at 1519 Williamsburg Pl to Delvin Pitts for $149,900. Forest Hills Melvin Federbusch sold property at 27 Carmel Ct to Wendy McLemore for $310,500. Delores Derco sold property...
Bikers host memorial ‘Ride in Peace’ for slain Penn Township coupleVideo
Liz Amend hoped her brother Jacob Erdeljac and his girlfriend Mara Casale smiled down on the motorcyclists who gathered in Hempfield Saturday for a memorial ride in honor of the couple who were killed in Penn Township last year. “Jake was an avid Harley rider. He met Mara, and she...
Musser’s will open new location in DelmontVideo
As the summer growing season kicks into high gear, Larry Musser of Musser’s Farm Market in Penn Township is gearing up to boost his production to make produce available in more locations. A new Musser’s store will open this summer in the former Second Fiddle location on Route 66 in...
Penn Trafford happenings: Free concert, Claridge Fair, bingo
Concordia at Cabot to host concert The Concordia at Cabot Haven Apartments will host a free concert at 4 p.m. June 26 by Penn-Trafford Community Band. The two hour concert will be held at the Haven II Patio, 148 Marwood Road, Cabot. In case of inclement weather, the concert will...
Bushy Run group to host program on gin
The popularity of gin in England from 1720 to 1765 will be explored, and gin will be tasted, at the Colonial Cocktail Hour — The Gin Craze, planned for 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday at Bushy Run Battlefield Museum, Route 993, east of Harrison City. Shawn MacIntyre, the former museum...
Penn-Trafford raises property taxes 1.5 mills
Penn-Trafford property owners will pay more in school taxes under a $63.0 million budget that raises the real estate millage by 1.5 mills in the Westmoreland County portion of the district, an increase of less than 2%. The school board Monday approved increasing taxes from 88.25 mills to 89.75 mills...
Penn-Trafford video class brings home a half-dozen student Emmy awardsVideo
Video production students at Penn-Trafford High School are finishing the year with a bang. Students from the class brought home National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences High School Student Production awards in six different categories in the Mid-Atlantic region on Thursday, including winning “Best Newscast” four of the past...
Armstrong wins rematch with Penn-Trafford to return to state championship game
Just think, these teams will be in the same section next year. After their WPIAL championship thriller, Armstrong and Penn-Trafford met again in the PIAA Class 5A softball semifinals Monday. The state final-four game didn’t quite live up to the late-inning drama of the last meeting — there was no...
Eastern Pittsburgh suburban real estate transactions for the week of June 12, 2022
Churchill Alexander Ducruet sold property at 100 Thornberry Drive to William and Caitlin Jenkins for $309,900. Monroeville Estate of William Ellis Wheat sold property at 1202 Bowling Green Drive to Daniel McGuiness and Pamela Beattie for $219,900. Gary Fedoronko sold property at 411 College Park Drive to Duke Lundahl for...
Penn Township plans bid opening, estimates 1st payment for stormwater projects
Penn Township will open bids for a project to address flooding in Harrison Park and along Dolly Avenue at the end of the month. The township previously received a $2.2 million loan from PennVEST — the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority — to complete this project. This loan will primarily cover...
Small ball, miscues propel Penn-Trafford into PIAA Class 5A semifinals
FAYETTEVILLE — Fundamentals, no matter what time of the season they are or are not executed, carry immense meaning for softball teams. Simple ground balls. Pop-ups. Sacrifice bunts. They all can add up. And they are magnified in the state playoffs because they can make or break seasons. Penn-Trafford used...
33rd annual Westmoreland Glass Show aims to entice collectors
As happens with collectors of every sort, what began as a passing interest blossomed into a 25-year quest for Kenneth and Jackie Kosoglow of Claridge. Avid fans of Westmoreland Glass, the Kosoglows started their collection with simple pieces of the decorative and utilitarian household glass, made in Grapeville between 1889...
Penn-Trafford shakes off early homer to beat Twin Valley in PIAA Class 5A 1st round
The Penn-Trafford softball team got off to a bad start in its first-round state playoff game Monday when Twin Valley leadoff hitter Alivia Lichtner homered in the bottom of the first. For the Warriors, things only got better from there. Mack Keenan had three hits, and Hannah Allen drove in...
Youthful Bushy Run ready to make a run in District 31 American Legion baseball
One thing that has been consistent in District 31 American Legion baseball over the past few seasons is Bushy Run has either won or been in contention for the league title. Bushy Run tied for the top spot with Latrobe in 2021 with a 17-8 overall record, but things didn’t...
Pittsburgh eastern suburban real estate transactions for the week of June 5, 2022
Edgewood Ronald George sold property at 520 Allenby Ave. to Valerie Jamison for $275,000. Forest Hills Aedan Tracy sold property at 642 Filmore Road to Clara Heath and Akshay Ramesh for $240,000. Monroeville Gerald Irwin Jr. sold property at 4225 First St. to Jeremy Fruchter for $155,000. Laurianne Essay sold...
Patience at plate pays off for Armstrong softball in WPIAL championship win
After earning a reputation as an aggressive batting aggregation, patience turned out to be a virtue for the Armstrong softball team Friday. The River Hawks — averaging 11 runs per game — used patience at the plate, and it paid off. Leading off the bottom of the seventh in a...
Jenna Clontz belts WPIAL-winning walk-off homer as Armstrong tops Penn-Trafford
Moments after the game ended, Armstrong fans lugged a giant boom-box radio onto Lilley Field and turned up the music, bobbing their heads to the thumping beat. Junior left fielder Jenna Clontz had just performed one of the program’s greatest hits. This was the “hoopla” Penn-Trafford coach Denny Little warned...
North Huntingdon man pleads guilty to killing Penn Township couple
The man who was brazen enough to gun down their brother and his girlfriend last year refused to even make eye contact with Seth and Zack Erdeljac as they sat in court for his sentencing Wednesday. “Evil does exist in this world, and it is sitting here in the courtroom...
Trafford resident takes on local West Nile virus monitoring
Mosquito season has arrived in Westmoreland County and, just in time, so has a new staffer to oversee monitoring of those insects for the West Nile virus they can spread. Christina Edwards-McCune of Trafford came on board May 9 as the new West Nile virus program technician for the Hempfield-based...
Penn-Trafford grad, Penn State standout Josh Spiegel lives out dream of homering at PNC Park
Young baseball players in Western Pennsylvania grow up dreaming about the moment. Josh Spiegel experienced it. The Penn-Trafford graduate hit a three-run homer at PNC Park on May 17, leading Penn State to a 19-6 victory over Pitt. Spiegel drove a first-pitch slider over the North Side Notch in left-center,...
