Plum Advance Leader category, Page 31

Christmas show at Oaks Theater “Sounds of Christmas” featuring the Latshaw Pops Orchestra is scheduled for 7 p.m. Nov. 25 at the Oaks Theater, 310 Allegheny River Blvd., Oakmont. At more than 30 years, the Latshaw Pops Orchestra stages the longest-running Christmas show in the area. The variety show features...

Jean Armany suffered serious injuries on June 15, 2018, when her car was broadsided by a man driving recklessly in Plum. The Shaler woman had 25 fractures that required immobilizers and surgery and her lacerated lungs required chest tubes. Her 90-year-old mother, Olga Kocon, a passenger in Armany’s car, was...

Chalfant Karen Curtis sold property at 220 Fairview Ave. to Celeste Rousseau and Lydia Drew for $169,000. Churchill Joseph Sheehan sold property at 811 Margaretta St. to Ranney Lawrence for $152,000. Edgewood Kenneth Bonawitz sold property at 233 Elm St. to Nicholas Kilwein for $141,649. Monroeville Tim Becker sold property...

An award-winning season for the Riverview boys cross country team ended with silver medals and a runner-up trophy at the PIAA Class A championships Nov. 4 on Hershey’s Parkview course. It was the second podium finish for the Raiders in five years. The 2019 squad, led by Mason Ochs, Gideon...

Plum’s ice hockey season started well enough with a pair of victories and a combined 14 goals. With both games at home at Pittsburgh Ice Arena in New Kensington, the Mustangs skated past Hampton, 8-2, and then beat Wheeling Park, 6-4. The youthful Plum skaters — there are just four...

Holy Family Knights of Columbus Council 4242 donated 48 new winter coats for elementary students in Plum and Riverview school districts. Coats are being distributed to students through the assistance of the elementary guidance counselors at both school districts. Coats for Kids is one of the many charitable programs that...

While Republicans in Plum secured a sweep of borough council seats and the district judge’s office serving the borough and Oakmont, results were more mixed for the Plum School Board. With full slates of candidates vying for five seats, Democrats won three of them while Republicans took home two, according...

Republicans will have full control of Plum Council after securing a sweep in Tuesday’s election. Republicans Steve Schlauch, Dave Majernik and Jerry Purcell won the three council seats that were up for election, according to complete but unofficial Allegheny County election results. Schlauch, chairman of the Plum Republican Committee, was...

A nail-biting night for Mike Doyle ended in his favor Tuesday. Doyle, the Republican president of Plum Council, won the race for the vacant district judge office serving Plum and Oakmont over Democrat Melanie Pallone by less than 100 votes, according to complete but unofficial Allegheny County election results. Doyle...

Service dog program at AARP meeting Plum AARP will meet at noon Nov. 14 at Unity Community Church. The program will be William Jeffcoat of Life Changing Service Dogs for Veterans, accompanied by a veteran and a service dog, explaining the mission of his organization. Members can donate to the...

The Plum girls soccer team sought a return trip to the WPIAL Class 3A semifinals for the fifth year in a row when it faced Montour in a quarterfinal rematch of a regular-season tie game. It was the only blemish in 17 games for the No. 2 Mustangs through a...

The Plum and South Fayette boys soccer programs were no strangers to each other before meeting Oct. 25 in a WPIAL Class 3A quarterfinal at Plum High School. In the 2020 first round, the No. 13 Lions rose up and stunned the No. 4 Mustangs, 2-1, in overtime. Last year,...

Forest Hills Carol Lucas sold property at 3810 Greensburg Pike to Morgan Weyels for $159,900. Monroeville Thomas Cocchi sold property at 759 Cottonwood Drive to Pamela Long and Brad Piazza for $190,000. Estate of Patricia Prucnal sold property at 406 Eden Drive to Kirithigavali Balasubraminiam and Vibisanan Gurumurthi for $242,500....

PennDOT spent $925,000 fixing four landslides impacting state-maintained roads in Plum this year. The work on Old Leechburg, Milltown, Leechburg and New Texas roads inconvenienced drivers who had to take detours or find other ways around as the slides were repaired and the roads were rebuilt and resurfaced. The four...

Plum residents who haven’t been by the new municipal center for a while will get to see its latest amenity during the borough’s annual Christmas event. The borough is putting the finishing touches on a new amphitheater outside the municipal center on Old Mine Road. It will be used for...

The driver of a vehicle escaped serious injury Monday after he went off the road and down a hillside along Coxcomb Hill Road in Plum. The crash near the intersection of Kerr Road was reported around noon, according to Plum police Detective Joe Little. Initial reports from emergency dispatchers said...

From the 19th-century writings of Lewis Carroll to the 20th-century lyrics of Grace Slick, rabbits white and otherwise have come to symbolize departures from the ordinary. Plum resident Bob Freyer continues the tradition with his latest art exhibit. “It’s really just taking me away from all the stress and aggravation...

One of Wes Lorish’s main goals throughout the 2023 fall golf season was to make it back to states and have a shot at improving on last year’s tie for 10th place. Moving from the White Course at Penn State over to the Blue Course this year, Lorish moved up...

Churchill Andrew Michael Bell sold property at 1912 Garrick Drive to Hiral Patel for $420,000. Estate of Leonard Hornak sold property at 2525 Greensburg Pike Apt 201 to Francis Tomasic for $192,500. Edgewood Dominic Rugani sold property at 149-151 Race St. to ODUWA Realty LLC for $297,500. Forest Hills Eponymous...

Montour was the only team that didn’t lose to Plum in the regular season. Now the Spartans can say they’ll be the only team that beat the Mustangs in 2023. Behind a pair of goals from Grace Bannon and a sterling performance by goalkeeper Allison Armitage, No. 7 Montour upset...

It was one of the rarer calls rarely seen in a soccer match. In the 56th minute, Plum keeper Owen Zalewski was punting the ball away when the whistle blew and officials deemed he handled the ball outside the 18-yard box before he kicked it and awarded South Fayette a...

The Plum School Board is likely to have at least two new members after the Nov. 7 election. Five of the board’s nine seats are up for election this year. The May primary saw 14 candidates vying for the seats on the Democratic and Republican ballots. The whittled the field...

The Plum girls soccer team scored in the eighth minute to open its WPIAL Class 3A first-round game against Kiski Area on Monday at Plum’s Mustangs Stadium. The No. 2 Mustangs added on from there. Plum had four goals at halftime and cruised to a 6-1 victory over a youthful...

For most teenagers, the transition from high school to college is a giant leap, particularly when it comes to time-management skills. The ability to multi-task gets even harder for those who also play a sport. Dannika Susko didn’t see it that way. In fact, the Plum grad feels like she...

Plum Area Ladies Society Plum Area Ladies Society will hold its monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 1 at Plum Community Center, 499 Center New Texas Road. The theme for the refreshments and Friendship Basket is “Fall Harvest.” The speaker, Eric Selinger, is presenting “Rock Talks: Actually, Disco Didn’t Suck.”...