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Sewickley Herald notebook: Defense leads Quaker Valley girls volleyball
Quaker Valley recorded its first sweep of the girls volleyball season Sept. 9 against a section opponent, New Brighton. QV defeated the visitors by scores of 25-15, 25-21, 25-20 to improve to 2-1 in Section 1-2A and 2-4 overall. “I think this team’s strength has to be defense,” QV coach...
Sewickley Academy girls golf ready to contend in season’s 2nd half
Sewickley Academy’s girls golf team wrapped up the season’s first half at 6-2, capped by a one-shot win Sept. 3 against Beaver. Sewickley edged the Bobcats, 218-219, at Seven Oaks Country Club in a match that took one extra hole. “The whole team has worked really hard,” Sewickley coach Kelly...
Sewickley Academy boys soccer uses home-field advantage to get off to quick start
Sewickley Academy’s boys soccer team finally hit the road in mid-September. The Panthers played their first four games on their home turf, compiling a 3-1 record and a 1-0 mark in Section 1-A. Sewickley was scheduled to visit Freedom on Sept. 9 and South Side on Sept. 11 in section...
MAC title highlights promising girls tennis season for Quaker Valley
Winning the Midwestern Athletic Conference girls tennis championship could usher in bigger things for Quaker Valley in 2025. Led by sophomore Avery Allan, QV repeated as the winner in the team competition at this year’s MAC tournament at Beaver. Teams from both Class 2A and 3A were in the field,...
Globe-trotting Quaker Valley tennis player learns Arabic in Morocco
Hannah Stein, at age 16, already is a world traveler. Make that a globe-trotting linguistic. Stein, a junior and returning starter on the Quaker Valley girls tennis team, spent almost seven weeks on the other side of the earth this summer. The QV jetsetter traveled to Morocco through a program...
Quaker Valley takes pride in girls soccer rivalry win over Sewickley Academy
Quaker Valley scored twice in each half en route to a 4-0 victory in its annual girls soccer rivalry game. The Quakers blanked visiting Sewickley Academy in a nonsection contest Sept. 4 at Chuck Knox Stadium. QV has captured the last three games in the rivalry, winning by 2-1 and...
Eden Christian Academy girls volleyball looks to defend section title
Eden Christian Academy’s girls volleyball team opened the season with 3-1 wins over West Allegheny and South Park. Since then, the Warriors went 2-2 in their next four decisions with 3-0 victories against Western Beaver and Brentwood. Eden is the defending champion in Section 5-A as the Warriors were undefeated...
Sewickley area real estate transactions for the week of Sept. 14, 2025
Bell Acres Aurum Assets Ltd. sold property at 724 Campmeeting Road to Robert and Lisa Hohman for $148,750. Franklin Park Karla Martinelli sold property at 1533 Bonnett Drive to Ty and Amandas Best for $324,227. Wei Xu sold property at 1537 Field Club Drive to Joshua Brent Winters and Elizabeth...
Sewickley ‘Their Story’ documentary nears completion
Two years ago, the Sewickley Valley Community Fund awarded a major grant to support a committee formed to produce a documentary based on a book by longtime Sewickley resident Bettie Cole. Her book, “Their Story,” drew from more than 100 interviews with African-American residents, capturing their experiences of living and...
Former Leetsdale firehouse, spa turned into dream home
A former Leetsdale spa and firehouse is undergoing another transformation to become a dream home for an engaged couple. Adrienne Parkes and Charlie Dees moved to 85 Broad St. in May and plan to marry on Halloween. In the meantime, they’re renovating what once served as the borough building, police...
Sewickley’s Laughlin Children’s Center has a new executive director
Children are at the heart of Chrissy Dale’s new job as executive director at the Laughlin Children’s Center in Sewickley. Founded in 1956, Laughlin Children’s Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving children and families across the region. It provides academic support, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, psychological...
Women’s bible studies, chicken dinner and more at Sewickley area houses of worship
Antioch Baptist Church 332 Elizabeth St., Sewickley. 412-741-7688. antioch fwbaptistsewickley.org. Morning worship and praise service is at 10:45 a.m. First Sunday Sunday School is at 9:30 a.m. The fourth pastoral anniversary of beloved Pastor Verton L. Dean Sr. will be celebrated on Sunday, Oct. 5 at 10:45 a.m. The guest...
Sewickley police to get new set of firearms, related equipment out of caution
The Sewickley Police Department will receive new firearms to replace ones that officials are concerned might misfire. There have been multiple reports and numerous lawsuits filed in the past few years regarding Sig Sauer P320 guns going off by themselves. The pistol made by the New Hampshire-based gun manufacturer was...
In brief: Pancake fundraiser, board vacancies and more in Sewickley area
Winter maintenance contract approved Aleppo commissioners recently approved a new three-year contract with Allegheny County officials for winter maintenance on county-owned roads in the township. Township manager Gwen Patterson said public works crews treat Glenfield Road and Glen Mitchell Road from Merriman Road to the Glen Osborne borough line. Patterson...
Conference at Allegheny County Courts set to discuss Herbst House
A stagnated battle over the preservation or destruction of an old Catholic school and convent in Sewickley may soon resume. A status conference at Allegheny County Courts has been scheduled for 11 a.m. Oct. 3 at the City-County Building. The borough requested the conference after “various settlement efforts” reached an...
‘Torture session’ leads to prison for Sewickley man’s tormentors
Jon Olson has physically healed. From the cigarette burns on his body. The superglue on his eyes and hair. The knife wound to his face. But the emotional trauma of having a gun held to his temple, being urinated on, being held captive for hours — that remains. “The physical...
Giant Eagle to open pharmacies at former Rite Aid stores in Mt. Washington, Sewickley
Giant Eagle will open standalone pharmacies at former Rite Aid locations in Pittsburgh’s Mt. Washington neighborhood and Sewickley, the company confirmed to TribLive on Monday. These will be similar to traditional drugstores, according to the Cranberry-based grocery chain, with a pharmacy counter as well as a wide selection of health...
Contract talks between Glen Osborne, Sewickley police have begun
Contract talks have begun between Glen Osborne and Sewickley Police Department officials with the goal of getting a new deal done in the coming months. Glen Osborne contracts out its law enforcement services to the neighboring Sewickley force. The current five-year contract expires at the end of this year. Borough...
Sewickley Heights couple owns Comfort Keepers, providing caregivers for seniors
Sondra MacArtney initially thought paying for a caregiver seemed like an unnecessary expense — but turns out it is “wonderful” to have help. “I can’t see well and sometimes I need help with choosing the right colors to wear,” said the 87-year-old, who goes by “Sondy” and resides in an...
Sewickley sports notebook: Quaker Valley girls soccer spreads out scoring
The Quaker Valley girls soccer team had nine reasons why its season-opener was a successful outing. The Quakers blanked Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, 9-0, on Aug. 28 as six players scored goals for the winning side. Freshman MF/ATT Ella Plachecki, senior MF Ari Bosh and sophomore MF/D Mia...
New girls volleyball program gets off the ground at Sewickley Academy
There’s a trendy new sport in town that has the Sewickley Academy athletic program adrenalized. For the first time in school history, Sewickley is fielding a girls volleyball team this fall coached by Julia Arlia. “We are extremely excited to launch our first girls volleyball team this year,” said Mike...
Sewickley Academy boys soccer shows promise, room for growth in early going
Sewickley Academy’s boys soccer team started out with four home games this season at Nichols Field. Halfway through the four-game stretch, the Panthers were 2-0 with nonsection victories against Serra Catholic and Trinity Christian. “While we did a lot of good things and have a good foundation to build upon,...
Quaker Valley cross country gets off to quick start
The Quaker Valley cross country teams began the 2025 season with a fast start. And that was prior to competing in their first big event on the schedule, the Red White & Blue Classic set for Sept. 6 at White Oak Park. The Quakers participated in a three-team scrimmage Aug....
With early wins, football team shows it’s not ‘the same Quaker Valley … from last year’
Two up, two down. Quaker Valley made more than just some noise on the football field in the first two weeks of the season. QV defeated Class 2A Keystone Oaks, 20-13, on Aug. 29 to go to 2-0 for the first time since 2017. That came after the Class 3A...
New ‘Clemente’ documentary to show at The Lindsay Theater in Sewickley
Starting Sept. 12, the world will get a glimpse at another side of a Pittsburgh sports legend. The new documentary “Clemente” may be about one of the greatest Pittsburgh Pirates of all time, but it’s not just about baseball — the film is more focused on the man behind the...
