Monroeville Times Express category, Page 9

About 100 Gateway High School students participated in the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports celebration recently and enjoyed a petting zoo, games and treats. Faculty has been working with the Allegheny Intermediate Unit to roll out the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, or PBIS, program since the covid pandemic. “Essentially,...

Email news briefs and event listings to pvarine@triblive.com. Camp Invention events Students in kindergarten through sixth grades are invited to take part in Camp Invention, a nationally recognized summer enrichment program, which will be held at several locations this summer in Monroeville. Each year, the program features curriculum inspired by...

Quasics — Gateway High School’s robotics club — is hoping the school board approves $10,000 in annual funding to cover the registration fees for the group’s competitions. Team members Salma Mukhtar, Emma Parrish and Vivian Rader made a presentation and thanked the board at a recent meeting for previous funding,...

Gateway High School Chick-fil-A Leader Academy students recently spent one morning preparing care packages for cancer patients at AHN Cancer Institute Forbes. The cancer center in Monroeville sees 250 patients each week, and the teens wanted to provide tote bags for every patient. Each school year, the high school organization...

Traffic lights along Route 48 in Monroeville have been approved for inclusion in the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission’s SINC-UP project, which provides upgrades to traffic signals to increase efficiency. Monroeville officials announced the project at their council work session on Tuesday. It’s the latest in a series of initiatives aimed at...

The capital of WPIAL Class 2A tennis for the 2024-25 school year might be located in Cranberry Township. North Catholic defeated Valley, 4-1, in the team tennis finals Wednesday at Janet Swanson Tennis Center at Washington & Jefferson. It’s the first title in the North Catholic boys tennis program’s five-year...

Sarku Japan restaurant in Monroeville Mall was ordered closed after a May 5 inspection revealed five health code violations. Allegheny County health inspectors said a wastewater backup at one of the kitchen grease traps warranted the closure at the restaurant, located in the food court at the Monroeville Mall. County...

Four U. S. Postal Service carriers at the Monroeville Post Office entered elite company Wednesday. They each have served more than 30 years without getting into a preventable crash on their routes. It’s a rare feat, accomplished by only 2.5% of all letter carriers, said Ted Lee, representative for the...

With one more collegiate outdoor track and field season of eligibility left at Slippery Rock, Sarah Corrie weighed her options about whether to hang it up after a plethora of standout performances at all levels the previous four years or continue on for one more shot at reaching lofty goals...

For the second year in a row, Dino Nadarevic established a new meet record at the South Fayette Invitational on April 26. The Gateway senior throwing standout won the shot put with a top attempt of 58 feet, 4.5 inches, almost a foot further than the record 57-6 he tallied...

ALLEGHENY COUNTY Chalfant Emily Hilliard sold property at 148 Brighton St. to Mark Bailey for $10,000. Churchill Gregory Rudman Jr. sold property at 3755 E Rural Court to Johnston Jake LLC for $94,188. Edgewood Thomas Kempen sold property at 168 Gordon St. to Timothy Beasley and Jessica Richmond for $249,000....

Prosecutors have valid concerns that a key witness against a Clairton man accused in the 2023 shooting of a Monroeville police officer could flee or die before next month’s trial, a Westmoreland County judge ruled. The witness, according to prosecutors, was a passenger with Bruce Alvarado as he fled in...

Scottish Heritage Day Hillcrest United Presbyterian Church will host a Scottish Heritage Day on May 4. The all-ages event is open to the public and will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the church, 1622 James St. in Monroeville. The day will kick off with a worship service...

ALLEGHENY COUNTY Chalfant Ashley Morcheid sold property at 120 Shadeland Ave. to Sam Pascal II for $59,250. Churchill Carrington Mtg Services LLC sold property at 1648 Jamestown Pl to Meir Atais for $200,000. Edgewood Mary Patricia Conway sold property at 858 E Hutchinson Ave. to Hilarie Alberico for $362,500. Maureen...

Emotions were flowing April 22 when Emma Kennedy and her Slippery Rock softball teammates took the field for a doubleheader at IUP. The Crimson Hawks program’s “Strikeout For Cancer” event that day honored those who have battled cancer, who are battling cancer or who have died from the various forms...

As a child, Stacey Pydynkowski didn’t encounter much art in the traditional sense of visiting galleries or museums, but was instead fascinated by the visual imagery in everyday life — especially in nature. “The vibrant flowers in my neighbor’s garden bed in the trailer park I grew up in inspired...

Monroeville council will see some changes after this year’s elections, with second-term mayor Nick Gresock finishing his time with the municipality and multiple council seats in play. Four seats are open on council, however only one of those seats will have multiple candidates vying for it in the May 20...

School district seeks sponsorships Gateway School District officials are seeking sponsors for numerous facilities throughout the district. Individuals or businesses interested in sponsorships can email Jeremy Tepper at jtepper@gatewayk12.org. Divine Mercy Academy cheer camp Registration is open for Divine Mercy Academy’s Saber Summer Cheer Camp, which will be held from...

Kassandra Poliziani started organizing school Earth Day projects before she began teaching at Gateway. “This is my sixth year doing the project at Gateway and I previously started it at Blairsville school district,” Poliziani said. The kindergarten teacher begins by picking up paper bags — which are donated by Giant...

A third person has pleaded guilty to involvement in a credit-card fraud scheme which cost a regional car-rental company more than $500,000. Tai Jauna L. Jones, 29, of Pittsburgh pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of access device fraud and aggravated identity theft, after prosecutors said she provided credit...

Property owners in the Gateway School District will pay more in real estate taxes if the tentative 2025-26 budget is approved. School directors Monday voted to move forward with a $98.6 million spending plan for next school year, a 4.8% increase over this year’s budget. The tentative budget includes a...

Austin Lockhart leapt 43 feet, 3 inches in the triple jump at last year’s WPIAL Class 3A track and field championships at Slippery Rock. It wasn’t his best distance of the season. That was a 44-5 at a regular-season invitational. But his top jump in his WPIAL debut earned him...

Adam Memije and Advaita Sircar could meet at some point in the PIAA Class 3A singles tennis tournament May 23-24 in Hershey. Memije, a Gateway senior, and Sircar, a sophomore from North Allegheny, already know a lot about each other. They faced each other in the WPIAL finals for the...

ALLEGHENY COUNTY Churchill Estate of Daniel Marsh sold property at 116 Merrie Woode Drive to Savebah Khan and Hafsa Samit for $279,900. Edgewood William Leary sold property at 183 Lloyd Ave. to Matthew and Zoe Goldfarb for $310,000. Lauren Skrabala sold property at 404 Railroad St. to Cameron McCormick and...

Part of Old William Penn Highway in Monroeville will be closed next week as PennDOT replaces the superstructure of the bridge that carries the Parkway East above the road. Old William Penn will close between Evergreen Drive and Duff Road from April 22-25, to allow construction crews to continue replacing...