Penn Hills Progress category, Page 57
2022 Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star Team: Penn Hills’ Julian Dugger
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. Camp is still weeks away, but Penn Hills quarterback Julian Dugger is...
In brief: Family campout, Bible study and more around Penn Hills, Verona
Family Campout Grab your tents and join your neighbors in Penn Hills Park at 5 p.m. July 9 for a Family Campout. Registration is required and is $30 per family. The campout will feature games, crafts, hiking, dinner and a movie in the park. A light breakfast will be provided...
With drive to improve, Penn Hills dives into summer basketball competition
Summer basketball isn’t just about improving skills. Penn Hills boys basketball coach Chris Giles enjoys watching his 3-year-old daughter, Jaxx, co-exist with the teams she’s around. Jaxx has an opportunity to spend time with two teams — her dad’s Penn Hills squad as well as her mom Jordan’s Seton LaSalle...
Eastern Pittsburgh suburban real estate transactions for the week of July 3, 2022
Chalfant CIM REO 2021 - NR1 LLC sold property at 264 Brighton St. to Edward Doheny for $88,000. Churchill Mary Louise Penisch sold property at 820 Beulah Road to Arthur and Keesha Sheffey for $200,000. Marlene Linden sold property at 2286 Elmhill Road to Ryan and Autumn Hadbavny for $165,000....
Black-owned cigar lounge opens in Penn Hills
For years, every Tuesday, East Liberty native Sheldon Oliver would meet with a group of his male friends to have a space to be vulnerable, share laughs and talk about life. The small gathering of five men began to grow as people around them would gravitate to their conversations. Three...
Penn Hills student news for the week of July 1, 2022
Emanuel Parker was named to the College of the Holy Cross spring 2022 Dean’s List. Emma Lintelman was named to Ohio University’s spring 2022 Dean’s List. Crista Lynn Herbert was named to the Dean’s List at Edinboro University. Jamar Lee, who is majoring in music performance – instrumental, has been...
Penn Hills Rotary, #3 North Bessemer VFD to hold Community Carnival & Cookout
The annual Penn Hills Community Carnival and Cookout will have new hosts and a new home this year. The Penn Hills Rotary and North Bessemer Volunteer Fire Department No. 3 will be hosting the second annual carnival at Turner-Friendship Park. “The Rotary and fire department are looking forward to hosting...
Penn Hills School District raises taxes for 3rd consecutive year
Penn Hills School Board unanimously approved the 2022-23 budget on June 29, which raises the real estate tax rate for the third consecutive year. This year’s increase is .5 mills, from 30.0965 to 30.5965. That means property owners will pay $30.5965 in taxes per thousand dollars of assessed value. The...
Plum resident earns special funeral practitioner certification
Anna Zvirman-Nesbit of Plum has qualified for the designation of certified funeral service practitioner by the Academy of Professional Funeral Service Practice. A number of professions grant special recognition to members on completion of specified academic and professional programs, and CFSP is the funeral service’s national individual recognition. To initially...
New coach presiding over positive offseason for Penn Hills football
The excitement still hasn’t worn off for Charles Morris. Spending time working with his players on the Penn Hills football team feels right. Morris, a 2005 Penn Hills graduate who spent time as an assistant at Gateway and Plum, is excited to take over the Indians program with his first...
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 Hills councilman Jim Getsy resigns
Penn Hills councilman James Getsy has resigned from office because of medical reasons, according to Mayor Pauline Calabrese. Getsy submitted his resignation before the June 20 council meeting, so accepting the resignation wasn’t on that night’s agenda. Council had to vote to add it, as well as accept it. “I...
Penn Hills Charter School of Entrepreneurship names new principal
Penn Hills Charter School of Entrepreneurship has appointed a new principal. Jessica Zuk, who is the school’s director of curriculum and instruction and MicroSociety coordinator, will assume her new position July 1. The charter school announced the hire June 9 in a press release. Zuk succeeds Tamara Allen-Thomas, who was...
Penn Hills grad Jordan Sullivan looks to hit books, baseballs at CCAC Boyce
During his freshman and sophomore years at Penn Hills, Jordan Sullivan wasn’t dedicated to academics and his grades suffered. He spent most of his junior and senior years digging out of the hole. “I obviously wasn’t putting the effort in,” said Sullivan, who graduated from Penn Hills this spring. “I...
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...
Romantic comedy ‘That’s Amore’ features filming locations in Plum and Murrysville
Actor, retired dentist and Plum resident David Petti sticks to what he knows. So when Petti was working on the screenplay for “That’s Amore” – which will be shown June 23 at the Oaks Theater in Oakmont – he didn’t stray far from his roots. “My character is a dentist,”...
Penn Hills High School class of 2022 graduates
Sydelle Brown could not stop herself from dancing across the stage and waving to everyone after she received her Penn Hills High School diploma on June 10. She and about 240 other classmates strutted their stuff in the middle of the Yuhas-McGinley Stadium field. “I wanted to be lit for...
Man found shot dead in Penn Hills
A man was shot and killed in Penn Hills early Tuesday. Allegheny County Police said the shooting was reported in the 200 block of Crescent Pines Drive around 1:50 a.m. First responders found a man suffering from a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The...
Ashley DeVito built program, relationships during 7 seasons with Penn Hills girls soccer
Dayvona Hogan enjoyed being able to keep her eyes on the varsity girls soccer team’s practice while she played for the Linton Middle School team. Hogan would wait until practice ended and eagerly wander over to talk to varsity coach Ashley DeVito. There was a natural curiosity for Hogan, who...
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...
Letter to the editor: Fireworks violators should be charged
With July 4 just weeks away, we hope that Penn Hills gets the message out that serious violations of Pennsylvania’s fireworks law will not be tolerated and that fines up to $1,000 will be levied on adults or their unsupervised children who violate the law, in particular the fire hazard...
Penn Hills student news for the week of June 9, 2022
Cameron Griffin of Verona graduated from Thiel College on May 8. Griffin was an exercise science major. Luke Greenway, Suni Missouri, Adiana Nelson and Tim Warner graduated from Grove City College on May 14. Greenway, Nelson and Narrah Amorino, Emily Bauer, Julia Bauer and Jonathan Danley were all named to...
Plum’s Monday Market opens for 5th season
Plum’s Monday Market opened its fifth season with some familiar vendors — but a new time. Jim and Kay Bridge, the husband and wife team behind Bridge’s Farm in Plum, had their tables full of produce and other plants on June 6. Penn Hills-based Pappy’s Gourmet Popcorn, Oakmont Olive Oil...
New season of Verona Farmer’s Market begins
New vendors and opportunities helped mark Opening Day 2022 for the weekly Verona Farmer’s Market. People who visited the market along Railroad Avenue on June 2 were able to meet Jessica Fischoff of the Growing Hour, a plant business in Blackridge. She had pepper plants, flowers and more. Fischoff said...
Penn Hills School District to have increased police presence due to threat
Penn Hills School District will have increased police presence after receiving a social media threat. The district sent students an email Monday night alerting them about the message. The correspondence said the post referenced potential violence at Linton Middle School on Wednesday. Superintendent Nancy Hines said Penn Hills police officers...
