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All of the spring high school sports teams around the WPIAL and throughout the state were in the same boat this past season. Everybody had to regroup and start all over after losing the 2020 spring sports season to the covid-19 pandemic. Perhaps that was to the advantage of the...

A Carnegie toddler overdosed on fentanyl after a day spent with his father, who has since been charged with involuntary manslaughter, police said. Van Redding, 36, is charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of his 4-year-old earlier this year. The child died May 7 at St. Clair...

Carnegie Farmers Market The Carnegie Farmers Market will take place every Sunday on East Main Street between Broadway and Mary noon-3 p.m. July 11-Sept. 26 with more than 40 vendors. Shoppers will have the ability to use SNAP and WIC benefits to purchase produce. The virtual market is open year-round...

The green bench on the cover of the book has a distinct meaning. “I chose a bench because anyone can sit on a bench,” Jill B. Yesko said Thursday inside Kingfly Spirits in Pittsburgh’s Strip District. “A bench is usually accessible to everyone. The bench represents my personal opinion to...

Carnegie Thomas Burch sold property at 17 Dean St. to Thomas Johnson and Kayla Davis for $96,810. Sumac Tree LLC sold property at 427 Library Ave. to Sumac Tree LLC for $151,000. Darrell Conley sold property at 42 Parkview Drive to Adbulaziz Isaqov and Nilufar Utalova for $241,500. Robert Heinrich...

Overcoming great odds. It is the stuff of lore that has been the focus of many Hollywood scripts. It also could be the theme for the 2021 Chartiers Valley boys lacrosse team. What started as a season of major roster concerns ended with success in the regular season, the district...

SUNYAC Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll Natalie Wasielewski, a resident of Carnegie, was one of 100 SUNY Potsdam student-athletes to earn a spot on the State University of New York Athletic Conference Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll for the 2020-21 school year. Wasielewski is a senior member of the SUNY Potsdam women’s...

An ongoing dispute regarding the future of St. Philip School — which the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh plans to merge despite strong opposition — escalated Thursday morning when police responded to the school as diocesan officials removed some equipment from the building. A spokesman for the Committee to Save St....

Editor’s note: Neighbor Spotlight is a monthly feature that aims to let our readers learn more about the people in their communities who are working to make them a better place, who have interesting stories to tell or who the community feels deserve “15 minutes of fame.” If you would...

Crossing the West Main Street Bridge in Carnegie will be a brighter and more colorful experience, thanks to a new public art project. The borough’s first public art project sought to bring an uplifting voice to community spaces, and that voice was found in local artist Alicia Kesneck. She, along...

Later this month — July 21, to be exact — we will mark the 160th anniversary of the first major land battle of the Civil War at Bull Run. It was on the fields around Manassas, Va., only 25 miles from Washington, D.C., that some 60,000 Union and Confederate soldiers...

Chartiers Valley area property owners will have to pay a little more in real estate taxes next school year as part of next school year’s $72.1 million budget. School directors approved their 2021-22 spending plan with a tax hike of just under 3% in setting the new millage rate at...

Residents within the Carlynton School District will see an increase in taxes for the 2021-22 school year. On June 22, Carlynton School Board approved the final balanced general budget of $30,879,655. The millage rate for 2020-21 was 25.7891. Superintendent John Kreider said the 2021-2022 millage will increase by .9541, for...

Carnegie Carnegie Park will host an Independence Day Celebration beginning at 2 p.m. July 3. There will be live music, food trucks, games, fireworks and more. The Pitcher Party Skate Tournament will take place at 2 p.m. for those under 17 and at 3 p.m. for those over 18. A...

Allegheny County’s swimming pools will be open for swimmers Tuesday. It’s just in time for the high temperatures expected — Pittsburgh’s high is forecast to be 91 degrees, with a slight chance of thunderstorms. All four pools will be open from 11:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., weather permitting. On Monday,...

Carnegie Farmers Market The Carnegie Farmers Market will take place every Sunday on East Main Street between Broadway and Mary noon-3 p.m. July 11-Sept. 26 with more than 40 vendors. Shoppers will have the ability to use SNAP and WIC benefits to purchase produce. The virtual market is open year-round...

Five years ago, Chartiers Valley was on top the of WPIAL Class AAA mountain. The Colts stunned top-seed Laurel Highlands in the quarterfinals, and then went on to beat No. 3-seed Blackhawk in the championship game, 4-3, for the school’s only WPIAL baseball championship. While there were no vision of...

There was a time when making the playoffs was no big deal for Bishop Canevin baseball. It was expected as a stepping stone to bigger and better things. Three times in the last two decades, the Crusaders played in a WPIAL championship baseball game, last winning gold in 2000. However,...

Bridgeville James DeAngelis Jr. sold property at 169 Union St. to Michael Lubitz for $174,900. Carnegie Joseph Tortorea sold property at 200 Fifth Ave. to Samantha Marie Sloan for $250,000. Mary Colleen Khalil sold property at 602 Boquet St. to Arazmurat Adakaev for $50,000. Gordon Hanczar sold property at 410...

Dave Wallace woke up this winter with the idea of cycling 335 miles from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C., to raise money for adoption services. The inspiration was simple — his adopted 13-year-old son, Zak. “It was shortly after we welcomed Zak into his forever home that I started having this...

The small Beverly Road storefront of Kara Kakes in Mt. Lebanon was dark on Tuesday morning. Normally it would have been open by 10 a.m. and illuminated more than anything else by Kara Leo’s constant smile. It’s the overwhelming memory people have of her. The woman who brought the bakery...

A month after he was arrested on federal charges accusing him of submitting fake applications to obtain $3.8 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans during the covid-19 pandemic, a Scott Township man submitted a new loan application seeking a half-million dollars, investigators said. Randy Frasinelli, 65, now faces additional charges...

Carnegie Independence Day Celebration Carnegie Park will host an Independence Day Celebration beginning at 2 p.m. July 3. There will be live music, food trucks, games, fireworks and more. The Pitcher Party Skate Tournament will take place at 2 p.m. for those under 17 and at 3 p.m. for those...

The Chartiers Valley girls lacrosse season began with the team having to reschedule a scrimmage because of a lack of players. The Colts season ended with a heartbreaking one-goal loss to top-seed Blackhawk in the WPIAL Class AA quarterfinals. In between, there were many high points for a growing program....

It’s better to walk before you run. For the youthful Carlynton baseball team, it was more like crawl then walk this spring. “Our season had an abundance of growing pains, but, overall, we showed a ton of improvements,” Carlynton first-year coach Steve Bressler said. “With losing seven seniors last season...