Fox Chapel Herald category, Page 60
Fox Chapel celebrates 1st girls wrestling dual meet victory
Vie Filar got the Fox Chapel girls wrestling team in the win column for the first time in history. Filar pinned Valley’s Amaya Hayden in 1 minute, 37 seconds during their 235-pound match Jan. 10 to give the Foxes a 36-33 win at home. It was the first time the...
Fox Chapel notebook: Hockey team to be well-represented at PIHL All-Star game
The Fox Chapel hockey team will be well-represented at the PIHL Class 2A All-Star game. Cam Raidna was chosen as a coach. Fox Chapel also had forwards Liam Wiseman and Dom Casile and defenseman Tyler Goldstein picked to play in the game. Wiseman leads the team with 15 goals and...
Dorseyville Middle School honors band flutists perform for Fox Chapel Area School Board
Members of the Dorseyville Middle School honors band performed at the district’s school board meeting Jan. 8. The flute ensemble, under the direction of band director Anne Goggin, played the national anthem as well as a selection from “The Sound of Music.” The performance was part of the school’s way...
More local governments reorganize their leadership
More Fox Chapel-area governments welcomed their newly elected council members and supervisors, as well as appointed their top officials earlier this month. Blawnox Mayor Anthony Gross swore in Elaine Palmer, John Simmons and Christine Carnevali to their new council seats. Deborah Laskey and Randall Stoddard were reappointed as council president...
Fox Chapel Area School District officials approve new security upgrades
Fox Chapel Area School District officials are starting off the new year by spending nearly $379,000 on security upgrades. Board members unanimously voted Monday night to approve an approximately $254,900 proposal from Convergint Technologies and a five-year deal with AEC Group at a cost of about $123,700. The meeting agenda...
Fox Chapel area real estate transactions, week of Jan. 7, 2024
Blawnox Amy Little sold property at 602 Carla Drive to Jhonathan Ramos Fernandez and Sugen Cubas Torrealba for $210,000. Clifford Elby Dow sold property at 429 Fountain St. to Bird on the Run 2 for $165,000. Etna Estate of Mildred Shaginaw sold property at 67 Cherry St. to Muhammad Masood...
Innovative Polish Hill company looks to future of robotics, technology
Need a robot that can crawl up a metal wall? How about one with suction cup legs that can go almost anywhere? It won’t be long until robots with those abilities and more become common. In fact, you can see them now in Pittsburgh’s Polish Hill neighborhood. HEBI Robotics is...
Fox Chapel notebook: Former Foxes soccer star makes all-decade team
Fox Chapel graduate Jessie Thiessen was picked for the North Coast Athletic Conference women’s soccer 40th anniversary all-decade team. Players had to compete in the NCAC between 2013-23 to be eligible. Thiessen, a 2017 Allegheny college graduate, helped the Gators reach the NCAA Division III tournament in 2013 and 14....
Fox Chapel starting to see light at end of injury-filled tunnel
Marty Matvey doesn’t need to give pep talks on weathering adversity. The crushing presence of reality has allowed the Fox Chapel girls basketball coach to allow the Foxes to learn that skill on the job. For the past month, Fox Chapel has been without three starters and has been forced...
Yale University’s Spizzwinks (?) to perform in Oakland, Fox Chapel
They hail from all over the world and gathered in a Monroeville living room on Wednesday night. Representing four continents, their voices blended as they rehearsed songs in Pittsburgh — a city the vast majority of them have never visited. Traveling the globe is one of the beautiful aspects of...
Shady Side Academy’s pressure defense too much for Burrell girls
Shady Side Academy girls basketball coach Jonna Burke said her team is at its best when it plays good defense and turns that into offense. With a stout press, that’s exactly what the Bulldogs did Thursday night against a young, up-and-coming Burrell team. The Bulldogs caused nearly a dozen turnovers...
Standout basketball player, coach sentenced to jail for indecent assault, must register as sex offender
A former standout high school and college basketball player who was accused of sexually assaulting a teenage student at a skills school he operated in Ford City was sentenced to 23 months in jail and must register as a sex offender. In October 2022, South Buffalo police charged Mark Anthony...
Fox Chapel Area’s fall play snags 12 nominations in Prime Stage Theatre’s drama awards
Fox Chapel Area High School students received 12 nominations in Prime Stage Theatre’s fourth annual High School Drama Awards for their November play, “The Man Who Came to Dinner.” The nominated students are junior Lincoln Marshal in the best actor category, senior Sophia Rike in the best actress category, junior...
Sharpsburg Councilmembers sworn in; leadership selected
Sharpsburg Council welcomed a few new faces and appointed familiar leaders at its reorganization meeting Jan. 2. Mayor Brittany Reno swore in newcomers Kacie Cope and Corey Egwrube Ochai as well as incumbents Sarah Ishman, Adrianne Laing and Jonathan Jaso to their new seats. Cope, Ishman and Jaso won four-year...
Aspinwall Council welcomes new members, appoints new leadership
Aspinwall Council added new members and new leadership to start the new year. Mayor Joseph Noro swore in newcomers Mark Chimel II and Louis Curcio Jr. to their first four-year terms at a reorganization meeting Jan. 2. Incumbent Heth Turnquist was sworn in to his second term on council. He...
Fox Chapel officials hold line on real estate taxes, garbage bills
Fox Chapel property owners will not have to pay more in real estate taxes or for garbage collection in 2024. Council voted 6-0 last month to adopt its 2024 budget and maintain the tax rate at 2.95 mills. Councilman Thomas Karet was absent. The borough has not raised real estate...
Fox Chapel-based Women’s Board of Pittsburgh donates items to children in foster care, announces 2024 fundraising event
The Women’s Board of Pittsburgh has brought in more than $1.4 million for children’s charities since its inception in 1992, but the constant need is never far from their minds, members said. For their December meeting, members rounded up donations of blankets, toiletries, socks and books to benefit children in...
In brief: Herald area events for the week of Jan. 1, 2024
Foxwall EMS board meeting set for Jan. 16 Foxwall EMS will have its annual board meeting at 7 p.m. Jan. 16 at the station along Hemlock Hollow Road. The meeting is open to the public. Acting Chief Gino Mollica said the board meets in January for the purposes of electing...
Logan Golle’s buzzer-beater lifts Allderdice past Fox Chapel in PPG Paints Arena thriller
Less than two seconds hung on the scoreboard as Allderdice set up for an inbounds play and one final heave. Not only did the Dragons get the pass to their streaking star, but Logan Golle rose up to hit a deep prayer that rattled around the rim and left the...
Options abound for Western Pennsylvanians celebrating a dry holiday
Recovering addict Lisa Hoey of Pittsburgh’s South Side says alcohol was an integral part of her holidays. It was part of nearly every detail — from baking cookies and entertaining, to watching TV specials and wrapping gifts, said Hoey, now sober for more than two decades. An alum of O’Hara...
60th Medallion Ball recognizes 95 young women
The 60th Medallion Ball was held Nov. 24 at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh hotel. Bishop William Waltersheid honored 95 young women with the Joan of Arc medallion for completing a total of 17,474 volunteer hours. They join more than 5,500 others, now spanning four generations, who have given over 1.5...
Fox Chapel Area’s student-run telethon raises $66,775 for Backpack for Hunger
Fox Chapel Area students pulled in $66,775 during their 34th annual telethon Dec. 22. The money will benefit Backpack for Hunger, a local volunteer organization that provides weekend food for students in the school district. Students from all six of the district’s schools — Fairview, Hartwood, Kerr and O’Hara elementaries;...
Aspinwall sets new rules for short-term rental properties
People who want to operate short-term rentals, often called Airbnbs, in Aspinwall have some new rules to follow. Council unanimously voted Dec. 13 to pass an ordinance regulating such businesses catering to folks staying in town less than 30 days. Rules state the proprietor must obtain a permit and live...
New stop signs coming to busy Fox Chapel intersection
New stop signs will be installed at a busy Fox Chapel intersection in an effort to make turning safer. Police Chief Michael Stevens said there have been numerous near misses and complaints about traffic safety at Old Mill and Easton roads. “It has a sight distance problem,” he said. “When...
Fox Chapel area real estate transactions, week of Dec. 17, 2023
Blawnox Amy Little sold property at 602 Carla Drive to Jhonathan Ramos Fernandez and Sugen Cubas Torrealba for $210,000. Etna James O’Donnell sold property at 3 Greeley Ave. to Jaxon Properties LLC for $100,000. Fox Chapel James Pashek sold property at 1006 Elmhurst Road to Kansky Jean and Marie Selisma...
