Plum senior Brooke Price ready for final push to WPIAL swimming championships
Brooke Price is ready. The Plum senior knows what the rush of swimming at the WPIAL championships at Pitt’s Trees Pool feels like as well as the work that must be done to be ready. The Mustangs are in prep mode for WPIALs, set for Feb. 26 and 27, and...
After securing 1st section title, Plum girls look ahead to WPIAL playoffs
The Plum girls basketball team already had clinched at least a tie for the program’s first section championship. That came Jan. 30 in a convincing 52-34 win at playoff-bound Penn Hills on the heels of a close nonsection victory over WPIAL power Penn-Trafford two days earlier. The outright title was...
Landslide knocks part of Logans Ferry Road in Plum down to 1 lane until summer
A section of Logans Ferry Road in Plum will have a single-lane restriction until summer after a landslide on a short portion of the roadway. The stretch sits between Browntown and Webster roads. New stop signs have been installed at each end as well as signage before the section that...
Scott Township man detained by ICE in Plum being held in West Virginia jail
Vishavdeep Singh, the Scott Township man detained by ICE agents in Plum on Wednesday, is being held in Northern Regional Correctional Facility and Jail near Moundsville, W.Va., according to ICE records. Singh, 22, was detained at the office of District Judge Mike Doyle after, police say, he attempted to flee...
Plum police: ICE detains Scott Township man at court hearing after he tried to run
A Scott Township man arrested last year in connection with a series of road rage incidents was detained by ICE agents following an altercation at the district court office in Plum, according to court documents filed Wednesday. Vishavdeep Singh, 22, of Scott was charged in November with multiple felonies after...
Plum Council expected to vote on new Taco Bell
Plum’s new Taco Bell is on the horizon. Borough council is expected to vote to approve the project along Golden Mile Highway at its meeting Monday, Feb. 9. So far, developers have progressed through Plum’s planning commission and zoning hearing board, which granted them minor changes to the drive-thru and...
Eastern Pittsburgh suburban real estate transactions for the week of Feb. 1, 2026
Churchill Ashley Phillis sold property at 301 Churchill Road to Brian Estocin for $319,000. Forest Hills John Istanish sold property at 813 Maine St. to Belinda Gibbs for $180,000. Patricia Porter sold property at 445 Pacific Ave. to Thomas and Lauren Davidson for $265,800. Monroeville Grace Wagner sold property at...
Plum’s Stephans hits 1,000 points in defeat of Penn-Trafford girls
Riley Stephans stepped to the top of the arc and accepted a pass from Tamia West. Flashing a quick glance at the hoop, she took the shot. The bank was open as she used a little backboard to complete the milestone field goal. That 3-pointer with 3 minutes, 41 seconds...
Winter storm provides Western Pa. schools a chance to show flexible instruction in action
After a massive snowfall Sunday, Western Pennsylvania school districts are grappling with how to approach instruction while maintenance crews continue clearing roads and meteorologists forecast frigid temperatures for the week ahead. About 10 to 12 inches of snow coated Allegheny and Westmoreland counties by Sunday night. This marks the first...
Plum hockey team riding high as regular season winds down
Plum is charging into the stretch run of the PIHL regular season on a seven-game winning streak. Coming off a 7-0 rout of South Park on Jan. 19, Plum has six games remaining, starting with a matchup with Wheeling Central Catholic at 8:10 p.m. Thursday at Pittsburgh Ice Arena in...
Eastern Pittsburgh suburban real estate transactions for the week of Jan. 25, 2026
ALLEGHENY COUNTY Edgewood Rui Babilonia sold property at 152 Oakview Ave. to Mathew Nathan Sathiyanathan Naveen and Anupriya Ebenezer for $275,000. Forest Hills Carson 2800 Associates L.P. sold property at 1987 Centurion Drive Apt 210 to Carlene Catania for $42,000. Monroeville Linda Cunningham sold property at 707 Citadel Drive to...
Plum says it’s short on salt, tells residents to avoid unnecessary travel
Like many areas of the Alle-Kiski Valley, Plum says it’s experiencing a “significant salt shortage” ahead of what’s expected to be an intense winter storm this weekend. That leaves the borough’s plow and salt crews to prioritize hills, intersections and “other critical locations” for maintenance, according to a statement from...
Plum High School honored by Special Olympics for unified sports teams
Matt Aaron, president of Special Olympics Pennsylvania, said walking through the doors of Plum High School felt different. He was there Wednesday to present the students and staff with a banner recognizing the school’s unified sports teams, which is a joint program with the Special Olympics that integrates students with...
Eastern Pittsburgh suburban real estate transactions for the week of Jan. 18, 2026
ALLEGHENY COUNTY Forest Hills Christopher West sold property at 259 Cascade Road to Patrick and Carolyn Sheehan for $270,000. Jesse Campayno sold property at 324 Sharon Drive to David Lefkowitz and Dawn Haberlach for $357,500. Nicholas Oran Fallone sold property at 332 Sharon Drive to George Reuss for $285,600. Jeffery...
Riley Stephans scores 29, Tamia West stuffs stat sheet as Plum tops Franklin Regional
It took overcoming an early 7-0 deficit and an 18-10 deficit in the second quarter, but the Plum girls basketball team was up to the task as the Mustangs rolled past Franklin Regional, 63-45, in a Section 1-5A matchup Thursday. “It was a great effort by the girls tonight,” Plum...
Plum begins vast addition, renovation project at O’Block Elementary
A few months from now, Plum’s O’Block Elementary is set to look much different. The building, which houses kindergarten through fourth grade, will receive a large addition and major renovations throughout its interior and exterior. District officials, together with a half dozen O’Block students, held a groundbreaking ceremony at the...
Plum girls grab section lead with win against Fox Chapel
The Plum girls basketball team is alone in first place in Section 1-5A as the first half of section play concluded Monday evening. Senior Riley Stephans scored a team-best 26 points, and junior Tamia West added 19 points and 14 rebounds as the Mustangs topped Fox Chapel, 65-49, at Plum...
In brief: Plum, Oakmont area news, events for the week of Jan. 12, 2026
Plum, Oakmont police recognized for road safety efforts AAA East Central honored police departments last month for their efforts to increase road safety for motorists. Plum and Oakmont are among the 65 Western Pennsylvania departments to receive platinum awards, while 23 departments were honored with gold or silver awards. Other...
Eastern Pittsburgh suburban real estate transactions for the week of Jan. 11, 2026
Churchill Jens Danielsen sold property at 2511 Collins Road to Jake Eged for $213,000. Estate of John Perry sold property at 2525 Greensburg Pike to Eugene and Audrey Wlahofsky for $222,500. Diane Davis sold property at 2525 Greensburg Pike Unit 403 to Leon and Jeanetta Blackston for $230,000. Estate of...
Plum’s Alaina Claassen, Saphia Davis stacking wins ahead of postseason tournaments
Alaina Claassen didn’t waste any time in dispatching her three opponents on the way to the 190-pound title at Connellsville’s Lady Falcon Invitational on Jan. 3. She pinned all three in a combined time of 1 minute, 50 seconds. “I felt pretty good in my matches,” said Claassen who improved...
Owen Campbell climbing Plum’s all-time wins list after reaching century mark
Owen Campbell joined an exclusive Plum wrestling list last month. With a 10-4 victory in a match against Mt. Pleasant at the North Hills Duals on Dec. 13, the senior 152-pounder became just the 15th wrestler in program history to record 100 varsity victories. “I was a little nervous going...
No arrests yet in Greenfield shooting, abduction
Allegheny County Police confirmed that a man shot in Pittsburgh’s Greenfield neighborhood on Wednesday night was the victim of a kidnapping earlier that evening. But police say the kidnapping did not happen in Plum, as originally reported. Instead, police say, preliminary information shows the victim traveled to an undisclosed location...
‘Brothers’ face off as Franklin Regional wrestling continues its roll with win over Plum
Franklin Regional 152-pound junior wrestler Michael Ruane was rivals with Plum’s Owen Campbell for six minutes Wednesday night at Franklin Regional High School. Not long after Ruane’s 8-2 win during the Panthers’ 66-0 Section 9 victory, their friendship, which has spanned well over five years, resumed. Ruane said competing against...
Pittsburgh police: Kidnapping in Plum related to Greenfield shooting
Police believe an armed kidnapping in Plum is connected to a shooting in Pittsburgh’s Greenfield neighborhood on Wednesday night. Pittsburgh police spokeswoman Eliza Durham said the department learned of the armed kidnapping reported to Plum police at
6:15 p.m. Wednesday. A family member told Plum police that his brother had...
New members join Plum Council, leaders named
November’s four election victors officially joined Plum Council on Monday, Jan. 5. Ryan Delaney, James McBride, Raymond Rall and Phoebus Apollo were sworn-in to their posts by District Judge Mike Doyle at the borough’s reorganization meeting. The four were part of a Democratic slate that swept aside Republican incumbents Paul...
