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Foxwall EMS has earned recognition from the American Heart Association for its work to improve treatment of heart attack patients. The group, housed along Squaw Run Road in Fox Chapel, was given the Mission: Lifeline EMS Silver Plus Award for improving response measures, Commander Josh Worth said. Mission: Lifeline’s EMS...

State Rep. Lori Mizgorski, R-Allegheny, announced Wednesday that she will offer summer hours to accommodate residents’ busy schedules. Beginning July 9, the legislator will be available for evening hours in Fox Chapel, Glenshaw, Allison Park and Gibsonia for people who need to access to government-related services. The hours will be...

Free pickleball play kicks off tonight in Aspinwall. The courts, at the Aspinwall Community Field near Fifth Street, are open from 6:15 to 8:15 p.m. Wednesdays. The program will run through Sept. 25 and is open to all. A paddle sport for all ages and skill levels, pickleball has emerged...

Shady Side Academy celebrated the 125 students in the Class of 2019 at Senior School commencement on May 31. Bagpiper George Balderose led the processional, playing “The March of the King of Laois” and the Chamber Choir sang “You Are The New Day.” Lisa Schroeder, incoming president and CEO of...

Get your game on, teens in the Lower Valley. For one week, July 8-12, youngsters can enroll in a free hands-on summer camp to learn the ins and outs of gaming design. Presented by the Pittsburgh International Game Developers Association and Global Game Jam Next, field experts will deliver tips...

Fox Chapel Area School District residents will pay the same property taxes in 2019-20 after the board approved its final budget on June 10. The $103 million spending plan retains a tax rate of 19.57 mills, the same as last year. The owner of a home assessed at $200,000 will...

A free summer food program launched this week in Sharpsburg and it is free and open to anyone 18 and younger. No registration is required. The program is hosted at Sharpsburg Family Worship Center, 610 Clay Street. “Summer breakfast and lunch provides free food to our wonderful children and teens...

A Fox Chapel Area junior has been recognized as a Positive Athlete by the group for which former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward serves as ambassador. Brent Brewster is a winner in the boys swimming and diving category of the 2019 Positive Athlete program, among athletes in other sports...

Campers at Lauri Ann West Community Center in O’Hara got up close and personal last week with some visitors, namely a snake and Fennec fox, from the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium. Youngsters who attend the summer camp along Powers Run Road were treated to a wildlife lesson on June...

Elementary school students in the Lower Valley can spend a week at the Sharpsburg Community Library learning more about DNA, food as fuel and biological blueprints. The Science in the Summer Camp, hosted by Carnegie Science Center, will be July 22-25 at the library, 1212 Main Street. The experiment-oriented sessions...

O’Hara residents can continue to enroll in the township’s Hometown Heroes banner program, but it will be at their own cost now that a grant from the District Association is exhausted. Council voted last week to continue the program if residents pay the $95 cost of purchasing and hanging the...

Etna and Sharpsburg will join municipalities across the region in hosting a National Night Out this summer. The inaugural celebration will be 6 to 9 p.m. Aug. 6 at the Gateway Portal, along Bridge and North Main streets. Hailed as a night of appreciation for first responders, the event is...

Sharpsburg Mayor Matt Rudzki didn’t mince words when encouraging people to attend tonight’s drug awareness program in the borough. “Last year, nearly 50,000 Americans died of an opioid overdose,” Rudzki said. “It is a deadly and devastating epidemic. We can’t keep parsing this dire issue.” Rudzki joins state Rep. Sara...

Sharpsburg Volunteer Fire Department was able to make safety upgrades to the station along Main Street, thanks to a grant from the federal government. The department was selected to receive $48,000 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to eye air quality improvements at the fire hall. Members installed an...

Ninety-two-year-old Mary Kurtz didn’t mind getting her hands dirty helping to plant a community garden in Blawnox last week. “This is a great program,” she said, while planting seeds in a wheelchair-accessible garden bed. “It should have been done a long time ago. I am willing to help in any...

Two Fox Chapel Area athletes will attend the invitation-only USRowing Olympic Development Program. Ainsley Good, who rows for Fox Chapel Crew Club, and Lulu McCrady, who rows for Three Rivers Junior Rowing, were among 40 athletes selected from the Midwest and Central regions to attend the training camp in Pittsburgh...

Motorists who travel Route 28 through O’Hara should expect slight delays today and Thursday in the area over Powers Run Road. PennDOT announced that crews would be conducting bridge inspections, weather permitting. Motorists can expect single-lane restrictions while PennDOT crews are working. Inspections were done previously this week at the...

Aspinwall hosted its annual town-wide yard sale on June 8-9. The event, in its 15th year, draws hundreds of shoppers to the streets of the borough....

Don’t be bugged by the return of the 17-year cicadas. Instead, visit Cooper-Siegel Community Library’s program on the loud insects that emerged from underground this summer. “Bugs & Insects” will be presented by Allegheny County Parks on June 19. The session aimed at children in grades one to four will...

Music lovers and outdoor enthusiasts should mark their calendars for the second annual Rock the River concert series at Aspinwall Riverfront Park. Organizers announced Tuesday that they would continue the series this year, kicking off June 30 with a show by The Shiners, a rock-alt band that has toured with...

Nearly 400 people have signed a petition to oppose the potential approval of a planned residential development near Dorseyville Road in Indiana Township, near Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve. The petition, at ipetitions.com/petition/stop-development-of-large-facility, seeks to halt approval of The Waters Senior Living Holdings, which would consist of 179 residential units just...

More than 300 people turned out to bid farewell to Kerr Elementary in the Fox Chapel Area School District during the “Last Open House” on June 6. “We had a really nice turnout,” Jill Leonard, district community engagement specialist, said. “We had folks in their 80s and families who brought...

The next two murals in Sharpsburg’s “Beyond the Ceiling” project will be unveiled on June 15. The five-part series is aimed at honoring a group of unsung female heroes in the borough, all nominated by residents for their dedication to the community. Photo murals highlight women who have gone above...

Volunteers are invited to help clean the Sharpsburg riverfront Saturday at the James Sharp Landing. The event is hosted by Allegheny CleanWays and will run 3 to 6 p.m. at 1301 Main Street. Trash removal is part of a continuing series, Allegheny River Cleanup, happening along the waterways from Freeport...