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Alle-Kiski Memorial Day events
Organizations and communities planning Memorial Day activities should send the information as soon as possible to: Carol Pinto-Smith, Valley News Dispatch, 210 Wood St., Tarentum, PA 15084; email cpinto-smith@triblive.com; or fax 724-226-4677. All events are on May 30 unless otherwise noted. Apollo Apollo Volunteer Fire Department No. 2 will sponsor...
Letter to the editor: A sensible solution to a serious problem
In “Climate catastrophists need to chill” (May 8, TribLIVE), Mona Charen says it’s an exaggeration to call climate change an “extinction-level” problem. I agree — but she is wrong to downplay the problem when she writes “At the more extreme end of possible effects … agriculture would be affected.” Agriculture...
Editorial: Inflation hitting government always hits taxpayers
Inflation is sending prices through the roof, from making breakfast and cleaning your house to buying a car and renting an apartment. All of them are not only up but also continuing to climb. Restaurants are marking more menu items as “market price” because of the rapid fluctuation, elevating a...
The Stroller, May 21, 2022: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15068. Please include a daytime telephone number. Used paper-back books needed for troops, veterans The Last Word Bookstore, Lower...
Letter to the editor: God bless the Ukrainians
Letter-writer Kathleen Bollinger (“More to the story on Ukraine”) has a point that liberal media is one-sided and that Russia and Ukraine have been fighting since 2014, but that is all. Russians are not bad people, but they endure repression of religion, free speech and the truth. Now we have...
Pirates farm report for May 20, 2022: Matt Fraizer’s blast helps Curve rout Richmond
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 20-18) defeated Toledo (Tigers), 5-2. SS Ji-hwan Bae (.293) was 3 for 4 with a home run. 1B Mason Martin (.258) smacked a two-run homer. CF Travis Swaggerty (.208) was 2 for 3 with a home run, triple and two RBIs. LHP Trey McGough (3.06) started and allowed...
High school sports scores, schedules for May 20, 2022
High schools Baseball WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals Monday’s schedule Mt. Lebanon (13-7) vs. Seneca Valley (14-7) at West Mifflin, 4 p.m.; Norwin (10-8) vs. Central Catholic (10-9) at Plum, 4 p.m.; North Allegheny (14-5) vs. Upper St. Clair (10-8) at Shaler, 4:30 p.m.; Pine-Richland (11-9) vs. Butler (13-5) at...
Butler County gun parts supply store files federal lawsuit against ATF over ghost gun rules, enforcement
A fight over the sale of ghost guns and parts to make them has come to Western Pennsylvania as a Butler County gun parts supplier on Friday filed a federal lawsuit against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The complaint, filed by Not an LLC, which operates as...
Alexis Hrivnak’s 18 strikeouts lift Springdale past South Side in WPIAL quarterfinals
The Springdale and South Side softball teams are no strangers. The teams faced off in the WPIAL quarterfinals Friday for the second straight season at Montour. Last spring, South Side got the better of the Dynamos by a run. On Friday, fourth-seeded Springdale flipped the script and scored a 2-1...
Gary Franks: Supreme Court should leave college admissions alone — for the Good of America
As the world shifts its focus toward mourning the victims of senseless violence directed at racial and religious minorities, we should recognize that the Supreme Court actually has an opportunity to show the world where America really stands on racial diversity and race relations. The Supreme Court has held numerous...
Quaker Valley tennis advances to PIAA semifinals
One WPIAL boys tennis team remains in the hunt for a PIAA title after Quaker Valley earned a 3-1 win over District 6 champion Juniata in the state quarterfinals Friday at Hershey Racquet Club. Mike Sirianni won at first singles, and the doubles teams of Henry Veeck/Justin Hajdukiewicz and Michael...
Days before Oklahoma bans abortion, details still uncertain
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma is only days away from enacting the toughest U.S. state ban on abortion and providers are preparing to stop terminating pregnancies while questions remained Friday about enforcement of the law’s limited exceptions. The law allows abortions to save a pregnant patient’s life “in a medical emergency”...
As more doctors are kidnapped in Haiti, more hospitals protest by refusing new patients
The kidnapping-for-ransom of two more doctors in Haiti, where a pediatrician on Friday marked her 16th day in captivity, is prompting hospitals and physicians in the capital to close their doors and turn away new patients in protest. Bernard Mevs, a facility that specializes in trauma and critical care, and...
Religious backers of abortion rights say God’s on their side
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — It was lunch hour at the abortion clinic, so the nurse in the recovery room got her Bible out of her bag in the closet and began to read. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding,” her favorite proverb...
Peter Morici: Biden needs some Republicans for his foreign policy team
Since World War II, U.S. foreign policy has promoted human rights and democracy by maintaining a superior military, offering security commitments to friends in Europe and Asia, and promoting free trade and investment among Western and nonaligned nations. Through the World Trade Organization and regional agreements, the latter policy encouraged...
Family of man who died after falling through South Park skylight files lawsuit
The wife of a man who died while doing restoration work on Agricultural Hall in South Park last year filed a lawsuit against the county and contractor Thursday in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court. Kelly A. Scabilloni filed the complaint as the administrator of Frank Scabilloni’s estate. It includes claims...
Darwyyn Deyo and Conor Norris: Pa. should make covid-19 licensing waivers permanent
In response to the emergence of the covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, Gov. Tom Wolf enacted numerous waivers for unnecessary regulations to ensure Pennsylvanians had access to health care. These were extended several times, but they are once again set to expire. Sadly, many Pennsylvanians lacked access to health care...
Leaning wall at Springdale field only likely to get worse
The Allegheny Valley School Board is pondering what it will do next to halt movement of a wall at Veterans Memorial Field in Springdale. The board heard an engineering assessment about the wall, which runs along the Lincoln Avenue side of the facility, where the varsity football team plays its...
Letter to the editor: Inflation is good for the state
I don’t hear governors speaking out against inflation, I think because, when items cost more, the more sales tax the state collects. Clem Zahrobsky Delmont...
Letter to the editor: We must learn history to continue journey to equality
I’m still not sure what the bugaboo words “critical race theory” mean that people seem to be so afraid of. But we do need to teach true American history, even if it is painful. Slavery, lynchings, segregation, Jim Crow laws, red-lining, the Tulsa race massacre (and others), the Scottsboro boys...
Letter to the editor: Jesus never preached about abortion
Anyone remember Bizarro World Superman who did everything opposite from the real Superman? Republicans apparently believe in a Bizarro Jesus who harps on abortion as the central issue of Christianity and condemns people for being “woke” — that is, recognizing and working to right civil inequity. In the actual Gospels,...
The Stroller, May 20, 2022: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15068. Please include a daytime telephone number. Free fishing derby scheduled for Northmoreland Park A free fishing derby will...
‘I told you not to drive them home’: 1 dead after McKeesport man allegedly opened fire on ex’s car
A McKeesport man, angry that an ex-girlfriend was driving co-workers home from work, followed them, rammed the car and ultimately shot and killed the man in her passenger seat, according to police. Tyrique Simmons, 21, is charged with homicide in connection with the death of 20-year-old Ibrahim Diallo. A criminal...
Letter to the editor: Keep Pa.’s primary as is
I have two issues. The first issue is that the primary election’s job is to select a party’s candidate for the general election. This is solely the prerogative of those in that party’s body of voters. This is not for nonparty voters to decide, or, for that matter, have any...
Pirates farm report for May 19, 2022: Greensboro’s Matt Gorski homers twice for 2nd straight game
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 19-18) split a doubleheader with Toledo (Tigers). The Mud Hens won the first game, 4-2. RHP Roansy Contreras (0-1, 2.66) started and went 5.2 innings, allowing three runs, two earned, on six hits and a walk with four strikeouts. SS Oneil Cruz went 1 for 1 with three...
