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In brief: news from Fox Chapel, Sharpsburg
Aspinwall A longtime tradition of honoring veterans and celebrating America is returning to Aspinwall. After a two-year pandemic hiatus, the Memorial Day parade and service is scheduled for May 30. Festivities begin with a ceremony at 11 a.m. outside the American Legion Post 77 along Commercial Avenue. Mayor Joseph Noro...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for May 19, 2022
High schools Baseball WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals Monday’s schedule Mt. Lebanon (13-7) vs. Seneca Valley (14-7); Norwin (10-8) vs. Central Catholic (10-9); North Allegheny (14-5) vs. Upper St. Clair (10-8); Pine-Richland (11-9) vs. Butler (13-5) Class 5A Quarterfinals Thursday’s results Peters Township 6, Penn-Trafford 5 Thomas Jefferson 1, Chartiers...
High school roundup for May 19, 2022: Playoff run continues for 12th-seeded Thomas Jefferson
Brady Haberman threw a complete-game three-hit shutout and Wyatt Janosko hit a solo home run in the bottom of the fifth to lead Thomas Jefferson to a 1-0 win over Chartiers Valley in the WPIAL Class 5A baseball quarterfinals Thursday. Brendan Cruz went five innings for No. 13 Chartiers Valley...
Union baseball ousts Riverview in title-game rematch
Thursday’s Riverview-Union Class A baseball quarterfinal was a rematch of last year’s championship game. While Union didn’t get a no-hitter like it did last season from Jake Vitale, Tyler Straub tossed a gem for the Scotties. Straub only struck out one, but Union picked up three early runs and Straub...
Pennsylvania’s GOP Senate primary gap narrows between Oz, McCormick with recount likely
Two days after polls closed in Pennsylvania’s closely watched primary election, the Associated Press deemed the Republican U.S. Senate race still too early to call Thursday, with celebrity surgeon Mehmet Oz and hedge fund CEO David McCormick seemingly headed toward a recount — and final results unlikely to be determined...
Avonworth gets its revenge, beats Mt. Pleasant in 3A softball quarterfinals
During the 2021 softball season, the Mt. Pleasant and Avonworth softball teams met twice in the playoffs, with the Vikings knocking off the Antelopes in both the Class 3A WPIAL semifinals and PIAA quarterfinals on their way to WPIAL and state championships. But this year Avonworth, with the help of...
Laurels & lances: Primary election edition
Laurel: To the voters. The discrepancy in voter turnout for a primary versus a general election is often decried. So is the differences in the lines at the polls in a presidential year as opposed to the other three years in the cycle. Heck, we pointed out just that in...
Burrell grad Taylor Johnson saves her best for last with W&J trackVideo
Ask Derek Workman about one of his athletes, and the fourth-year W&J track and field coach is more than happy to talk. He will gush at length about some quality or some performance related to said athlete. Stories abound, but there is one tale Workman said he will tell far...
BRP Modified Tour set for season opener at Lernerville Speedway
Two-time defending champion Chad Brachman of Sanborn, N.Y., will help open the 25th anniversary of the Bicknell Racing Products Tour on Friday at Lernerville Speedway in Sarver. The BRP Big Blocks will be joined at the track by the weekly Fab4 Revved Up divisions of the sprints and pro stocks,...
Michael Torres: The second coming of Trump in Pa.?
Despite facing rivals who outspent him by well over $20 million and a whirlwind of negative media, state Sen. Doug Mastriano has won the Republican nomination for governor in Pennsylvania. His ascension can be largely credited to an undercurrent of grassroots supporters who act and vote as though they’ve found...
Penn Hills student news for the week of May 24, 2022
Josiah Schweitzer, a junior premed/predent major, was among approximately 750 Bob Jones University students named to the Spring 2022 Dean’s List. Elijah Mellott, Dustin Runkel, Anthony Vehec, Christine Ritz, Aubrey Lewis and Dorian Adams were named to the President’s List at Southern New Hampshire University for the Winter 2022 semester....
Despite high vaccination rates among Pa. prisoners, some covid restrictions remain in place
Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — More than two years after the first coronavirus cases were reported in Pennsylvania state prisons, some of the mitigation...
Sewickley area real estate transactions for the week of May 22, 2022
Aleppo Bonnie Johnston sold property at 106 Woodcrest Drive to Bernadette Petrillo for $207,000. Bell Acres Sound Ideas Media LLC sold property at 562 Ambridge Ave. to St. Barnabas Land Trust Inc. for $480,000. Gregory Wagner sold property at 105 Bell Farm Estate to Michael and Jodi Dowling for $1,550,000....
Hampton High School spring musical receives 9 Kelly Award nominations
The Hampton High School spring musical production, “Into the Woods,” has received nine Gene Kelly Award nominations, including Andrew Kaehly as Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of “Cinderella’s Prince/Wolf.” Other nominations are for Best All-Student Orchestra and in the award’s Budget Level II category: Best Costume Design, Best Lighting...
Viewpoint 3: To avoid the next infant formula crisis, make food safety a priority
The Food and Drug Administration has reached an agreement with Abbott Laboratories to resume production at the company’s Sturgis, Mich., facility. The announcement gives hope of relief for the three-fourths of American parents who rely on infant formula and have struggled to find the product in recent weeks. But the...
1st major contract awarded for West Deer’s new township building
West Deer has taken the first major step toward constructing a new municipal building. Supervisors on Wednesday awarded a nearly $420,000 contract to HHSDR Architects of Pittsburgh to design the new township building to replace the current facility, built in 1952. The new building will be constructed beside the current...
Pirates catcher Roberto Perez to have season-ending surgery on hamstring
May 19—Veteran catcher Roberto Perez, who was helping guide the Pittsburgh Pirates pitching staff through the difficult early days of the season, will have season-ending surgery to repair his hamstring, director of sports medicine Todd Tomczyk said Wednesday afternoon. Perez, who signed a one-year, $5 million contract in November, to...
Special Olympics event hosted by Plum Borough School District
Plum Borough School District hosted its first multi-district Special Olympics event on May 19 at the high school stadium. Special Olympics Pennsylvania provides year-round athletic training and competition in 21 sports for individuals with intellectual disabilities, providing them with continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness skills, express courage, and participate...
North Allegheny School Board changes budget adoption meeting to June 21
The North Allegheny School Board plans to give final approval to a 2022-2023 budget package of more than $191 million on June 21, according to school district spokeswoman, according to Brandi Smith. The vote had been scheduled for June 15. The budget will be discussed at a June 8 board...
Monroeville Public Library hosts summer gardening classes
Miriam Cheng, owner-operator of Wild Child Native Gardens LLC, is presenting gardening classes at Monroeville Public Library, 4000 Gateway Campus Blvd. The classes are scheduled from 7 to 8:30 p.m. On May 25 is “Seed Sowing for the Beginning and Advanced Gardener.” Cheng will discuss how to start seeds inside...
A-K Valley High School Athletes of the Week: Brianna Thompson and Will Siegel
Brianna Thompson Class: Senior School: Springdale Report card: The senior catcher had a productive week for the Dynamos as she had a clutch RBI single during a key two-run sixth inning against Leechburg. Springdale won the game 3-1 and earned the section 3-A title outright. In her next game, Thompson...
Letter to the editor: We need thoughtful leaders, less guns
The hatred and intolerance in this country, very intentionally built over the past several decades, is going to take sustained effort from thoughtful, conscientious leaders to tear down. Unfortunately, our broken political system reduces the electability of thoughtful, conscientious people more with every cycle. But until we stop flooding the...
Penn Hills student news for the week of May 13, 2022
Penn Hills Coding Team, comprised of Penn Hills High School students Peter Frachioni, Rachael McCann, Paige Webb, Samantha Yee, Eric Cronin and Olivia Senge won the PNC Code for Your Cause competition. The team designed and created a wearable device that would warn the user if they were in danger...
Letter to the editor: Grateful for in-person Race for Grace
For three years, we had waited for the moment to physically gather together and collectively raise both money for and awareness of pediatric brain cancer. On April 9, at the 14th annual Race for Grace, that moment finally came to fruition with 1,564 registrants, 300 volunteers and hundreds of spectators...
Editorial: Understanding intimate partner violence is team effort
Hate crimes are different from other crimes because they have an impact more broad than on just the intended victim. They are a form of terrorism that is hard to address with other anti-criminal actions. That is why the U.S. Department of Justice addresses them. But while hate-motivated attacks are...
