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Editorial: Why not a state gas tax holiday, Gov. Wolf?
On Monday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf joined his counterparts in Colorado, Michigan, New Mexico and Wisconsin in appealing to congressional leaders. Minnesota’s governor hopped on the bandwagon later. The problem is the rising gas prices that are making it more expensive by the hour to fill up a tank. When...
Letter to the editor: Biden must open access to American energy
In his State of the Union speech, President Biden promised to fight inflation. One of the biggest contributors to inflation is rising energy costs. The cost of gas, heating oil, electricity, etc., affects every aspect of our society. The price of food, consumer goods, transporting products and just about everything...
The Stroller, March 13, 2022: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your community Easter Egg hunts, breakfasts with the Easter Bunny and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Kiski Area musical cast to host breakfast The cast of Kiski Area High School’s spring...
Letter to the editor: Casey, Toomey should support Jackson as justice
The selection of a Supreme Court justice has a profound effect on the well-being of our democracy. The decisions made by a justice over decades of his or her lifetime affect each and every one of us on issues of health care, a thriving environment, jobs and civil rights and...
Freeport seeking more grant funding for new sewage plant to keep consumer bills down
Freeport is continuing to seek more funding for a proposed $16.9 million sewage treatment plant. In January, the borough received an $11 million state grant. But officials are looking for more sources of funding to avoid a bank loan to finance the remaining $5.9 million. A borough analysis in February...
North Hills real estate transactions for the week of March 13, 2022
Franklin Park Estate of Stanley Hoehl sold property at 2387 Fairhill Road to Patricia Edwards for $389,000. John Keelin sold property at 1527 Field Club Drive to Joseph Fennimore and Julie Mueller for $466,000. David Fassinger III sold property at 2521 Hopkins Church Road to Jonathan Ray Crawford for $224,900....
Eastern Pittsburgh suburban real estate transactions for the week of March 13, 2022
Edgewood Eric Holtzman sold property at 430 Greendale Ave. to Harvey and Roberta Lyn Borovetz for $319,000. Forest Hills Curtis Cunningham sold property at 401 Woodside Road to Mary Joyce Connors for $171,000. Monroeville JCMR Properties LLC sold property at 1206 Bowling Green Drive to Michael and Melanie Hampton for...
Fox Chapel area real estate transactions for the week of March 13, 2022
Blawnox John Novak sold property at 27 Riverside Ct to Christina Marie Mackay for $38,253. Fox Chapel James Wolf sold property at 105 Dogwood Ln to Sean Patrick and Rachel Whelan for $1,450,000. Donald Bruce Phillips sold property at 500 Glade Run Ln to Michael Jeffrey and Chelsea Lintelman Dukovich...
Newest Riverhound makes history in season-opening win at Memphis
Dane Kelly’s debut with the Pittsburgh Riverhounds couldn’t have gone much better. Kelly, the USL Championship’s all-time leading scorer who signed with the Riverhounds in January, became the first player in league history to score 100 career goals in a 3-0 season-opening victory over Memphis 901 FC on Saturday night....
High school scores, summaries and schedules for March 12, 2022
High schools Basketball Boys PIAA playoffs Class 6A Saturday’s result Second round Fox Chapel 61, Allderdice 52 Sunday’s schedule Lower Merion (25-3) vs. Abington (17-11) at Bensalem, 3:30 p.m.; Scranton (22-2) vs. Garnet Valley (18-10) at Bethlehem Freedom, 4 p.m.; Roman Catholic (20-4) vs. Central Dauphin (18-5) at Liberty, 3...
High school roundup for March 12, 2022: Moon edges out WPIAL champion South Fayette
There hasn’t been much separating the Moon and South Fayette girls basketball teams all season. They tied for second place in Section 1-5A with 7-3 records, splitting a pair of regular-season matchups. They were evenly matched again in a PIAA Class 5A second-round matchup Saturday. This time, the Tigers got...
Freeport girls claim regional bowling title
Freeport qualified for the step-ladder finals of the Western Pennsylvania Regional girls team bowling championships Saturday in North Versailles by a narrow margin — just three pins. The rest of the field should have eliminated the Yellowjackets when they had the chance. Freeport knocked off third-seeded Penn-Trafford and second-seeded McKeesport...
Cold and snow don’t dissuade hearty Pittsburghers from St. Patrick’s Day parade
Despite ominous snowfall predictions for this year’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade, thousands of green-clad revelers and participants still gathered Saturday morning in Downtown Pittsburgh for the two-hour event. The route started at the Greyhound bus station near Liberty Avenue, moved down Grant Street before turning onto Boulevard of the Allies...
Sounding off: Why fear critical race theory?
Having read the article “Norwin director claims assignment on racism was critical race theory teaching,” I can’t help wondering what Shawna Ilagan is fearing. I am not an expert on critical race theory, but I know it is another way of looking at race and systemic racism in our country....
Lena Surzhko Harned: How a cathedral of guns and glory symbolizes Putin’s Russia
A curious new church was dedicated on the outskirts of Moscow in June 2020: The Main Church of the Russian Armed Forces. The massive, khaki-colored cathedral in a military theme park celebrates Russian might. It was originally planned to open on the 75th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over...
After year away, Fox Chapel fencing team happy to be back on the strip
While the coronavirus pandemic knocked out a number of businesses and events, one sports program that survived is the Fox Chapel High School fencing team. After missing the 2021 season because of pandemic concerns, the boys and girls fencing teams returned to action in 2022. The boys team won the...
Randy Santucci and Dan Davila: Bring back Monday hunting opener
The Pennsylvania Game Commission arbitrarily changed the opening day of deer season, destroying a highly successful 60-year Thanksgiving weekend structure. Moving the opening day from Monday to the Saturday after Thanksgiving revealed a gross lack of knowledge and enormous disregard of the economic benefits linked to hunters. One of the...
Letter to the editor: Good time to get back to work
The unemployment rate is low and wages are rising, but so are inflation, interest rates and energy prices. History has taught us that when things get bad enough, we end up in a recession and real estate prices and the stock market drop. My advice to people sitting on the...
Letter to the editor: The person, not the product, is the problem
Families and survivors of the Sandy Hook shooting recently settled their lawsuit with Remington Arms. They said the company should never have sold such a dangerous weapon to the public. Doesn’t this open up a can of worms for other companies? What about cars that end up killing people? What...
Editorial: Taxing students, patients instead of nonprofits is ludicrous
Pittsburgh might have been built by the big-profit industries of steel and coal and glass, but today its economy is driven by high-dollar nonprofits. There are the institutions of higher learning. The University of Pittsburgh is one of the largest in a state full of post-secondary schools. Carnegie Mellon University...
The Stroller, March 12, 2022: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your community Easter Egg hunts, breakfasts with the Easter Bunny and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Butler County antique show to benefit community projects GFWC Intermediate League of Butler will host...
Letter to the editor: A chronicle of Biden’s failures
President Biden’s disasters are accumulating at an alarming pace. The Biden team has bungled the covid response with financial waste, crushing mandates and misinformation. Biden assured Americans that inflation is only temporary, but it’s now approaching 8%, the highest in 40 years, and shows no sign of abating. The next...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for March 11, 2022
High schools Basketball Boys PIAA playoffs Class 6A Second round Saturday’s schedule Lower Merion (25-3) vs. Abington (17-11) at Bensalem, 5:30 p.m.; Scranton (22-2) vs. Garnet Valley (18-10) at Bethlehem Freedom, 3:30 p.m.; Roman Catholic (20-4) vs. Central Dauphin (18-5) at Coatesville, 3 p.m; Penn Wood (16-8) vs. Cheltenham (29-1)...
Homer Center fights off Serra Catholic comeback bid in Class 2A 2nd round
After grabbing its largest lead of the night at the end of the third quarter, the Homer Center girls basketball team looked to have things under control in its PIAA Class 2A second-round contest against Serra Catholic. But the Eagles, like they did all night, fought and crawled their way...
High school roundup for March 11, 2022: Penn Hills’ state playoff run continues
Noah Barren scored 12 points, Daemar Kelly put up 11, and Penn Hills, the seventh seed out of the WPIAL, defeated East Stroudsburg South, 55-44, on Friday to reach the PIAA Class 5A boys basketball quarterfinals. Jaden Dugger netted eight points and had 12 rebounds for Penn Hills (20-5), which...
