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Penn State women’s basketball holding on to NCAA Tournament hopes as March approaches
When Carolyn Kieger accepted the role of Penn State’s head coach in 2019, it was never her — or anyone’s — expectation to have a winning team immediately. The season prior, in 2018-19, the Lady Lions went 12-18. It was a team entering a rebuild. The questions were, who would...
Pine-Richland musicians selected for regional band festival
The Pennsylvania Music Educators Association District 1 Senior High Band West Festival was held on January 11-13, 2024 at Peters Township High School. Participating from Pine-Richland were juniors Will Tamburri and Lilliana Bogle, and sophomores Ryan Noir and Jiwon Lee. From the event, Ryan, Will and Lilliana have been selected...
Pine-Richland JROTC cadet earns Air Force scholarship
Pine-Richland High School senior MacKenzie Roy, a Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps cadet, was selected to receive an Air Force J-100 Character-in-Leadership Scholarship. The daughter of David and Laurie Roy is one of only 100 cadets nationwide to receive the scholarship. The J-100 program provides recipients with four years of...
Peter Morici: 2024 election is a referendum on the Biden presidency
Progressives around the world are worried. Right-wing populists have won national elections in the Netherlands and Italy and enjoy rising strength in Germany. In the United States, despite indictments on 91 counts in three states and Washington, D.C., former President Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden in the 2024 election...
Ellen Duffield: Pa. can ensure a healthy economy by investing in worker education
The health care sector has experienced extraordinary stressors over the past few years, including staffing shortages. Research indicates these shortages will worsen in 2024 and beyond. One 2021 study projects more than 6 million lower-wage health care professionals in the United States will permanently leave their positions by 2026, while...
Phone, internet outages expected in Tarentum
Tarentum residents could experience phone and internet outages throughout Tuesday, according to the borough. Planned maintenance from Comcast is the cause, officials said in an email. “Please be aware that Tarentum Borough is experiencing intermittent phone and internet interruptions,” the borough’s email said. “Maintenance is expected to last throughout the...
Letter to the editor: How can anyone vote for Trump?
I don’t know how anybody could vote for Donald Trump. The man is a bully, always making fun of people and calling them names. But don’t say anything about him or he will retaliate against you. And remember, he is never wrong — it’s always somebody else, not him; everybody...
Quaker Valley area student achievements for the week of Jan. 30, 2024
Ben Bjorklund earned a Bachelor of Science in business analysis from Grove CIty College this past December. Rees Edwards was named to the dean’s list at Robert Morris University for the fall 2023 semester. Ryan Edwards was named to the president’s list at Florida Gulf Coast University for the fall...
Letter to the editor: Protecting children’s health and safety
Bad news, good news and sad news. Okay, first the bad news. A month ago, a friend broke his right hand rather badly. He is a young, talented, hard-working and right-handed plumber. Now the good news: An orthopedic doctor reset the bone and applied a temporary cast. In only a...
Editorial: Does anyone want to be a school superintendent?
Why do you need a school superintendent? The job might seem hard to understand for some taxpayers. Teachers? That one makes sense. They’re the people in the room with the students, opening their eyes to reading and math and science. Principal? That’s the person in charge of a school —...
The Stroller, Jan. 30, 2024: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your non-profit’s community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least two weeks in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084. Please include a daytime telephone number. Highlands HS plans annual cabaret concert Saturday The 12th annual Highlands...
Letter to the editor: We need smart energy policies
With inflation having risen in December, many Americans remain concerned about their economic future, as discussed in “U.S. inflation edges up, fueled by food and housing prices, but many other costs rise only mildly” (Jan. 11). Inflation is an economy-wide issue that affects everyone. Given the role of energy as...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Jan. 29, 2024
High schools Basketball Boys Monday’s results Class 3A Section 2 Sto-Rox 65, Steel Valley 50 Section 3 Shady Side Academy 84, Ligonier Valley 37 Class 2A Section 4 Fort Cherry 85, Beth-Center 56 Nonsection Propel Andrew Street at Environmental Charter, (n) Propel Montour 64, Calvary Christian 29 City League Obama...
Amelia Earhart plane wreckage may have been found in PacificVideo
A South Carolina exploratory team claims it may have found the plane Amelia Earhart was flying when she disappeared in July 1937. Robotic company Deep Sea Vision (DSV) said in a press release that a sonar image it recorded “in a swath of the Pacific untouched by known wrecks” could...
High school roundup for Jan. 29, 2024: Lincoln Park girls stay undefeated with win over South Fayette
Maddie Syka scored 22 points to lead Lincoln Park to a 45-42 victory over South Fayette in a matchup of top teams in Section 4-5A girls basketball Monday night. Sarah Scott and J’La Kizart added 10 points apiece for the Leopards (18-0, 7-0). Erica Hall scored 12 points for South...
In brief: Penn Hills and Verona area happenings, week of Jan. 29, 2024
PALS lines up several events for February The Plum Area Ladies Society (PALS) will hold its monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 7. The guest speaker will be a representative from Jeremiah’s Place, which provides child care for low-income families. The service project will be to donate money, laundry supplies...
Lawyer in Jim Rogers Taser case releases video of Pittsburgh police encounterVideo
Video released publicly Monday showed for the first time how Pittsburgh police repeatedly shocked a homeless man with a Taser in 2021 during a fatal encounter whose details until now had emerged only through official reports. Jim Rogers, 54, died the day after being shocked by Keith Edmonds, a former...
Fox Chapel Area students to stage ‘The Little Mermaid’
Fox Chapel Area students will present “The Little Mermaid” at 7 p.m. Feb. 29, March 1 and 2 and 2 p.m. March 3 in the high school auditorium, 611 Field Club Road, in O’Hara. Tickets, which are $13 each, will go on sale starting at 7 a.m. Jan. 31. All...
Trib Lunch Box: Opinion on abortion funding, superintendent shortage, upcoming concerts
Here are some noon headlines from TribLive, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024: • Pa. Supreme Court sends abortion question back to Commonwealth Court The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Monday issued a complex opinion on a case involving the funding of abortions by Medicaid, finding that the right to “reproductive autonomy” is...
Franklin Regional grad Garrett Thompson making a name for himself with Ohio U wrestling
Throughout his time as a wrestler, Franklin Regional grad Garrett Thompson said he mostly had been an unknown. He never qualified for the PIAA championships in high school, and his college recruiting prospects, at least where bigger schools were concerned, were almost nonexistent. So before this, his redshirt sophomore season...
Westmoreland County Senior Spotlight: Mt. Pleasant’s Logan Snively
Mt. Pleasant’s boys swimming program has enjoyed plenty of success the last few seasons. This year, the Vikings sit at 7-1 overall with a perfect section record of 3-0. It’s success senior Logan Snively is happy with, but he also hopes the group continues to build on it. “Every team...
Freeport grad Alexis Schrecongost takes off with Edinboro swimming after transferring from ToledoVideo
Like a lot of athletes, Alexis Schrecongost had visions of being a Division I athlete. During her time as a swimmer at Freeport, she proved herself worthy of competing against the nation’s best, earning a scholarship to Toledo. But Schrecongost found out that being a Division I athlete sometimes it...
Seth Lavin: I bought a flip phone and tried to get by without my smartphone. Here’s how that went.
About three months ago, I bought a flip phone and turned off my smartphone for good. I am part of a trend — interest in old-fashioned flip phones is up — but I don’t feel trendy. When I flip my phone open in a hallway of the middle school where...
Penn State will be represented by Kansas City Chiefs, San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII
Super Bowl XLVIII is set, and at least one former Penn State player is going to hoist the Lombardi Trophy. Penn State will have three former players vying for a Super Bowl ring when the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers square off on the sport’s biggest stage in...
Letter to the editor: Leave Punxsutawney Phil alone
I think it’s ridiculous about PETA saying Punxsutawney Phil needs to be retired taken to a nice place to live. Believe me, Phil is not being abused. Why change the tradition? It’s an event that everyone enjoys, whether Phil gets the weather right or wrong. Who cares? It helps bring...
