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East suburban real estate transactions, week of Feb. 26, 2023
Chalfant Duane Agate sold property at 126-128 Lynnwood Ave. to 365 Realty LLC for $131,000. Steel Town Properties USA LLC sold property at 141 North Ave. to Pitane LLC for $65,000. Jamie Zawodni sold property at 150 North Ave. to Timothy Nethers for $100,000. Churchill Joan Shaw sold property at...
Letter to the editor: Looking out for Pa.’s seniors
To be a senior citizen in Pennsylvania is an honor and a privilege. There are all sorts of programs whose financial rewards go directly to benefit our seniors. Unfortunately, there have arisen some programs that are eating away at those benefits in a big-time fashion. In his op-ed “So-called ‘skill...
The Stroller, Feb. 26, 2023: 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. ‘No, No, Nanette’ to be performed at Freeport Area HS The...
Letter to the editor: Let’s fix, not privatize, education system
The Trib’s recent articles criticizing public education speak to the ill-conceived effort in Pennsylvania to privatize education. Under the guise of vouchers or parental choice, the extreme right’s elite class of billionaires wants to corporatize one of the foundations of our middle class. They want more of our taxpayer dollars...
Student news from the Fox Chapel area
Two Fox Chapel Area High School and A.W. Beattie Career Center students recently placed in the SkillsUSA Pennsylvania District 8 competition. Senior Casey Forst won a gold medal in the medical math competition. Casey is a student in Beattie’s Introduction to Pharmacy program and has now qualified for the SkillsUSA...
In brief: news from Fox Chapel Adult Education and more
Fox Chapel Area Adult Education is offering two separate classes of free CPR training for Sharpsburg residents 18 and older. The first class will be March 4 from 9:30-11:30 a.m. at Ketchup City Creative, 612 Main St., and the second on March 6 from 6-8 p.m. at the Sharpsburg Community...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 25, 2023
High schools WPIAL playoffs Boys Class 6A Semifinals Tuesday’s schedule New Castle (21-2) vs. Mt. Lebanon (16-7) at North Allegheny, 8 p.m.; Upper St. Clair (15-8) vs. Central Catholic (14-9) at Peters Township, 8 p.m. Class 5A Semifinals Saturday’s results Penn Hills 67, North Hills 51 Peters Township 62, Gateway...
Chartiers Valley’s Dylan Evans tops rival to win Class 3A wrestling section title
Chartiers Valley’s Dylan Evans won the latest chapter in one of the WPIAL’s hottest rivalries this season, defeating West Allegheny’s Shawn Taylor in the 160-pound finals of the Class 3A Southern Sectional tournament Saturday. Evans defeated Taylor, 3-2. Taylor beat Evans, 2-1 in the second tiebreaker at Powerade on Dec....
High school roundup for Feb. 25, 2023: Freedom girls end Aliquippa’s Cinderella run
Julia Mohrbacher scored 33 points to lead second-seeded Freedom to a 47-44 victory over 11th-seeded Aliquippa in the WPIAL Class 2A girls basketball semifinals Saturday afternoon at Beaver Falls. Freedom (20-4) will face top-seeded Shenango in the finals at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Petersen Events Center. Aunesty Johnson led...
Imani Christian boys start fast, defeat Geibel in WPIAL Class A semifinals
For three of the four quarters in Saturday afternoon’s WPIAL Class A semifinal between Geibel and Imani Christian Academy, the fourth-seeded Gators proved they could go toe-to-toe with the top-seeded Saints. However, the one quarter that doomed Geibel was the first, as Imani Christian bolted to a 31-4 lead en...
Pierogi pinchers back in action at Guardian Angels fish fry
Pierogi pinchers from Guardian Angels Parish in Harrison united to prep potato-filled “pockets of love” just in time for the Lenten fish fry season. Making the handmade dough stuffed with spuds and cheese had been a tradition at several of the churches within Guardian Angels, which was forced to close...
Mikhail Alexseev: Biden’s visit to Ukraine should put Putin on notice
For almost a year now, my former homeland has been under a brutal attack. But even as Russia keeps hammering at Ukraine, hope has sprung up, too. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, and tens of thousands of foreigners, have come forward to defend the nation. More than 50 countries are...
Jim Warren: Putin disinformation machine is unrelenting toward Ukraine a year after invasion
No sooner had President Joe Biden arrived in Ukraine on Monday than the Russian state news agency Tass berated the surprise visit to “his ward Zelenskyy” and warned that Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet the same fate as others “who have sold their souls to the Americans.” “Damned by...
Letter to the editor: Advice for our justice system
I just came upon some “advice,” in Exodus 23, that would be helpful for our justice system to follow: Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness. Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit,...
Sounding off: Division, Ziccarelli, guns, Bushy Run, medical marijuana among week’s topics
‘Tale of Two Americas’ “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times … .” So begins Charles Dickens’ novel, “A Tale of Two Cities.” As I write, I’m saddened knowing a former president is near death. Acknowledged by friend and foe as being kind and decent,...
Letter to the editor: Commissioners must do better on ARPA funds
Voice of Westmoreland has asked for transparency and a comprehensive plan from the Westmoreland County commissioners for use of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds since 2021. In a recent visit to Virginia, I reviewed the ARPA plan for the City of Richmond (see rva.gov/arp). The Virginia plan calls for...
Editorial: Rozzi scores with sex abuse bill passage
Pennsylvania Speaker Mark Rozzi has finally accomplished what he promised would be the state House of Representatives’ first action under his leadership. On Friday, the House passed the legislation that will give a window of opportunity for victims to sue over child sexual abuse claims that otherwise would be outside...
The Stroller, Feb. 25, 2023: 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. Annual Shamrock Shuffle event planned in West Leechburg The St. Patrick’s...
Letter to the editor: ‘Tale of Two Americas’
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times … .” So begins Charles Dickens’ novel “A Tale of Two Cities.” As I write, I’m saddened knowing a former president is near death. Acknowledged by friend and foe as being kind and decent, he became a role...
SSA Middle School in Fox Chapel presented ‘Frozen Jr.’
Shady Side Academy Middle School presented its 2023 winter student musical Disney’s “Frozen JR.’ on Feb. 22-23. “Frozen Jr.” is a story of love and acceptance between sisters. When faced with danger, Princesses Anna and Elsa discover their hidden potential and the powerful bond of sisterhood. The cast and crew...
Shady Side Academy students win art, writing awards
Forty-two Shady Side Academy students in grades 7-12 won 2023 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for 95 original works. The students won 19 Gold Keys, 31 Silver Keys and 45 Honorable Mentions. The Gold Key-winning works will advance to the national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards competition, and national medalists...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 24, 2023
High schools WPIAL playoffs Boys Class 6A Quarterfinals Friday’s results New Castle 59, Norwin 47 Mt. Lebanon 55, Butler 50 Upper St. Clair 45, Seneca Valley 43 Central Catholic 80, Baldwin 75 (OT) Semifinals Tuesday’s schedule New Castle (21-2) vs. Mt. Lebanon (16-7); Upper St. Clair (15-8) vs. Central Catholic...
High school roundup for Feb. 24, 2023: Dante DePante powers Central Catholic past Baldwin in OT
Dante DePante scored 34 points, including 10 of his team’s 12 points in overtime, as No. 3 Central Catholic defeated No. 6 Baldwin, 80-75, in a WPIAL Class 6A boys basketball quarterfinal Friday night. Randy Wilkerson, Cole Sullivan and Debaba Tshiebwe scored 11 points apiece for the Vikings (14-9), who...
Burgettstown, Burrell, Frazier send 5 to semifinals at WPIAL Class 2A wrestling
Burgettstown, Burrell and Frazier sent five wrestlers apiece through to the semifinals and one top seed fell on the first day of the WPIAL Class 2A wrestling championships Friday at Chartiers Valley. Belle Vernon’s Kole Doppleheuer, the eighth seed at 145 pounds, had the day’s biggest upset, pinning top seed...
Quaker Valley girls keep Knoch offense in check, advance to WPIAL semis
After finishing as WPIAL runner-up in Class 4A two seasons ago, the Quaker Valley girls basketball team has been striving to get back to the title game. The Quakers were derailed in the quarterfinals last season by eventual champion Blackhawk. The Quakers took another step toward getting back Friday night....
