Hampton Journal category, Page 52

Standing 5-foot-2 with pony-tailed blonde hair and a cherubic smile, Kendall Hoolahan has a difficult time convincing anyone she’s a competitive weightlifter. Sometimes she just has to flex her muscles. Hoolahan, 14, of Hampton placed seventh in the clean and jerk in her division at the 2021 USA Weightlifting National...

Work to repair the deck of a bridge along Wildwood Road in McCandless will result in traffic disruptions next week, PennDOT announced. The project involves concrete deck repairs on Wildwood Road Bridge, which traverses Pine Creek, according to the state transportation agency. Single-lane restrictions will occur at the bridge from...

North Hills residents who have been hanging onto hard-to-recycle items can unload them later this month at a collection event at La Roche University. The Pennsylvania Resource Council will be at the university from 8:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. on July 31 to collect items that cannot be put out...

Hampton has joined a Carnegie Mellon University-run program to monitor potential changes in township air pollution. Air quality sensors were installed atop the community center along McCully Road to measure changes in particulates. The sensors were free to the township through the Greater Pittsburgh Northwest Real-time Affordable Multi-Pollutant (RAMP) Network...

McCandless council approved a zoning change that allows residents to raise chickens if they can meet certain conditions. But the town won’t be issuing permits for backyard chicken coops until a separate measure is approved later this month to set the guidelines for raising backyard chickens. Council spent a significant...

Snow cone elves are hard at work prepping for Hampton Community Pool’s Christmas in July festival. The event will be 1:30 to 3 p.m. on July 21 at the pool along McCully Road. “Our elves on staff work many hours making several hundred snowballs leading up to this day,” pool...

A former doctor from Hampton pleaded guilty Tuesday to health care fraud and money laundering stemming from his illegal prescription of painkillers. Andrzej Zielke, 66, will be sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Nora Barry Fischer on Nov. 1 on six counts, including unlawful dispensing of a controlled substance. “Mr....

Storytelling at Bradford Woods Reserve People will gather July 30 at 7 p.m. at the reserve in Bradford Woods at the corner of Lincoln and Bradford Road, where you can walk down the trail to a beautiful outdoor area around the campfire to listen to people telling short stories. When...

Hampton Edward Bittner Jr. sold property at 3240 Henrich Farm Lane to John Martinez and Sarah Ewin for $450,000. Anthony Lombardo sold property at 4091 Jupiter Drive to Eric and Erika Weinheimer for $508,000. Natalie Carle sold property at 2843 Tremonte Drive to Keith and Jeana Watenpool for $300,000. McCandless...

When Chris Hart told his Hampton wrestlers at their season-ending banquet last month that he was stepping down as head coach, their next coach was standing only a couple of feet away. Talbots assistant coach Nick Endres is expected to be promoted to the top job, and Hart will return...

McCandless police said a man reported missing early Thursday has been found safe. Michael Homison, 40, had been last seen in the area of the Home 2 Suites along Duncan Avenue on July 6. He told his family that he was planning to walk to New York, according to police....

Freeport Area eighth grader Jersey Diehl is good at being bad. Just ask the judges of the Junior Theater Festival Texas, who in late-June awarded the 12-year-old as an acting All Star for her portrayal of Ursula, the purple-skinned wicked sea witch, in a performance of “The Little Mermaid” at...

It’s an impressive feat by any standard — 800 volunteers converging to package food for the needy. It’s even more significant when you consider that it’s done by grassroots efforts through local nonprofit Network of Hope, whose members solicit residents, teachers, high school sports teams and others to come together...

McCandless Democratic’s Summer 2021 Meet & Greet Enjoy an evening with candidates, elected officials, local committee members and neighbors at Devlin Park (9955 Grubbs Road, behind Town Hall) on Aug. 6 from 5 to 8 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. Activities are being planned along with raffle baskets. Details...

Hampton Mark Chalmers sold property at 3948 Catherine Drive to Nicholas Merritt for $264,000. Ivan Ostrowski sold property at 2812 Indian Springs Lane to Andrew Scott Headlee and Susan Elizabeth Silko for $445,000. Amitava Mukherjee sold property at 4444 Laurel Oak Drive to Julie Ann and Christine Ann Zotter for...

Hampton graduate Ben Huber this spring was part of the best golf team in Carnegie Mellon history and struggled to an 80th-place finish at an event in Columbus, Ohio. He will remember both just as fondly. Three weeks after helping CMU to a program-best fourth-place finish at the 2021 NCAA...

A transition for the faith community at St. Mary’s of the Assumption Church is being marked by a collaborative art project from members of its Glenshaw-based youth group. The church’s younger parishioners created a mosaic of a rainbow-colored St. Mary wrapped in butterfly wings to represent the unveiling on July...

Dreamers beware. That’s the message from a national sweepstakes company that awarded a $1 million prize to a Shaler man this week. The warning comes from Publishers Clearing House officials in response to a letter forwarded to the company by the Tribune-Review on behalf of a California man who thought...

John Sewatka of Ross didn’t care that it was raining buckets most of the morning and the fish weren’t biting at North Park. The chance to spend the day “catching up” with his 17-year-old son Matt was reward enough. “There’s not a whole lot of things you can do with...

Editor’s note: Neighbor Spotlight is a monthly feature that aims to let our readers learn more about the people in their communities who are working to make them a better place, who have interesting stories to tell or who the community feels deserve “15 minutes of fame.” If you would...

Tommy Wainwright, 8, was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma cancer in April 2020. After 14 rounds of chemotherapy, 20 blood transfusions, and surgery in August 2020 to remove three ribs, Tommy is cancer-free as of Jan. 11 . “Tommy is just the happiest, sweetest boy you’ll ever meet,” said Amanda Pietrone,...