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Aspinwall Michael Hromanik sold property at 211 Eastern Ave. to Samuel and Veronica Miclot for $677,500. Etna James Smith trustee sold property at 322 Butler St. to Jason Hopler for $135,000. 3M Holdings LLC sold property at 95 Wilson St. to Demetrius Titus for $207,000. Fox Chapel Mary Ann Pampel...

Fox Chapel Area School District reported 36 confirmed and probable covid-19 cases in the schools as of Dec. 16. The district reports its cases in a rolling 14-day period and counts a case only if the person was physically in the building while infectious. In December, the high school saw...

Back in 1982, the Cal football team pulled off a historic 25-20 comeback against Stanford when the Golden Bears completed a series of laterals on an end-of-the-game kickoff. At the end of the play, Kevin Moen ended up having to sprint through a grouping of Stanford band members and into...

The first-ever entirely remote semester of Fox Chapel Area Adult Education (FCAAE) proved to be more rewarding than organizers expected – so much so that they’re building on its success for a second round of virtual classes that begin in January. “I am so honored to work with a community...

A consultant who worked previously as the assistant athletic director for Fox Chapel Area High School was appointed to fill a vacancy on O’Hara council. Republican Greg Caprara will represent the township’s 3rd Ward through 2021. He is serving the remainder of a term vacated last month by Scott Frankowski....

Shady Side Academy officially has a new mascot and nickname — the Bulldogs. The SSA Board of Trustees began a five-month search process in July after they decided to discontinue the use of the Indian as the school’s mascot and team name. During their search for a new mascot, a...

Aspinwall council hopes to implement safety initiatives along Freeport Road in 2021 that could include upgraded bus shelters, bike sharrows and increased parking. The plan would follow some of the many recommendations derived from a 2019 TranSystems study, paid for by a near $13,000 grant from Allegheny County. The list...

St. Margaret Foundation is raising money to deliver gift bags to each patient at UPMC St. Margaret on Christmas. It is largely because rising covid-19 cases have necessitated safety precautions that allow only one visitor. Gift bags will consist of a green organza bag with a Mercury glass votive candle...

Aspinwall David Pechersky sold property at 215 Seventh St. to Spencer Michael and Rachel Elizabeth Whitman for $450,000. Blawnox Bing Han sold property at 940 Center Ave. to Lin Brothers Properties LLC for $936,000. Robert Simon sold property at 282 Freeport Road to Pamma LLC for $133,500. Etna Estate of...

Last Friday, 71 WPIAL and City League boys and girls basketball teams kicked off their 2020-21 seasons in the shadow of a looming shutdown that will extend through the first couple of days of the New Year. In the climate of covid uncertainties, the games were a chance for those...

As coronavirus cases continue to surge in Allegheny County and across the country, the communities within The Herald coverage area seeing varying numbers of positive cases and deaths. As of Dec. 16, there have been 163 total cases of the novel coronavirus in Fox Chapel since March, according to the...

Fox Chapel Area School Board has new leadership. Marybeth Dadd was elected president, and Ron Frank was elected vice president. Dadd, who represents the district’s Region 3, said her priority is to work with fellow members to keep schools safe and help families get through the covid-19 pandemic. Once a...

Blawnox residents will pay the same real estate taxes to the borough in 2021 but revenue loss related to covid-19 will suspend road improvements in the new year. Council approved the borough’s $2.6 million budget on Dec. 10, keeping the property tax rate at 9.85 mills. The owner of a...

Ian Shahan hopes for big things in his senior swimming season. Like many others throughout the WPIAL, the Belle Vernon senior who is the defending WPIAL Class AA champion in the 100-yard freestyle and 100 butterfly, is keeping his fingers crossed that when the calendar turns to 2021, the season...

Indiana Robert Black sold property at 214 N Rose Drive to Steven and Mallory Wolfendale for $301,500. Real estate transactions provided by RealSTATs. Contact RealSTATs at 412-381-3880 or visit RealSTATs.net....

Students at the Catholic elementary school in Aspinwall have been in full-time in-person learning since the beginning of the school year, bucking a trend across the region which has so many districts switching between remote and classroom instruction. Christ the Divine Teacher Catholic Academy, which houses about 190 students in...

Cooper-Siegel Community Library will host a virtual edition of “Adventures Outside the Burgh” on Dec. 18. The program will tour Gombe, Tanzania — the forest home of Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee research. Participants can register at engagedpatrons.org and take the tour anytime. Keep trees healthy over holidays The Aspinwall Shade Tree...

After losing four seniors to graduation, the Fox Chapel wrestling team is going to go through a transition process in 2020. Eddie Farrell, Josh Miller, Luke O’Connor and Alex Wecht all left a lasting impact on the program after combining for 101 wins last season. They all recorded double-digit pins....

The Fox Chapel swimming program is on the rise. With an influx of young talent on both the girls and boys side and state champion Sophie Shao returning, the Foxes are in position to have one of the best seasons in recent history. “We feel really confident; we had one...

Here’s a look at the 2020 Valley News Dispatch football all-star team: Evan Azzara Plum, OL/DL, sr. The 6-foot-6, 290-pound senior was a key piece of an offensive line that helped the Mustangs racked up 344.7 yards per game. The Miami (Ohio) commit was first-team all-conference and was selected to...

Shady Side Academy freshman Jack Engel will appear in the Pittsburgh CLO’s production of “A Musical Christmas Carol” that will be broadcast by WQED in December. Since the show can’t be performed live on stage this year due to the covid-19 pandemic, they are broadcasting the 2018 production which was...

Before his team met Hampton on Friday for its only game in the next three weeks, Fox Chapel boys basketball coach Zach Skrinjar wrote a message on the whiteboard. It was a simple question mark. Big and bold. “We always have a last word before the game, and our last...