Fox Chapel Herald category, Page 145
O’Hara manufacturer named Small Business Administration Exporter of the Year
A third-generation O’Hara manufacturer was named the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Western Pennsylvania Exporter of the Year. Sauereisen, Inc., along Gamma Drive in RIDC Park, is a locally owned coating company that, since 1899, has produced corrosion-resistant materials commonly used in household appliances. “We’re not a commodity material provider but...
Fox Chapel’s Hardie Valley Park open to the public
Fox Chapel officials hosted a private opening ceremony Oct. 17 to usher in its newest amenity, Hardie Valley Park. The 17-acre parcel off Old Mill Road is now open to the public, largely for passive recreation such as walking or bird watching. The park opening included members of the land’s...
Aspinwall seeking volunteers for Green Streets cleanup
Aspinwall’s yearly street cleanup is moving forward, though participants will have to register for a specific area to handle this year. “Green Streets” will be Oct. 23-25. A borough tradition, the cleanup typically sees crowds of people canvassing roads, walkways and green spaces to collect litter. In past years, there...
WPIAL releases 2020 soccer playoff pairings
The WPIAL soccer playoff brackets are set. The top boys seeds are Peters Township (11-1-1) in Class 4A, Mars (14-0) in 3A, Shady Side Academy (11-2) in 2A and Greensburg Central Catholic (11-1) in A. The top girls seeds are Peters Township (10-1-1) in Class 4A, Mars (12-0) in 3A,...
Franklin Regional’s Tragesser finishes 2nd at PIAA golf championship
Franklin Regional senior Chuck Tragesser ended his high school individual golf career by finishing second at the PIAA Class AAA championship Tuesday at Heritage Hills Golf Resort. Tragesser shot a 3-under par 69 and finished one shot behind Holy Ghost Prep’s Calen Sanderson, who shot a 4-under par 31 on...
Portion of Kittanning Street in Etna to close for a month
A stormwater project off Kittanning Street in Etna will close a portion of the road for about a month. Work is expected to begin Oct. 26 and will target the section between Sharps Hill Road and Route 8, where recent paving was diverting stormwater and causing the road to deteriorate....
Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church hosting expanded Harvest Fair by appointment
Organizers of the Harvest Fair at Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church have reinvented the fundraiser to fit covid-19 restrictions and still help meet what they call an overwhelming need in the community. “We have been limited about what we could do but we felt very strongly that there were huge needs...
Sharpsburg-Aspinwall Rotary donates food, freezer to YEP of Sharpsburg
A donation from the Sharpsburg-Aspinwall Rotary will help sustain a local group that has served more than 11,000 meals to children since the covid-19 pandemic began in spring. Members spent $800 to buy a freezer, several slow cookers and loads of shelf-stable food for the Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) of...
News briefs: Food drives, glass recycling and drug take-back days on tap
Aspinwall residents can discard unwanted or unused medication during National Drug Take Back Day. It will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 24 at the borough’s police station, 217 Commercial Ave. ^ Aspinwall expands trick-or-treat time Trick-or-treat in Aspinwall will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Oct. 31. The expanded...
Alta Via reopens in Fox Chapel Plaza
Alta Via, part of the Big Burrito Restaurant Group, reopened Oct. 6 Located in Fox Chapel Plaza in O’Hara Township, the upscale Italian-influenced eatery closed in June as pandemic restrictions tightened, along with Big Burrito’s five other specialty restaurants: Casbah, Eleven, Kaya, Soba and Umi. Those five have all reopened...
The Herald area real estate transactions for the week of Oct. 18
Etna Craig Doswell sold property at 45 Kittanning St. to Douglas Hall for $5,000. Fox Chapel Ronald Keating sold property at 118 Field Club Road to Pascal Zinn for $1,700,000. Arnold Fingeret sold property at 619 Twin Pine Road to Michael and Claudia Mulock for $900,000. John Goodworth sold property...
Jump in classification doesn’t slow Shady Side Academy girls soccer
In the past four years, the Shady Side Academy girls soccer team has solidified itself as one of the best teams in Class A. They won two WPIAL titles and one PIAA title, made three PIAA finals appearances and won 70 games. They turned in their best season last year...
Shady Side Academy’s Sam Farner provides winning presence for boys soccer team
Shady Side Academy’s Sam Farner is just a junior, but coach Ed Ellsworth says it seems like the talented midfielder has been around the program forever. It’s probably because he has been around longer than most. Between his seventh and eighth grade years, Farner got accustomed to the program by...
WPIAL Class 5A roundup: Pine-Richland locks up Northeast Conference title
Cole Spencer threw for 307 yards and three touchdowns as top-ranked Pine-Richland scored 52 first-half points in its 59-13 Class 5A Northeast Conference win over North Hills (2-4, 2-2). Eli Jochem caught eight passes for 219 yards and two touchdowns for Pine-Richland (5-0, 4-0), which clinched the conference title. Chase...
Top stories from around the Lower Valley for the week of Oct. 12Video
Here are some of the top stories from around the Lower Valley this week: • Fox Chapel Area elementary students will return to class on Nov. 5 Fox Chapel Area School Board approved a move to send elementary students back to five-day, in-person instruction, beginning Nov. 5. Middle school and...
Women’s Board of Pittsburgh reveals 2 beneficiaries of annual fundraiser
The Women’s Board of Pittsburgh will remotely host its largest annual fundraiser while upping the ante and announcing two beneficiaries of the January event. “While our fundraising efforts will depart from brick-and-mortar events of the past, we are discovering creative and exciting ways to involve guests in this year’s special...
Encompass Health discontinues outpatient rehab services in Harmar
Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital in Harmar has discontinued its outpatient rehabilitation services following a drop in patient volume because of the covid-19 pandemic. The cut in services, which took effect Sept. 30, affects patients who are not hospitalized but undergoing physical, occupational and speech therapy and recovering from bone breaks,...
Fox Chapel Area students bring ‘Lost in Yonkers’ to outdoor stage
They’ve rehearsed by Zoom and won’t be performing on a traditional stage, but Fox Chapel Area theater students are eager to bring the high school’s fall production to life. “It’s very uplifting to see how, despite everything that has happened (with covid-19), we can still have some normalcy during a...
A-K Valley football players to watch for Week 6
Lorenzo Jenkins Fox Chapel, jr., WR/DB In wins over Shaler and Kiski Area after an 0-3 start, Jenkins caught a combined 13 passes for 240 yards and six touchdowns. He is averaging 16 yards a catch this season and owns totals of 24 catches, 383 yards and seven touchdowns. On...
Restaurant, bakery expected to open in O’Hara’s RIDC Park in early 2021
A new restaurant and bakery is expected to open in the former Max & Erma’s in RIDC Park in early 2021. Periwinkle’s, an American-style eatery with burgers, soups and salads, will open at 900 Gamma Drive, O’Hara, just off the Allegheny Valley Expressway. The building and its 2.8-acre parcel were...
Fox Chapel Baseball Softball Association lands $200,000 state grant for field upgrades
Summer 2021 will bring renewed enthusiasm to the phrase ‘Play Ball’ for Fox Chapel Area School District youth who compete at Emmerling Park in Indiana Township. Fox Chapel Area Baseball Softball Association (FCBSA) was awarded $200,000 from a state gaming grant to upgrade two fields at the park off Route...
O’Hara doctor wins 2020 Rising Star Award from Department of Veteran Affairs
A local doctor has received an honor from the Department of Veterans Affairs for her innovations in education. Dr. Deborah DiNardo, 38, the director of women’s health at VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System and a resident of O’Hara, was awarded the VA’s 2020 David M. Worthen Rising Star Award. The national...
Aspinwall will see 26 trees planted, many along Center and Western avenues
Aspinwall will be home to more than two dozen new trees this fall, thanks to a grant from the nonprofit TreeVitalize. Alicia Wehrle, community forestry project coordinator, said 26 trees will be planted. Half will go into the ground Oct. 22 along Western Avenue and First Street. The balance will...
Saint Vincent connection in Florida as Kayla Slovenec joins DP Harris’ staff at St. Thomas
Women coaching and officiating among men is becoming more common at all levels of basketball, from high school to the pros. A local woman is following that trend. Former Saint Vincent and Fox Chapel basketball standout Kayla Slovenec has been named a graduate assistant coach at St. Thomas University in...
Allegheny County Judge John A. Zottola, creator of Veterans Court program, dies
Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge John A. Zottola, who founded the Veterans Court program and was revered for his compassion, died on Monday. Zottola was 63 and lived in Fox Chapel. A graduate of Central Catholic High School who earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh, Zottola also...
