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Mt. Lebanon named highest-ranked Pittsburgh-area high school in national listing
Mt. Lebanon was the highest-ranked Pittsburgh-area school in a U.S. News and World Report listing of the country’s best public high schools. The list, released last week, assessed more than 24,000 public high schools across the country. The majority of the schools, 18,000, were ranked on several performance-related factors: college...
Plum girls soccer picks up where it left off, beats Franklin Regional
Plum opened the season doing what it does best: It won another section game. Led by a productive defense that did more than prevent goals, the Mustangs girls soccer team ran their section winning streak to 28 with a 3-1 victory over rival Franklin Regional in a Section 4-3A game...
Murrysville looks ahead to planned capital projects
Murrysville will spend about $3.8 million on capital projects in 2026, a number that will jump substantially in 2027 and 2028, when the municipality undertakes two major bridge replacements. Murrysville Council held a public hearing Tuesday for its 2026-30 Capital Improvements Plan, which is its guiding financial document for budgeting...
Sewing guild busy working on Christmas stockings for soldiers
Members of the American Sewing Guild are getting ready for Christmas, even though it’s August. Guild members were busy this week sewing Christmas stockings to be shipped to military members stationed overseas. The group worked into the early afternoon at Murrysville Alliance Church. The stockings are donated to New Kensington-based...
Next wave of starters finding their places in Franklin Regional girls lineup
Graduation is a wonderful accomplishment, but it can cause problems for soccer teams. For the Franklin Regional girls, it is creating competition. “Last season, we had a large and successful senior class,” coach Scott Arnold said. “Great leaders, fantastic players and wonderful people. A lot of them were starters and...
Franklin Regional boys counting on hard work to lessen sting of graduation losses
If Franklin Regional doesn’t outscore opponents, the next best thing will be to outwork them. That could be the Panthers’ M.O. this boys soccer season. “We’ve had very productive summer workouts, which have been very well attended,” coach Nick White said. “The boys are hungry and desire to repeat the...
New coordinator has Plum offense humming in victory over Franklin Regional
Plum junior quarterback John Nonnenberg believed in offensive coordinator Marty Steele. That’s why Nonnenberg didn’t fret when the Mustangs didn’t touch the ball for nearly nine minutes after halftime as Franklin Regional shaved its deficit from 21 points to eight. When Taivon Rupert and the defense gave the ball back...
Murrysville area: Artist talk, art show submissions and more
Email news briefs and event listings to pvarine@triblive.com. Paper-cutting artist featured at ESAL The East Suburban Artists League will welcome Ted Bolha as its featured speaker on Sept. 4. Bolhas has been creating intricate, hand-cut art pieces for more than two decades, and in recent years has focused almost entirely...
Westmoreland Food Bank breaks ground on multimillion-dollar expansion
The Westmoreland Food Bank served about 5 million meals in 2024. And while officials are hoping the overall demand will decrease, their ability to fulfill that need will be expanding soon, along with their building on Devonshire Drive in Salem. Work on the planned expansion kicked off Thursday morning. “It’s...
Murrysville church will host blood drive
Newlonsburg Presbyterian Church in Murrysville will host a blood drive in partnership with the American Red Cross. It will be from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday at the church, 4600 Old William Penn Highway in Murrysville. Donors can schedule an appointment by calling 800-733-2767 or visiting RedCrossBlood.org — enter...
Murrysville area: Blood drive, upcoming meetings, car show
Email news briefs and event listings to pvarine@triblive.com. Upcoming public meetings • Franklin Township Municipal Sanitary Authority board, 6 p.m. Aug. 21 at the authority offices, 3001 Meadowbrook Road in Murrysville. For more, see FTMSA.org. • Export council, 6:30 p.m. Sept. 2 at the borough building, 5821 Washington Avenue. An...
2025 Trib HSSN football position-by-position breakdown: Scouting the cornerbacks
TribLive HSSN will break down the top players at one position per day until Week Zero. Here is a look at the top cornerbacks for the 2025 season. 1. Gabriel Jenkins Imani Christian Junior, 6-2, 182 Jenkins, who committed to Penn State on Monday, is regarded as one of the...
Eastern Pittsburgh suburban real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 17, 2025
ALLEGHENY COUNTY Churchill William Costello sold property at 2525 Greensburg Pike 202 to Michael Lanigan and Sandra Zurich for $200,000. Sean McKelvey sold property at 3750 Margate Road to Ms Capital Group Pittsburgh LLC for $150,000. Edgewood MB Trade LLC sold property at 507 Greendale Ave. to Jacob and Diana...
Monroeville artist featured at Murrysville library art gallery
Cathy Kernan’s paintings, made with pastels and watercolors, showcase the beauty of landscapes, from sweeping snow-covered mountain vistas to intimate woodlands. Kernan, 72, of Monroeville is a member of the East Suburban Artists League and joins fellow ESAL member Fred Threlfall as the featured artists in ESAL’s gallery at the...
Eastern Pittsburgh suburban real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 10, 2025
ALLEGHENY COUNTY Chalfant Ronald McCarrison sold property at 106 Lynnwood Ave. to Matthew and Crystal Byrne for $200,000. Churchill Mark Wolfe sold property at 3413 Ridgewood Drive to Paul Scott Jr. and Blaire Scott for $650,000. Forest Hills Crystal Willis sold property at 1223 Brinton Road to Cindy Frese for...
Murrysville moves ahead with disc golf course at community park
Murrysville officials will move ahead with plans to add a disc golf trail at Murrysville Community Park that can also be used as a walking trail. Council voted unanimously at its Aug. 6 meeting to work with Dan Flanigan, a course designer with the Professional Disc Golf Association, on a...
Ackermann preserve in North Huntingdon to join Old-Growth Forest Network
Old-growth trees are much more than just an imposing sight to encounter in the forest, though many of them most certainly fit that bill, rising high into the sky and boasting massive trunks that would require at least two people to fully encircle. They provide shade for the forest under-story,...
Moore develops into quiet leader for Franklin Regional football team
If you attend a Franklin Regional football practice this fall, you will not see senior Matt Moore running around and getting into his teammates’ faces to encourage or fire them up. You will see a football player being a leader by acting as another coach and demonstrating the proper way...
Love of the game helps Franklin Regional volleyball standout make instant impact
He gets asked the same question all the time. “Do you play basketball?” But Jason Buczynski, at a towering 6-foot-7, lets down inquisitors gently. Not anymore. The rising junior at Franklin Regional played from age 6-13 but set aside the sport for another with nets. “I did not have passion...
Murrysville Area: Export summer festival, Fairview Park Old Fashioned Picnic and more
Email news briefs and event listings to pvarine@triblive.com. Export summer festival The annual Export Ethnic Food & Music Festival will be from 12-9 p.m. Aug. 16 along Washington Avenue. Borough officials announced that there will be no parking on Washington Avenue after 11 a.m. on Aug. 15, through Sunday morning,...
Franklin Regional rebuilds after heavy graduation losses
As Lance Getsy begins his fifth season at Franklin Regional, he is faced with a retooling job. The Panthers graduated 16 seniors from last year’s team that finished 8-4 overall and 4-2 in Class 5A Big East Conference. There are a lot of starting positions available on the Franklin Regional...
Westmoreland will install 2nd Liberty Bell replica in Murrysville as part of semisesquicentennial
When the United States marks its 250th anniversary in 2026, replicas of the iconic Liberty Bell will be installed all across Pennsylvania, each with a different theme created by local artists. And while the goal was to place at least one in each county, Westmoreland County already has two in...
Eastern Pittsburgh suburban real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 3, 2025
ALLEGHENY COUNTY Churchill Brenda Neundorf sold property at 1457 Beulah Road to Darin and Mary Kendrick for $260,000. Mash Holdings 19 L.P. sold property at 1885 Beulah Road to 72 Motions LLC for $80,000. John Yocca sold property at 1633 Georgetown Pl to Anthony Deberto Jr. and Therese Alcantara Abrenica...
After pulling double duty with Franklin Regional soccer, football, Joey Bayne takes on new challenge
For years, Joey Bayne kicked soccer balls and footballs in the hopes of playing one or both sports at the next level. His grind was year-round, and he did double-duty playing soccer and football in the same season at Franklin Regional. You might call him the fall guy. But it...
Franklin Regional grad works on to address cardiovascular illness, healthcare literacy in Tanzania
While working on his undergraduate degree at Duke University, Faraan Rahim had the chance to travel to Ghana in west Africa for a summer project, and the 2019 Franklin Regional graduate fell in love with the challenges and rewards of global health care. Today, Rahim is on the opposite side...
