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Carnegie Museum of Art’s ‘Mindful Museum’ programs target older visitors
Sometimes inspiration comes from unlikely sources. For Lucy Stewart, associate curator of education at the Carnegie Museum of Art, walking through the galleries sparked an idea for one of the facility’s new “Mindful Museum” offerings, a suite of accessible programs and activities that enhance the museum as a destination to...
Chartiers Valley educator up for year’s NHL Most Valuable Teacher
Voting starts in May for a National Hockey League contest in which a Chartiers Valley Middle School teacher is one of three finalists. Scott Caplan was named the NHL and NHL Players Association’s Future Goals Most Valuable Teacher, presented by software provider SAP, for March, qualifying him for potential honor...
‘Fridays on Fifth’ returns this week in downtown New Kensington
The food truck event that brought throngs of people to downtown New Kensington last year is coming back. “Fridays on Fifth” will make its return this Friday to — you guessed it — Fifth Avenue. It will run from 5 to 9 p.m. between Ninth and 11th streets. This will...
Wintry weather expected for Pittsburgh region Monday
It’s springtime on the calendar, but the weather outside says winter. A mix of snow and rain is expected for the Pittsburgh region Monday afternoon, according to AccuWeather. The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh expects winter weather Monday into Tuesday. Messy wintry weather is expected today into Tue. Rain will...
Happenings for week of April 18, 2022
Hampton Community Library programs Hampton Community Library will continue its children’s programming mask policy: Tuesdays masks are required, and on Thursdays masks are optional. It’s a Wonderful World Drop-in Storytime is scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays through May 19, featuring stories and songs, “investigate and create,” parachute play...
In brief: Sewickley resident receives ACE award, rummage sale and more
Sewickley resident receives ACE Award Peter F. Schlicht, a financial advisor and vice president with Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC in Sewickley, has earned the 2021 Ameriprise Client Experience Award. Award recipients earned an overall client satisfaction rating equal to or greater than 4.9 out of 5.0 and maintained stellar business...
What’s happening: Week of April 18, 2022
Y’s Healthy Kids Day scheduled YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh’s Healthy Kids Day will take place from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. April 30 at locations including the Sampson Family YMCA, 2200 Golden Mile Highway, Plum. The event features activities such as swim lessons, paint by numbers and relays to motivate and teach...
In brief: Penn Hills Musical Alumni Night, Freemasonry history program
Musical Alumni Night Started by Class of 2003 musical theater students Heather Lubay Broderick, Joe Nickel, Nicolette Chilton-Spudic, Lacy Brooks, and Tiffany Murdy Sozynski, Penn Hills Musical Alumni have come together since 2018 to celebrate and enjoy a long-standing Penn Hills tradition of the spring musical. In 2019, they added...
Spring has sprung for Art in Bloom Floral and Photography Show at Pittsburgh Mills mall
Spring is in full swing at the Art in Bloom Floral and Photography Show at the Focus on the Arts Gallery in the Pittsburgh Mills mall in Frazer. The gallery displays and sells work from the New Kensington Camera Club and the Allegheny Valley League of Artists. Nearly 80 pieces...
Foxwall EMS, Aspinwall VFD fundraiser will conquer Center Avenue, one of region’s steepest hills
Foxwall EMS and Aspinwall Volunteer Fire Department are encouraging people to Run for the Hill of It. The new fundraiser to benefit both groups will celebrate its inaugural race on Sunday, April 24. “This is the kind of event that we have thought about for a long time,” said Rob...
Witnesses detail chaos of shooting that killed 2 teens on Pittsburgh’s North Side
Less than an hour into Easter Sunday, nearly 100 gunshots sent hundreds of young people — many of them teenagers — running into the streets on Pittsburgh’s North Side. At least 50 shots were fired inside a three-story home on Madison Avenue at Suismon Street, authorities said, and just as...
The Stroller, April 18, 2022: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. St. Joseph HS to honor alumni St. Joseph High School, Natrona Heights, Harrison, will honor several alumni with Spirit of St....
O’Hara’s Pilarski named Student of the Month at Thiel
Pilarski named a student of the month at Thiel Sydnee Pilarski of O’Hara Township has been named a Student of the Month for March at Thiel College. The Student of the Month honor is awarded to seniors. It is among the most prestigious student awards at Thiel College with only...
Faces of the Valley: New pastor of Natrona Heights Presbyterian brings experience, energy to leadership role
Rick Harbaugh concedes that there’s still a lot for him to learn about Natrona Heights Presbyterian Church and its parishioners as he fumbles for the correct switches to turn lights on in the nearly 100-year-old stone church on Broadview Boulevard. “I’m still finding my way around and learning things,” Harbaugh...
West Mifflin man dies after car goes off side of bridge in Duquesne
A man died Sunday morning after his SUV went off the side of a bridge in Duquesne. According to Allegheny County Police, the crash at the Thompson Run Bridge was reported shortly before 11 a.m. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner identified the man as David Judy, of West Mifflin. He...
Pittsburgh police investigating shootout at South Side Flats clothing store
Four men are alleged to have been involved in a shootout Sunday afternoon at a business in Pittsburgh’s South Side Flats neighborhood. Police said officers received an alert just before 3 p.m. of three rounds fired in the 2100 block of Wharton Street. Officers arrived to find that the windows...
DEP to close mine opening and demolish old fan building at Roaring Run Trail
The once polluted and blighted Roaring Run Trail area in Kiski Township has greened over much of its past and has become a destination for walking, biking and kayaking. But the history of coal mining still haunts the area. A visitor to Roaring Run a few years ago found a...
Police searching for missing Murrysville girl left at friend’s house in Duquesne
Duquesne police are asking for help in finding a missing 15-year-old girl. Police said DeAsia Webb was last seen around 12:30 a.m. Thursday. Webb lives in Murrysville, but was dropped off at a friend’s house in Duquesne, police said. Webb’s mother believes she might be in the McKeesport area. Webb...
Penn Hills police searching for missing man
A Penn Hills man is missing and considered endangered, police said Sunday. Police are trying to find Larry Ellis, 56, of Penn Hills. According to police, Ellis left his home around 1 a.m. to meet a woman named Ebony. He was last seen leaving in a dark-colored vehicle with an...
New bike shop wheels its way into Leechburg
Market Street in Leechburg continues to grow, as a new shop has wheeled its way along the street. Allegheny Township resident Tim Carson opened his new bike shop, Spokes, in February. Customers can browse a range of bikes, from trail, mountain, women’s, kid’s and e-bikes. Bike repairs and accessories are...
Pittsburgh Scholar House names former Urban Redevelopment Authority official as inaugural CEO
The Pittsburgh Scholar House — a new nonprofit that aims to increase support for single-parent families in pursuit of higher education — announced Thursday that it has appointed Diamonte Walker as its inaugural CEO. Walker previously served as the deputy executive director for Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority. In her new...
Wildlife observation blind to open at Murrysville nature reserve on Earth Day
The Westmoreland Conservancy will celebrate Earth Day on April 22 by officially opening a newly constructed wildlife observation blind along an accessible trail in the Moroisini Reserve off Ringertown Road in Murrysville. “We don’t want to leave anybody out. Accessibility — that’s a goal we really embrace,” said Shelly Tichy,...
Harrison Commissioners eyeing couches, tires, TVs in Earth Day cleanup
Harrison Commissioner Jamie Nee already is eyeing larger-than-normal pieces of litter to be collected at the township’s April 23 Earth Day cleanup. Her list includes an inventory of 82 tires, 25 TVs and seven couches that have been tossed in township parks or left on sides of roads as eyesores....
Valley High School Drama Club bringing ‘Newsies’ back from covid shutdown
In 2020, the headline about “Newsies” was “Canceled.” The Valley High School Drama Club was two weeks from its first performance of the Disney musical when the covid pandemic shutdown started in March. “It was very crushing,” said Spencer Pastrick, 17, a junior from New Kensington who was a freshman...
Sewickley area real estate transactions for the week of April 17, 2022
Edgeworth Wenyue Pang sold property at 112 Elm Ln to Matthew Gordon and Emily Capitano for $550,000. Antonette Roppo sold property at 208 New England Pl to Fernando Goncalves Balestriero and Ivanise Maravalhas Gomes for $480,000. Leetsdale Sherif Al Taher sold property at 129 Victory Ln to Hector and Angel...
