Pine Creek Journal category, Page 21

This was just another week of practice for Peters Township’s football team, exactly like any of the others the Indians had this season. At least that was the idea. It’s hard to do in the days leading up to a WPIAL championship game, but coach T.J. Plack tried his best....

The academic calendar for the 2024-2025 school year was presented for board consideration at the Nov. 13 Pine-Richland school board meeting. The academic calendar for next school year will be “relatively unchanged from the past couple of years,” board member Peter Lyons said. One of the changes will be having...

Holiday festivities begin at McCandless Crossing on Nov. 27 with the annual Christmas Tree Lighting on the Town Green from 6 to 8 p.m. Local singer and guitarist Elias Khouri will play live acoustic holiday music from 6-7 p.m., and dancers from Michele’s Dance Center will perform from 7-8 pm....

Richland residents will see their property taxes hold steady for another year, according to the proposed 2024 budget. “Richland’s Township’s millage rate remains unchanged from last year,” township manager Dean Bastianini said. For 2023, a millage rate of 2.696 mills is levied on all commercial, residential and non-exempt real property....

A Mt. Washington man accused of raping a Pine woman — who told police he slapped her in the face when she repeatedly refused his advances and then forced her to have sex — has been ordered to stand trial. In September, Northern Regional Police charged Tassy Fils-Aime, 32, of...

The Pine-Richland school board had a full agenda at the Nov. 13 meeting, but the fate of 12 book titles at the high school and middle schools was top of mind. In what appeared to be a direct rebuttal to last month’s school board meeting, more than 30 people addressed...

A group of Christian home-schooled students from the North Hills is headed to Denver next month to participate in a robotics competition against top teams from Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Ohio, South Dakota and Pennsylvania. Students of FINS—Family Instructors of the Northern Suburbs (of Pittsburgh) Robotics Team have qualified for the...

Pine-Richland High School senior Udbhav Akolkar has been named a semifinalist for the 2024 class of the Coca-Cola Scholars Program. More than 1,500 high school seniors were selected as semifinalists from a pool of over 103,800 submitted applications from across the country based on their academic excellence, leadership and service...

Holiday Dazzle Pine’s annual Holiday Dazzle event will be 4-7 p.m. Nov. 18. It is a fantastic family-friendly event. Enjoy all the fun attractions to get into the holiday spirit, including reindeer, live music, Santa, cookie decorating, crafts, food trucks and more. Tickets are $5. Register online at twp.pine.pa.us. Northern...

Lucas Thompson left last year’s WPIAL cross country meet with the mindset that he was going to qualify for states in 2023. It was an ambitious goal for a freshman, but one he was determined to meet. He started doing some research on how he could optimize his workouts using...

Bellevue Bank NY Mellon Tr sold property at 269 N Balph Ave. to Renault Bonner for $78,750. Estate of Donald Easler sold property at 309 Union Ave. to Mitchell Bentley for $100,000. Franklin Park Maronda Homes LLC sold property at 1322 Adrian Drive to Ryan Chedwick for $642,295. Gary Bleakley...

Pine-Richland was two seconds away from a season-ending loss when freshman Aaron “Oobi” Strader narrowly crossed the goal line on a touchdown run that has the defending champion headed back to the WPIAL finals. “If there’s time on the clock, there’s a chance,” coach Jon LeDonne said. But time was...

Comcast is expanding its services into Pine after all. The issue of Pine entering into a franchise agreement was previously tabled at the Oct. 16 board of supervisors meeting due to a dispute over the service area. After additional discussions, Comcast said it was willing to state in the agreement...

Just one vote separates Democrat Ashley Fortier from current school board president Greg DiTullio in Region 1. Republican incumbent and current board treasurer Marc D. Casciani was the top vote-getter in the two-seat race with 1,552. Fortier, a newcomer, has 1,549 votes and DiTullio has 1,548, according to Allegheny County’s...

The Cookie Monster would love this, not to mention Santa and his elves. St. Brendan’s Episcopal Church of Franklin Park will hold its annual Holiday Happenings Craft Show and Cookie Walk on Saturday, Nov. 18, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. More than two dozen vendors will offer handcrafted goods...

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The Pine supervisors race was uncontested, with three candidates running for three open seats on the board. According to unofficial results, Republican incumbent and currant board chair Ryan Colombo was the top vote-getter with 2,953 votes. Incumbent John Donahue, who was cross-filed on the ballot along with Incumbent Pat Avolio,...

Two cemeteries in Pine and one in Mars will participate in Wreaths Across America this holiday season: West Union, Mount Pleasant, and Mars cemeteries. Wreaths Across America is a non-profit organization that helps commemorate fallen veterans by placing wreaths at their graves each Dec. 16, National Wreaths Across America Day....

Republican Matthew J. Brungo is the apparent winner of the district judge race for District 05-02-12, which covers Bradford Woods and Marshall, McCandless and Pine townships, according to unofficial vote totals reported Nov. 7 by the Allegheny County Board of Elections. The results are unofficial until the vote has been...

Holiday Dazzle Pine’s annual Holiday Dazzle event will be 4-7 p.m. Nov. 18 November 18. It is a fantastic family-friendly event. Enjoy all the fun attractions to get into the holiday spirit, including reindeer, live music, Santa, cookie decorating, crafts, food trucks and more. Tickets are $5. Register online at...

Led by a pair of goals by Jessica Albertson, Pine-Richland field hockey advanced to another Class 3A field hockey championship with a 3-0 win over North Allegheny in the Class 3A semifinals Oct. 28. The Rams were seeking their fifth consecutive WPIAL championship when they faced No. 2 Peters Township...

Franklin Park Maronda Homes LLC sold property at 1328 Adrian Drive to Matthew Thomas Brock and Jennifer Amanda Murtha for $652,320. Estate of Velia Schubel sold property at 2231 Montgomery Road to Nicholas Schubel for $240,000. Hampton Dale Lynn sold property at 5027 Apple Ridge Drive to Derek and Kattiana...

If anyone was looking for an evenly matched contest with a marvelous display of skill, the WPIAL Class 3A field hockey final was the game to watch. Goals? That would be a luxury the crowd at Cameron Stadium at Washington and Jefferson College would have to wait for. The match...

Winners of four straight games and six of its last seven, Pine-Richland entered Friday evening’s home WPIAL Class 5A quarterfinal matchup against Bethel Park looking to keep the good times rolling. It did that and then some. The reigning WPIAL and PIAA champions left no doubt in their postseason opener,...

Pine-Richland gave North Allegheny a stern test in the second set of Wednesday’s WPIAL Class 4A girls volleyball semifinal and the Tigers responded like six-time defending state champions. Faced with the prospects of a squared-up match, Jamie Frisco had a pair of kills and Kyra Schmidt served a crucial ace...