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Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff, dies at 88
Plum grad Markus Cestra earns All-PSAC honors
Markus Cestra started his fifth-year season for the IUP baseball team in an offensive hole. The Plum graduate and Crimson Hawks infielder began the 2023 campaign 1 for 13 through four games. But in his fifth game, a victory over Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference East foe East Stroudsburg, he broke...
Plum notebook: Mustangs baseball team captures section title
For the second time in three seasons, the Plum baseball team was able to add to its section-title banner in the main gymnasium. The Mustangs earned a share of the Section 1-5A title, finishing 9-3 after a doubleheader split with Fox Chapel on May 8 and 9. Penn-Trafford also finished...
Plum Class of 2023 graduates May 24
Plum Borough School District announces the Class of 2023 commencement will be held May 24 in the Plum Senior High School stadium, 900 Elicker Road. The ceremony will begin at 7 p.m. Speakers include Michael Devine, school board president; Superintendent Brendan Hyland; and Heather Hibner, high school principal. These students...
Ladies Spigno Saturnia Society honors its president
The Ladies Spigno Saturnia Society held its Annual Mother’s Day Party at Pugliano’s Italian Grill in Plum on May 7. Each year, the event honors members past and present who have belonged to the organization since 1938. The society spotlights the Spignese nationality of Saturnia, Italy. The Pittsburgh area has...
Work continues on bridge replacement over Pucketa Creek between Plum, Upper Burrell
With a temporary span installed, work is continuing to replace a bridge over a creek between Plum and Upper Burrell. Pugliano Construction of Plum is working on the $1 million project to replace Pucketa Creek Bridge No. 5, which carries Lincoln Beach Drive over the creek. Allegheny and Westmoreland counties...
Plum police issue warning of mail theft
Plum police and the U.S. Postal Service are investigating numerous incidents of mail theft, police said Tuesday. Suspects are stealing the contents of residential and business mailboxes, police said. Officers have identified a vehicle of interest, according to police. On Monday, the driver of a white minivan was seen taking...
Fox Chapel baseball defeats Plum, forces 3-way tie atop section standings
When half of a team’s starting lineup is underclassmen and its top two pitchers are sophomores, the future is bright. However, for the Fox Chapel baseball team, the future is now. The Foxes defeated visiting Plum, 5-2, on Monday afternoon to force a three-way tie for first place between Fox...
Plum, Oakmont, Verona area happenings, week of May 8, 2023
Oakmont-Verona Memorial Day The 2023 Oakmont-Verona Memorial Day parade and ceremony will take place on May 29. The parade will line up at 9 a.m. on East Railroad Avenue in Verona and begin at 9:30. Frank Bonaroti is the parade marshal. The route will be along Allegheny River Boulevard across...
Trib HSSN baseball player of the week for May 7, 2023
A Trib HSSN baseball player of the week can come in many shapes and sizes. Sometimes it’s a young man having a strong season by adding to his super stats. Other times it’s a monumental performance that stands out. This week, we tip our cap to a young man who...
East suburban real estate transactions, week of May 7, 2023
Churchill Estate of Eric Velazquez sold property at 3460 Ridgewood Drive to Jeffrey Samuels for $320,000. Edgewood Maureen Smith sold property at 528 Greendale Ave. to Kaitlin Kirkpatrick Heimke for $265,000. Kevin Haworth sold property at 120 Oakview Ave. to Ian McIntyre and Richelle Szypulski for $220,000. Forest Hills Lisa...
A-K Valley athletes of the week: Valley’s Niko Heakins, Plum’s Taylor Lorish
Taylor Lorish Class: Senior School: Plum Sport: Softball Report card: Lorish hit a grand slam and had five RBIs to help Plum earn a 9-2 win over Fox Chapel in a Section 1-5A game Thursday. Lorish is batting over .450 this season for the Mustangs, who are in third place...
Plum gymnast Natalia Burris competes at Eastern Nationals
Natalia Burris was in select company over the weekend. The Plum sophomore and a USA Gymnastics Level 9 competitor joined six others on a regional team that was to compete at the Eastern Nationals on Sunday in Kissimmee, Fla. The seven selected for the Region 7 squad at the Level...
After strong regular season, Plum girls lacrosse carries journey into WPIAL playoffs
The WPIAL girls lacrosse committee is scheduled to meet Thursday to hash out the WPIAL playoff pairings and also release the brackets for both Class 3A and Class 2A. Plum hopes to earn a first-round bye in the Class 2A field of at least 12 teams — six from each...
Plum sweeps Franklin Regional, sets up showdown for 1st place in section
While Plum was flying high Thursday after its dramatic come-from-behind victory over Franklin Regional, there was no truth to the rumor that its mode of transportation Friday for the rematch was a broomstick. Although that would have come in handy after the Mustangs swept the Panthers, winning 8-2 Friday and...
Proposed Plum school budget holds tax line
Plum Borough School District’s 2023-24 general fund budget does not call for an increase in the real estate tax rate. The proposed spending plan will be presented for adoption as the final budget at a school board meeting scheduled for 7 p.m. May 30 in the high school library. The...
Colin Watson comes through for Plum in comeback win over Franklin Regional
Plum baseball coach Carl Vollmer usually uses junior Colin Watson in save situations. But after junior starting pitcher Erik Streussnig struggled with his control and didn’t last two innings against Franklin Regional in a WPIAL Section 1-5A first-place showdown, Vollmer decided to extend Watson out and he responded. Watson blanked...
Pedestrian struck in Plum shopping center
A 77-year-old man was taken to a local hospital after being struck by a vehicle Tuesday afternoon in Plum. Emergency responders were called to the Holiday Park Shopping Center on Golden Mile Highway just before 1 p.m. They found the man who had been hit in the plaza’s parking lot....
Plum honored for music education
Plum Borough School District’s music department continues to rack up awards. For the fifth consecutive year, Plum has received the Best Communities for Music Education designation from the National Association of Music Merchants Foundation. “The music staff is pleased to be part of a community where music and the visual...
Plum alum gives the gift of cleats
A former Plum High School baseball player is giving back to the program that gave so much to him. Nick Frazetta, a 2015 graduate, donated new cleats to each member of this year’s varsity team. He presented the cleats in person to the team in March, an experience that both...
‘I want to see people reading’: Couple add to Plum’s Little Free Library offerings
Plum’s latest Little Free Library comes courtesy of a former teacher with a simple mission: “I want to see people reading.” In other words, Janice Murphy would like to encourage folks to share her interest. “I just love to read,” she said. “If I don’t have a book going, I...
Plum artist featured with ‘Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow’
Dabster Arts Inc. presents “Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow,” a solo exhibition featuring the artwork of Plum resident Bob Freyer. The exhibition can be viewed in its entirety on the ARTSY collector’s platform through June 25. Freyer draws inspiration from the classic Pop Art movement but has his own, unique style....
Plum, Oakmont, Verona happenings, week of May 1, 2023
National History Day finalists A group of Riverview High School ninth- and 10th-grade honors history students participated in traveled to the National History Day State Finals on April 22-23. Five of the students’ projects received top-six finishes: • Chiara Brun and Molly Morrissey, second place, Senior Group Performance, “Bayard v....
East suburban real estate transactions, week of April 30, 2023
Churchill Estate of Lamar Kinghorn sold property at 2148 Beulah Road to James Burke Sr for $165,000. William Levin sold property at 3710 Henley Drive to Toby and Danielle Weaver for $190,000. Monroeville Dorothy Sciotti Henry sold property at 406 Center Road to Cindy Vulgris for $50,000. Tri COG Land...
Plum grad Nick Hubner helps Westminster lacrosse reach PAC playoffs
When Anthony Accardi was hired last August as the men’s lacrosse coach at Westminster College, it was a clean slate for the returning players in terms of opportunity to get on the field and contribute to team success. Nick Hubner took that to heart. The Plum graduate, a 6-foot-5, 220-pound...
After strong freshman season, Plum’s Gabrielle Layne ready to take next step
Gabrielle Layne came within an eyelash of making the finals of the Class 3A girls 100-meter dash at last year’s WPIAL championships at Slippery Rock. The top eight from the preliminaries made the finals heat, and Layne placed ninth with a time of 12.97, just three one-hundredths of a second...


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