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Holiday Park Elementary in Plum closed due to covid, students to learn remotely
Holiday Park Elementary students will be learning remotely today and Friday due to several covid cases, Plum School District officials announced. Seven students and two teachers recently tested positive for the virus, requiring 23 people to quarantine, according to a notice sent to families. All building activities have been canceled...
Plum woman’s life saved by quick work from her husband, Allegheny County dispatch and first responders
Kristen Frederick is grateful to be alive. The Plum resident suffered a cardiac arrest around 11 p.m. Feb. 5 after heading to bed in her Holiday Park home. Her husband, Rob, an Army sergeant who served in Iraq, heard a weird snoring sound that night and found Frederick gasping for...
Unity VFD in Plum to rethink vehicle purchase plan after council fails to approve funding
Plans to replace an aging rescue truck at Unity Volunteer Fire Department in Plum were sent back to square one after council opted not to contribute the bulk of its cost. Instead, elected leaders contracted with Emergency Vehicle Response to do a fire apparatus fleet analysis for the borough and...
Letter to the editor: Setting the record straight on candidate endorsement
If you received literature in the mail from Joe Tommarello stating that he is an “endorsed Republican,” please be aware that Joe Tommarello, a candidate for Plum School Board in 2021, is not endorsed by the Plum Borough Republican Committee. The four Plum Borough Republican Committee endorsed candidates for school...
Fox Chapel upends Plum and keeps section title hopes alive
For four innings Monday, the Fox Chapel baseball team couldn’t find a way to produce a run. They left two runners on base in the first, one on in both the second and third and one on in the fourth while tallying two hits. Meanwhile, senior right-hander Dante DiMatteo threw...
Plum blanks Armstrong in return from covid pause
The Plum softball team hadn’t played a game in two weeks before Monday’s crucial Section 1-5A matchup at Armstrong. The Mustangs defeated Franklin Regional on April 26, but then went on a covid pause. But they didn’t let the layoff affect them as they scored early and rode the pitching...
In brief: Oakmont officials consider ban on coal tar, student news and more in Plum, Oakmont
Oakmont officials are considering adopting a resolution to ban coal tar, a toxic chemical used to seal asphalt driveways. There currently are no borough restrictions on the material some contractors use to seal driveways. The black liquid also frequently is used on parking lots and playgrounds. Fox Chapel approved its...
Holy Family Catholic in Plum to reopen after faculty exposure to covid-19
Holy Family Catholic School is set to reopen Monday after possible covid-19 exposure affecting multiple faculty members prompted officials to close the Plum campus last week. “Due to a few of our Holy Family Catholic school staff members being exposed to covid-19, we are unable to adequately fill instructional positions...
Eastern area real estate transactions for the week of May 9, 2021
Churchill Estate of Claraine King sold property at 436 Woodland Hills Drive to Kevin Alfaro for $258,000. Edgewood Robert Spagiare sold property at 109 Dewey St. to Eric and Angela Holtzman for $480,000. Forest Hills Thomas Murphy Jr. sold property at 311 Barclay Ave. to HD Acquisitions LLC for $90,000....
Riverview alum Molly Collins makes impact for PSNK softball
Riverview graduate Molly Collins has been a key factor this season for the Penn State New Kensington softball team. The Lions freshman outfielder went 2 for 3 with two doubles and four runs batted in as PSNK rolled past Penn State Beaver, 9-0, on May 1 in the first round...
‘Where is she?’: Defense wants police interview in Liberty man’s homicide case tossed 
For nearly an hour, Allegheny County homicide detectives pleaded with Douglas Berry to tell them where the body was. It had been 25 days since 67-year-old Elizabeth “Betsy” Wiesenfeld had gone missing, and weeks of investigation had pointed the detectives directly at Berry, a handyman who had worked for her....
Plum school board has 12 cross-filed candidates seeking ballot nods
Editor’s note: The Advance Leader is only spotlighting contested races in the primary election. Plum residents have a plethora of candidates seeking both the Democratic and Republican nod for four school board seats this year. A dozen hopefuls, including two incumbents, have cross-filed for the May 18 primary election, according...
Hampton holds off Plum to punch ticket to playoffs for 4th straight year
After multiple late-inning comebacks this season, including against Hampton on Tuesday, the Plum baseball team finally ran out of magic Thursday. Trailing by three in the bottom of the seventh, the Mustangs (9-4, 9-1) pushed a run across and put the tying run on second. But Hampton junior Cam Marshalwitz...
Plum High School athletic fields upgrades complete
An estimated $2.4 million revamp of Plum High School’s athletic facilities has been completed. The projects started with the football stadium turf, track and new lights being installed last summer. The baseball and softball fields also received synthetic turf replacement from Art Global, an artificial grass manufacturer that worked on...
Plum backstop Ethan Kircher comes through in the clutch
The Plum baseball team has fashioned a strong record this spring, overall and in Section 2-5A, and senior catcher Ethan Kircher has been at the center of the action. In a come-from-behind 12-9 win at home over section foe Hampton on May 4, Kircher helped lead the comeback with a...
Plum’s Pivik Elementary students have new place to make friends courtesy of distinguished alumni couple
Pivik Elementary students have a new place to sit and make friends. A Buddy Bench recently was donated to the K-4 school in the Plum School District by Renee DeMichiei Farrow and her husband, Bob. Both are distinguished alumni and wanted to give back to the borough. Renee Farrow said...
Neighbor Spotlight: Plum’s buildings and grounds supervisor Joe Fischetti enjoys making borough look good 
Editor’s note: Neighbor Spotlight is a monthly feature that aims to let our readers learn more about the people in their communities who are working to make them a better place, who have interesting stories to tell or who the community feels deserve “15 minutes of fame.” If you would...
Women from across Greater Pittsburgh compete in bowling league at Nesbit’s Lanes in Plum
Penn Hills Women’s Classic, a 32-woman bowling league, plays at Nesbit’s Lanes in Plum on Wednesday evenings. Bowlers from Penn Hills, Monroeville, Murrysville, Oakmont and surrounding communities compete on four teams. Some teams consists of mother-daughter pairs, such as Rose Catullo of Oakmont and her daughter, Christy Myers of Verona....
Plum Republicans challenging to be on the November ballot
Editor’s note: The Advance Leader is only spotlighting contested races in the primary election. Plum Republicans have some choices to make when it comes to who they want to see on the November ballot. According to the Allegheny County Office of Elections unofficial candidate list, two former councilmen, two incumbents...
News Briefs: Plum Boys soccer golf outing, meet and greet and more in Plum, Oakmont
Plum boys soccer team golf outing The Plum boys soccer team will host its first annual golf outing June 13 at the Meadowink Golf Course in Murrysville. The shotgun start will begin at 1 p.m. (arrive at noon). The cost is $100 per golfer, which includes golf, lunch and dinner....
Eastern area real estate transactions for the week of May 2, 2021
Chalfant Louise Walczyk sold property at 355 West St. to Louella Hall Carter for $104,850. Delmont Timothy Washa sold property at 201 E White Oak St. to Ryan Silan and Brooke Denlinger for $189,000. Edgewood Jack Ellenberger sold property at 225 E Swissvale Ave. Unit 4 to Kelly Fraasch for...
Plum baseball looks to finish strong
The Plum varsity baseball team fashioned an unblemished Section 2-5A record through a pair of victories over Penn Hills on April 26 and 27. That put the Mustangs at 6-0 heading into a scheduled home-and-home section series against Woodland Hills. Plum was to pay a visit to the Wolverines on...
Plum’s Alex Kirilloff launches first 2 big league homers in Twins win
MINNEAPOLIS — Alex Kirilloff hit the first two home runs of his major league career, including a three-run drive that broke open the game in the third inning and led the Minnesota Twins over the AL Central-leading Kansas City Royals 9-1 on Friday night. Kirilloff, a Plum native who debuted...
Plum, Riverview school districts team up to provide covid vaccine clinic
Plum, Oakmont and Verona residents ages 16 and older will be able to get vaccinated at covid clinic Wednesday, May 12. The first dose of the Pfizer vaccine will be available from 3:30 to 6 p.m. at Oblock Junior High School, 440 Presque Isle Drive in Plum. The second shot...
A-K Valley softball notebook: Highlands set for showdown with Burrell
When the Highlands softball team suffered a 14-4 loss to Freeport in its Section 1-4A opener at home April 9, the Golden Rams could have looked ahead to the next matchup with the Yellowjackets. But the focus for the team, coach Jen Koprivnikar said, stayed in the short term. As...


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