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Bills for new stormwater fee mailed Jordan Tax Service, which collects taxes for Hampton Township, recently sent out bills for the new Stormwater Management Fee being levied to help pay for state and federally mandated work to control flooding and reduce water pollution. In January, Hampton residents were notified by...

Monroeville police arrested Marcus A. Niehenke, 41, on Feb. 7. Niehenke had been a fugitive from Indiana County and was wanted for a 2020 DUI and three violations against Protection from Abuse orders. He is in Allegheny County Jail and is scheduled for a court hearing in March. Student news...

Two students from Penn Hills, Wilkinsburg, Wilkins or Churchill attending St. Francis University in Loretto, Pa. have been named to the school’s dean’s list. To be named on the list, students must be full-time students and maintain a 3.5 GPA on 12 or more credits during a single semester. The...

Free tax prep is available through the North Hills Community Outreach. This is a seasonal program that helps low-income households who earn less than $57,000. The service is available through April 14. A fully virtual option through an IRS-approved website can be accessed at getyourrefund.org/nhco. Limited contact options are available...

Letter-writer Tom Tarosky seems to make the assumption that anyone who voted for Donald Trump is a lesser person than he (“Maybe Trump supporters don’t know the facts,” Jan. 24, TribLIVE). He says that studies “reveal that a large segment of President Trump’s supporters have a high school education at...

I believe that the leftist, progressive, socialist movement has shown itself to be the polar opposite and enemy of our country’s founding principles and a cancer in our society. The Democratic Party is its face with President Obama’s promise to “fundamentally transform” our country. The overwhelming majority of news media,...

It’s hard to know where to begin to refute such nonsense as the letter “When everything is free, we’re not free” (Feb. 1, TribLIVE). The Dems will tell us where to work and live? How much we earn? I sure hadn’t heard that. No constitutional rights? It’s the Republicans who...

Publicize your non-profit’s meetings, fundraisers and community events in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Highlands students to perform virtual talent show Highlands High School will present a virtual February Follies Talent Show at 7 p.m. Thursday online...

The Borough of Sewickley is seeking candidates for the position of code enforcement and zoning officer. The code enforcement and zoning officer performs a variety of routine and complex professional and technical work in the application and enforcement of various property and land use related borough codes and regulations. This...

Grants available for West View Water customers West View Waste Water is offering assistance for customers who are delinquent and make at or below 300% of the Federal Poverty Income Guidelines. Eligible customers can receive grants for $200 every six months. Contact the Dollar Energy Fund at 1-888-282-6816 or see...

Carnegie baseball/softball signups Sign-ups for Carnegie Youth Athletic Association baseball, softball and T-ball are open through Feb. 28. To sign, visit playcarnegie.com. Youth lacrosse registration open The South Fayette Lacrosse Association has opened registration for new and returning members for the Spring 2021 season. Sign up by Feb. 28 at...

Pleasant Hills Community Day Pleasant Hills Borough is seeking a volunteer to take the lead and coordinate the 2021 Community Day Event scheduled for Aug. 7 at Mowry Park. The borough is also in need of volunteers to help the event run smoothly. Anyone interested in coordinating or volunteering should...

Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Feb. 15....

Editorial cartoons for the week of Feb. 15....

PHILADELPHIA — Physician groups say they are “deeply troubled” that the Pennsylvania Department of Health plans to remove primary care providers from the list of those permitted to administer the covid-19 vaccine. “This is a time when we need all hands on deck so we can get the majority of...

Basketball Boys Monday’s schedule WPIAL Class 6A Pine-Richland at North Hills, 7:30 p.m. Class 5A Section 1 Ringgold at West Mifflin, 7 p.m. Class 4A Section 2 Ambridge at Central Valley, ppd. Class 3A Section 1 Riverside at Laurel, 7:30 p.m. Section 3 East Allegheny at Ligonier Valley, 7:15 p.m....

Three members of the Vietnamese community in Westmoreland County who were returning home from a Lunar New Year Mass at a church in Pittsburgh were killed Sunday in a head-on collision along Route 30 in North Huntingdon, a friend of the victims said. The three women died after their eastbound...

Minimum wage is a complicated issue. On one side, you have people who want to raise it. It will put more money in people’s pockets, they say. It will give the economy a jump start. It will help someone get by on one job instead of two or three. It...

The Pennsylvania covid-19 vaccine rollout plan laid bare deep inequalities. People in the high-risk group who qualify today and need the vaccine the most are unable to navigate the technology-driven process. Seniors who don’t have a deep understanding of technology are expected to fast-finger-race to register when the announcement is...

There were two very different headlines on stories on the same topic, Pittsburgh Brewing Co. moving its Iron City Beer production from Latrobe to East Deer, in the Feb. 5 Tribune-Review Westmoreland (“City Brewing in Latrobe to lose Iron City account”) and Valley News Dispatch (“Something big on tap: Pittsburgh...

As covid-19 paranoia runs rampant, so does a virus that truly threatens our very existence: stupidity and selfishness. As a 62-year-old lifelong independent, I’ve studied politics for 50 years, and I sit in the middle of a left-leaning agenda of those who hate America. They foolishly think the world is...

As we heard in the news: Hillary Clinton called Republicans “deplorables.” Katie Couric and others said Trump supporters in Congress should be “deprogrammed.” Maybe the type of people making these comments should listen instead of breathing in all that swamp gas. I have been a Republican for about 50 years....

Hey Joe … c’mon man! President Trump got the vaccine developed in a historic time frame. All you have to do is deliver it. This is just a logistics problem; no science involved. Use your “plan,” call your five-star generals and get our military involved, or better better yet, call...

Why stop at Washington and Lincoln: What about those pesky Pilgrims and Plymouth Rock? We are all specks in time. We are all riding on the backs of those who came before, and I would say we owe them a huge debt. As I lay in my warm bed, I...

For all the people who get their news from television, it is time to make the big switch, since the occupant of the White House is now the other party. If you want to hear that everything that comes out of the White House is the best thing for the...