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Letter to the editor: Westmoreland County must do better on covid-19
We are living through a public health crisis the likes of which we have not seen in 100 years and need an organized, well-developed response to match. With the national and statewide covid-19 vaccination response and rollout being as slow and confusing as it has been, we should be able...
Letter to the editor: Hate for Trump backfiring on voters
My mother would sometimes use the phrase, “cut off your nose to spite your face,” and this is exactly what some Americans did during the 2020 presidential election. When I ask people why they voted for Joe Biden, the typical response I receive is because they hate Donald Trump. Few...
Letter to the editor: Political absurdities
The writer of the letter “The law and order president” (Feb. 16, TribLIVE) bolstered his judge/jury conviction of President Trump for the Jan. 6 mob assault on the Capitol by citing Voltaire, who wrote of injustices provoked by those convinced of believing absurdities. I guess the writer not expressing that...
Letter to the editor: Government shouldn’t pay our bills
In response to the op-ed from five mayors in Pennsylvania, “Our cities need the American Rescue Plan and we cannot wait” (Feb. 16, TribLIVE): If each of our districts can’t find a way to balance our books, how do you expect our neighbors in another municipality, city or state are...
Letter to the editor: Republican Party needs to return to roots
I have been a member of the Republican Party for many years and I have been glad to support the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. and George W. Bush, and locally William R. Davis and Dick Thornburgh. But the party has been taken over by a...
Letter to the editor: Another good vaccine experience
I would like to add comments to Sharon Campomizzi’s letter “Vaccination process positive” (Feb. 28, TribLIVE). My husband and I also had a good experience at St. Barbara Catholic Church in Harrison City. This clinic was sponsored by Bushy Run Pharmacy, and its employees were there volunteering. Not only was...
Letter to the editor: Smoking marijuana detrimental to health
I am very concerned with the national and state governments’ trend to legalize marijuana for recreational use for the purpose of the governments’ insatiable need for tax revenue. Our governor and lieutenant governor, along with some legislators from both parties, are proposing to do just that. My concerns are scientific,...
Letter to the editor: Silent majority must speak up
As we enter a new political era, I have a few thoughts as to what brought it about and what the results of it may be. Early last summer we began to see our cities in flames and violence across our country. Our history was being erased as everyone from...
Letter to the editor: Kudos to Chew, Kertes for holding Wolf accountable
After reading the article “Westmoreland County gets fewer covid vaccine doses than smaller counties; talks begin about regional health department” (Feb. 26, TribLIVE), I’d like to give a big thank-you to Republican commissioners Doug Chew and Sean Kertes for calling out the Wolf administration on its failure to get vaccines...
Letter to the editor: Our politically correct dinner tables
Liberalism always achieves the opposite of its stated intent. Proof is ever more government spending that yields less in return to taxpayers. This also is true for their politically correct, racial sensitivity ruse in terms of the “fairness and diversity” they claim to seek. Consider your pantry and grocery store...
Letter to the editor: We’ll pay price for turning away from God
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton need to be silenced. Oh boy, now someone (Democrats) will say I encourage doing them physical harm. No: To be clear, they need to move on, away from their hate-fueled pursuit of President Donald Trump, allowing him to live his life like any...
The Stroller, March 14, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your non-profit’s meetings, events and fundraisers in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Raffle to benefit Burrell-New Kensington Rotary projects Burrell-New Kensington Rotary is conducting an online Win Our Wallet raffle to benefit the club community projects...
South Hills real estate transactions for the week of March 14
Baldwin Borough Vincent Thomas Edwards sold property at 5340 Brownsville Road to Luke Kail and Victoria Scott for $190,000. Estate of Andrew Joseph Lang sold property at 642 Elaine Drive to Shelley Munzak for $159,900. Nora Gajewski sold property at 1465 Prospect Road to James and Caitlyn Lehner for $165,000....
Signal Item real estate transactions for the week of March 14
Bridgeville Estate of James McDonough sold property at 226 Osceola Drive to Joshua Thomas and Lauren Ricciuti for $212,500. Estate of Sheila Kelly sold property at 1352 Pesavento Drive to Callie Rozsa for $275,000. Richard Scalise III sold property at 1218 Terrace St. to Evan Augustine for $140,000. Carnegie Duke...
North Hills real estate transactions for the week of March 14
Bellevue Jeanne Mahlmann sold property at 117 Arch Ave. to Mark Stratton and Grae Prickett for $206,000. Patti Herrmann sold property at 310 Glaser Ave. to Ian Buchanan for $225,000. Susanne Durler sold property at 695 Orchard Ave. to Stefan Nitsch for $45,000. Sandra Deeds sold property at 730 Orchard...
Sewickley area real estate transactions for the week of March 14
Aleppo Eddie Filip sold property at Glenfield Road to Hilary Brown for $25,000. Edgeworth Barrie Athol sold property at 208 Chestnut Road to Jory and Melanie Richman for $1,070,297. Margaret Irvine Weir sold property at 308 Maple Ln to Jill Edwards for $650,000. Estate of Linda Sue Ruhl sold property...
Pine, Richland real estate transactions for the week of March 14
Pine Showcase Properties Inc. sold property at 215 Abbacy Drive to Youbon Kim and Yongkook Kwon for $600,047. Joseph Blair sold property at 602 Beaver Ct to Amos and Heather Bartley for $670,000. NVR Inc. sold property at 512 Cambridge Ct to Yuping Liu for $776,745. Villas English Farms L.P....
High school scores, summaries and schedules for March 13, 2021
High schools Basketball Boys WPIAL playoffs Class 5A Finals Saturday’s results New Castle 61, Chartiers Valley 45 Class 4A Finals Monday’s schedule North Catholic (18-4) vs. Lincoln Park (17-5) at North Allegheny, 8 p.m. Class 3A Finals Monday’s schedule South Allegheny (17-4) vs. Ellwood City (13-4) at North Allegheny, 5...
In Louisville, Breonna Taylor’s family honors her legacy
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — On the one-year anniversary of Breonna Taylor’s death, the slain Black woman’s family continued their call for justice as hundreds of demonstrators gathered in downtown Louisville on Saturday. “Eyes are on Louisville, Kentucky, today so let’s show America what community looks like,” said Taylor’s aunt, Bianca Austin,...
Mohawk wins Class 3A championship, stopping North Catholic’s title reign
Mohawk senior Paige Julian thought she fouled out when she collided with a North Catholic player while driving the lane and hit a basket late in Saturday’s WPIAL Class 3A girls final at North Allegheny. Instead, Julian was credited with the go-ahead basket as the Warriors ended North Catholic’s quest...
Freeport edges Greensburg Salem for girls bowling regional team title
At the WPIBL girls team championships last month, Freeport finished one spot out of a berth in the finals, ending up fourth in qualifying when only three teams advanced. On Saturday at the Western Pa. Regional girls team championship in North Versailles, Freeport got its foot in the door by...
George Guido: A-K Valley teams complete basketball season like none before
The truncated high school basketball season in the Alle-Kiski Valley ended Tuesday when the Leechburg and Fox Chapel boys, along with the Knoch girls, were eliminated. Suffice to say, it was a season like no other. Things looked bleak when there was a three-week shutdown in December, just hours after...
Robert Morris postpones Big South game against Charleston Southern
Robert Morris will have a bit of a longer break between games. The Colonials’ scheduled game against Charleston Southern on March 20 has been postponed because of positive tests within the RMU program and related safety concerns, according to a news release from RMU athletics. Earlier this week, Robert Morris...
Sounding off: Retail workers, not teachers, should get vaccines
How disgusting, but not surprising, that teachers are jumping the line to get covid vaccinations. The deceptive rationale that our kiss-up governor is using is that the teachers will only be given the newly approved Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Why isn’t this vaccine being given to those who are more...
Student news: Hampton student’s monologue wins at Shakespeare contest; scholarship finalists and more
Shakespeare contest winner Kai Suyama, a sophomore at Hampton High School, was named a winner in his division of the 2021 Shakespeare Monologue & Scene Contest sponsored by Pittsburgh Public Theatre. Suyama was one of 500 high school students who took part in the contest, and one of just six...
