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West Greene tops Eden Christian to get another crack at Rochester in finals
Jersey Wise and her teammates in West Greene’s senior class will get another crack at a WPIAL Class A championship. Anna Durbin scored 18 points, Wise added 16, and the No. 2 Pioneers came away with a 54-49 victory over No. 3 Eden Christian in the WPIAL semifinals Thursday night....
Rottmann’s shooting helps North Catholic knock off No. 1 Belle Vernon in semifinals
Every game this season, it’s been a different North Catholic player showing up in big spots, Trojans coach Dave DeGregorio said. It was Max Rottmann’s time to shine Thursday. Rottmann hit four 3-pointers in the fourth quarter, including the winner with 3.8 seconds remaining to give No. 5 North Catholic...
Rochester handles Aquinas Academy to make 3rd straight WPIAL finals
Going into the WPIAL girls basketball playoffs, Rochester went 18 days without a game due to covid-19 precautions and their bye as the No. 1 seed in the Class A bracket. There has been no rust. Two games later, the Rams have two 75-point outputs and have outscored their first...
Laurels & lances: Dancing, learning, connecting
Laurel: To ending the week on a high note. Everyone is excited when the school week comes to an end. But at Kiski Area Upper Elementary, one kid is spreading his enthusiasm to others. Cash “Big Sauce” Malobicky is a sixth grader who loves to dance. He might have been...
Vaccination of Alle-Kiski school employees moves forward
Alle-Kiski Valley school employees began receiving Johnson & Johnson vaccinations for covid-19 Thursday along with school workers across the region and state. Gov. Tom Wolf announced last week that school workers would receive priority for the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine in an effort to get children back in schools...
Man gets life in prison for 2017 North Side killing
An East Allegheny man will spend the rest of his life in prison after being sentenced for first-degree murder on Thursday in a 2017 shooting death. Justin Parrotte, 32, was found guilty by Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey A. Manning in a nonjury trial in February 2020 of killing...
Man with ties to Western Pa. arrested in connection with Capitol attack
A man who operates a woodworking business in Bentleyville is charged with entering the U.S. Senate floor and reading documents removed from desks there during the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. Dale “DJ” Shalvey, 36, was charged by criminal complaint on Feb. 12 in the District of Columbia. The case remained...
Lori Dira: Standardized testing should be suspended this year
The Pennsylvania Department of Education recently announced that it would allow individual school districts to decide whether to administer PSSA and Keystone Exams this spring, as would be typical, or to postpone these tests until the fall. While the Biden administration is imploring schools to stick with the usual plan...
Food Podcast: 2nd Feed the Need radiothon marks 1-year covid response
The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank is partnering with Entercom Media and Giant Eagle for the second Feed the Need radiothon. The radiothon, which will come on the one-year anniversary of the Food Bank’s initial covid response, aims to support those using drive-up distribution sites and food pantries in the...
Carol Ferguson: Vaccines work — life lessons from polio survivors
We’ve been here before. For half of the 20th century, polio was affecting tens of thousands of children annually. Transmitted by person-to-person contact, polio’s lingering paralytic effects frightened anxious parents so much that people avoided gatherings altogether. Schools were closed, activities were paused. There was no vaccine, no cure, no...
New owner sees long-term vision for Conneaut Lake Park
Conneaut Lake Park’s new owner says his vision to revitalize the historic amusement park is going to take time. “The way we’re imagining this is as a family events center,” Todd Joseph of Keldon Holdings LLC said in an interview with the Tribune. “We’re going to do whatever it takes...
Letter to the editor: What if Andrew Cuomo looked like John Edwards?
If New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo looked like presidential candidate John Edwards, I wonder if there would have been any sexual harassment complaints against him. Just sayin’ … . Maria Maliszewski Brackenridge...
Editorial: Keep a tight spending rein on Pennsylvania’s stimulus share
It’s important to learn to live within your means — especially when a windfall seems to change the arithmetic. You might be approved for a $300,000 mortgage, but you don’t have the spend the whole line. You could spend that $2,000 tax return on the down payment for a new...
Letter to the editor: Tired of Pirates’ promises
Regarding the article “Pirates GM Ben Cherington hopes to follow model set by recent playoff contenders” (Feb. 21, TribLIVE): Shoulda, woulda, coulda! At one point Hamlet laments, “they fool me to the top of my bent.” The fact remains that in the last 10 or 12 years, the Pirates reached...
Letter to the editor: We need eco-friendly legislation
The article “Power failure: How a winter storm pushed Texas into crisis” (Feb. 21, TribLIVE) highlights the cause and effects of this disaster and shows evidence that our country needs dramatic climate reform. This can start with the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, which would assess a fee on...
Letter to the editor: Working to end global poverty
More than a year later, covid-19 is still changing our lives: missed vacations, canceled parties and more. These are changes we wish didn’t happen. However, I hope that the pandemic has also brought good changes, and has turned us into kinder people who care about the most vulnerable and are...
Op-ed: QV Strong group supports new high school, debunks myths
We would like to introduce the Quaker Valley community to our citizen-led group, QV Strong. We are Quaker Valley residents, parents and grandparents who support robust community understanding, involvement and transparency into all school district planning and projects. We are excited about the progress of the New QV High School...
Letter to the editor: How Westmoreland commissioners should lead
While I support Commissioners Douglas Chew and Sean Kertes’ efforts to increase the number of vaccines being sent to our county (“Westmoreland commissioners demand increase in covid vaccine deliveries”), real leadership of our highest electeds requires them to step into the breach at the county level and respond to the...
Letter to the editor: We must keep taking precautions against covid
I was surprised to see event listings recently in the Tribune-Review, when the coronavirus “is not done with us,” according to CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky (“U.S. advisers endorse single- shot covid-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson”). Local groups are serving food and drinks, with masks required while not seated....
The Stroller, March 11, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
The Valley News Dispatch will publish a list of community Easter egg hunts and activities. To have an event listed online and in the print edition, send the information as soon as possible to The Stroller, Valley News Dispatch, 210 Fourth Ave., Tarentum PA 15084 or email Carol Pinto-Smith; email...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for March 10, 2021
High schools Basketball Boys WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Finals Friday’s schedule Upper St. Clair (18-1) vs. Pine-Richland (13-5) at Peters Township, 8 p.m. Class 5A Semifinals Wednesday’s results Chartiers Valley 63, Mars 55 New Castle 69, Laurel Highlands 60 Finals Saturday’s schedule Chartiers Valley (22-2) vs. New Castle (19-2) at...
DeSantis and Cabinet end 5-year clemency wait for Florida felons
TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet approved major changes to the state’s clemency process on Wednesday that automatically restore the right to hold office and serve on a jury for Floridians with felony convictions who have completed their sentence and paid off their court debts. The changes,...
North Catholic girls fend off challenge from Laurel, eye 5th straight WPIAL title
For nearly three quarters Wednesday night, North Catholic’s quest for a seventh consecutive trip to the WPIAL finals was receiving a solid challenge from Laurel. But like many strong programs do, the Trojanettes put it all together and rolled to a 57-36 victory over the Spartans in a Class 3A...
Belle Vernon, North Catholic bring similar styles into Class 4A semifinal clash
When top-seeded Belle Vernon tips off against No. 5 North Catholic in a WPIAL 4A semifinal Thursday night, it would be easy to understand if the Leopards felt like they were looking in a mirror when going against the Trojans. That’s because North Catholic (17-4) and Belle Vernon (13-1) play...
Pittsburgh does not have to pay judgment for off-duty officer in assault, court rules
A Pennsylvania appellate court said that the city of Pittsburgh does not have to pay a $75,000 federal jury award to a man who had his nose broken by an off-duty Pittsburgh police officer more than eight years ago. Shane McGuire, who at the time was 16, had been smashing...
