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Photos: Sewickley Academy welcomes more students back to campus

On Sept. 16, Sewickley Academy welcomed back students in grades 2, 8 and 12 to campus, joining the students who chose to start school in person in grades pre-K, kindergarten, 1, 6 and 9. Currently, the rest of the students are participating in online learning. “We’ve decided to slow our...
Nicholas Ciotola: A compromise on Pittsburgh Columbus statue

Should he stay or should he go? That’s the question that is fueling a bitter division in Pittsburgh. The divide is not over the coming presidential election. It is about the fate of the statue of Christopher Columbus in Oakland. Pittsburgh’s Italian immigrants first proposed the idea for the statue...
‘Hamilton’ performances at Benedum Center being moved back 1 year because of coronavirus

You’ll have to wait a year to be in the room where it happens. The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announced Thursday that the performance of “Hamilton” is being rescheduled to 2022. The Broadway musical was scheduled at the Benedum Center on Jan. 5-Feb. 7. The new dates are set for Feb....
Another man wounded in Masontown shooting files federal suit for negligence

A Uniontown man filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday against a Fayette County magistrate judge and the estate of a man who shot him there two years ago. Scott A. Furlong Jr. said in his federal complaint that he was shot in the wrist about 2 p.m. on Sept. 19,...
Pa. Supreme Court grants 3-day extension on mail-in ballots; Green Party ordered off ballot

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s highest court gave the Democratic Party a series of victories Thursday, including one allowing repairs to glitches and gray areas in the battleground state’s fledgling mail-in voting law and another that kicked the Green Party’s presidential candidate off the November ballot. The state Supreme Court, which has...
2 people sue West Penn Hospital after former employee is charged with secretly recording them

Two people who say they were video recorded by a West Penn Hospital employee filed a lawsuit against the hospital system Wednesday, alleging negligence and invasion of privacy. The complaint, filed in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court, seeks class-action status to represent everyone who was allegedly victimized by Guy Caley,...
Amazon plans to put 1,000 warehouses in neighborhoods nationwide

Amazon.com plans to open 1,000 small delivery hubs in cities and suburbs all over the U.S., according to people familiar with the plans. The facilities, which will eventually number about 1,500, will bring products closer to customers, making shopping online about as fast as a quick run to the store....
Penn State TE Pat Freiermuth confirms he’s playing this fall

The Big Ten is back, and Pat Freiermuth never left. Just after the conference announced a return-to-play plan that will kick off the season Oct. 23-24, Penn State’s star tight end confirmed in an interview with the Big Ten Network on Wednesday that he will be playing for the Nittany...
DUI cases among those recently handled in Judge Zucco’s Plum court

Plum District Court Judge Linda Zucco handled these cases recently. Defendants will have court dates set in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. Charges were filed by Plum police unless otherwise noted. Held for court • Timothy George Weifenbaugh Jr., 38, of Plum on charges of failing to obey...
Review: A provocative idea that doesn’t work in ‘Antebellum’Video

The new film ” Antebellum ” begins with a famous William Faulkner quote: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” This is a very literal introduction to a film about the evils of de facto and de jure oppression of Black people in America that’s crafted as a...
Volunteer tutors needed in Monroeville, Pitcairn

Raising Achievement in Monroeville and Pitcairn, a nonprofit focused on raising academic excellence in students, is in need of volunteer tutors. The tutors would have the option to meet with students virtually, using tools such as Zoom or Google Meets, or in-person under health guidelines at Pitcare Inc. in Pitcairn...
Goodwill to host hiring event for new Penn Hills store

Goodwill will be having a hiring event for its new store in Penn Hills from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday at 230 Rodi Road. The store is expected to open in mid-October next to Planet Fitness in the Penn Hills Center shopping plaza off Rodi Road. The hiring event,...
Letter to the editor: ‘Real Americans’ don’t steal signs

To the individuals who stole the Biden for President signs from numerous yards in my neighborhood Sunday morning: What you have demonstrated to me is your ignorance and hypocrisy. You and your ilk lay claim to being “real Americans,” defenders of the Constitution and supporters of law and order. The...
Letter to the editor: Let’s confine rule-makers to 25%

Quite a bit of information regarding covid-19 is available with dissenting views from medical experts who don’t agree with the government’s stance of masking, social distancing, quarantines and closing the economy. I think the most ridiculous rule is forcing restaurants to operate at 25% capacity (until Sept. 21, when they...
Letter to the editor: Absentee ballot fears

Voting is a right guaranteed by our Constitution. This right is paramount to the “right to bear arms” in that voting appears at least five times, while the aforementioned appears only once in that very document. Both are equally important, but you get my drift. I am voting for the...
Letter to the editor: Delinquent property sale shameless, amoral

Your article relating to the shameless conduct of politicians and tax collectors deserves the utmost reproach (“Westmoreland tax delinquent property sale expected to be very different this year,” Sept. 11, TribLIVE). I’ve attempted to equate this amoral conduct of these politicians and tax offices with the command in the Bible...

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