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Letter to the editor: Drug store’s nice gesture makes her day
Recently, when opening the bag with my refilled prescription from The Medicine Shoppe in Latrobe, I was pleasantly surprised. Inside was a packet of honeybee-friendly wildflower seeds. Such a nice gesture. It’s the little things. Evelynne M. Majernik Latrobe...
Letter to the editor: Politicians foster division during pandemic
On May 11, Reps. Valerie Gaydos, R-Allegheny, and Daryl Metcalfe, R-Butler, joined in signing a GOP letter calling for district attorneys across Pennsylvania to not enforce the governor’s covid-19 business closure orders. Since when did our politicians get so brazen to put their expertise in disease infections above health care...
Letter to the editor: Trump deflects and lies
Once again Donald Trump has tried to deflect responsibility for his slow response to the pandemic to someone else. In this case, China. Why would he praise President Xi for the good job he was doing and then try to blame him? Why would he believe a communist regime in...
Letter to the editor: Mail-in voting would damage election process
In Patrick Varine’s article “Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald calls for primary election to be conducted by mail” (April 13, TribLIVE), Fitzgerald asserts “Holding an in-person election in the midst of the covid-19 pandemic would be, in and of itself, a disaster.” The real disaster would be holding any election...
Letter to the editor: Child care critical, in need of funding
I have been an early child care educator and advocate for 28 years. I have owned and operated Helping Hands Childcare & Learning Center in Imperial for 21 years. On March 16 my doors closed to the 65 families the center serves and the 14 educators I employ. The abrupt...
Letter to the editor: Baseball and coronavirus
Tampa Bay Rays’ player Blake Snell reacted to a plan whereby Major League Baseball owners proposed a 50-50 split of revenues if only half of the games are played by announcing that he wasn’t about to give up anything in his five-year, $50-million contract. He flatly stated, “I’m not playing...
Letter to the editor: Penguins should pay damages to taxpayers
The editorial “Penguins miss shot with arena development project in Lower Hill District” (May 15, TribLIVE) missed the mark. This is not about the Penguins or Stanley Cups, rather a broken agreement. The saga began with owner Mario Lemieux’s threat to move the team to Kansas City if he didn’t...
Letter to the editor: Long hair, pot smoking prevail
The slugs, the nonconformist, wasted potheads of the ’60s, appear to have won. Now in 2020 thanks mostly to the liberal states, it is OK to smoke pot but against the law to get a haircut. Was this the objective all along? One has to wonder. Oh and by the...
Letter to the editor: Trump’s hydroxychloroquine
As the late President Ronald Reagan might have said, “There you go again, Mr. Trump!” The president began touting the benefits he believes would ensue to fight the coronavirus from the widespread use of hydroxychloroquine, a drug used to treat malaria. We have since learned from doctors, including the esteemed...
Letter to the editor: Gov. Wolf, give us back our rights
Gov. Wolf: On March 16, you ordered us to close our businesses and schools and to stay at home. You told us that this was necessary to “flatten the curve” so our hospitals wouldn’t be overwhelmed. Not only have Pittsburgh’s covid-19 ICUs never been overwhelmed, they’ve never even been full....
Letter to the editor: Heroes Act, jobs and cannabis
The U.S. House and Speaker Nancy Pelosi passed a $3 trillion package to help save the economy during the covid-19 pandemic. It is titled the Heroes Act. Certainly there are many still suffering, and we can acknowledge there have been heroes all around us. But in a bill to help...
Letter to the editor: Polling location consolidation is a bad plan
Allegheny County has announced that polling locations are being consolidated due to coronavirus (“Allegheny County votes to consolidate primary polling locations”). Monroeville’s one polling location will be at the Monroeville Convention Center. I believe the proposed consolidation plan is counterproductive from the perspective of both public health and voters’ rights....
Briefly Speaking
Reunions The 1965 Hurst High School class reunion scheduled Aug. 8 in Mammoth Park in Mt. Pleasant Township has been canceled. Organizers of the 55th reunion said the event will be rescheduled sometime in 2021....
The Stroller, May 24, 2020: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Read The Stroller daily for announcements of how everyone can ease the pressure and stress of others, even while maintaining social distancing. Information for The Stroller should be emailed to vndnews@tribweb.com. Donations welcome for the Friendship Garden Food Pantry Donations for the food pantry in the Tarentum Friendship Garden can...
Monroeville real estate transactions for the week of May 24
Monroeville Estate of Laverne Stewart sold property at 3958 Rear Logans Ferry Road to Joseph Zinchini for $126,400. Christine Kuntz sold property at 115 Old Suffolk Drive to Gary Alan and Kimberly Rader for $263,000. Equity Trust Co. Cust FBO Z139646 IRA sold property at 212 Poplar St. to Cameron...
Real estate transactions in the Signal-Item area for the week of May 24
Bridgeville Kathleen Lento sold property at 237 Missouri Ave. to UCG Thirty Three LLC for $100,000. Carnegie Matthew Blair sold property at 102 Cathedral Ct to MS Blair Investments LLC for $145,487. Phillip Thornburg sold property at 418 Center Ave. to Jasmine Baldwin for $140,000. Karen Jancel sold property at...
Aspinwall-area real estate transactions for the week of May 24
Aspinwall Jeffrey Berman sold property at 328 Second St. to Eric and Francoise Lagasse for $210,000. Blawnox Michael Voit sold property at 128 Third St. to J & D Campbell Holdings LLC for $298,000. Harmar Robert White sold property at 608 Poplar Ct to Norbert Garbisch III and Sandra Garbisch...
South Hills real estate transactions for the week of May 24
Baldwin Borough Thomas Higgins III sold property at 715 Baldwin Drive to Blake Campbell for $155,000. Estate of Lois Karos sold property at 623 Blossom Drive to Rupindra Regmi for $210,100. Estate of Joanne Sujannsky sold property at 5035 Debra Drive to Bhola and Laxima Dhungana for $182,000. Danielle Brendel...
Penn Hills real estate transactions for the week of May 24
Penn Hills Daniel Babuscio sold property at 11412 Azalea Drive to UCG Forty LLC for $44,500. Robert Adams sold property at 2604 Blackridge Ave. to Sarah L Tafel for $103,000. Joy Bowser sold property at 243 Bramble St. to Bank New York Mellon trustee for $15,000. Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency...
North Hills real estate transactions for the week of May 24
Bellevue Sarah Mendak sold property at 195 Dakota Ave. to Krypton LLC for $17,500. Jason Harrell sold property at 49 Kendall Ave. to Paul Jeffrey Hubert for $180,000. Franklin Park Paul Fleiner sold property at 2509 Adele Ct to Matthew Maloney for $475,000. Todd Harbaugh sold property at 2640 Big...
Oakmont, Plum real estate transactions for the week of May 24
Oakmont Anthony Spinola sold property at 312 Second St. to Molly Culleiton for $199,000. Vincent Siciliano sold property at 97 Delaware Ave. to Terence Lee and Patricia Churilla for $535,000. Plum Christopher Terry sold property at 127 Beech Road to Phillip Barnett and Rachel Paiano for $198,000. Dana Cupples sold...
Sewickley-area real estate transactions for the week of May 24
Bell Acres Alfredo Escudero Hernandez sold property at 216 Dilworth Road to Cartus Financial Corp. for $657,500. Maronda Homes LLC sold property at 193 Witherow Road Ext. to Jared and Alexa Bovalino for $720,000. Sewickley RLS Asset Holding LLC sold property at 321 Centennial Ave. to Jeffrey and Deborah King...
Shaler-area real estate transactions for the week of May 24
Shaler R & M Homes LLC sold property at 301 College Park Road to Bradley Allen Dunlap and Jeffrey Michael Sahim for $257,000. Philip Dellavalle sold property at 35 Colony Oaks Drive to David Jordan for $365,000. Christopher Portman sold property at 6211 Elter Ct to Zeng Rong Zheng for...
Pine, Richland-area real estate transactions for the week of May 24
Pine Cavalier Land Partn. L.P. sold property at 2009 Cherry Road to NVR Inc. for $120,000. Santaclair Properties LLC sold property at 805 Mt. Pleasant Road to Sean Kelly trustee for $285,000. Kent Kelly sold property at 319 Osprey Ct to Jeffrey and Kathryn Abraham for $442,500. Sireesha Johnson Kolli...
Peter Salk, whose father conquered polio, says coronavirus fight is far from over
SAN DIEGO — He lives in La Jolla Village, near a cove that will be crowded this weekend by sunbathers who are no longer willing to shelter in place from the coronavirus. Peter Salk’s favorite stores and restaurants are nearby. Many are beginning to reopen now that the pandemic is...
