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Carlynton taps North Allegheny principal as new superintendent
North Allegheny Senior High School principal John Kreider is the new superintendent for the Carlynton School District. School directors unanimously approved Kreider to be the district’s next leader at the board meeting Tuesday. Kreider will begin his duties on or before Feb. 7. He will remain at North Allegheny to...
Food Podcast: Greater Pittsburgh, Westmoreland food banks unite to end hunger
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food bank serves 11 counties in southwestern Pennsylvania. All but Westmoreland County. Given the size of the area the Westmoreland County Food Bank covers, the organization separated from Greater Pittsburgh in 2000. “Our area of the region is about the size of Delaware, so it made sense...
Sewickley’s Light Up Night schedule released
The line-up and schedule for Sewickley’s Light Up Night has been announced by Explore Sewickley. Held Friday, the event will feature fireworks, live music and performances, free horse-drawn carriage rides, an ice carving competition and seasonal brews. Participating food vendors • The Coop Chicken and Waffles • Cousins’ Maine Lobster...
The Stroller, Dec. 4, 2019: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Graze Party to benefit Knead Community Cafe A Holiday Graze Party will be from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Dec. 14 at Knead Community Café, 1011 Barnes St., New Kensington. The menu will include cured domestic and imported meats, hard and soft cheeses, spreads, vegetables and dips, hummus, roasted and grilled...
Handmade Arcade celebrates 15 years of creativityVideo
Handmade Arcade turns 15 this year. That’s a lot of hand-crafted items. Pittsburgh’s award-winning independent craft fair, Handmade Arcade celebrates the cutting edge of craft by connecting creators and consumers through making, sharing and learning. Showcasing 250 innovative craft-based artists, designers and makers (including 84 first-time vendors) from all over...
Burchfield Primary principal receives Administrator Appreciation Award
Burchfield Primary School principal Jeff Rojik is the recipient of this year’s Administrator Appreciation Award presented by the Pennsylvania School Counselors Association. Each year, the Pennsylvania School Counselors Association recognizes school administrators who demonstrate an understanding and support of, commitment to, and belief in the role of school counselors and...
New holiday albums run the gamut from traditional to original tunesVideo
It’s been a rather prolific year for holiday albums – the 17 titles covered in this column even omit a few 2019 releases. And there aren’t any real duds, either. So here’s a look at this year’s selections. Idina Menzel: “Christmas: A Season Of Love” — If one 2019 Christmas...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Dec. 3, 2019
Football PIAA playoffs Championships Class 6A Saturday’s schedule Central Dauphin (12-2) vs. St. Joseph’s Prep (11-2) at Hersheypark Stadium, 6 p.m. Class 5A Friday’s schedule Cheltenham (14-1) vs. Archbishop Wood (10-3) at Hersheypark Stadium, 7 p.m. Class 4A Thursday’s schedule Dallas (15-0) vs. Thomas Jefferson (15-0) at Hersheypark Stadium, 7...
High school roundup for Dec. 3, 2019: Ryan McLinden scores 4 for Bethel Park
Ryan McLinden scored four times and Tyler Miller netted the go-ahead goal early in the third period as Bethel Park defeated Central Catholic 6-5 in Class AAA PIHL hockey Tuesday night. Jeremy Buehler added a goal and an assist for Bethel Park (4-5-0). Michael Sewecke scored twice for Central Catholic...
Two WPIAL teams sit atop their class heading into PIAA championship weekend
After fourteen weeks, fifteen if you count Week Zero, the season is set to conclude with a gold rush this weekend in Hershey. Twelve teams will play for six state championships starting Thursday and concluding on Saturday. While there will be three new PIAA champions crowned in Class 5A, 4A...
Penn State’s All-Big Ten defensive end Gross-Matos declares for NFL Draft
Penn State linebacker Micah Parsons and junior defensive end Yetur Gross-Matos earned first-team all-Big Ten honors Tuesday in voting by conference football coaches and a media panel. Gross-Matos also announced he would skip his senior season and enter the 2020 NFL Draft. Parsons was named conference linebacker of the year...
WPIAL Class 3A boys basketball preseason breakdown
A new decade of WPIAL boys basketball tips off next weekend. Preparing to defend their district championships from a year ago are Mt. Lebanon (6A), Mars (5A), New Castle (4A), Lincoln Park (3A), Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (2A) and Nazareth Prep (A). New Castle is looking for a...
Mark DeSantis: The importance of getting political appointments right
Upon taking office, President George Washington promised to hire people “as shall be the best qualified.” We are struggling to meet that standard and with serious consequences. Today, the federal government is the world’s most powerful and complex bureaucracy within the world’s largest economy and includes, among other things, armed...
George Guido: Ligonier Valley set to check final box, enter WPIAL
The WPIAL could have a new member school by late Wednesday afternoon. The PIAA is expected to give final approval to the Ligonier Valley High School move from PIAA District 6 to the WPIAL (District 7). The school’s request passed the first two hurdles — a release from District 6...
New Kensington proposes tax increase to combat blight
An ambitious program to eliminate blight in New Kensington is one factor behind a proposal to raise real estate taxes in the city by 11%. Council voted unanimously Monday night to approve an $8.1 million preliminary budget that would increase property taxes for the general fund from 27 mills to...
Kiski Valley Community Band concert series to raise money for food banks
A holiday musical tradition continues as the Kiski Valley Community Band prepares to present its “The Sounds of Christmas” concert fundraiser series. Four performances are scheduled, starting with a concert Saturday at Christ Lutheran Church in Murrysville. Concerts also are scheduled in Buffalo Township, Leechburg and Apollo. All shows benefit...
Pitt volleyball’s Ndee pursues medical degree amidst breakout season
Volleyball wasn’t Chinaza Ndee’s first sport. After her father’s job in the oil industry brought her family from Nigeria to Texas when she was 5, Ndee took up basketball. After a while, a basketball teammate recommended she try volleyball, where her athleticism would be a natural fit. Ndee took the...
Unauthorized biography of first lady Melania Trump offers lurid details of life in the White HouseVideo
The unauthorized biography of first lady Melania Trump by CNN correspondent Kate Bennett that was released Tuesday provides details of her marriage of President Donald Trump. The title “Free, Melania: the Unauthorized Biography,” offers details of life inside the White House such as Melania and the president not only sleep...
Trump blasts French President Emmanuel Macron at NATO meeting planned to show unityVideo
LONDON — President Donald Trump lit into French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, criticizing comments the French leader made about NATO as “insulting” “very, very nasty,” and “very disrespectful.” Trump’s comments were made hours before he was scheduled to meet with Macron at the start of a two-day leaders conference...
Lauren Mishoe: Federal plans would deprive patients of top-tier drugs
Diabetes is an epidemic in Pennsylvania. About one in 10 local adults lives with the disease. And the burden is growing: Roughly 3.5 million state residents are “pre-diabetic,” meaning their blood glucose levels put them at severe risk of developing diabetes later in life. The majority of these folks —...
Editorial: Sextortion shows criminal evolution
Crime doesn’t like to sit still. It doesn’t achieve a goal, take a break and retire, content that it has run its race. No, crime is a lot like modern business. It wants to see growth. It wants to expand its reach. It wants to find new product lines and...
Brentwood and Carrick receive 11 new street trees
On Nov. 16, Brownsville Road in Brentwood and Carrick received 11 new street trees thanks to a grant from TreeVitalize and the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. The Brentwood-Baldwin-Whitehall Shade Tree Commission organized the event and gathered volunteers to plant the trees in the long-vacant tree pits. The trees were specially selected...
Bugging out with Catherine Giles at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
While in Honduras in 2017, Catherine Giles spotted an enormous Black Witch Moth and started to cry. But her tears weren’t caused by fear or repulsion, but pure love. The 27-year-old is a self-confessed “crazy bug lady.” “I’m into spiders and scorpions, too,” she says. “Ticks are cool as long...
Letter to the editor: On impeachment, no courage in the Senate
The authority of the U.S. Constitution fades as sections dealing with impeachment are ignored by President Trump and his Republican allies. Trump gets away with abusing power by ordering witnesses with firsthand knowledge of his impeachable acts — Bolton, Pompeo, Mulvaney, McGahn, Giuliani — to ignore subpoenas by smearing those...
Letter to the editor: Impeachment hearings are a coup attempt
These impeachment hearings are basically the Democrats trying to damage a Republican presidential candidate who they say tried to get information on a Democratic presidential candidate for his vice presidential threat to cut off aid if Ukraine didn’t fire a prosecutor . Also, Joe Biden’s son got a board position...
