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Pine-Richland assistant superintendent earns Leadership Award
The Pennsylvania Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) will recognize Pine-Richland Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Education & Curriculum Michael Pasquinelli, Ed.D., with the ASCD Outstanding Curriculum Leadership Award. He will be recognized for his contributions to the field of education on Nov. 25, 2019. Pasquinelli has helped lead the...
Daily Download: Rethinking robots, Dirty Dozen and Penguins’ woesVideo
Each day, TribLIVE reporters and editors will break down the biggest news of the day, with video highlights of the people and places making headlines. Today, reporter Maddy Lee discusses the pausing of testing food delivery by robots, the Dirty Dozen bike ride and the Penguins’ struggles....
Carlynton football team sees progress despite rough season
When Rich Piccinnini took over the Carlynton football program during the most recent offseason, he wasn’t expecting miracles. The Cougars, after all, had almost no success on which to build. He also wasn’t expecting to lose three quarterbacks to season-ending injuries. But that’s the hand the team was dealt as...
Shaler, Pine townships awarded grants totaling $600K for park improvements
Sen. Lindsey M. Williams announced that Shaler Township and Pine Township have been awarded grant funding through the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) Bureau of Recreation and Conservation. Shaler Township has been awarded $350,000 for stream restoration and trail rehabilitation at Fawcett Fields Park. Currently, the park provides...
Laurels & lances: Schools, hotel, arts center
Laurel: To being proactive. The Jeannette City School District scheduled emergency drills for Wednesday. It is the kind of thing that every school does, trying to keep the kids ready to follow directions and stay safe in the event of something unexpected. The unexpected happened a day early. Jeannette and...
Review: ‘Black and Blue’ is a lean, mean corrupt cop thrillerVideo
It seems like director Deon Taylor might be the only filmmaker actively keeping the mid-budget adult thriller alive in this age of extinction. Plus, he’s prolific: His topical corrupt cop drama “Black and Blue” is his second 2019 film, arriving just a few months after his surprisingly entertaining and campy...
Hampton officials host heated public hearing on proposed wireless communications structure
A public hearing on the installation of a new utility pole with a small non-tower wireless communication structure lasted for almost three hours Oct. 23, with Hampton Township Council tabling the vote until the Nov. 6 special meeting. Applicant Crown Castle, located in Canonsburg, wants to place a utility pole...
Review: Netflix series ‘Daybreak’ is smart take on familiar genresVideo
The 2003 end of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” left a creative void in television. The series brilliantly spoofed the overly done vampire genre by using smart humor and a massive amount of pop culture references. Filling that void is the new Netflix series “Daybreak.” Watch the NSFW trailer here. The...
TRYP Hotel in Lawrenceville has dining options: Brick Shop and Over Eden
Brandon Blumenfeld is working double-time at TRYP Hotel in Lawrenceville. The chef helms the kitchen at the hotel’s two restaurants: Over Eden — a rooftop spot that opened in June — and Brick Shop, a more formal eatery on the ground floor that debuted its dinner menu Tuesday. Located in...
Carlynton considers options for outdated internet access
Connecting to the internet or sending an email is as easy as a click of a button. Joshua Jones, Carlynton’s supervisor of information technology, would like to keep it that way throughout the district. Jones informed school board members that the district’s computerized system is working well, but that it’s...
Letter to the editor: Let’s talk corruption, GOP
It’s getting old hearing President Trump’s defenders use the fake news or hoax arguments to cover every lie he tells. The “most transparent president of our time” seems to be the exact opposite, blocking legal subpoenas, hiding personal documents in this nation’s most secure server, obstructing legal congressional oversight. How...
Letter to the editor: Give us pure gasoline again
In adjunct to Tom Pevarnik’s letter “We don’t need Saudi oil” (Oct. 6, TribLIVE): If the United States has reserves of oil coming out of our ears and we don’t need Saudi oil, then why are we still adding engine-fouling ethanol to our fuel? If anyone wants to use ethanol,...
Letter to the editor: Rally showed right/left differences
The difference between the “right” and the “left” was on full display at the recent Trump rally in Minnesota. A capacity crowd of 20,000 people filled the venue. They enjoyed a big, raucous, spirit-filled celebration of life, liberty, patriotism, Judeo-Christian values and a booming economy as President Trump spoke. Military...
14 arrested during protests of President Trump’s visit to PittsburghVideo
A series of planned protests in defense of the environment and in opposition to President Donald Trump took place across Pittsburgh’s Downtown all day Wednesday as Trump spoke at an energy industry conference held at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. The rallies and marches remained peaceful even as Trump...
Remember When: 1970
In the news this week 49 years ago: • Sewickley’s annual Halloween parade was scheduled for Friday, Oct. 30. The Quaker Valley High School marching band was to lead “the procession of Young Ghouls, Goblins, Ghosts and Gangs of Witches and whatever.” Most Valley townships and boroughs would hold trick-or-treat...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 23, 2019
Field hockey WPIAL playoffs Class AAA Semifinals Wednesday’s results Peters Township 1, Mt. Lebanon 0 Pine-Richland 3, North Allegheny 0 Championship Monday’s schedule Pine-Richland vs. Peters Township at Fox Chapel, 6 p.m. Class AA Championship Tuesday’s schedule Penn-Trafford vs. Latrobe at Fox Chapel, 7:30 p.m. Class A Semifinals Wednesday’s results...
Girls volleyball first round and girls soccer quarters highlight Thursday in WPIAL
The WPIAL girls volleyball Class A championship has been a hot potato for most of this decade. For a six-year stretch, Greensburg Central Catholic and Bishop Canevin alternated winning district gold with the Centurions winning in the even years of 2012, 2014 and 2016 while the Crusaders won it all...
High school roundup Oct. 23, 2019: Mt. Lebanon scores 3 goals in game’s final 70 seconds to win WPIAL playoff match
Second-seeded Mt. Lebanon netted three goals in the final 1 minute, 10 seconds of regulation to roar past upset-minded Butler 3-1 Wednesday night in a WPIAL boys soccer Class AAAA quarterfinal matchup. Trailing since the 21:55 mark of the first half thanks to a Butler goal by Carson Knight, Mt....
Baldwin-Whitehall, Char Valley, West Jefferson Hills receive Safe Schools’ Targeted Grants
A new school police officer will be hired in the Baldwin-Whitehall School District, and added cameras will be placed in buildings, all thanks to a state grant aimed at improving school safety and reducing violence. In Chartiers Valley, the school district will use the $40,000 it received from the grant...
The Stroller, Oct. 24, 2019: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Tarentum church to celebrate historic landmark designation The building that houses Central Presbyterian Church, Tarentum, has received Historic Landmark status from the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation. The present building was built in 1913 and the founding congregation dates back to April 1888, when a small wood-frame chapel was constructed...
Blessed Trinity Academy cross country captures Diocesan Championship
Blessed Trinity Academy’s JV Boys Cross Country Team won their second consecutive Diocesan Championship. In addition, the Developmental Girls and Varsity Boys teams earned second place trophies....
Simone Biles adds a twist to the ceremonial pitch for Game 2 of the World SeriesVideo
Her toss will never go down in history, but her windup? The judges gave it 10s. Gymnast Simone Biles threw out the ceremonial first pitch for Game 2 of the World Series but what made it notable was her twisting backflip before the gold medal olympian threw to the plate....
‘Executive privilege’ could complicate case against Giuliani associates, attorney saysVideo
NEW YORK — Two South Florida businessmen who worked to help President Trump’s personal attorney pursue dirt in Ukraine on a political foe pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that they conspired to purchase influence by steering hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal foreign cash into U.S. campaigns. Appearing...
Power rankings unchanged after Trib 10 teams enjoy perfect Week 8
The Trib 10 became the Perfect 10 in Week 8. All 10 teams from last week’s power rankings were winners in the next-to-last weekend of the regular season. That won’t happen in Week 9 with a pair of head-to-head matchups with North Allegheny visiting Pine-Richland in 6A and Aliquippa hosting...
Trump touts jobs, industry at Marcellus shale conference in PittsburghVideo
Hours after President Donald Trump announced at the White House that Turkey has agreed to a cease fire in Syria, he boarded Air Force One with seven Pennsylvania Republican House members and shifted into campaign mode as the plane headed toward a Marcellus shale conference in Downtown Pittsburgh. “Nobody does...
