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Carlynton board addresses cyber school, transportation, aide pay
Seven students have enrolled in Carlynton School District’s Cyber Academy for the 2019-20 school year, which results in a net savings of about $90,000. The new online instructional program is offered to students of the district who are enrolled in a cyber or charter school. The Carlynton Cyber Academy is...
Hartwood Acres welcomes fall with annual Hay Day
Hartwood Acres bid farewell to summer and welcomed fall with its annual Hay Day on Sept. 21. This event had food, a petting zoo, games, face-painting, shows and a variety of activities for the whole family....
Tim Benz, Mark Madden criticize Steelers coaching, debate merits of James ConnerVideo
Blame it on the game plan, Mark Madden and Tim Benz say. The TribLIVE columnists got together Monday morning to discuss the Steelers’ loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, and they determined the Steelers coaches didn’t allow the offense and first-time starting quarterback Mason Rudolph do anything to...
Letter to the editor: Bernie Sanders’ communist policies
President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama recently made an offer on a nearly $15 million house and property in Martha’s Vineyard. Since Bernie Sanders is such a good communist, he can seize through taxation Obama’s property to help the downtrodden in America. Obama would no doubt protest Sanders’ communist policy....
Letter to the editor: Further grouping the deplorables
Hillary Clinton was wrong to call then-candidate Donald Trump’s supporters “deplorables.” Had she sub-grouped the Trumpites, as follows below, voters might have understood her point. The enablers comprise one segment of Trump’s followers. They cringe at his lies and behavior and hate his tweets, but their GOP roots keep them...
Letter to the editor: Radicals then & now
The shouting down of anyone who doesn’t agree with the left wing’s liberal agenda is nothing new. The radicals have always tried to drown out any reasonable discourse over the decades. In the midst of the sexual revolution of the ’60s and ’70s, people who tried to warn the public...
Wiffle ball park honoring Sewickley boy officially dedicated
Sept. 2 marked the fifth annual Owen Galluzzo Memorial Picnic and Wiffleball Classic at War Memorial Park. But it wasn’t the only way Sewickley residents honored the boy this month. A father and son’s effort to turn a parcel of land, once used as a dumping ground for contractors, into...
John Oyler: Gettysburg, the play
One advantage of reading this column is its unprecedented record of presenting exclusive scoops, reports of significant events that no other journalist is covering. This week’s scoop is a critical review of the premiere of the Noh play “Gettysburg,” in the Charity Randall Theater on the University of Pittsburgh campus....
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Sept. 23
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Sept. 23....
Editorial cartoons for the week Sept. 23
Editorial cartoons for the week of Sept. 23....
Brackenridge’s Infuzed Bistro offers an infusion of the not-so-ordinaryVideo
A new bistro is open in Brackenridge. Infuzed Bistro is next to Prospect Cemetery along Freeport Road. Focusing on American-infused fare with freshly sourced ingredients, Infuzed Bistro aims to offer unique flavor combinations — witness the farro with bacon and peach or the spicy Gouda Alfredo pasta. Co-owned by chef...
‘Always Sunny’ ready to take its place in television historyVideo
The gang from Paddy’s Irish Pub will take its place in television history Wednesday when the 14th season of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” launches on FXX. The new season will put the cable series in a tie with “The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet” for the longest-running live-action comedy...
Hartwood Acres site of HAEE 5K
Run for schools and students at the Hampton Alliance for Educational Excellence annual fundraising race to benefit Hampton Township School District on Oct. 5 at Hartwood Acres beginning at 9 a.m. All profits of the 27th Race for Educational Excellence go to benefit “exclusively for the educational enrichment of students...
Baker Mayfield’s late interception ends Browns bid for upsetVideo
CLEVELAND — The shorthanded Browns flirted with upsetting the defending NFC champion Los Angeles Rams on “Sunday Night Football,” but their weaknesses haunted them in the fourth quarter of a 20-13 loss at FirstEnergy Stadium. Desperate for a touchdown in crunch time, the Browns went three-and-out during a possession starting...
High school schedules for Sept. 23, 2019
High schools Soccer Boys Monday’s schedule WPIAL Class AA Section 1 South Park at Keystone Oaks, 7:30 p.m. Nonsection Aquinas Academy at St. Joseph, 4 p.m. East Allegheny at Southmoreland, ppd. Jeannette at Valley, 7 p.m. Knoch at Freeport, 5:15 p.m. McKeesport at South Allegheny, 5 p.m. Riverview at Trinity...
WPIAL Class AAA boys golf individual semifinals set for Monday
The championship field will be determined Monday with the WPIAL Class AAA boys individual golf semifinals at two sites. District golfers will tee off at 9 a.m. at Hannastown Golf Club in Greensburg and Willowbrook Golf Club in Apollo. The top 18 golfers from each site will qualify for the...
WPIAL football player of the week: Week 4
You knew it was only a matter of time. In his first four games, West Greene senior running back Ben Jackson had rushed for 253, 166, 272 and 299 yards. On Friday, against a team the Pioneers finished tied with for the conference championship last season, Jackson ran wild in...
Fall high school sports highlight the first full week of autumn on HSSN
Autumn is here, so we celebrate with, what else, plenty of fall high school sports action this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has video and audio coverage from Week Five of the high school football season with plenty of conference games among the 36 WPIAL,...
Pittsburgh’s Billy Porter makes a statement on Emmys carpetVideo
Pittsburgh native Billy Porter is no stranger of making fashion statements on the red carpet. Sunday night for the Emmys, the star of “Pose” wore a striped silver crystal suit by Michael Kors Couture topped by a sizable black hat with a huge swoop adorned with 130,000 crystals by Stephen...
Dr. Rachel Levine: Naloxone key to saving lives
We know there isn’t a city, town or borough in the commonwealth, or in the nation, left untouched by the opioid epidemic. We know that this epidemic is an equal opportunity disease — there is no gender, race, ethnicity, income bracket or education level that has not felt the effects....
Editorial: Keep politicians off pedestals
It is hard to believe that someone who makes the laws could break them flagrantly. But it happens. It happens more than we would like to admit. Elected officials are arrested. They plead guilty. They are convicted. They can serve prison sentences and sometimes they come back from political death...
Patrick Mahomes stars again as Chiefs beat the Ravens in home openerVideo
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Chiefs had a possession early in the third quarter when Patrick Mahomes didn’t attempt a pass. The Chiefs didn’t score. The heck with that. Next time, they came out slinging. The end result was another Mahomes touchdown pass and the Chiefs were on their way...
Letter to the editor: Wolf’s charter fee-for-service model robs students
Imagine your house was robbed, and you called the police to report the incident. Yet, before the police step in to solve the case, you must pay a substantial fee for their help in recovering your stolen property. Sounds backwards, right? Well, that’s the same logic at play in Gov....
Letter to the editor: Crawford Run Road
Well, taxpayers of Frazer, East Deer and Indiana, here we go again. Thanks to the Allegheny County executive’s infinite wisdom, the county is half-patching Crawford Run Road again. The saying goes, why is there always time to do it over but never time to do it right the first time?...
Letter to the editor: Fix bricks on Elm Street instead of paving
Regarding the article “Plan to pave brick street in South Greensburg sparks debate” (Sept. 3, TribLIVE): Old-timers who knew how to work to keep our community in good shape are gone. There are people out there who can fix bricks, no doubt at a lower price than the cost of...
