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Brentwood hopes pool renovations will be finished in time for 2020 opening
Brentwood leaders are keeping their fingers crossed for a mild winter in hopes that the borough pool can open for the 2020 season. Phase II of a nearly $3.3 million pool renovation project that includes a zero-depth entry, large slide, tropical-themed spray features, lighting, a new bathhouse with restrooms and changing...
Overnight lane restrictions planned for Route 51 in Moon
Overnight lane restrictions on the Route 51 (Stoops Ferry Road) bridge in Moon Township will begin Sept. 3, weather permitting. According to PennDOT, single-lane alternating traffic controlled by flaggers will occur from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. Tuesday through Saturday nights at the bridge, located at the intersection with Flaugherty...
Sewickley Harvest Festival returns bigger than ever
A yearly tradition returns Sept. 7 when the Sewickley Harvest Festival takes over the Village. The 29th annual event, presented by the Quaker Valley Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs of Sewickley, will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Broad and Thorn streets. More than 120 vendors will sell...
Letter to the editor: Synagogue shooter deserves death
After reading the article about the rabbis within the Jewish community asking that Squirrel Hill synagogue shooter be spared the death penalty (“Dor Hadash, New Light leaders urge AG to accept life in prison for accused Tree of Life gunman,” Aug. 16, TribLIVE), I would like to say that those...
Letter to the editor: Congress, get to work on immigration
I am ashamed of the U.S. House and Senate. The Democrats blame the Republicans for immigration issues, and the Republicans blame the Democrats. They are equally at fault. They sit in Washington and refuse to solve the immigration problem. They prefer to politically point fingers at and blame each other....
Letter to the editor: Robert Mueller’s collusion revelations
After more than two years and an estimated $45 million in taxpayer funding, what was the end result of the Mueller investigation? Fake news owes the public an apology. Day after day, they touted potential “bombshell” revelations that turned out to be fizzled firecrackers. The real collusion appeared to be...
O’Hara man dies after bike struck by vans on Freeport Road in Harmar
An O’Hara man died Thursday morning after he was struck by two vans while riding his bike along Freeport Road in Harmar, officials said. Thomas Haykin, 57, was pronounced dead at 6:23 a.m. shortly after the incident, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office said. Haykin was riding his bike in...
Remember When: 1927
In the news this week 92 years ago: • The front page of the Herald showcased a photograph of the window of Donahoe’s store in Sewickley, which featured a display of the handicrafts done by the Sewickley YMCA’s summer school program. Crafts included two major works — the boys’ project,...
Shaler Area welcomes second school resource officer
Shaler Area School District has hired Millvale police Officer Brenan Jackson as its second school resource officer. The school board voted Aug. 21 to approve a three-year contract with Millvale, starting with the 2019-20 school year, for the school resource officer position. “We’re excited to be more of an integral...
Turkmenistan dinner being served to help North Hills family
The THRIVE Supper Club: An Evening in Turkmenistan will be held at North Hills Community Baptist Church in McCandless on Sept. 27, where guests can experience food from another culture while helping the ones serving it. Rahim and Guzel from Turkmenistan, along with their daughter Yasmin, 2, will be cooking...
Philip Pelusi latest business to exit from Frazer’s Pittsburgh Mills mall
Another business is leaving the Pittsburgh Mills mall in Frazer. Philip Pelusi, an upscale Pittsburgh-based hair salon with 11 locations throughout the region, opened at the Mills location in 2005, coinciding with the mall’s grand opening. “We have a great team of designers that work at our Mills location,” Philip...
Girl dies after ATV crash while riding with dad, sister in Fox Chapel yard
A 5-year-old Fox Chapel girl died Thursday evening when the all-terrain vehicle on which she was riding with her father and sister crashed, according to police. The crash occurred near Guyasuta and Longfellow roads shortly before 7:30 p.m. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the girl as Annabel Whittingham....
Family values at heart of new Apple Hill Playhouse production
An award-winning contemporary play set in rural Ireland that digs into family values and love caught the eye of veteran actor Dennis “Chip” Kerr of Greensburg. “Irish plays are almost always about families, unrequited love, words not spoken, words that should not have been spoken, and all delivered by characters...
Cheerio! Britsburgh Festival keeps getting bigger and better
The Britsburgh Festival just keeps getting bigger and better. The fifth annual event organized by British-American Connections Pittsburgh, a nonprofit that celebrates ties between Pittsburgh and Great Britain, expands to a full week this year. Britsburgh starts on Labor Day, Sept. 2, and runs through Sept. 8, with more events...
Pirates minor league report: Aug. 28, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 65-70) won 7-4 over Toledo (Tigers). The Indians led 5-1 after three innings. 1B Will Craig (.250) went 2 for 4 from the plate with two RBIs and a run scored. Craig has 74 RBIs this season. 3B Ke’Bryan Hayes (.266) was 2 for 2 with a double,...
Trib HSSN debuts football power rankings for ’19 season
Every Thursday during the 2019 WPIAL football season, the TribLive High School Sports Network will release weekly Trib 10 power rankings. These rankings have zero classification boundaries. This is the first week of the Trib 10 WPIAL football power rankings where classifications are not reality and the strength of the...
High school sports scores for Aug. 28, 2019
High schools Golf Boys Wednesday’s results WPIAL Class AAA Section 1 Greensburg Salem 210, Indiana 221 Medalists: Jeff Mankins (GS), 37: Ryan Nalevanko (GS), 40 Latrobe 212, Penn-Trafford 220 Medalist: Alex Turowski (P-T), 37 Section 2 Belle Vernon 199, Connellsville 220 Medalists: Tyler Mocello (BV), 34; Gage Goodwin (C), 42...
The Birdie is on the clock picking Westmoreland County football games
The Birdie is on the clock. Westmoreland’s guru of the gridiron was tasked with making each of his Week 1 predictions while face-to-face with a running 40-second clock. “Like our teams this year,” Birdie said. “Refs want to speed things up. Same goes for our copy editors. They want my...
The Birdie puts his faith in A-K Valley teams
When the Birdie came into the office Monday he was as mad as a fantasy football team owner who had just drafted Andrew Luck with his first-round pick five minutes before he made his retirement announcement. He walked through the office, sat down at his desk and started typing furiously....
High school football schedule for Week 1
Thursday District 8 City League Brashear at Perry, 7 p.m. Nonconference Allderdice at Steubenville, Ohio, 7 p.m. Friday WPIAL Class 6A Central Cath. at Seneca Valley, 7:30 p.m. Mt. Lebanon at Canon-McMillan, 7 p.m. Norwin at North Allegheny, 7:30 p.m. Pine-Richland at Hempfield, 7 p.m. Class 5A Allegheny 8 Bethel...
Trump reportedly tells officials he’ll pardon those who break law to build border wallVideo
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has told officials that he would pardon them if they’re convicted of breaking any laws in the rush to complete several hundred miles of border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border ahead of the 2020 election, according to The Washington Post. The Post reports that the...
Trump’s pitch for Doral golf resort to host G-7 draws Democratic probeVideo
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s pitch for his Doral golf resort in Miami as the site for next year’s Group of Seven summit of world leaders will be probed as part of the House Judiciary Committee’s inquiry into potential impeachment articles. “The committee will broaden its ongoing investigation to include...
Editorial: Grandparents need help raising kids
They say it takes a village to raise a child. More and more, it takes a grandma. “We grandparents who are raising grandchildren, we are the protection for that next generation,” said Charlotte Stephenson in a panel discussion Tuesday with U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Scranton. And it’s true. In Pennsylvania...
Winchester Thurston students help in development of Duolingo Latin course
Latin may be a dead language, but it is very much alive on Duolingo. The Pittsburgh-based language learning company debuted it first Latin course for English speakers Wednesday. Nearly 24,000 people had signed up for notifications about the course before it even launched, according to Duolingo. The project started a...
Hampton street sign thefts costly, dangerous
Street signs are going missing again in Hampton Township, which seems to happen every year, but there’s more harm to it than someone may realize, said Township Manager Christopher Lochner. With no real idea who is taking the signs, or how they are becoming absent, Lochner said it seems to...
