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Northgate optimistic after nightmare season in 2018
One season after the Northgate Flames were barely an ember, second-year coach Mike Fulmore is feeling a bit more optimistic. “Our numbers are looking good,” he said. “Things are really going pretty well for us right now. We’re just really excited.” Fulmore has about 25 players in camp this season...
‘We are dropping like flies.’ Ex-fighter pilots push for earlier cancer screenings
WASHINGTON — Former Air Force and Navy fighter pilots are calling on the military to begin cancer screenings for aviators as young as 30 because of an increase in deaths from the disease that they suspect may be tied to radiation emitted in the cockpit. “We are dropping like flies...
George Guido: Plenty of milestones to watch for this football season
The stage is set for the 121st high school football season in the Alle-Kiski Valley, and it appears several teams are poised for success in 2019. After all, last year was the first time since 1909 that no local team finished over .500. To be fair, Freeport was 5-4 in...
West Greene ready to build off successful 2018 season
If West Greene’s 2018 season was turned into a movie script, producers might shy away from it because it wouldn’t seem realistic. There was a five-game winning streak, a game shy of the total number of wins the program had from 2013-16 combined. West Greene earned a share of the...
Monessen looks to build on WPIAL playoff appearance
When Mike Blainfield took the Monessen coaching job in 2017, his goal was to restore pride in a program that had slipped from its accustomed lofty heights. The third-year coach appears to have the program on the right track again as the Greyhounds went 7-3 last season, sharing the Tri-County...
Coach: ‘This is not the same Mapletown football team’
In his 39 years as a high school football coach — most of them spent as the head man at Mapletown — George Messich has seen plenty of the good, the bad and the ugly. Last season was too much of the latter. The Maples, just two seasons removed from...
Jefferson-Morgan football team relies on competition to improve
Competition for playing time tends to bring out the best in everyone. Young or less-experienced players give their all to make coaches take notice, and established players, in turn, step up their game to avoid losing playing time. Jefferson-Morgan football coach Aaron Giorgi, in his fifth season with the Rockets,...
Chartiers-Houston hopes to end 2-year playoff absence
Chartiers-Houston stopped short of the WPIAL football playoffs two seasons in a row. The Bucs hope to avoid a three-peat. Despite coming up short of a playoff berth by one game in 2018, Chartiers-Houston’s 3-7 season was a step in the right direction for a program that was coming off...
Short-handed Avella football team returns experienced skill group
The conversation has taken place many times over the past decade. Avella football coach Ryan Cecchini, in his ninth season, and longtime Mapletown coach George Messich often talk numbers — or lack thereof. The Eagles, like the Maples, fight a yearly battle with roster size. Cecchini said as long as...
Editorial: Just take a minute and connect
We all have someplace to be. We all have things to do and people to meet and tasks to complete and hurdles that frustrate us. But we also have time to stop and listen. We just have to decide to do it. Dylan Tetil did. On Saturday, Tetil was seating...
Forget Pittsburgh. Actress Cate Blanchett toured Seattle before becoming movie’s ‘Bernadette’
SEATTLE — Where did she go, that Bernadette? All over Seattle, apparently. The Phinney Ridge Farmer’s Market. The top of the Space Needle. Buca di Beppo. Wherever actress Cate Blanchett needed to go to better understand the rant-ridden mind of Bernadette Fox, the title character of “Where’d You Go, Bernadette,”...
Lil Nas X had historic run, but now Billie Eilish is No. 1
Step aside, Lil Nas X. There’s a new sheriff in town, and her name is Billie Eilish. Billboard announced on Monday that the rising pop star’s summer smash “Bad Guy” has hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 chart, ending “Old Town Road’s” unprecedented 19-week ride at the top. After...
Letter to the editor: Baltimore brawl typical Democrat behavior
The “Baltimore brawl” going on between Congressman Elijah Cummings, who represents that district, and President Trump is a perfect example of the cancer that is destroying American culture. Cummings started the brawl by personally attacking Trump’s head of Homeland Security in a public hearing. Trump defended his administrator, calling Cummings...
Letter to the editor: Walter Williams’ op-ed misleading
On a recent Saturday morning I opened the paper to an op-ed by Walter Williams (“Being a racist is easy today,” Aug. 2, TribLIVE), who has built a career as a black conservative, and who appears to have extreme right-wing views which are biased, if not racist. I am a...
Positive end to ’18 season serves as catalyst for Springdale
It might not seem like much on the surface, but Springdale’s Week 10 nonconference victory over Vincentian Academy has proven to be an offseason springboard. The 35-13 victory gave the Dynamos just a 2-8 overall record, but it proved to be a positive end to a trying season. “That was...
Small roster Imani Christian hopes for happier ending
Imani Christian is faced with a steep task to begin 2019, but it is not necessarily something new. The Saints’ thin roster was nearly cut in half by graduation this spring following a 7-4 season that ended in a blowout loss to eventual Class A champion OLSH in the quarterfinals....
Typical high expectations fuel healthier Clairton
Clairton’s football players, to a man, know the anticipation of the fanbase. “It’s kind of like state championship or bust,” said Bears coach Wayne Wade, who enters his sixth season. And Wade is right. Clairton has been the WPIAL’s most dominant program since the turn of the millennium, winning nine...
Eddie Bauer to shut down its Midwest call center, send jobs overseas
In yet another example of a beloved Northwest retailer trying to turn itself around, Eddie Bauer will shutter a call center near Columbus, Ohio, and eliminate 111 jobs there in October. The closure, disclosed last week by the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services, comes a little over a...
John Oyler: Revisiting Gettysburg
I am currently revisiting my interest in the battle of Gettysburg because of a project in which my daughter Elizabeth is involved. Her department at the University of Pittsburgh is sponsoring a performance of ‘Gettysburg,” a “poetic expression of the ill-fated friendship between Confederate General Lewis Armistead and Union General...
Quaker Valley welcomes 3 new administrators
They come from drastically different backgrounds. But three new administrators in the Quaker Valley School District have one thing in common: They’re excited for the opportunity to make a difference in the district. Mike Lewis, 44, of New Brighton, started in June as the district’s new director of student services....
Letter to the editor: On clergy abuse, action needed
Regarding the Aug. 7 front-page article “Nearly 1,900 calls fielded by hotline”: I can only follow the page 2 continuation headline — “Shapiro blames Senate GOP for lack of reform” with one question: What are they waiting for? Tom Duffey Reynoldsville...
North Hills School District introduce compostable trays, straws, napkins
North Hills students returning to school this week will notice some environmentally friendly improvements in the cafeteria. The district has replaced all Styrofoam trays with compostable ones as part of its ongoing initiative to work toward a greener school environment. The molded fiber trays have five compartments, just like their...
Will there be a universal flu vaccine?
A better, more effective flu vaccine is a matter of when — not if — says Dr. Gregory Poland, director of Mayo Clinic’s Vaccine Research Group. The National Institutes of Health is testing an experimental universal flu vaccine with the goal of providing high-efficacy, long-lasting protection against influenza viruses. “The...
Hampton Community Pool end-of-season hours
As the summer season winds down, pool hours will be adjusted and are subject to change based of staff availability. If you are unsure about the status of the pool, call 412-487-7870. The remaining summer schedule is: Aug. 20, 3 to 8 p.m. Aug. 21, noon to 5 p.m. Aug....
Letter to the editor: Shaler Area should address gender-neutral restrooms
Dear Fellow Human: I am responding to the 8/18/19 article outlining the Shaler Area School District revamping (district-wide). These improvements sound very positive and it does lead me to hope that the school district will also address with the impending school year, the conundrum that the gender neutral/fluid population of...
