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Blackhawk grad Brendan McKay wins MLB pitching debut for Rays
Blackhawk graduate Brendan McKay didn’t disappoint in his major league debut Saturday. Given an audition with the Tampa Bay Rays, McKay took a perfect game into the sixth inning and wound up throwing six shutout innings, giving up only one hit and one walk while striking out three. He earned...
Donna Pierantoni: Home care crisis’ impact on disabled adults, seniors
Home health aides provide valuable and compassionate home care services to seniors and adults with disabilities that enable them to remain safe at home and out of nursing homes. As a clinical manager who oversees a team of home health aides, I know our state is in a home care...
Javier Palomarez: Taking on America’s waste crisis
America has a big waste problem. In fact, the problem weighs approximately 280 million tons. That is the quantity of municipal solid waste (MSW) Americans create every year. As waste creation skyrockets, landfills across the country are nearing capacity, generating a waste crisis that crosses state lines. The U.S. produces...
Springdale’s Michael Zolnierczyk named Valley News Dispatch Boys Athlete of the Year
Michael Zolnierczyk has been front and center in maintaining two of the Alle-Kiski Valley’s most enduring sports legacies: Springdale Dynamos soccer and basketball. The soccer program has won nine WPIAL titles and several runners-up. The basketball team has won mor than 1,100 games and has made 34 WPIAL playoff appearances....
Outdoors notices for June 30, 2019
Notices Outdoors RIFLE/TRAP LEAGUES There were 122 shooters who competed in the Twi-Night Trap League on Thursday, and seven managed perfect 25 straights. Ruffsdale finished in first place with a score of 193 targets. Connellsville (188), Hecla (188), East Huntingdon (186) and Youngwood (182) rounded out the scoring. Connellsville (72.5)...
Editorial: Budget behavior, childish tantrums
We don’t have time for leaders to act like children. The people we have elected are there to do a job. We might not like the job they do, but that’s why we get to shuffle the deck periodically. What we didn’t do was send grown men and women to...
A quick overview of the NHL free agent player pool
The Pittsburgh Penguins will need to shed serious salary to become significant players in the free-agent market, but regardless of what they do, there will be some fireworks around the league when the signing period opens at noon Monday. Here’s a quick overview. BIG TICKETS The Columbus duo of high-scoring...
Sounding off: Wealth tax could decrease poverty
I would like to see Congress pass a new program into law to replace the former Aid To Families With Dependent Children program, which was passed under FDR in 1935 and abolished in 1996. Since its abolition, there has been a large increase in the number of people (especially children)...
Letter to the editor: Spending in Norwin
So now we have the Norwin School District raising taxes again due to a budget shortfall (“Norwin OKs tax hike; maintains staff, programs,” June 21, TribLIVE). It’s interesting how they have money to pay for soccer field and other sporting venue “upgrades” but find it necessary to jam it to...
Letter to the editor: Grieving for our democracy
As we prepare to celebrate the founding of our nation, we are in the grip of a narcissistic president who has spent two years successfully violating Amendment 1 and the Emolument Clause of our Constitution. He has joined other populist leaders in the Philippines, Turkey, Egypt, Poland, Hungary and others...
Letter to the editor: Celebrating UPMC-Highmark deal
The news about UPMC and Highmark reaching a 10-year agreement is historic (“UPMC, Highmark reach 10-year deal for patient coverage,”). The hundreds of people on Highmark have cause to celebrate. It was the grassroots people of Pennsylvania who banded together and wouldn’t give up as they fought and beat the...
Ramy Youssef finds humor in what Americans share, not what we don’t
Forget terrorist jokes, Muslim ban witticisms and “us vs. them” gags. Egyptian-American comedian Ramy Youssef nails his first HBO stand-up special, “Feelings,” by tackling universal predicaments — guilt, self-doubt, sex, dating, bad parenting — from hyper-specific angles. The New Jerseyan, 28, also wields an arsenal of pop culture references, replicating...
Fisher House presented with check
The Pittsburgh Fisher House is a 10-bedroom “home away from home” that provides a place for visiting families to stay, free of charge, while their loved ones receive inpatient medical care at VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System. The Pittsburgh Fisher House is professionally furnished and features a common kitchen, laundry facilities,...
Pirates minor league report for June 28, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 41-37) fell to Gwinnett (Braves), 8-1. RHP Yefry Ramierez (1-3, 4.24) allowed five runs in 4 1/3 innings in the loss. He struck out six, walked one and gave up four hits. CF Jason Martin (.232) drove in the Indians’ run with a double in the fifth inning....
Mark Madden: Refreshing slices from today’s sports landscape
Checkmate, honey, you’re the only one who’s got to choose … whether to read refreshing sports notes. Grab yourself a slice. We’re live from fabulous Las Vegas. • Keeping Phil Kessel would be arduous for the Penguins on many levels. But doing so while not extending coach Mike Sullivan’s contract...
Norwin martial artists to represent Team USA at WKC world championships
Fourteen members of the Viola Allegheny Shotokan Karate dojo earned top honors and secured a spot on the prestigious Team USA Karate Kickboxing team after their performances last month in Detroit. The martial artists competed at the World Karate and Kickboxing Commission’s national championships and team trials June 8-9. “In...
Franklin Regional grad, Marquette lacrosse coach Andrew Stimmel is rising star in sport
It’s summertime, but Andrew Stimmel never has been this busy. That comes with the territory when accepting a new job, which the 2006 Franklin Regional graduate did June 14 when he became coach of the Marquette men’s lacrosse program after a highly successful three-year run as offensive coordinator at Yale....
Here’s where to watch July Fourth holiday fireworks in Western Pa.
Here’s where you can watch fireworks around Western Pennsylvania this Fourth of July holiday. July 3 • Findlay Township Independence Day Celebration, begins at 7:30 p.m., fireworks at 9:45 p.m., Recreation and Sports Complex, Route 30. No parking permitted on Route 30. • Hampton Township Community Day Celebration, fireworks at...
Class A Trib HSSN Sports Cup champions continue winning ways
Even though one of the longest championship runs in WPIAL history came to an end this spring, it did not slow down that school from winning yet another Trib HSSN Sports Cup. Sewickley Academy won two WPIAL championships and one PIAA crown in the 2018-19 school year to cruise to...
Editorial: Buttigieg’s Pittsburgh summit is a good idea
Let’s get on this Pittsburgh summit. Not the top of Mt. Washington. The one tossed out by Pete Buttigieg at Thursday’s debate for Democratic presidential candidates. In a question about climate change, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., spoke as a leader of a not-coastal city that is still dealing...
Multiple construction projects slated to begin at Brentwood schools
Construction is set to begin in the next few weeks on the first of three phases of building projects planned in the Brentwood Borough School District that leaders say are needed for their aging infrastructure. The three phases of projects, which will likely occur over the next five years, are...
Ikea risks boycott in Poland after wading into gay rights debate
Poland ordered prosecutors to probe Ikea of Sweden after its local unit fired a man over his actions during a gay-pride corporate event, while ruling-party officials mulled a boycott of the world’s largest furniture retailer. The incident comes after Poland’s most powerful politician, governing-party boss Jaroslaw Kaczynski, said in the...
Sewickley native at the helm of El Fumador
Growing up in Sewickley, Dante Maruca frequently visited the businesses and shops along Beaver Street, never imagining that he’d eventually be one of the proprietors. But 30 years after graduating from Quaker Valley, Maruca is the owner of El Fumador Cigars, selling premium cigars, pipes, tobacco and accessories. “I never...
Tennessee man accused of DUI in ‘wild’ hit-and-run spree on Route 30 in Hempfield
A Tennessee man was behind bars Friday after allegedly causing a wild hit-and-run spree on a heavily-traveled section of Route 30 in Hempfield a night earlier, injuring two people, according to state police. “It was an epic meltdown that led to a very dangerous situation,” witness Ryan Read told the...
Letter to the editor: Fawn’s finest shine during flooding
This is a word of thanks from the Fawn Township Board of Supervisors to Chief Dan Selfridge and Chief Chase Slepak of Fawn Township Volunteer Fire Departments 1 and 2 for their departments’ efforts during Fawn’s recent flooding. A special thank-you to D&D Auto Salvage and the Norris family for...
