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Etna Thomas Sauers Jr. sold property at 69 Cherry St. to Alexander Clark and Erica Long Peterson for $156,156. Franklin Park John Marklewicz sold property at 1625 Forest Ridge Drive to Nolan and Elizabeth Kurtz for $445,000. Richard Lee Masters sold property at 2564 Glenwood Drive to Daniel and Kristin...

Churchill Allison Hoge sold property at 2409 Marbury Road to Tony Castillo II for $620,000. Forest Hills Anna Viselli sold property at 1987 Centurion Drive Apt 514 to Michael Caroccia Jr. and Margaret Caroccia for $80,000. Douglas Ram Contractors LLC sold property at 162 Fairfax Road to Aren Davey for...

Publicize your community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15068. Please include a daytime telephone number. Drive-through food distribution set at Lernerville Speedway Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank...

How many highways must someone drive the wrong way down before we can make PennDOT take a stand? The answer, my friend, is in our legislators’ hands; the answer should be all over this land. On July 25, nearly a dozen people, including eight children, were taken to the hospital...

Amazing how quickly our politicians have learned that it’s not what’s in the many bills they vote on. It’s giving them a catchy name. This automatically sells it to the masses of blind faith followers. Who can vote against the Save the Puppies Bill even if it contains millions to...

Estate of Hartley Baird Jr. sold property at 98 Horning Road to Devin and Danielle Shay for $265,000. Benjamin Kowalski sold property at 5940 Kings School Road to Benjamin Dobies and Jessica Smith for $280,000. Central Penn Capital Management LLC sold property at 3605 S Park Road to Commercial Acquistions...

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 57-57) handled Iowa (Cubs), 6-2. 2B Ji-hwan Bae (.300) went 2 for 4 with a triple, two RBIs and his 10th stolen base. 1B Mason Martin (.206) went 1 for 3 with a walk, an RBI and his 12th stolen base. C Jose Godoy (.201) went 2 for...

When The Birdie heard that Acrisure was spending $150 million to put its name on the big football field on the North Shore, a thought popped into his bird brain. “The Birdie writes the most-read weekly high school football prediction column in the A-K Valley,” he boasted. “What company wouldn’t...

When Kristin Martin found out her husband was being transferred to Naval Base San Diego, securing housing for their family of five quickly took over her life. On-base housing wasn’t an option — the waitlist for a four-bedroom home in the neighborhoods they qualified for was 14 to 16 months....

The 124th season of local high school football is upon us, as all 13 area teams will have Week Zero games. Four of those 13 teams have new coaches – Matt Bonislawski at Highlands, Dave Heavner at Valley, Ryan Tempalski at Springdale and Tim Burchett at Knoch. Will any team...

ATLANTA Pete Thamel of ESPN reports, the College Football Playoff’s board of managers raised a salient question: Because nobody really runs college football, should the CFP nominate itself? Thamel’s sources told him the conversation, conducted via Zoom this week, didn’t run beyond five minutes. You’d have to think changing the...

The West Deer supervisors have approved the demolition of properties on School Street and Eisenhower Drive. The affected buildings are a duplex at 17-19 School St., and the structure at 1130-1132 Eisenhower Drive. After a public hearing last week, the supervisors approved the demolitions 4-0 vote, with Supervisor Jennifer Mann...

MOMBASA, Kenya — Africa’s migratory birds are threatened by changing weather patterns in the center and east of the continent that have depleted natural water systems and caused a devastating drought. Hotter and drier conditions due to climate change make it difficult for traveling species who are losing their water...

When the clock struck zeroes in the fourth quarter of his team’s WPIAL Class A playoff loss to Cornell, Monessen coach Wade Brown noticed something surprising: Several of his players were crying. An outpouring of emotion isn’t unusual in the wake of a crucial loss. Brown, however, wasn’t sure his...

When the Philadelphia Flyers picked defenseman Jack St. Ivany in the fourth round of the 2018 NHL draft, one of the team’s amateur scouts gave a glowing scouting report on the California native. “His mobility is good. His first pass is good. His transition game is good. We’re excited about...

It’s gotten to the point where even the most obviously nonpartisan issues that Americans ought to be able to address cooperatively and rationally have fallen victim to the country’s culture of extreme political polarization. Hostility has grown so intense, especially on the Republican side, that subjects that should be entirely...

Four years ago, I decided I needed to host a pop-up grammar-advice stand. The plan was simple: I’d sit on the streets of New York City and help people with their questions. I ordered a folding table, drew a “Grammar Table” sign and waited for the weather to cool. On...

Just as many of the great magicians in history, the career politicians of the Democratic Party have become masters of misdirection. The Clintons, Obamas and Bidens have perfected this art. Any time they want to draw attention away from their self-serving and corrupt operations, they drag out Donald Trump. They...

It is not social media causing problems with people taking things into their own hands. It is the liberal press; I think they’ve been lying about President Trump, calling him a Russian spy and now accusing him of espionage over nuclear secrets, just to try and prevent him from running...

More important issues than abortion We all thought the abortion issue was decided long ago. I am weary of all the coverage devoted to it over the years. Every election, the subject is brought out and debated again, mainly by men who would rather make a show of power by...

Pennsylvania citizens: I am writing to prompt you to write or call your state senator and representative regarding the $2,000 stimulus checks Gov. Tom Wolf wishes to give all Pennsylvania citizens. Wolf would like to give every Pennsylvania citizen who makes $80,000 or less a check for $2,000. I wrote...

Watch movies or television shows with cartels and kingpins, and you come away with one message pretty quickly: Drug money can make things go bad in a hurry. A lot of money plus little trust equals suspicion. It’s not just a fictional truism. You can see it in criminal court...

Italian beef sandwiches are having a national moment thanks to FX’s restaurant-themed television “The Bear.” The sandwiches featured on the popular series starring Jeremy Allen White as a chef are a staple of the Chicago area. The juicy, slow-cooked beef sandwiches topped with peppers are also popular at some Allegheny...

Publicize your community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15068. Please include a daytime telephone number. Native tree, shrub sale continues through Aug. 31 The Penn State Extension...

The tempest in a beer can that is the FBI retrieval of unreturned government property from Mar-a-Lago brings to mind this scenario: You throw a party for your spouse, parent, etc. After the guests leave, you discover many pieces of your silverware are missing. Fortunately, a friend remembers seeing “Jim”...