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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. Annual sawdust carpet celebration planned in Tarentum Guardian Angels Parish will host...

Regarding the letter “Keep Pa.’s primary as is”: Pennsylvania voters should not have to just “join the party” for a choice between something better than the lesser of two evils in November. In 2020, I can’t have been the only one who wondered why, with 330 million people in this...

McCandless Vacation Bible School is coming to Ascension Lutheran Church, 8225 Peebles Road. Classes will take place from July 11-14 from from 5:45-8:15 p.m. More information is available from Emily Marcellus, VBS director at 412-364-4463 or vbs@ascensionpgh.com. Students can register on: . West Deer Highpointe at Rebecca will host a...

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 26-25) rallied past Omaha (Royals), 5-2. CF Travis Swaggerty (.280) went 2 for 4 and hit a go-ahead three-run homer, his fourth, in the seventh inning. He also doubled. In his last seven games, Swaggerty is 12 for 29 with two home runs and eight RBIs. 1B Mason...

High schools Baseball PIAA playoffs First round Monday’s schedule Class 6A Owen J. Roberts vs. Emmaus at Boyertown, 4 p.m.; Hazleton vs. Coatesville at Mountain Top, 4:30 p.m.; Liberty vs. Manheim Township at DeSales, 7 p.m.; LaSalle College vs. Pennsbury at Lincoln, 4 p.m.; Hatboro Horsham at Warwick, 1 p.m.;...

The first season of the second chapter of Pittsburgh Maulers football will not end with a playoff berth. Darius Victor ran for 87 yards and three touchdowns, leading the New Jersey Generals to a 28-19 victory, eliminating the 1-7 Maulers from USFL playoff contention. The Maulers turned to Slippery Rock...

After earning a reputation as an aggressive batting aggregation, patience turned out to be a virtue for the Armstrong softball team Friday. The River Hawks — averaging 11 runs per game — used patience at the plate, and it paid off. Leading off the bottom of the seventh in a...

Here is the Apollo-Ridge High School Class of 2022: Ashby Ambrose Abernathy, Brianna Marie Ahsmann, Kenneth David Baustert, Logan Michael Baynar, Kalob Nathaniel Bentz, Madison Paige Blystone, Emily Rose Bonja, Andrew W. Booth, Hannah Brown, Savannah R. Brown, Spentzer Austyn Brunner, Matthew Franklin Burkholder, Garrett Matthew Calderone, Nicholas Anthony Cecchini,...

Here is the Highlands High School Class of 2022: Blake Adams, Gionna Brielle Allias, Michale Peter Ankney, Jacob Arner, Daniel Babinsack, Cameron Michael Baker, Zachary Thomas Balog, Noah Daniel Barch, Parker Barry, Conner Best, Hannah Blythe, Olivia Catherine Bonnett, Blake Austin Bowser, Mckenna Lauraly Burk, Brandon Hunter Paul Burns. Lucas...

Here is the St. Joseph High School Class of 2022: Ryan H. Anderson, Wyatt M. Barr, Olivia Marie DiNatale, Logan Scott Fitch, Jonathan Thomas Fontana, Trevor K. Greenwald, Anthony Thomas Kuhns, Hannah M. Laskowski, Rhiannon Dee Litz, Trinity Ann Lockwood-Morris, William R. Mason, Nicholas E. Mote, Leeann Parsi, Sophia Perrino,...

Bluegrass music kicked off St. Clair Park’s start to the summer as Sideline performed during a Friday night concert. SummerSounds hosted the nationally touring band during its first concert of the season. The group hit the stage at 7 p.m. in the Greensburg park. Formed in 2012 as a jam...

It is truly the minds, hearts and souls of those who kill people that must be altered. Due to Supreme Court decisions rendered in 1962 and 1963 that prevented American children from doing what every member of Congress does every day — have a prayer before commencing the day or...

TAMPA, Fla. — Working-class Americans died of covid-19 at five times the rate of those in higher socioeconomic positions during the first year of the pandemic, according to a study. The staggering disparity was revealed in a study of roughly 69,000 U.S. coronavirus victims ages 25 to 64 who died...

WASHINGTON — In a year in which Congress has strained for legislative achievements, a big one is in sight. When senators return from a Memorial Day recess spent honoring those who gave their lives for the United States, they will take up a bipartisan bill that will dramatically broaden America’s...

Christian Moore-Rouse volunteered with the Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, at the Jubilee Kitchen and at UPMC Presbyterian and UPMC Montefiore. Jeremy Dentel spent his free time working with Humane Animal Rescue of Pittsburgh, teaching coding to students at Carrick High School and serving as an adviser for his University of...

Republicans are finally being honest about what they intend to do: raise taxes on lower- and middle-income Americans and sunset federal programs like Medicare and Social Security after five years. The GOP plan not only threatens my financial security, but the health and security of all Americans. It is cruel....

Thomas Jefferson High School’s class of 2022 received their diplomas on June 1, concluding a four-year journey unlike any other since the first TJ class graduated in 1960. A total of 229 Jaguar seniors graduated at TJ Stadium before a large, enthusiastic crowd in a ceremony that began an hour...

I agreed with letter-writer Wanda Rader that it’s “A sad time for women in our world” (May 23, TribLIVE), especially in the Middle East, until she mentioned Roe v. Wade and her being a feminist. That’s when my temper flared! Does she condone babies being aborted, killed and dismembered, with...

Shame on the NRA and the gun lobbies. Shame on all the spineless politicians who take blood money from them. When the forefathers enacted the Second Amendment, they could never have envisioned the weapons we have now. Weapons that have no other purpose than to shoot as many people as...

Most state employees who worked through the covid-19 pandemic will reap their reward this month. Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration is offering covid-19 retention bonuses to about 45,000 union-represented employees under his jurisdiction who remained on the job and got paid from May 1, 2020, through June 3. The bonus payments...

I’m a 78-year-old liberal and proud of it. I read the piece “What liberal really means” (May 10, TribLIVE), written by my favorite columnist, Leonard Pitts Jr. I want to thank him for his views because they are exactly where a liberal stands. If you look up the word “liberal”...

“When your home is ruined by other people, you leave.” This was my husband’s closing remark during our last household debate. “I brought this up four years ago … life is becoming untenable here,” he says. I feel anguish. Certainly, it pales in comparison to that of Buffalo, N.Y., and...

Charles Koch of the Koch brothers is part of the uber-wealthy with a net worth of over $63 billion. He spends millions to influence our government, and they gave $20 million to get President Trump’s tax cuts passed. The money was well invested, for in 2018 alone, the brothers saved...

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. Rockin’ Roosevelt concert to raise funds for Arnold park New Ken/Arnold Social...

I look at this president and ask myself why anyone who has been able to live a lifestyle envied by millions would be doing everything in his power to destroy the people who enabled him to live such a lifestyle. Our IRAs are in dire straits with the Dow Jones...