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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. American Pie concert rescheduled The concert featuring oldies band American Pie was...

In response to Dave Ninehouser’s letter “Jesus never preached about abortion”: Jesus also never preached about drug cartels or nuclear war, which are evils that plague everyday society. Ninehouser seems elated to make his point that abortion was an accepted practice in Rome as if Rome was anything but a...

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 24-24) lost 2-1 to Omaha (Royals) on a walk-off solo home run by RF Nate Eaton. RHP Austin Brice (1-2, 3.20) gave up the two-out shot. RHP Jerad Eickhoff (4.58) started and pitched five scoreless innings, allowing one hit and one walk and fanning three. CF Travis Swaggerty...

History came alive during Shady Side Academy Country Day School’s annual Second Grade Wax Museum. Second graders dressed in costume as a famous person and posed as their wax figure in front of a poster board exhibit. Visitors to the museum pushed a button at the exhibit to hear each...

High schools Baseball WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Championship Tuesday’s result Mt. Lebanon 2, Upper St. Clair 1 Class 5A Championship Wednesday’s schedule Peters Township (21-1) vs. West Allegheny (18-4) at Wild Things Park, 7:30 p.m. Third place Tuesday’s result Bethel Park 6, Thomas Jefferson 0 Class 4A Championship Tuesday’s result...

Stephen Slate hit a tie-breaking two-out RBI single in the bottom of the sixth to lead top-seeded Hopewell to a 3-2 victory over Avonworth in the WPIAL Class 3A baseball third-place game Tuesday. Lucas Arington doubled twice and drove in two runs and winning pitcher Landon Fox threw 1⅓ scoreless...

Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — Rabbi Michael Pollack stood at a podium in the Capitol, just steps away from where the legislature meets, to...

After near-misses the past four seasons, the Serra Catholic baseball team hoisted a WPIAL championship trophy Tuesday afternoon. The top-seeded Eagles used a strong pitching performance from junior ace Zach Karp and timely hitting throughout their potent lineup to defeat No. 7 Neshannock, 8-2, in the Class 2A final at...

Gov. Tom Wolf is calling on policymakers to “be open to the things that work” to address gun violence “but we cannot ignore the elephant in the room and that is guns.” During an interview Tuesday morning on KDKA radio, Wolf reacted to last week’s mass shooting at Robb Elementary...

My 8-month-old daughter, Jayde, was born with a growth restriction. She weighs just 13 pounds — no more than a 3-month-old. She sees a pediatric nutritionist and eats a specialized formula that provides 30 calories per ounce in hopes of getting her on the elusive growth curve. Jayde was crawling...

The weather couldn’t have been more cooperative for the seasonal opening of Hampton Community Outdoor Pool Complex over Memorial Day weekend. With the temperature already zooming into the high 80s on the morning of the holiday, a fairly long line of swimmers formed in anticipation of being able to enter....

The lacrosse team’s top goal scorer and a tennis champion. Carolina Walters sure was impressive in her time at Latrobe, leaving quite a mark on both programs. Walters, a midfielder, led a Wildcats lacrosse team to the postseason for the ninth time in the past 10 years. She feels head...

Logan Brooks Plum football / track and field Plum senior Logan Brooks spent his four years of high school playing football. Nonetheless, Brooks made the decision to add another sport to his resume. In his junior season, Brooks joined the track and field team and competed in numerous events, including...

In October of 2016, a Washington Post headline referred to the presidential race as the “rape election.” The numerous sexual misconduct allegations against a presidential candidate, and the ubiquity of discussions of sexual violence in the context of that election were unprecedented. However, the election of Donald J. Trump, and...

The U.S. Constitution on guns: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. The shooter who murdered 19 children and two teachers was not a member of a well-regulated militia. I...

Oh dear, Russia invaded Ukraine. How horrible! What can we do to fix this? I know the answer. Let’s print billions of dollars and throw it at the problem. That’s sure to fix it. Never mind that this will fuel inflation. Never mind about any type of military or diplomatic...

I believe letter-writer Leo Nagorski’s statement that “most Americans favor keeping Roe exactly the way it is” is untrue (“Blame for the Roe v. Wade uproar,” May 24, TribLIVE). I’d be interested in his source. As for any uproar, the Supreme Court decision (if what we hear holds) will deny...

Quaker Valley High School senior Charlie Crane was selected as a violist for the 2022 Pennsylvania Music Educators Association All-State Orchestra. Crane was first selected to District Orchestra in January after submitting an application outlining his musical accomplishments and recommendations from his music teachers. At Districts, Crane auditioned and qualified...

Angelina Saldamarco, a senior exercise science major, won the Student Leader of the Year award during Slippery Rock University’s Office of Student Engagement and Leadership’s 2021-22 Rising Star and Distinguished Leader awards on April 20 at the Smith Student Center. The Student Leader of the Year Award recognizes student leaders...

Kudos to William Hite’s letter “What’s a Trump endorsement worth?” (May 6, TribLIVE). Donald Trump and his family ran their private businesses while living at the White House at taxpayers’ expense. Since 2016, he’s promised to reveal his taxes but never did so. Obviously, he never intended to do so...

How comforted would Pennsylvanians be to know that the individual who is responsible for handling tens of billions of dollars of our money is a bald-faced liar? That is regrettably what we face in state Treasurer Stacy Gerrity. She appeared at a rally which was ostensibly to promote the U.S....

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. Armstrong Museum to feature antique engine demonstrations Armstrong County Historical Museum and...

The Public Utility Commission (PUC) is warning consumers they could see sharp increases in default service energy costs, ranging between 6% and 45%, as utilities adjust their prices for electric generation on June 1. The editorial “The high cost of electricity — or electric deregulation?” (May 14, TribLIVE) missed an...

Editorial cartoons for the week of May 30....