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Gateway Sports Hall of Fame plans to honor Class of 2022
Plans are in motion for the Gateway Sports Hall of Fame to resume honoring athletic greats this year. The committee charged with selecting the Class of 2022 tentatively is scheduled to meet this month to finalize the class and also discuss other matters relating to the banquet and induction ceremony...
Eastern Pittsburgh suburban real estate transactions for the week of May 29, 2022
Churchill Valerie Cooper sold property at 2512 Collins Road to Frank Slaughter for $222,000. John Robinson sold property at 315 Homer Drive to Alexander Carmody and Katelyn Larue Burns for $237,500. Keith Clark sold property at 3325 Longbow Drive to Corey Hoffman and Sierra Nannini for $366,000. Forest Hills Estate...
TribLive Taste Test: Cookies from CrumblVideo
Dessert for the Memorial Day barbecue is a must. And while we’d never say anything is better than our grandmother’s chocolate chip cookies, this year we’re going to see if the Crumbl cookie chain can give Granny a run for her money. We snagged a four-pack from the new Crumbl...
Libraries offer free museum admission through Experience Kits program
Libraries may be bursting with books, but they offer much more to their card holders, including free museum admission with the Experience Kits program. Beginning June 1, libraries including Monroeville Public Library will offer their card holders free admission to nine historical sites: Sen. John Heinz History Center, Duncan &...
Boyce Park, other county pools scheduled to open June 4
Allegheny County’s Boyce Park Wave Pool in Plum, North Park Swimming Pool in McCandless and Settlers Cabin Park Wave Pool in Robinson will open for the season June 4. Daily hours of operation are 11:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., weather and conditions permitting. Admission varies by age and county residency....
Young volunteers help make for successful Monroeville Lions Farmers Market
The Monroeville Lions Club is getting a little help from some friends. Students from Gateway and Plum Senior high schools are volunteering to assist with the Saturday morning farmers’ market that the club has been running for 40 years. Plum junior Lauren Price started lending a hand last year at...
2 men accused of using credit card skimmer at Sam’s Club in Frazer, possibly other locations
Two men from Romania were accused by Frazer police of stealing credit card information by installing a skimming device in a self-checkout lane at the Sam’s Club store at Pittsburgh Mills. They may be responsible for doing the same thing at Sam’s Club stores in Monroeville, West Mifflin and Butler...
Pitcairn man charged in Uber driver’s death shouldn’t face death penalty, public defender’s office says
The Allegheny County Public Defender’s office said in a court filing it does not have enough death-penalty qualified attorneys to represent the man accused of killing an Uber driver in February. In a motion filed earlier this month, the PD’s office said that the district attorney’s office filed notice in...
Pittsburgh man arrested in connection with stabbing at Monroeville Mall
A Pittsburgh man has been arrested for allegedly stabbing another man multiple times at a store inside Monroeville Mall. John Malcolm Smith, 40, is charged with aggravated assault in connection with the incident Saturday around 5:15 p.m. at All-Star Elite. According to the criminal complaint, Smith and another man were...
Happenings for week of May 23, 2022: Concert lineup announced, road work persists
Summer concert series at Tall Trees Amphitheater The Monroeville Recreation and Parks Department has announced the lineup for its annual summer concert series, held from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Sundays (except where noted) throughout the summer at the Tall Trees Amphitheater, 2399 Tilbrook Road: • June 12: Bubs McKeg & the...
Gateway’s Robinson sprints to berth at PIAA championship meet
Next spring, Amaya Robinson hopes to make an impact on the track at Slippery Rock University as a member of The Rock women’s track and field team. She got one final tune up for future success there last week as she ran both the 100- and 200-meter dashes at the...
Gateway goes down swinging in WPIAL baseball playoffs
A late season surge helped give the Gateway baseball team some confidence entering the WPIAL Class 5A playoffs. Even though the Gators (9-11) were seeded No. 15, they gave No. 2 Bethel Park all it could handle in the opening round of the playoff tournament before falling 6-5 on a...
Eastern Pittsburgh suburban real estate transactions for the week of May 22, 2022
Churchill Tuan Le sold property at 110 Fenwick Drive to Ruben Williams for $244,000. Thing Of Ours Limited sold property at 2340 Greensburg Pike to Callawe Bey for $5,000. Terri Nuyianes sold property at 3783 Greensburg Pike to Donald Justin White for $124,000. Edgewood Kay Masten sold property at 236...
Longtime Pitcairn funeral home merges with nearby family-owned business
In Pitcairn, the funeral home founded by Thomas Pearce had been a community fixture since 1929. For the majority of that time, Chuck Bruna was a fixture at the business. “I started here when I was a senior in high school, in 1962,” he said, his voice resonating with the...
Monroeville begins planning for Westmoreland Heritage Trail connector bridge
While it’s only a short distance from the edge of Valley Park in Monroeville to the Westmoreland Heritage Trail in neighboring Murrysville, the bridge connecting the two is still a fair distance away. “There’s a lot that goes into it,” said Monroeville Municipal Manager Tim Little. “We have to get...
Monroeville Public Library hosts summer gardening classes
Miriam Cheng, owner-operator of Wild Child Native Gardens LLC, is presenting gardening classes at Monroeville Public Library, 4000 Gateway Campus Blvd. The classes are scheduled from 7 to 8:30 p.m. On May 25 is “Seed Sowing for the Beginning and Advanced Gardener.” Cheng will discuss how to start seeds inside...
In brief: Queen’s Jubilee fundraiser, Garden Club’s plant sale, and more in Monroeville
Monroeville library friends host Queen’s Jubilee fundraiser The Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II is being celebrated in London to mark 70 years of her reigning over the United Kingdom. To honor the occasion, the Friends of the Monroeville Public Library group is partnering with the library to host a Queen’s...
Gateway savors elusive section volleyball title
The 36-year wait to put another number on the boys volleyball section-title banner in the gym at the Gateway Furrie Sports Complex has ended. Head coach Phil Randolph and his players couldn’t be more excited. Gateway clinched its first section title since 1986 with a 3-0 win over Mars on...
Eastern Pittsburgh suburban real estate transactions for the week of May 15, 2022
Chalfant Futures Properties LLC sold property at 246 Highland Ave. to RP Homes 2 LLC for $104,000. Forest Hills Marquette Espy sold property at 352 Barclay Ave. to Thomas Kempen and Stephanie Carmichael for $289,000. Dwight Helfrich sold property at 539 Pacific Ave. to Timothy Daughtery and Jessica Au for...
Former Gateway gymnast Olivia Miller sets high bar athletically, academically at Pitt
Olivia Miller went from misfortune to good fortune this spring as her collegiate academic and athletic tenure at the University of Pittsburgh came to a close. The Gateway graduate saw her 17-year gymnastics career come to a sudden end at the Eastern Atlantic Gymnastics League championships March 19 at George...
Alternative to Florida works well for Gateway High School band trip
The schedule for the Gateway High School marching band usually calls for a trip to central Florida every other year. While 2022 was supposed to be one of them, the lingering effects of the covid-19 pandemic prompted some caution among the powers that be for one of Orlando’s premier destinations....
Gateway graduate earns Allegheny College degree
Savannah Plaskon, daughter of Juanita and Michael Plaskon of Monroeville, has graduated summa cum laude from Allegheny College. A 2018 graduate of Gateway High School, Paskon received a bachelor of arts degree from Allegheny with a double major in political science and women and gender studies. To fulfill requirements for...
Walk to Cure Arthritis May 22 at Boyce Park in Plum
While the debilitating effects of arthritis most commonly are associated with aging, consider what happened to Allie McGinnis when she was just 5. “I fell at a bowling alley, and my arm, it was stuck at a 90-degree angle. It wouldn’t move. My joints were so stiff that my arm...
Walk in Schenley Park raises money toward ending breast cancer
Adrienne Scarano of Monroeville, a two-time cancer survivor, was among the participants in the 2022 Susan G. Komen West Pennsylvania More than Pink Walk. Replacing the annual Race for the Cure event, the walk took place on Mother’s Day in Pittsburgh’s Schenley Park. The walk has raised nearly $400,000 toward...
Members of Monroeville church’s ministry deliver lunches to first responders
One of the objectives of the Men’s Ministry at Monroeville Christian Church is to perform community service. To honor those who protect and serve the community, members of the group honored Monroeville police, firefights and emergency medical services personnel by delivering lunches to them on April 19. The ministry offers...
