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In brief: Glass recycling, online art auction and more around Sewickley
Glass recycling Pennsylvania Resources Council’s traveling glass recycling bin will be at Sewickley Riverfront Park, 300 Chadwick St., Nov. 21-28. All colors of glass bottles, jars and jugs will be accepted. The following items will not be accepted: cut glass, glass bakeware, mirrors, porcelain and ceramics, stemware, light bulbs, televisions...
Sewickley area real estate transactions for the week of Nov. 15
Edgeworth Patrick Reilly sold property at 320 Woodland Road to Neil and Brooke Napolitano for $625,000. Leet Michele L Slomka Foradori sold property at 7 Ambridge Ave. to Kari Gilbert for $110,000. Sewickley Riverstone Property Solutions LLC sold property at 913 Nevin Ave. to Philip and Katherine Diemert for $380,000....
Sewickley officials approve new police services contract with Glen Osborne Borough
Sewickley officials have finalized a new police services contract with Glen Osborne Borough. Council unanimously approved a five-year contract on Nov. 10. Glen Osborne signed off on the deal last month. Sewickley officers have patrolled their neighboring community’s streets for about a decade. The current five-year deal was set to...
Animal Friends celebrates Veterans Day with free adoptions, discounted supplies
Animal Friends continues its commitment to the armed forces this week with free adoption for veterans and a discounted care package for their new furry friends. Animal Friends was founded more than 75 years ago as a resource for soldiers who were shipping off for World War II and had...
Broad Street Flower Project, Bonus Borrows and more at Sewickley Public Library
Sewickley Public Library, 500 Thorn St., offers a number of in-person and virtual programs for patrons. For more information or to register for events, call 412-741-6920 or visit sewickleylibrary.org. Broad Street Flower Project Do you enjoy the flowers planted along Broad Street in the summer? Ever wonder how they get...
Sewickley officials plan to hold the line on taxes in 2021 budget
Sewickley officials want to hold the line on real estate taxes with the 2021 budget. Council unanimously approved next year’s preliminary spending plan on Nov. 10. The millage rate is expected to stay at 6.25 mills. “I think that the budget is solid,” council President Jeff Neff said. “I would...
Sewickley Public Library’s $1.3 million repair project clears another hurdle
A roof and a heating, ventilation and air conditioning repair project at the Sewickley Public Library has cleared another hurdle. Borough council unanimously voted Tuesday night to approve a “certificate of appropriateness” for the HVAC portion of the work at 500 Thorn St. It granted the certificate for the roof...
Sewickley’s Furman South had an unusual road to becoming an NHL referee
Like many of us, for nearly eight months, Furman South has largely been idle. Employed as an NHL referee, the native of Sewickley hasn’t worked a game since all of hockey was brought to a halt in mid-March because of the coronavirus pandemic. Had South pursued his first choice of...
In brief: Turkey Trot registration, glass recycling and more around Sewickley
Turkey Trot registration open Sewickley Valley YMCA’s Virtual Turkey Trot registration is open. Challenge yourself to a walk or run a 5K before Nov. 30, wherever and whenever you want – and sleep in on Thanksgiving morning. The Turkey Trot is a joint project of the Heritage Valley Health System...
Quaker Valley volleyball has season end early but seniors left a lasting mark
This season didn’t end how the Quaker Valley girls volleyball team wanted, but the Quakers put together a season that had them on the verge of a playoff berth. They finished with a 5-7 record and a Section 2-AA record of 5-5, which was fourth behind Seton LaSalle, Avonworth and...
Quaker Valley hockey ready to be back home in Class A
The Quaker Valley hockey team is back where it belongs. After playing in Class AA of the PIHL for the past five seasons, the Quakers were placed back into Class A, where they had success for so many years. Even with a young team after losing a few crucial seniors,...
Sewickley area real estate transactions for the week of Nov. 8
Bell Acres Philip Diemert sold property at 121 Young Road to Brian Thomas Mullen and Jullian Paige Mancuso for $225,000. Edgeworth Philip Page sold property at 607 Chestnut Road to Francisco Torres Ramirez and Rachel Lenchner for $581,500. Jan Silverman sold property at 2 Woodland Road to 2 Woodland Road...
Sewickley area student news for Nov. 7
Enrolled at Montclair Sewickley’s Abbey Moul is enrolled as a freshman at Montclair State University in New Jersey, where she plans to study elementary education in the Department of Educational Foundations. Elected president of student group Haydar Alhalaway of Sewickley has been elected president of the Saudi Student Union at...
Iovino concedes to Robinson in race for 37th District state Senate seat
State Sen. Pam Iovino has conceded her bid for reelection as the 37th District representative to Republican challenger Devlin Robinson of Bridgeville. Iovino was seeking a full term in office after winning the seat in a 2019 special election to fill the vacancy created when Guy Reschenthaler was elected to...
Sewickley Valley Community Fund awarded record $40K in grants during pandemic
The Sewickley Valley Community Fund awarded a record number of grants this year to local organizations in need during the coronavirus pandemic and is now trying to raise funds to continue its work. John Poister, secretary for the SVCF, said the nonprofit was able to award more than $40,000 to...
Ohio Valley Lines in Ambridge cancels open house, holiday train display this year
Model trains of Ohio Valley Lines in Ambridge will not pull out of their station this year due to health concerns and covid-19 safety restrictions. The club of locomotive enthusiasts have hosted an open house and holiday display for nearly 40 years. It’s been held the last two decades at...
With narrow lead U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb declares victory over Republican challenger Sean ParnellVideo
U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb declared victory Wednesday night as incomplete results showed the Democratic incumbent take a whisker-close lead over Republican challenger Sean Parnell, with barely 700 votes separating the candidates in the hotly watched race for the 17th Congressional District. By noon Thursday, Lamb’s lead had grown to about...
Devlin Robinson likely winner over Pam Iovino in race for 37th District state Senate seat
State Sen. Pam Iovino — one of only three Democrats to represent the 37th District in the past 50 years — appears to have lost a bid for a full term in office after serving only a year and a half. But as of midday Nov. 5 she had not...
Expanded hours, virtual etiquette workshop and more at Sewickley Public Library
Sewickley Public Library, 500 Thorn St., offers a number of in-person and virtual programs for patrons. For more information or to register for events, call 412-741-6920 or visit sewickleylibrary.org. Expanded hours The library’s new hours of operation are: Sunday, 1-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday,...
Republican challenger Sean Parnell’s lead over U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb narrows
Republican challenger Sean Parnell led U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb late Wednesday afternoon in the high-profile 17th Congressional District race, but Lamb narrowed the lead throughout the day, according to unofficial and incomplete returns. As of 4 p.m., Parnell had collected 53.2% of the votes counted compared to Lamb’s 46.8%, a...
DUI, drug cases among those recently handled in Judge Ford’s Sewickley court
Sewickley District Court Judge Robert L. Ford handled these cases in October. Defendants will have court dates set in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. Charges were filed by Sewickley police unless otherwise noted. Held for court • Madeleine McConnell, 24, of Mercer on charges of possession of controlled...
ALCOSAN awards $15 million in GROW funding
Allegheny County Sanitary Authority (ALCOSAN) approved $15.1 million in grant funding in the fifth round of the organization’s Green Revitalization of Our Waterways (GROW) program. This is part of ongoing ALCOSAN efforts to fund projects with partner municipalities. In this round of grant funding, ALCOSAN offered grants to 23 municipalities...
In brief: Tull Family Theater holiday programming, online art auction and more in Sewickley
Tull Family Theater holiday programming This holiday season, as Hollywood studios continue to postpone new major releases, The Tull Family Theater is reaching back for perennial favorites; films that bring joy, hope and memories of being with loved ones. Films include “Casablanca,” “Doctor Zhivago,” “Babette’s Feast,” “Meet Me in St....
Former Quaker Valley standout Dane Jackson makes impact in NFL debut for Bills
Cornell graduate Dane Jackson played his high school football at Quaker Valley because the Raiders didn’t have a football team, and he continued his career at Pitt, where he became an impact player. Now, Jackson is playing on Sundays for the Buffalo Bills, and the former Quaker had himself a...
Sewickley Academy Panthers are hoping to reach their peak during the postseason
Throughout its regular season, the Sewickley Academy boys soccer team had just two blemishes on its record — a loss and a tie — and both came against Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. Now, after beating No. 11 Chartiers-Houston, 3-0, in the first round of the WPIAL Class A...
