Paul Guggenheimer stories, Page 61
$4.1M Match 6 ticket sold in West Mifflin
Pennsylvania Lottery officials are waiting for the holder of a winning Match 6 Lotto ticket worth $4.1 million to come forward. The ticket drawn Friday was sold in Allegheny County at the Mifflin Social Club, 4025 Irene St., in West Mifflin. It correctly matched all six winning numbers, 25-32-34-36-47-48 to...
50 years after moon landing, Western Pennsylvania sets sight on return to space
Like many American baby boomers, Randa Relich Milliron has vivid memories of the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969. The Belle Vernon native was in her early teens as she sat glued to a television set throughout the day and well into the night that culminated in the...
Vanessa German, Joe Negri, Roger Humphries to receive Governor’s Awards
Prolific Pittsburgh visual and performance artist Vanessa German has been named the 2019 Governor’s Awards for the Arts, Artist of the Year. German is founder of Love Front Porch and the ARThouse, community arts initiatives for the children of Homewood. German’s visual art work is in private and public collections...
Self-serve tap beer now a thing in Pittsburgh: Vault Taproom opens on South Side
Pittsburgh’s first restaurant where customers can pour their own draft beer will have its official opening Thursday on the South Side. The Vault Taproom, featuring the iPourIt self-serve draft wall, will open at a location once occupied by an iconic East Carson Street coffeehouse. When customers arrive, they check in...
Review: The Psychedelic Furs rock McKees Rocks
It was 10 p.m. Tuesday night in the beautifully restored Roxian Theatre in McKees Rocks and the Psychedelic Furs still hadn’t hit the stage. The bill, which featured opening bands of James and Dear Boy, was running behind but I had waited nearly 40 years to see these guys, so,...
Carnegie Science Center to showcase rock-themed films on giant screen
The Carnegie Science Center’s Rangos Giant Cinema wants to take you to school this summer. The school of rock, that is. Pittsburgh’s largest screen is showing a series of rock ’n’ roll films showcasing pioneers of the 1960s sound, English rock royalty, and jam band titans. The list includes the...
Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese closing Saint Sylvester School in Brentwood
Citing rapidly declining enrollment, the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh announced that Saint Sylvester School in Brentwood will not re-open for the 2019-2020 school year. The school’s current enrollment level is just 57 students in Kindergarten through eighth grade, the diocese said. Arrangements are being made to help those students attend...
4-state Whiskey Rebellion Trail launches in Pittsburgh
A multi-regional Whiskey Rebellion Trail some 225 years in the making launched in Pittsburgh’s Strip District on Friday. The trail includes 75 craft distilleries and cultural institutions in the greater Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. and Baltimore areas, showcasing the spirits producers of the Mid-Atlantic. The trail owes its inspiration to...
Jim Bouton, author of the groundbreaking baseball book ‘Ball Four,’ dies at 80
Jim Bouton, a major league pitcher who rose to great heights as part of a New York Yankees dynasty but made a name for himself by writing the first tell-all sports book, “Ball Four,” died Wednesday at age 80. Bouton died at his home in the Berkshires in Massachusetts after...
Heinz History Center to commemorate 50th anniversary of Apollo 11
The Senator John Heinz History Center will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing by opening a new exhibit and screening a Smithsonian Channel documentary film. The July 20 events complement the center’s Google Arts & Culture online exhibition, “Pittsburgh Goes to the Moon.” On July 20,...
Inspection of Smithfield Street Bridge in Pittsburgh starts Thursday
Inspection of the busy Smithfield Bridge will slow traffic starting Thursday and continuing through Saturday. Single-lane, alternating traffic will occur on the bridge from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday and Friday to allow for routine inspection work by Mackin Engineering Co. and the Sofis Rigging Co. There will...
Squirrel Hill chess grandmaster stays sharp before U.S. Senior Championship
Alex Shabalov prepares his mind and body for chess matches the way some elite athletes train for competition. Once a week for the past few weeks, the 51-year-old chess grandmaster has spent 90 minutes in the morning immersed in the salty, body-temperature water of a sensory deprivation tank. He takes...
PennDOT celebrates 30-year anniversary of ‘Adopt-A-Highway’
PennDOT celebrated the 30th anniversary of its anti-litter Adopt-A-Highway program on Tuesday. Started in 1990, the program recruits volunteers to collect litter on state-maintained roads. PennDOT estimated it has saved the agency more than $5 million annually. PennDOT said the program has more than 100,000 volunteers for over 10,000 miles...
Boulevard of the Allies road work begins Thursday night
A $7 million project to repairs parts of the battered Boulevard of the Allies will begin Thursday night and continue through early August, causing closed lanes overnight and in between rush hours. Work will start with single-lane restrictions on the Boulevard of the Allies from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m....
Study: Yearlong birth control supply would cut unintended pregnancies
Dispensing a year’s supply of birth control pills upfront would reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and health care costs associated with them, according to a new, joint study by University of Pittsburgh’s School of Medicine and the Department of Veterans Affairs. The researchers estimate offering a year’s supply of...
Record number of July 4 babies born at West Penn Hospital
Fourth of July fireworks came early for 40 Pittsburgh area families. The staff at West Penn Hospital delivered 40 babies in 36 hours — a West Penn Hospital record. One of the newborns belonged to KDKA-TV’s Pittsburgh Today Live host Heather Abraham, who appeared on live TV from the hospital...
Schenley Plaza hosting Women’s World Cup championship watch party
If you’re looking for a place to watch one of the biggest matches in U.S. Women’s Soccer history, head for Schenley Plaza in Oakland this Sunday. The City of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy are hosting a free watch party Sunday morning in Schenley Plaza for the FIFA Women’s...
How Wilkinsburg’s Henry Parham survived 68 days on Omaha Beach
It’s hard to say for sure if the 68 days that Private First Class Henry Parham spent on Omaha Beach in 1944 were the most challenging of his life. He grew up working on a Virginia farm in the segregated Jim Crow South during the 1920s and ‘30s. There were...
Peter Frampton bids heartfelt farewell to Pittsburgh
Farewell tours are all the rage in the pop music world these days as aging rock musicians try to squeeze every dollar they can from new audiences excited about their music, or old ones who have never tired of it. Kiss, The Who (both of whom played PPG Paints Arena...
Dept. of Health issues cease and desist order to medical marijuana grower
The Pennsylvania Department of Health has ordered a Greene County medical marijuana grower/processor to discontinue most of its operations after a surprise inspection found numerous violations. The state told AGRiMED Industries of Carmichaels to cease and desist harvesting, cutting or destroying marijuana plants without a department inspector present. During the...
LCB awards nearly $765,000 in grants to reduce underage drinking
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board approved almost $765,000 in grants to 44 schools, community organizations, municipalities and law enforcement organizations, among others, to reduce underage and dangerous drinking. The grant money will cover projects like enforcement patrols and tactics, awareness campaigns, educational efforts and alternative, alcohol-free activities. “Since 1999, the...
Astrobotic awarded $5.6 million by NASA to deliver moon rover
Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic Technology Inc. was selected Monday to develop an autonomous lunar rover with its partner, Carnegie Mellon University. The 13 kilogram autonomous rover, known as MoonRanger, is being developed to provide high fidelity 3-D maps of the moon’s surface in areas such as polar regions and lunar pits, according...
Eugene DePasquale makes run for Congress official
State Auditor General Eugene DePasquale is hoping to leverage his tenure as the state’s elected fiscal watchdog to make a run for U.S. Congress. DePasquale made the official announcement on social media Sunday after a week of reports that he had told Democratic Party leaders he planned to run for...
Church sex abuse scandal makes newly ordained priests want ‘to be holier’
David Egan is well aware of the stigma attached to priests in the wake of the Catholic Church child sex abuse scandal. “I assume that other people assume things about me, that they’re very suspicious of me now,” Egan said. “If you walk out in public with a collar on,...
More cars expected all week on Pennsylvania Turnpike for July 4 holiday
If you plan on taking the Pennsylvania Turnpike, you might want to allow some extra time to get to your July 4 destination. More than six million motorists are expected to travel the Turnpike from Friday, June 28 through Sunday, July 7, according to the Turnpike Commission. That’s an increase...
