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Young Gateway golfers look to make impact this season
Paul Doonan sees a youth movement with his Gateway boys golf team. There is just one senior, with two juniors, eight sophomores and five freshmen on the Gators roster. “We’re very young,” Doonan said. “We graduated four or five kids from last year’s team who really carried the load. I...
Monroeville Jazz Festival returns Sept. 4
Monroeville’s Jazz Festival is back to celebrate its 18th annual year of providing a day full of jazz, food and fun. The Monroeville Foundation will be hosting the festival Sept. 4 at Monroeville Community Park West. Gates open at 1 p.m. “The foundation is so pleased to have this year’s...
Gateway School District officials to continue with equity director search
An effort to postpone the hiring of an equity director for Gateway School District until after the November election has failed. School board vice president Valerie Warning had hoped to have the personnel move be decided by the next school board. Her resolution failed 4-5 with only Warning, John Ritter,...
Steel City Con draws 12,000 to Monroeville, some from outside the stateVideo
A gathering of pop culture celebrities, comic book enthusiasts and anime fans at the Monroeville Convention Center was an entertaining and sometimes frustrating experience for fans as well as a learning experience for promoters. About 12,000 people walked through the doors of 209 Mall Plaza Blvd. from Aug. 13-15. Chad...
Gateway students, staff to start school year with mask requirement
Gateway School District students will have to wear masks to start the school year. The mandate was passed in a 5-4 vote at a marathon school board meeting Aug. 17. Several families implored the board to make mask-wearing a recommendation and not a requirement. Board President Brian Goppman, Robin Mungo,...
Gateway gladly wears bull’s-eye in WPIAL Class 5A
On paper, Gateway certainly has the look of a WPIAL contender. The Gators added one of Pennsylvania’s top young quarterbacks in Brad Birch, return a Division I talent at wide receiver and safety in Patrick Body and carry a roster dotted with talent. But the team returns only four or...
District court: DUI, traffic violations handled by Monroeville District Judge Jeffrey Herbst on Aug. 9, 2021
Monroeville District Judge Jeffrey L. Herbst handled these cases Aug. 9. Defendants will have court dates set in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. Charges were filed by Monroeville police. Held for court • Terron Weatherspoon, 23, of Penn Hills on charges of fleeing or attempting to elude officer,...
2021 HSSN football position-by-position breakdown: Scouting the quarterbacks
Starting today, TribLive HSSN will break down the top players at one position per day until Week Zero. Here’s a look at the top quarterbacks for the 2021 season. 1. Brad Birch Gateway Sophomore, 6-2, 190 Birch already holds a college offer from Pac-12 school Oregon after a title-winning freshman...
In brief: LEGO Brick Fest, fellowship and more in Monroeville
LEGO Brick Fest The nation’s No. 1 LEGO event and largest touring fan-created LEGO show has reassembled. Brick Fest Live is holding its first show in 18 months with new exhibits and interactive stage shows Sept. 11-12 at Monroeville Convention Center. Show hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each...
Eastern area real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 15, 2021
Chalfant Barbara Faye Kaczor sold property at 148 Brighton St. to Mark Bailey and Emily Hilliard for $10,000. Donald Fulmer sold property at 221 Greenfield Ave. to Matthew Ian Lehet and Michelle Elizabeth Stepan for $138,500. Churchill Florence Palmieri sold property at 1445 Beulah Road to Hayward Arnold for $212,000....
Steel City Shakespeare Center hosting free outdoor performances of ‘Pericles’
It wasn’t long after the Steel City Shakespeare Center found a new home at the West View Hub that the coronavirus dropped the curtain on the theatrical troupe’s plans for live performances. But now that pandemic restrictions have been lifted, the show must go on. The group’s first live, in-person...
East Suburban Artists League prepares for annual CCAC Boyce show in Monroeville
UPDATE 8/13/21: CCAC has made the decision to cancel the ESAL show due to covid concerns. • • • Several decades ago when she was living in the Washington, D.C., area, artist Eileen Yeager took a printmaking class. It started her fascination with monotyping, a process by which a unique,...
Man ID’d in pedestrian-car crash in Monroeville
A Pitcairn man was identified as the victim of a pedestrian-vehicle accident Wednesday night in Monroeville. Thomas Risko, 32, was pronounced dead at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at an area hospital, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner said. Risko was struck just before 6 p.m. at the intersection of Broadway Boulevard and...
Monroeville Council comes to settlement agreement with ALCOSAN after violating contract for 27 years
A contract that never should have been entered into almost ended up costing Monroeville a huge sum of money. The issue goes back to an agreement that the municipality signed in 1994 that broke an exclusive contract signed with ALCOSAN nearly 40 years earlier. “The important thing to remember is...
Molting or mites? Seeking an explanation for ‘bald birds’
Lillian DeDomenic of Monroeville was snapping photos of birds in her backyard when one in particular caught her eye. At first, she wasn’t sure what it was. It had red body plumage, but its head was a deep gray, and as she looked closer, it didn’t appear to have any...
New cardio monitors a ‘lifesaver’ for Allegheny, Westmoreland EMS outfitsVideo
For an 18-year-old man who suffered a heart attack, the use of a new remote cardiac monitor/defibrillator by Plum first responders proved to be a lifesaver. EMS personnel were providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but the patient’s heart had stopped, said Brian Maloney, director of operations for Plum EMS. The patient was...
Police log: Drugs, firearms among charges filed by Monroeville police July 28 through Aug. 2, 2021
The following charges were filed July 28 through Aug. 2 with Monroeville District Judge Jeffrey L. Herbst. Charges were filed by Monroeville police: • Elijah Peppers, 25, of East Pittsburgh with receiving stolen property. Charges were filed July 31 in connection with an incident along the 4500 block of William...
Stream bank stabilization work closes Westmoreland Heritage Trail near TraffordVideo
It’s been a fairly dry summer in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Yet when the rain has come, it has tended to come as part of heavy storms dumping a lot of water all at once. Every time it has done so, Westmoreland Heritage Trail volunteers including Doug Webster would worry about the...
In brief: Household chemical collection, Healing Hearts & Minds, women’s meetings and more in Monroeville
Household chemical collection coming up The Pennsylvania Resources Council will host a household chemical collection event from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Aug. 14 at the Boyce Park Ski Lodge parking lot. The event will provide residents with an opportunity to safely and cost effectively dispose of common chemicals...
Letter to the editor: Hiring of full-time equity director’s position reeks of Gateway School Board members’ personal agendas
Attention taxpayers and families of the Gateway School District: Given the 3.6% tax increase, please attend the Aug. 10 and Aug. 17 school board meetings. Here’s why: Five of your school board members decided to vote against our school administrators’ recommendations and hire a full-time equity director at a starting...
Eastern area real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 8, 2021
Delmont Donald Urban sold property at 21 Heritage Court to Noelle Riley for $350,000. Edgewood Glenn Gates sold property at 101 Edgewood Ave. to Susan Barnett and Clarence Steiner for $100,000. Susan Mead sold property at 151 Gordon St. to Margaret Clugston and Timothy Martin Madle for $211,000. Export Estate...
Monroeville promoter plans amateur, pro boxing cards at Murrysville SportZone
Monroeville boxing promoter Derek Gionta had just put on a successful evening of fights in March 2020, and planned to continue cards in larger Pittsburgh-area venues. Then the covid-19 pandemic hit. Sports in general went by the wayside, to make no mention of a full-contact sport like boxing. “I stepped...
Letter to the editor: Gateway School Board makes wrong decision in move to hire administrative position
I am hoping folks will begin attending the Gateway School Board meetings starting on Aug. 10 and Aug. 17 at 7 p.m. Check with, or call, the administration office for the location, which can change. Did any of you get a tax bill recently with an increase? Our kids in...
Monroeville woman surprised with party for 100th birthday
Turning 100 feels no different for Monroeville resident Mary Jane Murphy, who reached the milestone Aug 1. Born in Scottdale in 1921, she attended schools in the area through eighth grade before moving to Charleroi and graduating from Charleroi High School in 1939. Murphy married in 1943 and had four...
Ibex to add 400 jobs at new customer-service center in Wilkins
Ibex, a national customer-service company with a longtime Pittsburgh operation, plans to open another center this fall in Wilkins, employing an additional 400 people. The company is building out a 33,000-square-foot facility in the Penn Center East office complex near Monroeville Mall, with a target opening date of Oct. 1....
