Paul Guggenheimer stories, Page 33

Students at Penn State may soon be saying goodbye to the term “sophomore slump” and hello to “second-year slump.” According to a report in Penn State’s student newspaper The Daily Collegian, Penn State’s Faculty Senate voted to remove gendered and binary terms from Penn State course and program descriptions. As...

Get those air conditioners ready. A warmup is expected to kick in with temperatures in the low-80s by Wednesday and the mid- to upper-80s by Friday. Seemingly gone for good are the below normal temperatures that brought frost potential earlier this month. “We’re coming off a period of cold weather...

Springdale High School baseball coach Brett Burger on Monday agreed in court to enter a batterer’s intervention program in exchange for dismissal of criminal charges connected to an April incident involving a woman. At a preliminary hearing before Harmar District Judge David Sosovicka, Burger’s attorney David Chontos said Burger has...

The City of Pittsburgh is getting its first all-electric bucket truck for its Forestry Division. It’s just one of nine new electric vehicles the city plans to buy with the help of a $160,000 state grant from the state Department of Environmental Protection’s Alternative Fuels Incentive Grants program (AFIG). In...

Springdale Council voted Thursday to fire Borough Manager Kimberly McAfoose. The move was approved in a 5-1 vote. Council President Jim Zurisko declined to comment on the decision or give a reason for the dismissal, other than to acknowledge McAfoose was “relieved of her duties.” She was an at-will employee...

Four Republicans and three Democrats are vying for two nominations in their respective party’s primary races for the Harmar Board of Supervisors. The board is made up of five supervisors who are elected to six-year terms. The primary is May 18. The GOP race features incumbent Robert Seibert, who was...

The Harmar supervisors have rehired a familiar face to become the new township manager. Anthony Rozzano got the job last Friday in a 3-1 vote. Supervisors Bob Exler, Linda Exler and Lee Biermeyer voted to hire Rozzano, while Supervisor Harry Lenhart voted against the hiring. Supervisor Bob Seibert did not...

Starting on Memorial Day, all Diocese of Pittsburgh churches will be allowed to have 100% seating capacity for Mass. Masks, however, still will be required in accordance with state orders. The announcement comes on the heels of Gov. Tom Wolf’s decision last week to lift covid-19 mitigation orders except for...

When people buy a copy of the Tribune-Review at a McDonald’s restaurant, they’re doing more than buying a newspaper. Since 2000, the Trib has donated 50% of the revenue from newspaper sales at the restaurants to Ronald McDonald House Charities of Pittsburgh and Morgantown. The money helps provide an enjoyable...

May showers bring May flowers? Yes they do. The steady rains the area has received in the early part of this month are setting records. The seven straight days of precipitation that fell in the Pittsburgh-area from May 3 through May 9 brought an unprecedented total of 2.32 inches of...

The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in Washington, Pa., has been a destination for trolley fans for decades. But now, the museum is embarking on construction of an imaginative expansion project for which over $14 million has been raised. Ground broke Thursday for the building of a new 21,000-square-foot Welcome and Education...

With more people using mobile apps to pay for parking, the Pittsburgh Parking Authority says it wants to make parking in the city more convenient. The Flowbird mobile app and the Meter Feeder app are being added to the Go Mobile PGH app as payment options for a total of...

Embattled Springdale High School baseball coach Brett Burger is still not coaching the team and may not be back before the conclusion of this season. Allegheny Valley School District Superintendent Patrick Graczyk confirmed Thursday that the district is still investigating an incident last month in which Burger was charged with...

A Pittsburgh man was arrested by Frazer police last Saturday for five separate thefts of Walmart items valued at about $2,500, according to Police Chief Terry Kuhns. Albert Swoope, 48, of Pittsburgh, was taken to Allegheny County Jail after failing to post $10,000 bond. He is charged with retail theft,...

The wait for a new Abraham Lincoln statue to return to its familiar perch in Wilkinsburg is almost over. Wilkinsburg Historical Society President Anne Elise Morris said that the new Lincoln statue will be erected in June at the intersection of Penn Avenue and Ardmore Boulevard. The newly sculpted, life-size...

Museums are generally known as places where historic objects are stored and displayed. But a new museum dedicated exclusively to space is as much about the future as it is the past. Space robotics company Astrobotic announced Tuesday it is opening the Moonshot Museum, which it says is Pennsylvania’s first...

Pirates fans who miss seeing Neil Walker on the baseball diamond can now catch him on the radio. Walker, a former Pirates infielder who recently retired as a player, is joining 93.7 The Fan’s (KDKA-FM) Morning Show as a weekly guest beginning May 10 at 9 a.m. “The Fan Morning...

Gun violence is on the rise in Pittsburgh and city officials are coming up with a variety of ways to combat it. Legislation being introduced to City Council Tuesday would accept a $200,000 grant from Everytown for Gun Safety, the largest gun violence prevention organization in the country, to support...

The May Day celebration, a tradition dating back some 90 years, was renewed at Springdale High School over the weekend. The event usually takes place inside the school but was held off campus last year at the Harmar House in Cheswick. “Unfortunately, we weren’t permitted to have much in the...

The “Reverse Parade” is coming back to Springdale. Officially known as the Senior Parade, it is scheduled for Tuesday, May 25 at 6 p.m. The rain date is the following evening. It’s hosted by the Springdale High School Alumni Association and Dynamo Education Foundation. An event borne out of the...