Tony LaRussa stories, Page 72

An 8-year-old McCandless boy is putting his best foot forward to help needy people in developing countries by collecting new and gently worn shoes. Enzo Anticole came up with the idea while he and his mother Pamela Anticole began planning for a service trip to Ecuador in June with the...

Ross Township commissioners have awarded three contracts worth more than $750,000 to help repair and maintain the municipality’s sanitary sewer system. The board voted unanimously March 2 to approve a $287,870 contract to Soli Construction Inc. in Irwin, which was the lowest bid among six received for the work, according...

The company providing trash collection for Ross residents is asking township commissioners to ban glass from curbside recycling because it often contaminates other items that can be processed for reuse. In a letter to the township requesting the change in the contract, officials from Waste Management of Pennsylvania wrote that...

The North Allegheny School Board has approved changes in the middle school schedule next year designed to boost mathematics and improve the learning environment, according to school officials. Facing a three-week deadline before students must begin scheduling classes, the board voted 6-3 to move forward with the schedule changes even...

Members of the North Hills High School Jazz Band invited friends, family and neighbors to mark Leap Day on Feb. 29 with a Mardi Gras celebration. The event featured musical performances by the jazz band, activities for kids, a photo booth, basket raffles and refreshments, including a selection of “all-you-can-eat”...

The North Hills Genealogists’ March 16 program will feature two representatives from local universities who will discuss how to use school archives to search for family history. Julia Corrin, the Carnegie Mellon University archivist, and Molly Tighe, the archivist and public service librarian at Chatham University, will discuss how to...

The North Hills Arts Center is joining with the McCandless/Northern Allegheny Heritage Center for a show at the museum featuring a variety of pieces produced by local artists. The show, which opened Feb. 19 and runs through April 1, includes pottery, glass, watercolor, acrylics and oil paintings. Some of the...

North Allegheny Senior High School is set to perform its spring show “Titanic The Musical.” The tale chronicles the maiden voyage of the “unsinkable ship” on which more than 1,500 men, women and children lost their lives when the ocean liner struck an ice berg in the Atlantic on April...

The North Hills chapter of the National Society Daughters of American Revolution is always looking for opportunities to commemorate and celebrate significant moments in United States history. But marking those milestones doesn’t typically come by responding to a challenge. This year, the Kushkushkee Trail N.S.D.A.R. Chapter of the North Hills...

St. Brendan’s Episcopal Church is offering the following programs. • The Justice Ministry is gathering donations of gently used goods for shipment to needy people in Haiti. Requested items are sewing machines, lightweight clothing, bicycles, toothbrushes, toothpaste, toiletries and school supplies. Donations may be dropped off at the church. •...

The North Hills Arts Center is hosting a free art show opening from 7 to 9 p.m. March 14 that will benefit two local animal rescue organizations: HelloBully, which rescues pit bulls; and the PigsburghSquealers pig rescue group. Supporters of the animal rescue groups can donate at the opening or...

One person was taken to the hospital after a vehicle rolled over Thursday morning on McKnight Road, Ross Township police said. Northbound traffic had been detoured for a period after the incident, which was reported at around 11:30 a.m. in the 4700 block of the road. The crash occurred in...

Vincentian Academy in McCandless will close its doors after 88 years because of declining enrollment, school officials announced on Tuesday. Vincentian has suffered from financial hardships because of a dwindling number of students the past several years, said Sister Mary Elizabeth Miller, the provincial of the Western Province of the...

The North Hills School District will host a Town Hall meeting March 19 that will focus on the dangers teenagers face from vaping. The program, which runs from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in the North Hills Middle School auditorium, will feature a panel of experts from law enforcement and the...

The North Hills School District’s first use of a state program that lets kids work at home when school is cancelled because of weather or for other reasons was a success, according to a survey of district parents. The state Department of Education gave the district permission in November to...

Shaler police are warning residents about scammers posing as representatives from Amazon trying to collect payments. Police say several residents reported receiving calls and “official looking” emails asking them to make a payment to Amazon by buying eBay and Target gift cards and then providing them with the numbers, police...

Sealarks Women’s Group will meet at 1 p.m. March 11 at Memorial Park Church, 8800 Peebles Road, McCandless. There will be a program on hypnotherapy presented by Richard Bush. This group provides Christian fellowship and social activity for women alone – widowed, divorced or never married. All women alone are...

Retired Pittsburgh Steelers nose tackle Chris Hoke’s devotion to the Mormon faith was important enough for him to put his college football career at Brigham Young University on hold for two years so he could serve as a foreign missionary. That lifelong devotion, which began in earnest with a covenant...

Ross commissioners have put off a vote on whether to allow the second phase of North Side Catholic Cemetery’s expansion project to proceed so objectors can have more time to review the plans. The decision to delay voting on the site plan as well as a request to deviate from...

Ross Township’s Short Line Hollow Park is likely to remain closed until officials can come up with a plan to address the issues that forced the municipality to shut it down last fall. The township closed Short Line Hollow in October when it began dumping debris being excavated from the...

Ross Township’s three-year blitz to address complaints from residents about the poor condition of streets has allowed officials to spend more this year on improving the municipality’s stormwater management system. Ross commissioners on Monday awarded a nearly $1.54 million road paving contract to Shields Asphalt Paving Inc. Beginning in 2017,...

Changes in customer shopping habits and the increase in the number of 24-hour convenience stores offering items typically sold in supermarkets has prompted Giant Eagle to end around-the-clock operations at four stores, company officials said. The stores in Monroeville, McIntyre Square in Ross, Shaler and the city of Washington will...