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Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff, dies at 88
Shaler Area students place in Scholastic Art Awards
Shaler Area recognized high school students who recently won awards for their submissions in the 2019 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, a national juried exhibition. High school art students competed against 1,700 submissions in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for the Pittsburgh region. The Scholastic Art Awards recognizes students...
Hampton grads earn victory at International Builders Show competition
A pair of Hampton graduates who attended A.W. Beattie Career Center were part of a team that recently won a national competition. Hanna Gibson and Nathan Tabon, who were in A.W. Beattie’s Carpentry/Building Construction programs, competed in the 2-year College Residential Construction Management Competition at the International Builders Show in...
Shaler Area gym rockin’ and rollin’ during bocce match
On Feb. 27, Shaler Area High School’s gymnasium was packed to watch a Unified Bocce match between students from Shaler Area and Moon Area High Schools. Each team is a combination of special education students and typical students who went toe-to-toe. The Shaler Area student body showed up in support...
Goetz Dembowski appointed to fill Millvale Council vacancy
Millvale Council appointed Katie Goetz Dembowski to fill a board vacancy prompted by councilman Jason Miller’s resignation due to his relocation to another municipality. Democrat Goetz Dembowski must run for re-election in November to carry out a four-year term starting in January 2020. Goetz Dembowski, 36, a Millvale native, has...
Shaler Area students selected for All-State Orchestra
Shaler Area High School senior Marissa Fukas has been selected into the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association’s All-State Orchestra. Fukas earned second chair in the viola section of the All-State Orchestra following the audition process for the ensemble. This year, Fukas also was selected for the PMEA Honors Orchestra, PMEA District...
Blessed Trinity Academy hosting social fundraiser
Blessed Trinity Academy in Glenshaw is hosting its largest fundraiser of the year March 9, with the Pot O’ Gold Bash. The event will be held 6 to 10 p.m. at St. Bonaventure Newmeyer Hall. Pre-sale tickets cost $35 or are $40 at the door and include dinner, beer, wine...
Hampton school board awarded
Thanks to a nomination by the superintendent, the school board at Hampton Township received the 2018-19 D. Richard Wynn School Board Award, presented by the Tri-State Area School Study Council of the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Michael Loughead, superintendent for Hampton Township School District, announced he wanted to make the...
Shaler Area student hosts animal shelter drive
For his 11th birthday, Shaler Area Elementary School fifth-grader Elijah Gillespie wants gifts for local shelter pets awaiting adoption. Elijah was spurred to organize the drive after viewing a national animal-rescue commercial. He is collecting items for Animal Friends in Ohio Township and the Beaver County Humane Society in Center...
Etna Winter Street Skate has become a favorite annual event
Etna’s Winter Street Skate has become a well-attended annual event as the borough puts up an ice skating rink in the middle of town, local establishments are open for business and the day is full of food, fun and festivities....
Photo Gallery: Etna’s Winter Street Skate
On a day when most people were talking about the region’s wind gusts that reached up to 61 mph, Etna was putting on a street party — complete with a free ice skating rink. “It was awesome,” Manager Mary Ellen Ramage said. “We had to batten down a lot of...
Hampton students explore black history
Black History was observed and celebrated this February among students and staff at Hampton Township School District, through books, music, art and even technology. Several educational projects and activities were held throughout the schools and different classes, including the libraries. For example, Beth Casey, library media specialist at Central Elementary,...
Shaler Area presents ‘Beauty and the Beast’
Shaler Area High School is presenting “a tale as old as time” during its musical “Beauty and the Beast” March 1 through 3, and 8 and 9. The 1994 Broadway musical is based on the 1991 Walt Disney Pictures animated classic. Shaler Area students will tell the story of a...
Three Shaler Area students selected for PMEA District Chorus
Three Shaler Area high school students advanced to the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association District Chorus. Sophomore Zoe Babbit and juniors Alex Almonte and Kelsey Marshall earned the opportunity to audition for the ensemble after being selected for the PMEA District 1 Chorus. They auditioned with 200 other talented vocalists. The...
Nation’s first female assistant police chief visiting Shaler library
The nation’s – and Pittsburgh’s – first female assistant police chief will discuss her career, memoir and documentary at 1 p.m. March 13 at Shaler North Hills Library. The law enforcement veteran will sign copies of her 2017 book “Therese Rocco: Pittsburgh’s First Female Assistant Police Chief” available for $20,...
Shaler Area Middle School student purchases candygrams for the entire school
Shaler Area Middle School eighth-grader Allison Ai has been planning this surprise for a year. During the week leading up to Valentine’s Day, the middle school student council sells candygrams — a Hershey’s kiss with a personal note attached — to be delivered on Valentine’s Day. After last year’s drive,...
Windmont public hearing in Hampton Township extended to March
Despite the approximately three hours of public testimony regarding a proposed Windmont Farms Preliminary Planned Residential Development in Hampton Township, council approved to extend the public hearing to March 13 to accommodate additional discussion. All seats were filled and other attendees had to stand in the hallway at the Feb....
A.W. Beattie open house Feb. 28
Any Hampton high school student and parent interested in learning more about career technology education can attend the A.W. Beattie Career Center Open House on Feb. 28. The event will be held from 5:15 to 8:15 p.m. at the school located on 9600 Babcock Blvd. in Allison Park, according to...
Shaler North Hills Library’s seventh annual Caddy Stacks mini-golf fundraiser a hit
The community spent the weekend “puttering” around Shaler North Hills Library as friends of the library created 18 holes of challenging golf with all proceeds benefitting library operations....
Etna Winter Street Skate slated for Feb. 24
Lace up your skates for outdoor merriment during the third annual free Etna Winter Street Skate from 4 to 9 p.m. Feb. 24. Etna is transforming Butler Street between High and Freeport Streets into a synthetic rink by renting a portable, 32-foot-by-40-foot rink from Wheeling, W.Va.-based All Year Sports Galaxy....
Valentine’s Day project at Poff Elementary shares kindness nationwide
A group of Hampton second- graders got to show the love to students at schools across the nation this past Valentine’s Day thanks to a new social media educational project led by their teacher. Marilyn Adams, a second-grade teacher at Poff Elementary, spearheaded an online Valentine’s Day project where her...
Fate of Millvale’s Wentz Hotel property is uncertain
Joseph Konzier, real estate developer and contractor, has asked Millvale Council to permit him to restore his late 1800s-era Wentz Hotel property, rather than to force its demolition. Konzier, of Upper St. Clair, purchased the vacant 701 Evergreen Road building four years ago, intending to renovate or demolish it. He...
Hampton woman starts rowing to join husband, daughter, discovers love for sport
Beth Bowman of Hampton is shining as a novice rower. Bowman, a member of the Pittsburgh Rowing Club in Robinson and the third member of her family to row, earned a bronze medal in the Lightweight Veteran Masters Women “A” 50-59 age group at the Pittsburgh Indoor Rowing Championship regatta...
Night at the Races benefits Etna
Giddy up for the Etna Economic Development Corp. (EEDC)’s Ninth Annual Run for the Cup: A Night at the Races on March 2 at Clarence Fugh Memorial Hall, 27 Crescent Ave., Etna. Doors will open for the 21-and-over event at 7:30 p.m., with races starting at 8 p.m. The evening...
Blessed Trinity Academy celebrates Catholic Schools Week
Blessed Trinity Academy students made the most of National Catholic Schools Week, despite frigid temperatures, prompting school officials to cancel school three days the week of Jan. 28. The Glenshaw students focused on service projects such as preparing 150 bagged lunches to feed those in need through the St. Mary...
Hampton volunteer opportunities open
Volunteers to serve on various boards within Hampton Township are now being sought. There is one position open on Environmental Advisory Council, an alternate for the Zoning Hearing Board and two for the Hampton Community Association. The only requirement needed to serve is to be a Hampton Township resident, said...


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