Monroeville Times Express category, Page 40
7 candidates seek 5 Gateway School Board seats
Editor’s note: A version of this story ran Oct. 26 with incomplete information. Two Democrats, Donna Burns and incumbent Susan DeLaney, and two Republicans, George Lapcevich and Kelly Matrazzo, and are on the ballot for Gateway School Board in the Nov. 7 election. In addition, incumbents John M. Bova, John...
Monroeville Public Library hosts calligraphy exhibit
People with a penchant for penmanship may think that taking a couple of classes will make them calligraphers. “Then once they try it, they realize, wow. This is going to take a bit more work,” Calligraphy Guild Pittsburgh member Debbie Seman said. She is co-chairing the guild’s exhibit in the...
Youngsters from Monroeville school contribute to greenway reforestation
A group of Moss Side Middle School students learned firsthand that Johnny Appleseed may have faced a tough time back in the day. “I was talking with one girl and she told me, ‘I never planted a tree before. It’s more complicated than I thought it would be,’” Lindsay Dill...
Proposed Monroeville budget holds tax line
Despite an anticipated 2.4% increase in expenditures, Monroeville’s proposed 2024 general fund budget maintains a real estate tax rate of 4 mills. If council adopts the final budget as proposed, the owner of a property valued at $110,600 — the municipal median, according to Allegheny County — will continue to...
In brief: Monroeville budget hearings, veterans honored, week of Oct. 23, 2023
Monroeville budget hearings set Public hearings for Monroeville’s 2024 proposed budget are scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Oct. 26 and Nov. 2 in council chambers at the municipal building, 2700 Monroeville Blvd. The final budget is subject to council approval. To view the proposed budget, visit www.monroeville.pa.us/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=66. Trick-or-treat times Monroeville Halloween...
Gateway notebook: Gators to cap regular season against Central Catholic
Gateway’s football team is winless in four nonconference games in 2023 and will cap the regular season with another nonconference matchup against Class 6A power Central Catholic on Friday at Antimarino Stadium. But where it has counted in the race for a spot in the WPIAL Class 5A playoffs, the...
With 10 starters returning, Gateway girls soccer looks toward promising future
The Gateway girls soccer team finished eight points out of a playoff spot in Section 3-3A. The Gators ended up 3-8-1 in the section. However, looking within the record, coach Caleb Kyper noted the strong and competitive play from his team throughout the season, especially in a couple of games...
East suburban real estate transactions, week of Oct. 22, 2023
Edgewood John Cresswell sold property at 144 Washington St. to Ryan Prendergast and Robert Ramirez for $540,000. Forest Hills Central Penn Capital Management LLC sold property at 1010 Braddock Road to Heather Fries and Catherine Jane Lachman for $300,000. Matthew Stein sold property at 1265 Brinton Road to Ian Glasgow...
Pitcairn Council candidates focus on revitalization
Pitcairn voters will choose council member for three 4-year terms and one 2-year term in November’s general election, and the candidates’ focus was largely on revitalizing the Turtle Creek Valley borough. Former councilman George Burkhardt, 66, will go up against a fellow Democrat in William Kornrumph, who earned a spot...
In harmony: Members of religious choirs join voices for performance of ‘Jubilate Deo’Video
On a Sunday night in September, beautiful music filled the empty church. A group of singers had gathered. They came from several local choirs for one common reason: to share their voices in song inside St. Maurice Church of St. Joseph the Worker Parish in Forest Hills, which encompasses the...
Opponents in 2 wards square off for Monroeville Council
Voters in Monroeville will cast their ballots for three open seats on the municipal council in the general election, and candidates are focused primarily on public safety concerns and keeping the town a vibrant place for business. The municipality is split into wards. In Ward 2, Democratic candidate and incumbent...
Monroeville church hosts pumpkin sales to help fund youth retreat
Each year, church leaders at Monroeville United Methodist Church send about 15 members of their youth group to “Current,” a religious retreat organized by the Western Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church. And this year, community members can help raise money to send them while picking their Halloween pumpkins...
Patton’s Pickers seeks volunteers to help clean Monroeville roadsides
Stacie Murrer couldn’t believe it when she heard that the Monroeville Rotary Club regularly does trash pickup along Mosside Boulevard between Route 22 and MacBeth Drive. “They deserve a lot more recognition for that,” she said. To do her part, Murrer is organizing Patton’s Pickers, a group that will continue...
In brief: Concerts, Halloween events and more in Monroeville, week of Oct. 16, 2023
Monroeville Arts concerts scheduled The Monroeville Arts Council Concert Series continues with a performance by the Pittsburgh Belairs on Oct. 22. Larry Cervi’s East End Kids will perform Dec. 3. Concerts are from 4 to 6 p.m. in the CCAC Boyce Campus auditorium, 595 Beatty Road, and are presented by...
Gateway’s Kefimba Cisse sets sights on returning to PIAA championships
Kefimba Cisse likes to run at White Oak Park. The Gateway senior won the Class 3A boys division at the 45-team Bald Eagle Invitational there Oct. 7 with a time of 16 minutes, 14.11 seconds. He was fourth overall with three boys from Class 2A and Class A schools as...
Gateway hockey off to strong start, hopes to make jump to varsity next season
Justin Evans is no stranger to the Gateway hockey program. He started coaching with the developmental team (ages 8-10) a half-decade ago and then served as the middle school coach for two years before moving up the JV team as an assistant through last year under former head coach Shawn...
Pittsburgh eastern suburban real estate transactions for the week of Oct. 15, 2023
Churchill Rhonda Miller sold property at 12 Garden Ter to Katherine Anne Kefalos for $160,000. Edgewood Clarence Paul Enterprises LLC sold property at 323 Coal St. to 325 Coal St. LLC for $25,000. Susan McBride sold property at 128 Lincoln Ave. to Christopher Scott for $396,000. Aarika Taylor Turpin sold...
Bruising McKeesport running back Spell spells trouble for Gateway
McKeesport fullback Keith Spell was losing steam on a 79-yard touchdown run, so the senior turned, stiff-armed the nearest tackler to the ground and continued into the end zone. That pretty much summed up McKeesport’s offense Friday night as the Tigers’ running backs bullied their way to a 38-28 victory...
Ohio man faces human trafficking charges after 2 women, teen found in Monroeville motel
An Ohio man is accused of keeping two women and a teen captive in a Monroeville motel for at least four months and forcing them to work as prostitutes. Donte LaShawen Cole, 38, of Euclid, Ohio, was charged Thursday with 19 felonies — eight counts of human trafficking, six counts...
Gateway High School to host performances with Violins of Hope
Violins rescued from the Holocaust will be played by Gateway High School students. The performance is one of more than 50 happening throughout the region as part of Violins of Hope, a collection of more than 100 string instruments that have been rescued and restored by violin makers Amnon and...
Late North Huntingdon truck racer ‘would give you the shirt off his back’
On Fridays or Saturdays, Ronnie Ruggiero would tow his 1977 Ford F-150 with him to work, at Bob Tyke’s Auto Service in Monroeville, and as soon as the day was done, he’d head off to race it. The F-150 wasn’t just any truck — it belonged to Ruggiero’s father, who...
Swissvale therapist accused of having sexual relationship with teen ordered to stand trial
A Pittsburgh-area therapist was ordered Wednesday to stand trial on charges accusing her of having a yearslong sexual relationship with a boy starting when he was 14, but three of the most serious charges against her were thrown out. Rachel Witkowski, 42, of Swissvale, waived her preliminary hearing Wednesday in...
Monroeville area happenings, week of Oct. 9, 2023
PSO concert at Gateway A Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is scheduled for 7 p.m. Oct. 17 at Gateway High School, 3000 Gateway Campus Blvd., Monroeville. Symphony musicians are collaborating with high school students for the performance, which includes Sergei Prokofiev’s Suite from “Romeo and Juliet,” George Gershwin’s “Walking the Dog” from...
Gateway notebook: Boys soccer edges Franklin Regional; Cisse takes 3rd at section meet
The Gateway boys soccer team needed almost the full 80 minutes, but a late penalty-kick goal from junior midfielder James LoCoco was the difference as the Gators topped Section 4-3A power Franklin Regional on Oct. 3 at home. The 3-2 victory avenged a 1-0 loss to the Panthers from Sept....
While awaiting head coach, Gateway baseball team prepares for ’24 season
The process to hire a new varsity baseball coach at Gateway continues this month, but the program’s players, under the direction of several assistants from last spring, haven’t stopped gathering for workouts and fall games to stay sharp and on the same page with the 2024 season on their minds....
