Penn Hills Progress category, Page 9

The Penn Hills Charter School of Entrepreneurship was named one of America’s Healthiest Schools for the fifth consecutive year. The recognition is awarded by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a children’s health organization that celebrates schools’ dedication to supporting the health and well-being of students, staff and families. The...

Here are some of the latest news items from this morning: Thursday, Oct. 10: $5M scratch-off sold in Washington County A $5 million winning scratch-off ticket was sold at The Meadows Racetrack and Casino in North Strabane Township. The ticket, “MONOPOLY Own It All,” is a $50 game with prizes...

Gia Visto, the Italian restaurant in Penn Hills that closed under Allegheny County Health Department orders in August, has reopened after getting a permit and upgrading its kitchen. Owner Jill Varmecky characterized the permit situation as a mix-up. “I’ve always had a pleasant relationship with the Health Department all these...

A Penn Hills woman was ordered Monday to serve up to seven years in prison for her role in an 2022 incident at an East Huntingdon home that left one man injured. Kristen Marie Kruel, 28, pleaded guilty to lesser charges of theft, receiving stolen property and tampering with evidence...

Pop-up event at library seeks input on transit redesign project Pittsburgh Regional Transit is planning a pop-up public engagement session from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Oct. 11 at Penn Hills Library, 1037 Stotler Road, to collect feeback on its Bus Line Redesign project. On Sept. 30, PRT released an...

Saint Vincent sophomore Lucy Brayton was chosen as the PAC women’s golfer of the week at the end of last month. At the Grove City Invitational, Brayton, a 2022 Penn Hills graduate, finished second out of 70 competitors. She shot a 4-over par 76 at Grove City Country Club. Three...

Every year provides third-year Penn Hills football coach Charles Morris with the opportunity to make tweaks to benefit the program. This year, the Indians have been focused on helping young players on the offensive line make steady improvements. Morris said Penn Hills’ approach has changed and the focus is on...

ALLEGHENY COUNTY Forest Hills Blackprint Real Estate LLC sold property at 112 Batavia Road to Niloufar Alenjery and Cory Alexander Cwiak for $415,000. Paul Dafe Ogagan sold property at 515 Halsey Ave. to RAS 95 LLC for $210,000. Joseph Readel sold property at 121 Sumner Ave. to Home Indeed Realty...

At Penn Hills Library, 1037 Stotler Road, autumn and spooky season is in full swing with a variety of activities for visitors of all ages. Registration is required where noted, and seating is limited in some instances. For details, check out the library’s website at pennhillslibrary.org. CHILDREN • Nature’s Tricks...

Soil testing approved for Old William Penn Highway remediation Test Boring Services was awarded nearly $18,000 by Penn Hills Council on Sept. 16 to, as resident Greg Swatchick put it, “drill, baby drill” on Old William Penn Highway for soil samples ahead of a planned landslide remediation. Swatchick, along with...

Penn Hills Councilman Alan Waldron, with support from the local community development corporation, has taken another crack at building a one-stop app for residents to find news, events and businesses in the community. Dubbed Penn Hills Passport, the free app aggregates information from the web and packages it into various...

Penn Hills quarterback Jay’Mere Ellis never planned on shying away from his responsibilities. The Indians football program gives him plenty of challenges. “I knew what I was signing up for by playing on both sides of the ball,” Ellis said. “I came in with a different mindset. I wanted to...

Penn Hills girls soccer goalie Atheena Burnett put in a hard day’s work in the Indians’ 3-0 loss to Gateway on Sept. 23. Burnett made 40 stops to help keep her team in the game. Penn Hills is in the middle of a rough stretch of play. The Indians haven’t...

ALLEGHENY COUNTY Forest Hills Blackprint Real Estate LLC sold property at 112 Batavia Road to Niloufar Alenjery and Cory Alexander Cwiak for $415,000. Paul Dafe Ogagan sold property at 515 Halsey Ave. to RAS 95 LLC for $210,000. Joseph Readel sold property at 121 Sumner Ave. to Home Indeed Realty...

Six months ago, the state Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from a Verona woman attempting to sue the parents of her son’s killer after she claimed they concealed the murder weapon. The case, based on an unusual interpretation of Pennsylvania’s “Interference with Dead Bodies” tort, was scheduled for...

The Penn Hills all-class reunion picnic saw a “massive jump” in attendance this year, said Lee Adams, one of the event’s organizers. He said the fourth annual event welcomed around 176 walk-ins and had more than 100 presale tickets — resulting in more than 100 more attendees than previous years....

A Penn Hills man has been charged with indecent assault and other crimes in connection with an incident in Frick Park. Pittsburgh Public Safety spokeswoman Cara Cruz said Isaiah Rivers, 19, allegedly made inappropriate contact with a woman who was running along the park’s Tranquil Trail around 5:15 p.m. Sunday....

Animal Welfare Task Force taking shape As renewal looms in January for Penn Hills’ animal control contract, Mayor Pauline Calabrese and council are inviting residents to share their input. Twenty residents signed up to be a part of the Penn Hills Animal Welfare Task Force during the first open forum...

ALLEGHENY COUNTY Churchill Estate of Kevin Scott Burger sold property at 2162 Garrick Drive to Deutsche Bank Trust Co. Tr et al. for $200,000. Estate of Dale James Demor sold property at 2525 Greensburg Pike Unit 502 to Antanina Perricone for $289,750. Edgewood Amelia Lucisano sold property at 117 Linden...

The Penn Hills boys soccer team is searching for positives in every result this season. The Indians are rebuilding, and they are seeing turnover in the program from last year to this year. Penn Hills coach Kevin Truman was proud of how the Indians recently played against Norwin in Section...

The Penn Hills football team got plenty of reinforcements back on defense for its Northeast Conference opener against Fox Chapel. Following three straight close calls to start the season, playing a clean game and getting the band back together helped the Indians earn their first win of the season. Darrell...

The night ended much the way it started with the Penn Hills defense celebrating a stop. The Indians shut out Aliquippa for the first three quarters Friday night, built a three-touchdown lead and made a game-ending stand late in fourth to hand the Quips their first regular-season loss in three...

Aliquippa went to court to avoid a promotion to Class 5A football this fall, but the Quips still get a taste of that classification on Friday. Their opponent — Penn Hills — has three times as many students and maybe twice as many players. “That’s a great big difference,” Aliquippa...

Susan Thornton Lara has been a pet sitter for the past four years. Her German shepherd, Milachek, Mila for short, inspired the Penn Hills woman to change her career path during the pandemic. The pup was diagnosed with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, leading Thornton Lara’s family to take extra measures to...

When Gerald Horsley heard that his friend and fellow coach, Jeremy Dawson, needed a kidney, he wasted no time getting the word out. The two men coach together on the Penn Hills Girls Softball Association’s 15U team. Horsley, president of the association, said he found out about Dawson’s Stage 5...