Penn Hills Progress category, Page 55
Penn Hills High School class of 2022 graduates
Sydelle Brown could not stop herself from dancing across the stage and waving to everyone after she received her Penn Hills High School diploma on June 10. She and about 240 other classmates strutted their stuff in the middle of the Yuhas-McGinley Stadium field. “I wanted to be lit for...
Man found shot dead in Penn Hills
A man was shot and killed in Penn Hills early Tuesday. Allegheny County Police said the shooting was reported in the 200 block of Crescent Pines Drive around 1:50 a.m. First responders found a man suffering from a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The...
Ashley DeVito built program, relationships during 7 seasons with Penn Hills girls soccer
Dayvona Hogan enjoyed being able to keep her eyes on the varsity girls soccer team’s practice while she played for the Linton Middle School team. Hogan would wait until practice ended and eagerly wander over to talk to varsity coach Ashley DeVito. There was a natural curiosity for Hogan, who...
Eastern Pittsburgh suburban real estate transactions for the week of June 12, 2022
Churchill Alexander Ducruet sold property at 100 Thornberry Drive to William and Caitlin Jenkins for $309,900. Monroeville Estate of William Ellis Wheat sold property at 1202 Bowling Green Drive to Daniel McGuiness and Pamela Beattie for $219,900. Gary Fedoronko sold property at 411 College Park Drive to Duke Lundahl for...
Letter to the editor: Fireworks violators should be charged
With July 4 just weeks away, we hope that Penn Hills gets the message out that serious violations of Pennsylvania’s fireworks law will not be tolerated and that fines up to $1,000 will be levied on adults or their unsupervised children who violate the law, in particular the fire hazard...
Penn Hills student news for the week of June 9, 2022
Cameron Griffin of Verona graduated from Thiel College on May 8. Griffin was an exercise science major. Luke Greenway, Suni Missouri, Adiana Nelson and Tim Warner graduated from Grove City College on May 14. Greenway, Nelson and Narrah Amorino, Emily Bauer, Julia Bauer and Jonathan Danley were all named to...
Plum’s Monday Market opens for 5th season
Plum’s Monday Market opened its fifth season with some familiar vendors — but a new time. Jim and Kay Bridge, the husband and wife team behind Bridge’s Farm in Plum, had their tables full of produce and other plants on June 6. Penn Hills-based Pappy’s Gourmet Popcorn, Oakmont Olive Oil...
New season of Verona Farmer’s Market begins
New vendors and opportunities helped mark Opening Day 2022 for the weekly Verona Farmer’s Market. People who visited the market along Railroad Avenue on June 2 were able to meet Jessica Fischoff of the Growing Hour, a plant business in Blackridge. She had pepper plants, flowers and more. Fischoff said...
Penn Hills School District to have increased police presence due to threat
Penn Hills School District will have increased police presence after receiving a social media threat. The district sent students an email Monday night alerting them about the message. The correspondence said the post referenced potential violence at Linton Middle School on Wednesday. Superintendent Nancy Hines said Penn Hills police officers...
Vandergrift police accuse woman of dealing drugs after cop says 5 ounces of pot found in SUV
Vandergrift police charged a woman with a felony drug dealing charge after, police said, they found more than 5 ounces of marijuana and a digital scale in her vehicle during a traffic stop. Mariah Shantel Hannay, 22, of Penn Hills was charged with a felony count of possession of drugs...
Penn Hills man gets state prison for fatal hit-and-run crash
A Penn Hills man who struck a pedestrian with a vehicle, killing him, will serve at least four years in prison. Surron Burch, 25, was ordered to serve four to eight years in prison followed by three years probation on Monday by Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Edward J. Borkowski....
Penn Hills ball hockey team wins national tournament
Hayden Ferra, Nate Morgan and Macin DeFazio were all on different dek ball hockey teams a year ago. When the three came together on the Penn Hills Arsenal Beaver Division team, there was little previous history tying the trio together. “I don’t know if Hayden and Macin knew each other,...
Angelo Allen wraps up decorated Penn Hills track career with pair of state medals
A 2012 trip to the Baltimore area solidified Angelo Allen’s feelings. The graduating Penn Hills thrower always enjoyed track and field. Setting a USATF 8-and-under record in the shot put cemented Allen’s thoughts that he might be good at it. But Allen’s 8.39-meter record throw in that event wouldn’t be...
Pittsburgh eastern suburban real estate transactions for the week of June 5, 2022
Edgewood Ronald George sold property at 520 Allenby Ave. to Valerie Jamison for $275,000. Forest Hills Aedan Tracy sold property at 642 Filmore Road to Clara Heath and Akshay Ramesh for $240,000. Monroeville Gerald Irwin Jr. sold property at 4225 First St. to Jeremy Fruchter for $155,000. Laurianne Essay sold...
In brief: Father’s Day Program, movies in the park and more around Penn Hills
Father’s Day Program From 11 a.m.-noon June 18, Penn Hills will host a Father’s Day Program in Universal Park. There will be wooden craft building and painting, as well as games. Admission is free and lunch will be provided, but registration is required. For more information or to register, call...
Allegheny County Volunteer Firemen’s Association convention coming to Oakmont, Verona
Verona and Oakmont residents should not be alarmed when seeing fire trucks from communities miles away motoring through town later this month. The 108th annual Allegheny County Volunteer Firefighter’s Association convention is set for June 11-18 with activities in both boroughs. Festivities begin with Night at the Races at the...
Penn Hills to spend more than $1 million on paving, largely through state grants
Penn Hills plans to spend about $1.2 million to pave 14 streets this year. Council recently awarded its paving program to Oakmont-based A. Folino Construction. Municipal manager Scott Andrejchak said the company was the lowest of three bidders. “Folino has completed similar work in Penn Hills previously, and the municipality...
Shady Side Academy students create ‘wax museum’ of famous figures
History came alive during Shady Side Academy Country Day School’s annual Second Grade Wax Museum. Second graders dressed in costume as a famous person and posed as their wax figure in front of a poster board exhibit. Visitors to the museum pushed a button at the exhibit to hear each...
Western Pennsylvania population continues to trickle downward
Municipalities across Southwestern Pennsylvania continued to lose populations between 2020 and 2021, estimates show, a continuation of a decadeslong slide felt across the region. Those trends were largely visible in Allegheny County, where Pittsburgh saw one of the biggest population declines across the state between July 2020 and July 2021,...
Kiera Mack among Penn Hills softball standouts honored for turnaround season
Kiera Mack helped set the standard for the Penn Hills softball team. During the preseason, Mack talked about her game still being a work in progress. Even when the Indians’ third baseman/outfielder acknowledged improvements made, she had more ideas for how things could get better. “I can always improve with...
Penn Hills notebook: Julian Dugger on college football recruiting radar
Penn Hills sophomore Julian Dugger is receiving plenty of attention on the college football recruiting scene. Dugger received an offer from the University of Massachusetts last week. He announced the offer on his Twitter feed. It has been a busy spring for Dugger, who also has offers from Toledo and...
Eastern Pittsburgh suburban real estate transactions for the week of May 29, 2022
Churchill Valerie Cooper sold property at 2512 Collins Road to Frank Slaughter for $222,000. John Robinson sold property at 315 Homer Drive to Alexander Carmody and Katelyn Larue Burns for $237,500. Keith Clark sold property at 3325 Longbow Drive to Corey Hoffman and Sierra Nannini for $366,000. Forest Hills Estate...
Former Penn Hills principal remembered for civic engagement, kind heart
For anyone in Penn Hills, the name Ed Hoover brings a flood of memories of a man who dedicated countless hours to bettering his community and leaving a lasting impression on those around him. Doug Rehberg, Hoover’s pastor and friend for 31 years, called him a legend. Helping people was...
Penn Hills father, daughter graduate together from Duquesne University
A Penn Hills father and daughter were able to celebrate a special occasion together at Duquesne University’s commencement. Arielle and Joshua Frederick both graduated from Duquesne on May 13 at the UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse. Joshua Frederick earned his second master’s degree in analytics and information management, and his daughter earned...
Man critically injured in Penn Hills shooting
A man was critically injured in a shooting Tuesday night in Penn Hills, according to police. The shooting in the 400 block of Hershey Road was reported to Allegheny County 911 dispatchers shortly before 11:30 p.m. First responders found a 34-year-old man who had been shot in the chest. He...
