Penn Hills Progress category, Page 85
Expected snowfall prompts Penn Hills School District to move online Tuesday
Penn Hills School District will shift to remote learning Tuesday because of forecasted snowfall. The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh has called for 2 to 4 inches of snow in the area Tuesday. A winter weather advisory in the region runs from 1 a.m. Tuesday to 7 a.m. Wednesday. The...
Eastern area real estate transactions for the week of Nov. 29
Churchill Matthew Sass sold property at 2407 Collins Road to Laura Fusco for $166,000. Edgewood Brendan Kelley sold property at 318 Locust St. to Matthew Suffoletto and Kathleen McGinnis for $647,500. Forest Hills Glasgow Assoc. sold property at 257-259 Avenue B to Joshua Vincent Loccisano for $130,000. Glasgow Assoc. sold...
Penn Hills boys maintain high expectations under new head coach
Even with a new voice leading the Penn Hills boys basketball program, the mission is still the same — win a WPIAL championship. Chris Giles takes over for Dan DeRose as Penn Hills’ new boys basketball coach. Penn Hills hired Giles on June 29 after DeRose accepted the head coaching...
Girls basketball preview: Penn Hills has experienced roster, playoff aspirations
With an experienced roster returning, the Penn Hills girls basketball team will look to make a deep run into the playoffs this season. The Indians, who finished 12-13 overall with an 8-5 section record last season, return four starters, including senior guards Amoni Blackwell, Jasmyn Golden and Jayla Golden. Blackwell...
1 injured in Penn Hills crash when 3 vehicles collide
At least one person was injured in a crash in Penn Hills on Saturday evening. Allegheny County dispatch said three vehicles collided along Verona Road near Sandy Creek Road around 7:43 p.m. Police and EMS were treating at least one person at the scene for injuries. It was unclear if...
Forbes Road tech students build unorthodox snowmen for inaugural contest
How many different ways can you build a snowman? Students at Forbes Road Career and Technology Center have pushed the envelope on what defines a snowman in the school’s inaugural “Snowman Snow Down” competition. Each program’s students had the opportunity to compete in the schoolwide contest for the most Facebook...
Penn Hills School District forms committee to address possible mascot, nickname change
A committee has been formed to discuss the future of the Penn Hills School District’s Indian mascot. The school board approved its members Nov. 24. They include Class of 2020 student school board representatives Faith Crawford and Cassidy Byrnes; elementary parent Lauren Javens; high school counselor Amy Alexander; high school...
Penn Hills School District halts plans to have more students in school 4 days a week
Plans to have more Penn Hills School District students attend in-person classes four days a week have been halted due to rising covid-19 cases. Students in first through 12th grade will instead remain in the hybrid model through the end of the year. Educational options will be reexamined in January....
Penn Hills School Board vice president has resigned, letters of interest accepted
Penn Hills School Board Vice President Yusef Thompson Sr. has resigned. The board accepted his resignation Tuesday night. President Erin Vecchio thanked the first-term Democrat for his service to the district. “He’ll be missed, and good luck to him,” Vecchio said. Board member Rob Marra said Thompson was an active...
DUI, ID theft cases among those recently handled in Judge DeLuca’s Penn Hills court
Penn Hills District Judge Anthony L. DeLuca handled the following cases recently. Defendants will have court dates set in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court. Charges were filed by Penn Hills police unless otherwise noted: Waived preliminary hearings • Bonny Miller, 24, of Bethel Park on charges of driving under the...
DUI, drug cases among those recently handled in Judge DeLuca’s Penn Hills court
Penn Hills District Judge Anthony L. DeLuca handled the following cases recently. Defendants will have court dates set in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court. Charges were filed by Penn Hills police. Waived preliminary hearings • Mario Fiori, 23, of Verona on charges of driving under the influence, obstruction of highways...
Eastern area real estate transactions for the week of Nov. 22
Chalfant Sumedha Misra sold property at 145 Lynnwood Ave. to Jeniece Ward for $199,000. Shane Pollick sold property at 141 Wilkins Ave. to Anthony Parham for $100,000. Churchill Anthony Fallica sold property at 3791 W. Rural Court to Julio and Diana Mariscal for $169,150. Delmont Samuel Cararini sold property at...
Pro baseball dreams carry Penn Hills catcher to Maine
Penn Hills senior catcher Josh Zambito has dreams of playing baseball professionally. Zambito took a step towards that goal by deciding where he was going to play collegiate baseball. After a tiring virtual recruitment process, Zambito signed his letter of intent Nov. 11 to play baseball at Maine. Zambito, who...
Penn Hills’ A’Lysa Sledge signs on with UMass Lowell
A’Lysa Sledge has known for months where she wanted to play basketball at the collegiate level. The Penn Hills senior made it official Nov. 13 when she signed a national letter of intent to attend UMass Lowell next season. The 5-foot-11 standout was mulling an offer from Niagara and also...
Week in Review: Top stories from the Penn Hills area for the week of Nov. 16Video
Here’s a quick look into the news that happened in Penn Hills and Verona from Nov. 16 to 20. • A Penn Hills Council meeting was hijacked by callers spewing racial slurs and vulgarity on Nov. 16. The municipality’s IT director had to kick off more than five callers in...
Fox Chapel’s Adam Rosenberg pleads not guilty to killing Christian Moore-Rouse in preliminary hearing
A Fox Chapel man accused of killing a Verona man will stand trial after pleading not guilty in a preliminary hearing Friday at Pittsburgh Municipal Court. Adam Rosenberg, 22, was charged in May with criminal homicide, robbery, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence in connection to the killing...
Penn Hills meeting hijacked briefly by callers using racial slurs, profanity
Multiple people who have yet to be identified hijacked a virtual Penn Hills Council meeting Monday, interjecting loudly with racial slurs and profanity. The comments came at a point in the meeting when Scott Andrejchak, the municipality’s manager, began presenting to council and the public his proposed budget for 2021....
Verona officials advertise 2021 budget, no tax increase included
Verona officials hope to hold the line on real estate taxes in next year’s budget. Council unanimously voted earlier this month to advertise its 2021 spending plan, which maintains the current tax rate at 7.8 mills. The borough has not raised real estate taxes in at least 10 years. Borough...
Judge rules no merit to claims that dead twin brother was Jeannette shooter
The appeal of a Penn Hills man serving life in prison for a murder he claims was committed by his dead twin brother was rejected Tuesday by a Westmoreland County judge. Common Pleas Court Judge Meagan Bilik-DeFazio, in an 11-page decision, called the appeal from Darrelle Tolbert-McGhee “without merit” and...
Penn Hills holds first public hearing on 2021 budget
It looks like no changes are coming to Penn Hills’ proposed spending plan for 2021 after the municipality held its first public hearing Nov. 16. The proposed budget was published on the municipality’s website Oct. 29. Manager Scott Andrejchak kicked off the hearing, which was held virtually, by presenting the...
News briefs: Penn Hills woman killed in crash along McKees Rocks Bridge
A Penn Hills woman was killed in a Nov. 7 vehicle crash on the McKees Rocks Bridge, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner. The victim is Egypt Mariam White, 19. County police are investigating the accident, which happened about 3:30 p.m. White was taken to Allegheny General Hospital where...
Eastern area real estate transactions for the week of Nov. 15
Chalfant John Byron sold property at 250 Elizabeth Ave. to Megan Barker for $181,000. Irwin Jesse Neal sold property at 409 Sixth St. to Allison Karissa Glazar for $122,500. Manor William Hearn sold property at 1235 First St. to Westmoreland Co. Land Bank for $1,840. Katie Oliver sold property at...
Verona officials add new vehicle, 3 officers to its police department, cameras to come
Verona officials recently hired three part-time officers and added a new vehicle to the police department. The additions bring the borough force to three full-timers, including Chief Ron McLemore, and six part-time officers. “They’re good assets to this department,” McLemore said. “We’re excited to have them.” The new hires include...
Redeemer Lutheran runners finish cross country season strong
Redeemer Lutheran’s cross country team was hoping to finish strong with the runners who qualified for the WPIAL meet in late October. That’s exactly what happened as three competitors placed in the top 100 of the girls and boys races. Senior Charis Carroll finished in 41st place with a time...
Penn Hills senior living facility residents enjoy own version of ‘The Masters’
As golfers teed off Thursday to begin the days-long Masters tournament in Georgia, a senior living facility in Penn Hills held their own version. The 30 residents at Allegheny Place participated in the facility’s inaugural “The Masters at Allegheny Place” to compete for donated prizes and enjoy a change of...
