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Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff, dies at 88
After seeing big lead evaporate, Penn-Trafford girls find extra gear to top Latrobe
With Latrobe fast on their bumper and their 18-point lead shaved to one, the Penn-Trafford girls basketball team did the only thing they could to quell the situation in the third quarter: They got mad. “Coach Chuck (Fontana) always talks about us being relentless,” Lady Warriors guard Torrie DeStefano said....
Trib HSSN girls basketball team of the week for Jan. 19, 2025 
Trib HSSN girls basketball team of the week – Penn-Trafford Warriors Coach – John Giannikas (19th season) Record – 15-0 overall, 7-0 in Section 2-5A #Earned – Heading into the final three weeks of the regular season, Penn-Trafford is one of three WPIAL girls basketball teams that have yet to...
Penn-Trafford notebook: Cam Kiste’s hat trick leads Warriors to win against Norwin
Cam Kiste scored three goals and Robert Thatcher had two, and first-place Penn-Trafford rallied to defeat rival Norwin, 9-2, in PIHL Class 2A action Jan. 14. Penn-Trafford (12-2-1-1) is on top of the standings with 39 points. Latrobe (12-2-0-1) has played two less games and has 36 points while Fox...
Penn-Trafford’s Brayden Stone makes quick adjustment to position switch
When the Penn-Trafford boys basketball season tipped off, head coach Doug Kelly’s plan was to play senior Brayden Stone at shooting guard. But an injury to Tyler Boss delayed that plan. Stone, a three-year starter, continued to be the Warriors’ point guard for the first month and a half of...
Pittsburgh eastern suburban real estate transactions for the week of Jan. 19, 2025
ALLEGHENY COUNTY Churchill Bart Biamonte sold property at 1067 Black Forest Drive to Carroll and Kimberly Wynne for $265,706. Danielle Diane Stoken sold property at 2310 Marbury Road to Keith and Karen Ortiz for $450,955. Forest Hills Richard Friberg sold property at 244 Berkley Ave. to Hillsfre Partners LLC for...
Penn-Trafford boys beat Franklin Regional for 1st back-to-back wins of season
Coach Doug Kelly has been waiting for his team to go on a run. Maybe this is the start of something big for the Penn-Trafford boys basketball team. Brayden Stone scored 20 points, including the first 10 of the game, and Penn-Trafford completed a season sweep of its series with...
Workout class, spaghetti dinner slated to support Penn Township mom diagnosed with breast cancer
When Justine Holmes has a tough day raising her 8-month-old daughter, Bella Jo, she looks to the example of her cousin-in-law, Stefanie Cortazzo. Cortazzo of Penn Township is a stay-at-home mom to five boys, ranging from ages 3 to 16. She’s never missed one of their sporting events, Holmes said...
Franklin Regional wrestling downs short-handed Penn-Trafford, sets up showdown with Norwin
The wrestling showdown for seeding in the WPIAL team tournament and the Section 9-3A title is set after No. 2 Franklin Regional took care of business Wednesday. The Panthers just had too many weapons for undermanned rival Penn-Trafford and rolled to a 43-22 victory on senior night. The victory sets...
Penn-Trafford’s Dylan Barrett wrestling with a purpose as he chases a championship
Penn-Trafford junior Dylan Barrett was not pleased with his performance at the 58th Powerade Tournament in December. He went 2-2 and did not place. He lost to Wyoming Seminary’s Wyatt Spencer (3-2, tiebreaker) and St. Francis’ (N.Y.) Cullen Edwards, 7-1. His wins were against Connellsville’s Zach Franks (8-6) and Bergen...
Penn-Trafford notebook: Hockey team puts together winning streak
Coming out of the holiday break, Penn-Trafford’s hockey team put together a three-game winning streak. The Warriors defeated Baldwin, 6-1, on Jan. 2, and held on for a 7-6 victory in overtime against Canon-McMillan on Jan. 7. The first-place Warriors are 11-2-1-1 and sit six points ahead of Latrobe in...
Eastern Pittsburgh suburban real estate transactions for the week of Jan. 12, 2025
ALLEGHENY COUNTY Edgewood George Pettrone sold property at 111 Harlow St. to Alex Clyde Bates for $290,000. Forest Hills Jin Xiu Yang sold property at 417 Braddock Road to James Alm Jr. for $50,000. Estate of Charles Caputo sold property at 122 Cherry Valley Road to Russell John Lawryk and...
Tamburitzans alumni sponsor ‘Legacy’ show in Monroeville
Traditional folk dance and music from a variety of Old and New World cultures comes to Monroeville in the new Tamburitzans show, “Legacy.” For the second year in a row, the event is being sponsored by Erin and Frank Bozicevic – both Tamburitzans and Duquesne University alumni. The show begins...
No. 4 Norwin wrestling rallies to defeat rival Penn-Trafford, stay unbeaten
It is not the way Norwin wrestling coach Kyle Martin wanted his team to start the match Wednesday against rival Penn-Trafford. But he was pleased with the way they finished. The No. 4-ranked Knights (12-0, 2-0) lost the first four matches in the Section 9-3A first-place showdown but rallied for...
Snow doesn’t mean postponements for W.Pa. school districts, although some still opt to cancel
Before snow started to fall Sunday night, many Western Pennsylvania school districts made the decision to cancel Monday’s classes or shift to remote instruction. Districts opting to use a flexible instruction day asked students to use computers to complete schoolwork from home. Students in districts that canceled classes enjoyed what...
‘I just like the nature of it’: Bushy Run volunteer of the year says of site
Melissa Fligger looks fondly on her childhood days spent walking Bushy Run Battlefield’s 218 acres of woods, trails and open fields. She and her father often took the two-minute walk from their Penn Township home to the state historical site of the 1763 clash between the British and Native Americans...
Level Green’s Brandon Svoboda helps United States win IIHF World Junior championship 
Forward Brandon Svoboda, a native of Level Green, scored a goal for the United States in a 4-3 overtime victory against Finland in the championship game of the International Ice Hockey Federation’s (IIHF) World Championship tournament at the Canadian Tire Center in Ottawa. This marked the first time in program...
East suburban real estate transactions, week of Jan. 5, 2025
ALLEGHENY COUNTY Churchill Martha Mazerov sold property at 128 Thornberry Drive to Maximilian and Daniella Staudacher for $315,000. Michael Rucker sold property at 1632 Jamestown Pl to FES Property LLC for $274,900. Edgewood Georgianne Arnold sold property at 121 W Hutchinson Ave. to Bret Sheeley and Carmen Claesson for $426,000....
Pa. environmental board to review Penn Twp. fracking gas well permit renewals
Nearly a year-and-a-half after an environmental nonprofit appealed the Department of Environmental Protection’s renewal of permits for two Penn Township gas wells, the case will be reviewed by the state Environmental Hearing Board. Environmental advocacy organization Protect PT, based along Route 130 in Penn Township, appealed permit renewals for unconventional...
‘Lockerbie’ TV series draws criticism from families of plane crash victims
Families of those killed when a bomb destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, are pushing back against a television drama series about the terrorist attack. That includes Glenn Johnson of Hempfield whose daughter, Beth Ann, a senior at Seton Hill University, was on her way home from a...
School district telethons raise more than $200K for charities
Telethons at three Pittsburgh-area school districts raised more than $200,000 for charities this Christmas season. Make-A-Wish was the beneficiary of Plum School District’s long-running telethon and a newer one organized by Penn-Trafford. Penn-Trafford raised about $67,400, while Plum collected about $53,700, according to their teacher organizers. Fox Chapel raised $90,228...
Police, coroner say weekend deaths of Manor couple was murder-suicide
A husband and wife died Sunday evening in a murder-suicide in Manor, police said. The wife, Theresa Day, 51, was found dead inside her Frederick Drive residence around 6:20 p.m. as a result of a gunshot wound and her husband, Jeffrey Day, 62, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, said...
Level Green’s Brandon Svoboda named to United States’ roster for IIHF World Junior Championship
San Jose Sharks forward prospect Brandon Svoboda, a native of Level Green, was named to the United States roster for the upcoming International Ice Hockey Federation’s World Junior Championship tournament, which begins later this month. USA Hockey announced the roster via a release Thursday. A total of 25 players were...
‘Nothing more than a traffic jam’: Penn Township residents dread interchange, loss of quiet community
Anita Lipinski has lived in her Four Seasons Lane home in Penn Township all 55 years of her life. Growing up, Lipinski remembers there was only one other home on the street — now a quiet sanctuary for a handful of homeowners. Woods that separate her narrow, gravel road from...
Community rallies around Penn-Trafford junior diagnosed with leukemia
Nicole Cianciotti had driven only about 4½ miles from UPMC Children’s East when she got the call that her son Braeden’s left lung collapsed. The 17-year-old Penn-Trafford junior — Nicole’s oldest of six children — sat next to her in the passenger seat Nov. 22, seemingly unaware of the battle...
Former state trooper charged with stealing from Home Depot stores
A former state trooper was arrested Friday on police accusations that he stole $2,000 worth of merchandise from two Home Depot stores. Investigators said John Robert Tamewitz, 59, of Penn Township removed stickers from online orders he picked up in-store, put the stickers on other merchandise and took the items...


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