Thursday basketball rundown: Blackhawk girls extend section streak to 41 with victory over Beaver; Baldwin boys rally late to beat South Allegheny
The last team to hand Blackhawk a section loss had an opportunity to end the Cougars’ long section win streak Thursday. But, as usual, Blackhawk added another check in the win column. Aubree Hupp scored 19 points, and Blackhawk ran its section win streak to 41 games, beating visiting Beaver, 52-31, in Class 4A Section…
Pa. Supreme Court won’t hear Post-Gazette’s appeal to stop striking workers from picketing South Side facility
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in a case in which the company attempted to bar striking union workers from picketing at a South Side newspaper distribution facility. The order leaves in place a July ruling from the state Superior Court denying the Post-Gazette a permanent…
Smithfield Street church in Downtown Pittsburgh looking for community partners to save building
The leadership at a century-old Downtown church is working with a local architect to find partners to help keep the congregation in the building amid rising costs. Smithfield United Church of Christ’s congregation is facing decades of deferred repairs, estimated to cost over $10 million, without the budget to afford it. Rob Pfaffmann, a Pittsburgh architect…
Bottlerocket rewinds to the 1990s with an In Bed by 10 dance party Saturday
Matthew Buchholz came of age in the 1990s. So he has a special outfit ready for this Saturday’s In Bed by Ten Primetime ’90s Party at Bottlerocket Social Hall in Pittsburgh’s Allentown neighborhood. The only hint the dance party’s creator will give about that costume, which is to be based on a TV show from…
‘Beautiful sad tapestry’ of stories could bring hope in wake of derailment, attorney says
Most of the women who gathered in the second floor of the Best Western hotel lobby in Columbiana, Ohio, last week were mothers. One shook her head and said talking about what happened to her children made her angry. She sat on a couch and flipped through cellphone pictures of a raging fire — at…
Auberle’s $1.5 million YouthBuild grant will change lives through training programs that lead to jobs
Abby Wolensky and her Auberle Employment Institute team will long remember a story one of its participants told during a visit by then-U.S. Sen. Bob Casey and other local officials reviewing the Environmental Protection Agency’s Brownfields Job Training sites in the region. He said because of Auberle’s training and help, he secured a job and…
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Home away from home: Bethel Park product Olivia Westphal finding success from 3-point range in second season at Eastern Michigan
The first time around, Sahar Nusseibeh narrowly missed her opportunity. Then an assistant coach at Miami of Ohio, Nusseibeh was part of one of 15 NCAA Division I programs to offer Bethel Park standout guard Olivia Westphal a full scholarship during a sensational 2020 junior season, which saw her Black Hawks finish as WPIAL runners-up…
PUP boys basketball notebook: Moore is better — Deer Lakes’ Nate Moore, who has Division II offers in two sports, makes big strides, hopes to lead Lancers to third straight WPIAL title
Deer Lakes has been playing with a “masked man” the past few weeks. Senior Nate Moore has worn a clear plastic mask on his face the past six games after undergoing nasal surgery to repair the broken nose he sustained in a Dec. 20 game against Burrell. “We joked that he should be wearing a…
PUP girls basketball notebook: Unbeaten Penn-Trafford embracing team-first philosophy in quest for second WPIAL title under longtime coach John Giannikas
Penn-Trafford has had plenty of productive players come and go over the past two decades, but the Warriors haven’t always been blessed with an abundance of all-star talent. Still, longtime coach John Giannikas always seems to find a way to get the most out of his players — and this season is no different for Penn-Trafford.…
Nazareth Prep’s Tanya Garner, one of the few women to coach a WPIAL boys basketball team, could become the second to guide their team to a WPIAL championship this season
No woman had ever coached a team to a WPIAL boys basketball championship until Carol Gelet did it at Clairton in 1997 and again in 1998. Tanya Garner remembers it well. Garner grew up right down the road in West Mifflin and began her coaching career as an assistant with the West Mifflin girls in…
Tuesday basketball rundown: Montour edges Moon in OT; Allderdice tops Obama to move into City League lead; Avonworth’s Rowan Carmichael scores 44
Montour coach Bill Minear had a message for his players prior to Tuesday’s showdown with Moon. “I said, ‘They’re the defending WPIAL champions. They’ve been to where we want to get. To beat them on their home court, this is going to be a big test for you guys,’” Minear recalled. Consider the test passed.…
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One a senior and the other a freshman, siblings Owen and Bella Dumbroski putting up big numbers for Serra Catholic basketball teams
Being siblings, Owen and Bella Dumbroski have a lot in common. That’s not to say there aren’t differences, though, one of the most glaring being their personalities. “Owen is very quiet and soft-spoken. Bella is dancing while I’m teaching plays, having a good time. She’s very extroverted,” Serra Catholic girls basketball coach Mike Voit said…
Transportation Secretary Buttigieg nears end to his post where he started
Ten days from the end of his term as U.S. secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg spent a thoughtful and reflective day in Pittsburgh Friday that he dubbed “boats, trains, planes and automobiles.” The Pittsburgh visit was the latest in a series of trips Buttigieg has made across the country in the past few weeks as…
‘It’s ridiculous and it’s dismissive’: Phipps Conservatory food service workers face unclear future after change in contractor
Growing up in Pittsburgh, Jason McCray remembers looking forward to going to Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens every year with his family to see the impressive plant arrangements and the massive model train display. So he said he was excited when he got a job as a server, cashier and barista at Phipps last spring through…
