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Students in grades 1-12 in the North Hills School District will begin the new school year on Aug. 20; kindergartners wil...
08/04/2025

Students in grades 1-12 in the North Hills School District will begin the new school year on Aug. 20; kindergartners will start two days later.

With the students’ return comes an opportunity for the community to have a hand in their success.

Students in grades 1-12 in the North Hills School District will begin the new school year on Aug. 20; kindergartners will start two days later. With the students’ return comes an opportunity for the community to have a hand in their success. The school board announced a fundraising opportunity...

Happenings across the North Allegheny area
08/04/2025

Happenings across the North Allegheny area

Junior member sought for environmental committee McCandless is seeking applicants for a junior member of the Environmental Advisory Committee for the 2026-27 school year, from September/October through June. The position is open to high school juniors or seniors who live in the town. The junior memb...

Here are the North Hills real estate transactions for this week.
08/03/2025

Here are the North Hills real estate transactions for this week.

Frances Sheedy Bost sold property at 9904 Conestoga Court to Robert Raymond Rodriguez III and Kristy Lynn Rodriguez for $550,000.

North Allegheny wrestlers Evan Schomburg and Joey Synan traveled 1,100 miles to North Dakota last month, and there was o...
08/02/2025

North Allegheny wrestlers Evan Schomburg and Joey Synan traveled 1,100 miles to North Dakota last month, and there was one stop sign in front of them.

North Allegheny wrestlers Joey Synan (left) and Evan Schomburg display their coveted “stop sign” plaques after earning All-America honors.

The Pine Community Center is spreading the word that Leslie Basilone, one of its SilverSneakers instructors, has been na...
08/01/2025

The Pine Community Center is spreading the word that Leslie Basilone, one of its SilverSneakers instructors, has been named a finalist for the 2025 SilverSneakers Member of the Year Inspiration Award.

Basilone, 66, of Pine is among five finalists competing for the honor through votes from the public. The other finalists hail from Alabama, New York, Ohio and Virginia.

The Pine Community Center is spreading the word that Leslie Basilone, one of its SilverSneakers instructors, has been named a finalist for the 2025 SilverSneakers Member of the Year Inspiration Award. Basilone, 66, of Pine is among five finalists competing for the honor through votes from the public...

The 90-degree temperatures didn’t dampen the jolly for patrons of the Christmas in July Farmers Market on July 24 at The...
08/01/2025

The 90-degree temperatures didn’t dampen the jolly for patrons of the Christmas in July Farmers Market on July 24 at The Block Northway in Ross.

Food trucks, local artists, bakers and candymakers were setting the gift-buying course early — on a date alerting shoppers that Christmas Eve is a mere five months away.

The 90-degree temperatures didn’t dampen the jolly for patrons of the Christmas in July Farmers Market on July 24 at The Block Northway in Ross. Food trucks, local artists, bakers and candymakers were setting the gift-buying course early — on a date alerting shoppers that Christmas Eve i...

The 90-degree temperatures didn’t dampen the jolly for patrons of the Christmas in July Farmers Market on July 24 at The...
08/01/2025

The 90-degree temperatures didn’t dampen the jolly for patrons of the Christmas in July Farmers Market on July 24 at The Block Northway in Ross.

Food trucks, local artists, bakers and candymakers were setting the gift-buying course early — on a date alerting shoppers that Christmas Eve is a mere five months away.

The Funtastic Foam Parties station showers a group of kids with “snow” during the Christmas in July celebration July 24 at The Block Northway in Ross.

A band of Pittsburgh-area natives that Rolling Stone named one of 10 new artists to watch is coming home in August to he...
07/31/2025

A band of Pittsburgh-area natives that Rolling Stone named one of 10 new artists to watch is coming home in August to headline a long-running annual music festival benefiting multiple sclerosis research.

November Blue will be one of 4 groups performing at Music for MS at Corbriwood in West Deer.

November Blue performs during the 2024 Music for MS fundraiser at Corbriwood in West Deer. The band is returning to play at this year’s event Aug. 9.

A two-year process to update and reorganize Marshall’s land use regulations has come to an end.And the ordinances includ...
07/31/2025

A two-year process to update and reorganize Marshall’s land use regulations has come to an end.

And the ordinances include a provision that will allow for townhouses to be built where single-family homes have long stood on a stretch of busy Route 910.

Traffic on Route 910 passes Mingo Road (left) in Marshall. Township supervisors have approved regulations that could lead to townhouses being built in the area, but only if they are accessed from the intersection, which would reduce the number of driveways on Route 910.

With the original charges Northern Regional police filed on July 17, police said the men broke into Brush Creek Inn afte...
07/30/2025

With the original charges Northern Regional police filed on July 17, police said the men broke into Brush Creek Inn after it had closed early on May 12 and used hand tools to open five gaming machines, taking $24,252 in cash.

Two men accused of breaking into a Marshall bar and taking more than $24,000 from gaming machines each pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct charges Wednesday, July 30, according to court records. Patrick Adam O’Malley, 28, of Shaler and Ryan Joseph Stermon, 44, of Pine were each required to pa...

Deer continue to be problematic in the North Hills region.It’s such a problem that the McCandless Environmental Advisory...
07/28/2025

Deer continue to be problematic in the North Hills region.

It’s such a problem that the McCandless Environmental Advisory Committee read a public statement at the town’s June 9 council meeting about the need for stronger deer management.

Deer continue to be problematic in the North Hills region. It’s such a problem that the McCandless Environmental Advisory Committee read a public statement at the town’s June 9 council meeting about the need for stronger deer management. The growing McCandless deer overpopulation has exi...

After being forced to cancel last year’s National Night Out festivities because of storms, Franklin Park and McCandless ...
07/28/2025

After being forced to cancel last year’s National Night Out festivities because of storms, Franklin Park and McCandless police are hopeful Mother Nature will cooperate this year.

After being forced to cancel last year’s National Night Out festivities because of storms, Franklin Park and McCandless police are hopeful Mother Nature will cooperate this year. The history of National Night Out started in 1981 as a community-building event to promote police-community relatio...

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