Here’s weekend roadwork to avoid (hint: Parkway East)
Work on three sections of the Parkway East highlight a busy weekend of ongoing roadwork and a couple of new projects. Here’s the rundown:
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PIAA softball quarterfinal rundown: Chartiers-Houston’s Meadow Ferri fires shutout, singles home game-winning run to set up WPIAL championship rematch with Neshannock in Class 2A
In a tremendous four-year career that already includes a handful of vintage performances, Chartiers-Houston senior Meadow Ferri may have outdone herself on Thursday afternoon. With Ferri and the Buccaneers locked in an epic pitchers’ duel against District 10 champion Seneca (21-2) and its sophomore standout Sophia Primavere, all signs pointed toward the team that scored…
PIAA baseball quarterfinal rundown: Zach Hare does it again, no-hits Mohawk to push postseason hitless streak to 31⅓ innings while powering Riverside into semifinals
It’s inevitable that Zach Hare will give up another hit in his baseball career, but considering the dominant streak he’s on now, it might be difficult to argue with someone suggesting otherwise. Hare held another team without a hit Thursday, tossing a no-hitter and striking out 13 to power WPIAL champion Riverside into the PIAA…
Striking journalists and the Post-Gazette meet for a rare bargaining session
In the first contract bargaining session since November 2024, during a strike that’s almost two years and eight months long, Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh journalists and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette got a bit closer on a few small things, but they’re still very, very far apart. The meeting started at about 10:15 a.m. Thursday in the…
Passionate advocates, elected officials rally in Harrisburg for more state transit funding
State Rep. Ben Waxman, D-Philadelphia, doesn’t have to look very far to see the importance of public transit in his Central City district. Studies have shown a higher percentage of workers in Waxman’s district use public transit to get to work than any other district in the state. That’s why Waxman told a transit rally…
Fox Chapel native, University Prep product Jack Kartsonas perseveres to make major impact as graduate student pitcher for West Virginia
Jack Kartsonas was optimistic about his chances. After all, the Fox Chapel native had just completed a successful three-season stint at Mid-American Conference Kent State upon entering the NCAA Division I transfer portal last summer. “The portal is crazy,” said Kartsonas, a 2019 University Prep graduate, who also played for two seasons at Vincentian Academy.…
Pittsburgh Union Progress journalist continues winning streak at Vann Media Awards
Just a week after scoring three Golden Quills and a best-in-show award from the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Union Progress’ Steve Mellon won another first place at Pittsburgh Black Media Federation’s Robert L. Vann Media Awards dinner Wednesday night at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Downtown. Mellon’s “Hightower’s unique pictures of…
‘The right light:’ Pittsburgh begins installing LED streetlights
With the flip of a switch Tuesday evening, Pittsburgh officials changed the view on one block of the Manchester neighborhood. At the end of a news conference on Pennsylvania Avenue, Mayor Ed Gainey called for the city’s new LED streetlights to be activated between Chateau and Fulton streets. The new bright lights were a visible…
City’s Freedom House EMT program ensures trainees succeed while easing service staffing shortages
When Pittsburgh Chief of Emergency Medical Services Amera Gilchrist assumed her position in May 2023 her staff included just 14 emergency medical technicians. Today she has 34, and the increase includes 15 Pittsburgh EMS Freedom House EMT Training Academy graduates. The new program started last year, and both cohorts had a 100% completion rate, according to…
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Protest movement’s ‘No Kings’ rally will ‘rebuke authoritarianism’ this Saturday in Downtown Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh will soon join the growing list of cities with large-scale protests against the Trump administration. The 50501 protest movement will hold a so-called “No Kings” rally and march from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the City-County Building in Downtown to rebuke what it deems “rising authoritarianism.” “People of all political stripes who oppose…
Pittsburgh Regional Transit holds final hearing Thursday on massive service cuts
Pittsburgh Regional Transit already has heard from more than 4,000 people about its proposed massive service cuts, but more than 80 more are scheduled to talk to the agency Thursday. The agency is holding its final public hearing on the service reductions — which would cut 35% of all service, eliminate 41 bus routes, provide…
Summer fun for all ages continues with added activities at city’s parks
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy has an expanded lineup of free and low-cost programs across the city’s parks this summer, from a reimagined Family Day series, outdoor concerts and pop-up beer gardens. The popular Kids Day series returns this year, starting this month. Reimagined as Family Days, the series is expanding into Riverview and Allegheny Commons parks in addition to its original…
