Bethel Park Arts & Music Festival a crowd pleaser
Andy Amrhein is well known in Bethel Park because he has a hand in virtually everything happening throughout the municipality. The owner of Evey True Value Hardware and Rental Store on Library Road, he’s involved in Bethel Park’s Fantastic Four Charities, including the community and education foundations, historical society and public library. Yet nothing pleased him more than co-chairing the Bethel Park Arts and Music Festival for the third year in a row with Christine McIntosh. Amrhein beamed as he gazed over the Park Avenue Streetscape, which has become a destination spot on the final Saturday in July in Bethel Park for visitors from as near as Mt. Lebanon and as far away ...
The Keystone State has quietly become the biggest online casino market in the country. Here’s a look at why the numbers keep going up, what’s behind the surge and what all this means for folks in Washington County.Pennsylvania’s never been shy about gambling. From the slot floors at ...
The Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 received A's all around as the 85-year-old, 1.2-million-pound steam engine, hauling 25 cars, chugged into little Leetsdale during a whistle stop on July 11. The Ferry family from Bethel Park gave it a triple-A rating. Twelve-year-old Elizabeth and her ...
As a high school sophomore, Ishaan Sharma of Upper St. Clair became involved in a service project baking cupcakes for a local needs-based organization, SHIM. After the project was completed, he didn’t want to stop. Now entering his sophomore year at Georgia Tech, Ishaan, 19, and his ...
Ryan Robbins sat upon a stool barely capable of containing his girth as spectators took aim at a target connected to a contraption that once triggered by a direct hit would release ice water upon his 6-8, 280-pound frame. Though he is a Penn State University recruit, he subjected himself to ...
Colton Lusk’s focus on staying patient has started to pay off. In a major way. A 19-year-old Peters Township grad, Lusk hit his stride July 15 at Willowbrook Country Club, winning the 123rd WPGA Open Championship with a 10-under score of 206 for the three-round major championship. “It ...
The Colorado Rockies selected two catchers in back-to-back rounds of the MLB amateur draft held June 11-12 held in Philadelphia. “We think both of them have a chance to have long careers in the big leagues,” said Rockies general manager Paul DePodesta. That’s very good news for Jack ...
Even before the Wright Brothers lifted a plane off the ground at Kitty Hawk, the favorite form of aviation in America’s classrooms has been the humble paper airplane. But the paper airplane’s hegemony is facing some stiff headwinds from the drones that are zipping around our skies in ...
Ryan Robbins sat upon a stool barely capable of containing his girth as spectators took aim at a target connected to a contraption that once triggered by a direct hit would release ice water upon his 6-8, 280-pound frame. Though he is a Penn State University recruit, he subjected himself to ...
