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What’s Happening - Week of Aug. 2

FESTIVAL The South Hills Jewish Festival will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Aug. 2 at 1700 Bower Hill Rd. There will be a live concert with Chasidic singer Berel Faiden,cultural crafts, petting zoo, inflatables, magic show, Jewish book sale, lawn games. There will be kosher wine and food for sale. GARDEN CLUB The Giant Oaks Garden Club will meet Aug. 6 at St. David’s Episcopal Church located at 905 McMurray Rd. Lunch and meeting are held at 11:15 a.m. Program follows at 1 p.m. Master gardener Martha Swiss will discuss perennials. The luncheon fee is $6 for guests. Guests must register by calling 412-760-4221. NATURE WALK A nature walk for ages 55 and over will be held from 9 to ...

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 ...

Drone academy opens world of aviation to female high school students

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 ...

Bethel Park grad celebrates 50 years in public television

It took moving away for Rick Sebak to see Pittsburgh with fresh eyes. After graduating from Bethel Park High School in 1971, Sebak did what many other people did in those days – he shook off the soot and grime of what was then the still-industrial Steel City and lighted out to the Sun Belt. ...

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South Hills eliminated in Pony World Series

South Hills had high expectations for its second straight appearance in the Pony World Series but the East Zone champion saw an early exit from the tournament. The team of 13- and 14-year-old all-stars from Peters Township and surrounding communities, however, went two-and-out in the event ...

Peters Township hires Bethel Park’s Heuler as girls soccer coach

Rob Heuler of Bethel Park experienced an odd feeling when he recently attended a captain’s practice in his new capacity as Peters Township High School varsity girls soccer coach. “I walked into the stadium with different eyes,” he said. “I felt only open arms. It was awesome and ...

Belle Vernon’s Humbert hired as Bethel Park AD

Matt Humbert has been hired as the new athletic director at Bethel Park High School. He replaces Laura Grimm, who left Bethel Park in June to become the athletic director at Winchester Thurston School. Humbert comes to Bethel Park via Belle Vernon. He spent 11 years in a similar position at ...

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Drone academy opens world of aviation to female high school students

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 ...

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Upper St. Clair lineman tying up loose end before Penn State calls

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 ...

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