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What’s Happening – Week of Aug. 17

CLOSURE The Peters Township Recreation Center will be closed Aug. 28 through Sept. 1 for floor resurfacing. The center will reopen Sept. 2. PT NEWCOMERS The Peters Township Newcomers and Neighbors Club will host a Ladies Night Out on Sept. 11 at Valleybrook Country Club. All women can ...

Stephen Walsh remembers his first paid day working at Bethel Bakery. It was Halloween 2009. He was a 14-year-old freshman at Bethel Park High School. He recalled not wanting to work at the bakery; after all, he had grown up in the business. “As soon as you could stand on a bucket, you ...

Bethel Bakery celebrates 70th anniversary

Sarah Knight of Upper St. Clair is the healthy living director at the Spencer YMCA in Bethel Park. So why was she eating an ice cream donut at 10 a.m. on Aug. 6 in front of Bethel Bakery with her daughter, Sylvia, and her client, Joan Horoho of Mt. Lebanon? “This is our training ...

National Night Out a hit in Bethel Park

BETHEL PARK – Good guys do dress in black, particularly those wearing police uniforms. Keegan Beemsterboer wants his daughter, Amelia, to understand that, so he regularly brings her to National Night Out, which is held the first Tuesday in August across the country. Established in 1984, ...

James and Taylor Smith stood under a 50-plus gallon blue bucket emblazoned with the Peters Township logo. They giggled when the water finally fell, soaking them completely. “It didn’t hurt at all,” James said to Taylor, who shivered because the hot and humid 90-degree days of July had ...

The Bethel Park Arts & Music Festival suffered no sophomore slump. In its second season, the event topped all attendance and participation records from its inaugural year. Despite sweltering heat, patrons of the arts, fans of all music genres and foodies flocked to the community center, ...