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As Angelina Luisi blew out the candles on her birthday cake, she jokingly said, “I don’t feel a day over 99.” On July 7, however, the Bethel Park resident turned 100. As Luisi watched fellow residents attempt to break a piñata during her birthday bash at Provincial Bethel Park, an ...

A group of Boyce Middle School students earned second place in the Fairchild Challenge at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. Sixth-graders Somi Valancius, Rebecca Zahalsky, Sara Alhajhusain, YuRui Lin, Sarah Staub, Kenzie Petrick, Brayden Wong, and Praachi Sreeram competed in the ...

USC flutist places first in competition

For the third year in a row, Arjun Kairi of Upper St. Clair, placed first in the Crescendo International Music Competition. A flutist, Kairi performed Jan. 20 at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Kairi, 12, first began his flute studies at The Pittsburgh Music Academy at ...

Bernstein named Coca-Cola Regional Finalist

Upper St. Clair High School senior Isaac Bernstein has been named a regional finalist in the 2024 Coca-Cola Scholars Program. He is one of only three in the Pittsburgh area, 15 in Pennsylvania and 250 in the nation to move to the next round of the selection process. “This is a huge ...

Five teens named to prestigious JA list

Junior Achievement of Western Pennsylvania recently introduced its 18 Under Eighteen class of 2024, which includes two students from Washington County as well as three students from the South Fayette School District. They are among those honored for being some of the region’s most incredible ...

While his grandson waits for a new heart, Tom Franzak will put on a charity concert to benefit other children in need of organ transplants.Franzak, of Bethel Park, is the director of music ministries for St. Benedict the Abbot Church in Peters Township. The concert is in honor of his 2-year-old ...