Bethel Park hosts another successful National Night Out
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 ...
Harry Blichfeldt of Bethel Park, just like Johnny Cash’s legendary song, has been everywhere, man. Almost. “I haven’t been to Alaska nor Yosemite,” he said. The state and the national park are on the bucket list of Blichfeldt. A nature photographer for 34 years, Blichfeldt was ...
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 ...
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. ...
The 2026 high school football season gets underway with two of the WPIAL’s storied programs butting helmets in the Battle of the South Hills when Upper St. Clair hosts Mt. Lebanon at 7 p.m. Aug. 28. “This is a great way to start the season,” said USC skipper Mike Junko. “Both towns ...
South Fayette football is going back to the future to regain its rank in athletics at the high school. Since winning back-to-back state championships in 2013 and 2014 and a WPIAL title in 2018, the program has become stagnant. Since the turn of the decade, the Lions have enjoyed only one ...
The No. 2 pencil will be the most valuable piece of equipment in the Peters Township tool box this football season. “I threw the pens out,” said TJ Plack, who enters his 11th year as Indians head coach. “There are no pens in the office. We’re going to be doing a lot of ...
South Fayette football is going back to the future to regain its rank in athletics at the high school. Since winning back-to-back state championships in 2013 and 2014 and a WPIAL title in 2018, the program has become stagnant. Since the turn of the decade, the Lions have enjoyed only one ...
Second-best doesn’t play well at Upper St. Clair. So after years of almost, the Panthers are prepared to finish this football season. “Expectations here never change,” said Mike Junko, who enters his eighth season as USC head coach. “Challenge for a conference title and find a way to ...
