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Patrick Varine | Tribune-Review Patrick Varine | Tribune-Review Patrick Varine | Tribune-Review   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Export officials spent a good portion of the past year updating the borough’s playground, off of Roosevelt Avenue, and want to keep that momentum going as spring approaches. “We’ve cut the (dead) trees down, we did the basketball court, and now we need to fix that fence,�...

Editor’s note: Neighbor Spotlight is a monthly feature that aims to let our readers learn more about the people in their communities who are working to make them a better place. If you would like to nominate someone as a Neighbor Spotlight, email Neighborhood News Network editor Katie Green at kgreen@triblive.com The local Rotary Club was an easy fit for John Hartman. “I’m a retired chief of police, so public service was front and center my entire career,” said Hartman, 66, of Penn Tow...

Wednesday, March 3, 2021 2:32 p.m. | Wednesday, March 3, 2021 2:32 p.m. One of two Franklin Regional National Science Bowl teams took the top spot at a regional competition in February, and will compete for a national title. The team is, from the left, Darius Colangelo, Atharva Mayekar, Max Wang, Urvish Jain and Praneel Varshney. Courtesy of Franklin Regional School District Darius Colangelo, Max Wang, Praneel Varshney, Prerit Yadav, and Urvish Jain pose for a photo following their third-place...

Patrick Varine | Tribune-Review Franklin Regional students Maria Mento, Paige Klinger and Ethan Leicht rehearse for the spring production of “Into the Woods” on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. Patrick Varine | Tribune-Review Franklin Regional Senior High School students rehearse for the spring production of “Into the Woods” on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. Patrick Varine | Tribune-Review Franklin Regional Senior High School students rehearse for the spring production of “Into the Woods” on...

ABC’s “Shark Tank” will swim back to Murrysville to check in with FlexScreen, the window screen company that earned a deal with “shark” Lori Greiner during an early 2020 appearance on the show. Greiner initially offered FlexScreen owner Joe Altieri $800,000, with half in cash and half as a credit

AP Photo/John Locher FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2021, file photo, empty vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are seen at a vaccination center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in Las Vegas. The makers of COVID-19 vaccines are figuring out how to tweak their recipes against worrisome virus mutations — if and when the shots need an update.   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. The coronavirus vaccine...

Submitted by Fight CRC Lynne Ireland-Knight of Bethel Park holds up a photo of her son, Jordan, who was diagnosed with late-stage cancer at age 29. Ireland-Knight will be one of the featured ambassadors in Fight Colorectal Cancer’s “No Excuses” campaign, which kicks off this month. Submitted by Fight CRC Lynne Ireland-Knight of Bethel Park will be one of the featured ambassadors in Fight Colorectal Cancer’s “No Excuses” campaign, which kicks off the month.   TribLIVEs Daily and W...

Submitted photo/Ken Serfass Ken Serfass of Gettysburg tours the country portraying Civil War Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in historical presentations. Patrick Varine | Tribune-Review Patrick Varine | Tribune-Review Chief Master Sgt. John Haigh of Murrysville talks with attendees prior to his presentation at the Manor American Legion on Wednesday, June 12, 2019.   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. The Murrysvi...

Patrick Varine | Tribune-Review The 814 area code, one of only four original untouched Pennsylvania area codes, is finally reaching its limit for phone numbers, according to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Most of Western Pennsylvania has had to dial 10 digits to make a phone call for quite some time now. In the greater Pittsburgh area, the 724 area code wasn’t...

Tribune-Review   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. When Edinboro University senior Sam Bohen graduates in May, he’ll bring a wealth of knowledge, lifelong friendships and $40,000 in student debt. “Many students are working our way through college by spending our days in class and our nights on the job so that we can afford rent and books,” Bohen said. “We do all of that hard work and still graduate $40...