Miles for Smiles achieved its goal, and then some.When Kristin and Dean Huibregtse organized the benefit 5K walk in memory of their son Bennett, they were expecting maybe 150 participants.“We had 245 people register,” Kristin said as she surveyed the crowd at Gilfillan Farm in Upper St. ...
The business may be called Girl Friday Cooking Co., but most of the action takes place on Monday.That’s when owner Gretchen McNary and her crew are busy preparing meals for delivery each Tuesday. And with more people than ever placing orders during the COVID-19 pandemic, a correspondingly ...
As a Zumba-instructing recent mother barely out of her 20s, Peters Township resident Jocelyn Blystone had little reason to suspect that what she found during a breast self-examination would be serious.Neither did her doctors.“I had to see three radiologists before I finally got a biopsy,” ...
With a bit of travel involved, Gina Esch discovered an adventure of behalf of her son.“We took Connor an hour from here, I think, and kind of had a life-changing day for our family,” the South Fayette Township resident said. “It’s something you take for granted, to be able to go on a ...
Jerome Bettis’ father was the chief electrical inspector for the city of Detroit for more than 30 years, and Bettis says he probably would have pursued a similar line of work if his gridiron prowess hadn’t pulled him in other directions.The former running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers ...
A proposal to toll the bridge on Interstate 79 at Bridgeville to help pay for repairs and improvements has largely been greeted with brickbats, and a plan approved by the Pennsylvania Senate this week would nix it entirely.The bridge, located a few miles from the border of Washington and ...
