I’ve never been one for resolutions. Any big goals I set in a fit of inspiration while waiting for the bedazzled ball to drop are swiftly abandoned come February.
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Adult recreation and sports leagues offer adults opportunities to stay healthy and active.
“Oh my,” Paul Telega thought when Joe David was assigned to be his lab partner as the two prepared for their careers in physical therapy. Both attended the University of Pittsburgh in the 1980s and eventually earned their doctorate degrees.
Around Pittsburgh, everyone’s commentary on the sport of curling is pretty much the same:
The Bethel Park Community Foundation held another successful fundraiser. Known as Bethel’s Bounty, the event featured more than 20 food and beverage vendors that offered savory samples to some 300 guests. Katie Hogue and John Carberry chaired the event, which board trustee Andy Amrhein emcee…
We’ve resurrected our annual holiday gift guide to make shopping a touch simpler, featuring products from local retailers. Unique and unexpected trinkets await. Might one land under your tree or wrapped in your hands this season?
Several Chinese restaurants in the South Hills will be open on Christmas Day.
From as far back as the 1849 short story “A Christmas Legend,” we’ve known Santa Claus’ marital status.
As a recent pet owner, I have a new member of the family to shop for this holiday season: my one-year-old rescue mutt, Theia. I could go on and on about how wonderful and adorable she is, but allow me to just leave it at that.
Get ready to break out your Santa hats, ugly sweaters, reindeer ties and, for Grateful Dead fans, Jerry Claus shirts.
Change is an inevitable fact of life and, as has been reported ad nauseam, the journalism business has seen its fair share of transformation.
The Pittsburgh Area Theatre Organ Society recreates the moviegoing and concert experience of yesteryear.
On any given Sunday – or Monday, Thursday or the occasional Saturday these days – you’ll be treated to the spectacle of National Football League officials taking earfuls from exasperated coaches.
The Bethel Park Community Foundation held another successful fundraiser. Known as Bethel’s Bounty, the event featured more than 20 food and beverage vendors that offered savory samples to some 300 guests. Katie Hogue and John Carberry chaired the event, which board trustee Andy Amrhein emcee…
We’ve resurrected our annual holiday gift guide to make shopping a touch simpler, featuring products from local retailers. Unique and unexpected trinkets await. Might one land under your tree or wrapped in your hands this season?
Several Chinese restaurants in the South Hills will be open on Christmas Day.
From as far back as the 1849 short story “A Christmas Legend,” we’ve known Santa Claus’ marital status.
As a recent pet owner, I have a new member of the family to shop for this holiday season: my one-year-old rescue mutt, Theia. I could go on and on about how wonderful and adorable she is, but allow me to just leave it at that.
Get ready to break out your Santa hats, ugly sweaters, reindeer ties and, for Grateful Dead fans, Jerry Claus shirts.
Change is an inevitable fact of life and, as has been reported ad nauseam, the journalism business has seen its fair share of transformation.
The Pittsburgh Area Theatre Organ Society recreates the moviegoing and concert experience of yesteryear.
On any given Sunday – or Monday, Thursday or the occasional Saturday these days – you’ll be treated to the spectacle of National Football League officials taking earfuls from exasperated coaches.
The summer concert series at South Park Amphitheater is a summer tradition for many South Hills residents.
In Bethel Park, the egg definitely came before the chicken.
Beauty can be in the eye of the creator as well as the beholder.
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh served as an apt venue for the Mt. Lebanon Junior Women’s Club 22nd annual gala, as the March event benefited an organization for youngsters and their families: East End-based Jeremiah’s Place, which represents Pittsburgh’s only crisis nursery.
Not all that long into a workout session led by a seriously fit instructor, I stop to ask a question.
Images Courtesy Carnegie Historical Society
Just like the water that migrates along Thoms Run and weaves its way into the mighty Chartiers Creek, immigrants looking for a better life flowed into the region with the hope of working in the bustling coal mining industry that popped up around the stream in the late 19th century.
South Hills Village is unique in that the border between two municipalities runs through it. Where is it?
The Crystalline Cave at Sterling Yoga and Wellness in Scott Township provides a venue for halotherapy.
Mt. Lebanon’s neighborhood commercial district along Route 19 continues to thrive after nine decades.
As the former editor of The Almanac newspaper and the editor of this magazine for the past several years, I’ve always struggled with where to draw the line when it comes to the boundaries of the South Hills. Sure, our distribution has to have limits – but do our stories? I thought it would b…
Year of the Earth Pig is celebrated with food, fun and dancing at the Senator John Heinz History Center.
Bethel Park’s history contains fascinating facts, but the South Parks shops are one curiosity worth exploring. Yes, that strip mall running along Library Road and featuring 21 retail stores and businesses is located in the municipality, not South Park or South Park Township.
In the holiday issue of South Hills Living’s sister publication, Mon Valley Magazine, I worked on a fun story where I asked the area’s prominent residents, as well as our readers, where they felt the geographical boundaries of the Mon Valley are. When we started the planning for this issue, …
You might not recognize Johno Prascak’s face, but you more than likely recognize some of his work – particularly if you watch KDKA or have been to Sarris Candies in Canonsburg (his art graces some boxes of delicious chocolate) within the last several years. Prascak was born in Munhall and gr…
WOMEN of Southwestern PA’s annual Symphony of Food: A Chef’s Showcase has become a signature charity event in Washington County. Each January, Bella Sera Event Venue hosts the women’s organization and its sellout crowd. “I never dreamed that this would happen,” says the organization’s founde…
Judé Ernest of Mt. Lebanon teaches the art of turning raw wool into felt artwork.
Pirates announcer Joe Block always wanted to live and raise his family in the South Hills.
Photos courtesy Bill Haberthur
Though she weighed in at less than three pounds at birth, Karen Fung Yee of Bethel Park has been living large. And at under 5 feet tall, she is a real dynamo. With her late husband, Fred, she is the mother of three children: two daughters, Michelle (Tim) and Jacqueline (Michael) and one son,…
Bethel Park Community Foundation’s annual fundraiser, Bethel’s Bounty, took place at the Crown Plaza Pittsburgh South and hosted more than 350 attendees. Guests came hungry, eager to sample bites from The Porch at Siena, Spoonwood Brewing Company, Hello Bistro, Rowdy BBQ, Tim Cassidy Caterin…
The Nutbrown family had three ideas on how to pay for college: The family could sell earthworms, breed chinchillas for their fur or grow Christmas trees.
Several young ballet dancers have visions of sugar plums dancing through their heads as soon as they slip on their first tutu or pair of tights.
Kids will take some creative measures to avoid piano lessons.
"Get your haggis right here! Chopped heart and lungs boiled in a wee sheep's stomach! Tastes as good as it sounds! Good for what ails ya!" – Groundskeeper Willie, "The Simpsons"
Following the completion of a second phase of renovations, the Mt. Lebanon History Center has reopened. The Historical Society of Mount Lebanon welcomed the public in September to see the improvements to the building’s main floor and check out the exhibit “Mt. Lebanon’s Fire Department: 100 …
There’s something incredibly nostalgic about the holiday season – no matter how old you are. Some think of big snows and aluminum trees decked with Shiny Brite Christmas ornaments. Others remember gleefully unwrapping Cabbage Patch Kids under real trees adorned with Hallmark Keepsake ornamen…
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