Monday, February 18, 2013
'It's an awesome district. I knew this was the place where I wanted to be and spend my career.' - Peter Wagner Jr.
Peter Wagner Jr. became the newest head coach of the Baldwin High School football program on Wednesday night, and if the Baldwin-Whitehall School Board's vote on his hiring is any indication, Wagner will—rightly or wrongly—have something to prove. Three board members voted against hiring Wagner—six voted for him—and that was after B-W School District administration recommended somebody else for the job. Coincidentally enough, that somebody else is somebody whom Wagner is very familiar with—Greg Perry, who was the head coach at Seton-La Salle Catholic High School in Mt. Lebanon for the past eight seasons and an assistant coach at Seton-La Salle for the 11 seasons prior to that, including the entirety of Wagner's high school playing career. …
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Baldwin High School
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
School board chooses Wagner by a 6-3 vote after rejecting Seton-La Salle Coach Greg Perry, 5-4.
Peter Wagner Jr. is the newest head coach of the Baldwin High School football program, the Baldwin-Whitehall School Board decided by a 6-3 vote on Wednesday night. Wagner, the dean of students at Baldwin High, has served as the assistant head coach and offensive coordinator for the high school's varsity team for the past two seasons. He has been an overall assistant in the program for the past four seasons. School board member Tracy Macek motioned for Wagner to be the new head coach after board member George L. Pry's motion to hire Greg Perry failed by a 5-4 vote. (Pry was acting on a recommendation made by B-W School District administration.) Voting for Perry were Nancy Lee Crowder, Nancy Sciulli DiNardo, Pry and Martin Michael Schmotzer…
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Baldwin-Whitehall School District Office
4900 Curry Rd, Pittsburgh, PA
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Monday, April 2, 2012
The two men compete on April 24 to fill the eight months left in Chelsa Wagner's 22nd District term.
22nd House District Special Election Pennsylvania's 22nd House District has been without a representative since mid-January when former Rep. Chelsa Wagner resigned from her seat to focus on being the newly elected controller of Allegheny County. That will change on April 24, though, when Republican Chris Cratsley and Democrat Martin Michael Schmotzer compete in a special election to fill the remainder of Wagner's term, which expires on Dec. 31. At the same time, voters will also choose—during a primary election on April 24—who will represent the major political parties during November's general election in a race to fill that 22nd District seat for two years, starting on Jan. 1. Cratsley is the only Republican in either race, but fellow …
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
And more notes from a March 6 board of commissioners meeting.
Sewage Rate Rises About $5 Per Month By a unanimous vote, the Baldwin Township Board of Commissioners decided on Tuesday night to raise the sewage rate in the township by $1 per every 1,000 gallons used—from $4.50 to $5.50. The reason for the increase, Commissioner Nick Pellegrino said, is to help fund pending repairs to be made to the McNeilly Road sewage system, though which Baldwin Township, Dormont Borough, Mt. Lebanon and Pittsburgh residents send sewage. Baldwin sewage accounts for the smallest part of the McNeilly system, Baldwin Township Manager Mary McGinley said, and thus, the township will be the least financially responsible for the repairs of the four municipalities. Nevertheless, the repairs will be costly enough that the …
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Baldwin Township Municipal Building (Administrative Offices)
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Saturday, March 3, 2012
The Lady Lancers' postseason run ends in Bethel Park.
Sometimes, it is the size of the dog in the fight. Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Roman Catholic School's varsity girls basketball team played like a squad that wasn't ready to say goodbye to its four eighth-graders on Friday night, but St. Thomas More School used the inside scoring and stifling defense of 6-foot-2-inch center Becca Turney to end Saint Elizabeth's season anyway. Becca finished with 17 points, and the Lancers, of Baldwin Borough, fell, 41-31, at St. Thomas More in the second round of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh's 2012 Class A playoffs. Rebounds and blocked shots numbers weren't available, but Becca may have recorded double figures in all three categories, as Saint E's was sent away from the paint nearly every time…
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St. Thomas More School
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
'I want Baldwin to be good at everything.' - Mike Voelker, dean of students, Harrison Middle School
Just call him "The Hammer." While his friends growing up may have known him as "The Bull," Mike Voelker is now the hammer of discipline at Baldwin-Whitehall's J.E. Harrison Middle School. That's Dean of Students to be exact. Voelker, who can best be described as having purple-and-white blood in his veins, became J.E. Harrison's dean in October 2010, and so far, he's loved every minute of it. While it's not the disciplining of students that Voelker particularly loves, it is something that he's good at—and has experience in. Prior to returning to the Baldwin-Whitehall School District—he's a 2001 Baldwin High School graduate—he worked in the nearby Brentwood Borough School District, specializing in monitoring the in-school suspension room at…
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J.E. Harrison Middle School
129 Windvale Dr, Pittsburgh, PA
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Saturday, November 19, 2011
An estimated 200 people from refugee and immigrant families gathered at The Whitehall Church on East Willock.
An annual Thanksgiving celebration organized by South Hills Interfaith Ministries (SHIM) fed about 50 happy people at its first run in 2006. On Thursday night, that number grew to about 200 people, and that's only because The Whitehall Church auditorium couldn't hold anymore. Originally organized to celebrate both Thanksgiving and the announcement that SHIM was opening the Prospect Park Family Center in early 2007, SHIM's annual November dinner has grown to where it took two full bus trips to bring refugee and immigrant families from Whitehall Borough's Wallace (Prospect) Park area to The Whitehall Church on East Willock Road on Thursday. Volunteers from Duquesne University, the University of Pittsburgh, Seton-La Salle Catholic High School…
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The Whitehall Church
4935 E Willock Rd, Pittsburgh, PA
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Fighting Highlander
4:42 pm on Thursday, March 7, 2013
I heard rumors that the varsity staff had a meeting last week. It is a mix of some new coaches and some old coaches and the players already have their schedules for the entire summer. more ›