Brentwood’s annual Fourth of July Celebration will happen this year – but the form it will take is still up in the air. “We will not have a completely silent Fourth of July like we did last year,” said AJ Doyle, vice chairman of Brentwood’s Fourth of July Committee. Doyle
Joy Darden-Pipkins has been taking care of her godmother for around 20 years without being paid.
“It’s a labor of love,” she said, adding she is grateful to be married to a man who makes enough money to pay the bills and the mortgage.
Darden-Pipkins was one of around 30 people who gathered in the parking lot of the Penn Hills office of U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb, D-Mt. Lebanon, on Tuesday. The group gathered to thank Lamb for his support of raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. They also urged him to keep fighting by pressuring colleagues who do not support the change.
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St. Philip Catholic School in Crafton is scheduled to close as part of a merger, but a group of parents is determined to reverse Bishop David Zubik’s decision.
The Diocese of Pittsburgh announced in February the school would merge with St. Margaret of Scotland School in Green Tree and that the change would become effective at the start of the 2021-22 academic year. The St. Margaret site would host St. Philip school.
The Committee to Save St. Philip School, a group of around 10 to 12 parents and alumni, formally appealed Zubik’s decision on Feb. 22 and has been drumming up support through an online petition and in-person “mandate” signings, which, according to canon (church) law, are needed in order to proceed with the appeal through a procurator and an attorney.
Pittsburgh police have found a missing Homewood woman.
Police confirmed about 8:40 p.m. that she was located and safe.
Prior to being found, she was last seen Friday in Oakland.
Dillon Carr is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Dillon at 412-871-2325, dcarr@triblive.com or via Twitter .
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