By Michael P. Mauer

Three West Mifflin Area School District students and a local educator were each awarded cash scholarships from Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 914 Intrepid and advanced to the next level of competition in this year’s Voice of Democracy and Patriot’s Pen contests during the unit’s monthly meeting at the Thompson Run Athletic Association November 15. Read more...

Venetia School will hold a 90th anniversary celebration. All former students, teachers, and support staff are invited to a drop-in reunion during Venetia Light Up Night on Friday, December 2 from 6:30-8:30 p.m.

A quarter auction fundraiser to benefit the American Cancer Society will be held February 11, 2017, at the Dormont Recreation Center, 1801 Dormont Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15216. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the auction starts at 7 p.m.

Scholarship opportunities are provided by the Southwestern Pennsylvania Registered Nurses Club to nursing students entering their final year of studies in a diploma program, associate’s degree program, or Bachelor of Science degree program.