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THE 2026 NFL DRAFT IS FINALLY HERE

Black business owners ready for ‘once in a lifetime event’

RENEE WILSON IS LEADING THE CHARGE FOR “A TASTE OF THE HILL,” A THREE-DAY COMMUNITY FESTIVAL FROM APRIL 23-25, 2026, DURING THE NFL DRAFT. (PHOTO BY J.L. MARTELLO)

Community events happening in the Hill District, Downtown, North Side

by Rob Taylor Jr. Courier Staff Writer

There are not one, not two, but three sites within a few miles of Acrisure Stadium and Downtown

Pittsburgh, where hundreds of thousands of people will descend upon for the 2026 NFL Draft, that will have dozens of Blackowned businesses ready to showcase their products.

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B. Marshall's "Draft Bash" will take place from April 23-25, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., at Allegheny Commons Park West, on the North Side, about a block from CCAC on the Brigh-

ton Road side of the park.

The New Pittsburgh Courier has learned that more than 40 businesses will be there, including a large number of food-based businesses, ready to serve

the Draft attendees—at a financial cost, of course.

At a news conference, Monday, April 20, Tim Stevens, CEO of the Black Political Empowerment Project, told local media

that the other sites to find Black-owned businesses are the "Cocoapreneur Market” event and "A Taste of the Hill District."

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Bill Nunn Jr.— in 'a league of his own' Former Courier sportswriter, managing editor helped Steelers win multiple Super Bowls

by Aubrey Bruce Courier Sports Writer

ESTHER L. BUSH, retired President and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh, received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Urban League’s Ronald H. Brown Awards Dinner, March 20, 2026. The new name of the award is the Esther L. Bush Lifetime Achievement Award, which will be awarded to future award winners. (Photo by J.L. Martello)

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, began rising from the ashes in the 1960s and '70s. However, the Crucible Steel and Heppenstall Steel mills in Lawrenceville were hanging on for dear life, continuing to spew pollutants into the air that many Pittsburghers were forced to breathe, in exchange for those steel manufacturers to provide a means to put food on their families' tables.

Meanwhile, from a

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and compete for championships.

The Pirates won it all in 1960. Won it all again in 1971.

After decades of suffering the reality of their hometown NFL team being perennial losers, the citizens

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Intimate partner homicide has clear warning signs—and is often preventable, research shows

by Kathryn Spearman Dr. Cerina Wanzer Fairfax was an accomplished dentist and a loving mom to two teenage children.

On April 16, 2026, she was killed by her estranged husband, former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, who then killed himself, according to news reports.

This apparent intimate partner murder-suicide has garnered widespread media attention because of Justin Fairfax’s public profile.

As if to prove how pervasive such incidents are, just three days later, on April 19, 2026, eight children were killed in a mass shooting related to intimate partner violence in Louisiana. Seven of the children were shot by their father, who also killed another child and wounded his wife and another woman in the same attack, according to news reports. Both wounded women were mothers of some of the seven children.

Two-thirds of mass shootings in the United States are linked to domestic violence, and 40 percent of the victims in domestic violence-related mass shootings are children. The terms domestic violence homicide and intimate partner homicide are often used interchangeably, but the former includes all killings within a household or family, while the latter specifically refers to murders related to a current or former partner.

I am a public health nurse scientist who studies risk factors for intimate partner homicides and post-separation abuse. Research consistently shows that the period of separation and divorce is when the risk of intimate partner homicide is highest.

Tragically, the warning signs that precede homicides by an intimate partner are common but often misunderstood or unrecognized. All too often, escalating behaviors during separation may be chalked up to a “messy divorce” or “custody battle.”

But such language obscures patterns of danger that are recognizable, predictable—and, importantly, preventable.

Clear warning signs for domestic violence homicides Four of the most dangerous warning signs that a woman is at risk of being murdered by an intimate partner are firearm access, separation, prior nonfatal strangulation and stalking. Other red flags that indicate a partner may kill include unemployment, substance

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DR. CERINA WANZER FAIRFAX use, problematic drinking, controlling or jealous behavior, abuse during pregnancy, rape and prior threats of suicide or with weapons.

The pattern of behavior matters. These risk factors have been studied extensively and are best understood not in isolation but in how they interact.

Several elements in the Fairfax case were red flags that should have prompted intervention: Justin Fairfax’s unemployment, problematic drinking and firearm access; a prior concern for suicide; and a separation that involved an ongoing family court case for divorce and child custody. The warning signs were there: Dr. Cerina Wanzer Fairfax was in danger.

Who is most at risk?

Nearly five women are murdered in America every day by a current, former or estranged intimate partner. Intimate partner homicide is a leading cause of mortality for women of reproductive age, and Black women are murdered at disproportionately higher rates.

The vast majority of adult victims of intimate partner murder-suicides—95 percent—are women. The killer is almost always a man, the weapon is most often a gun, and these incidents occur most often in the home.

The uncomfortable truth is that the home is the most dangerous place for women.

Children are not spared from this danger. Research shows that children are at risk if their mothers are at risk, and intimate partner violence is also a leading cause of death of American children. What’s more, 40 percent of children who are murdered in a domestic violence mass shooting are killed by a parent— someone who should love and protect them—most often in their homes.

Turns out, home is the most dangerous place for children too.

Children who survive their mothers’ murder find their bodies or witness the homicide in about 70 percent of cases.

Cerina Wanzer Fairfax’s teenage son found her and called 911. Behind these heartbreaking details is trauma that is difficult to comprehend. The needs and long-term outcomes of child survivors of intimate partner homicide, like the Fairfax children and those who may have witnessed the Louisiana mass shooting, remain largely invisible in the research on domestic violence. Addressing this research gap is essential for communities to respond effectively to support the needs of children who are surviving devastating grief.

Separation is the most lethal time Contrary to common misperception, leaving an abusive relationship does not end the abuse—nor does it necessarily lead to safety. About half of murders of women by an intimate partner occur as or after a woman tries to leave the relationship or when she is involved in civil family law proceedings, including civil pro-

tective orders, child custody, separation and divorce.

Physical separation, such as moving out, coupled with legal separation is associated with the greatest risk.

The gunman in the Louisiana case was separating from his wife, and the duo had a court appearance scheduled for the day following the shooting, according to news reports.

Separation is particularly risky from a controlling partner, or perhaps more aptly worded, from someone who is losing control.

Women who leave a controlling male partner are nine times more likely to be murdered.

The judge in the Fairfax custody proceedings noted that Justin Fairfax had purchased a gun in 2022 with money designated for their children’s activities. People who engage in abusive behaviors may directly or indirectly threaten their partners with firearms, which can often include subtle threats toward their children.

Assessing risk and accessing interventions Guns and separation are a deadly combination.

Research shows that in about 3 in 5 cases of murder-suicide perpetrated by men with a firearm, family court is somehow involved. In other words, the homicide perpetrator was participating in legal proceedings relating to separation, divorce or child custody.

This evidence points to family court proceedings as a place where interventions could work.

Research shows that domestic violence protection orders, which allow courts to remove firearms from people identified as being at high risk for using violence against a partner, reduce the risk of intimate partner homicide-suicides. Removing firearm access is one of the few effective interventions for reducing intimate partner homicide.

Researchers have developed tools that can help advocates and legal professionals identify women most at risk as well as help women recognize their own risk. A particularly well-tested one is the danger assessment, which can be used in health, legal and advocacy settings.

But screening on its own is not enough. Women at high risk need to be connected to safety planning resources. People who may be concerned for themselves or a loved one can use an app such as MyPlan, which incorporates the danger assessment and provides safety planning suggestions.

Intimate partner homicides follow a pattern of known, predictable risks.

And predictable patterns are very often preventable. The warning signs are well studied. Translating that knowledge into consistent recognition and response across courts, law enforcement and communities is where the work remains.

(Kathryn Spearman, Assistant Professor of Nursing, Penn State) (This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.)

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1692—The notorious “Salem Witch Trials” of Salem, Mass., claim their first Black victim. Mary Black, a slave, is accused of sorcery and jailed. The hysteria created by the trials would lead to the arrests of 141 people (mostly women) and result in 19 of them being put to death. Ironically, there is reason to believe that the witch trials were indirectly set in motion by the voodoo stories of a Black slave. It seems that a minister brought to Salem a slave from Barbados named Tituba. He fascinated the minister’s daughters with stories about witchcraft in Africa and the Caribbean. The two daughters shared the stories with other young girls in the area and soon imagination took the place of reality. The girls started acting strangely and claimed they were victims of witchcraft. Superstitious adults began pressuring them to name names and soon dozens of women were being jailed for practicing witchcraft. The trials, which were not limited to Massachusetts, but spread throughout New England, are perhaps one of the greatest testimonies to how minds can be twisted to believe in the ridiculous and hurt others of as result of false belief.

1922—Jazz great Charles Mingus is born. The virtuoso bass player was born on a military base in Nogales, Ariz.

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1856—One of the greatest inventors in American history, Granville T. Woods, is born in Columbus, Ohio.

During his life he received 65 patents for electrical, mechanical and communications devices. Among his inventions was an advanced telephone transmitter. The transmitter was so advanced that the Alexander Graham Bell Company purchased the rights to it from Woods, both because it was superior to what Bell had invented and for fear that Woods might become a major rival to the Bell Company. At his height, the Cincinnati, Ohio Catholic Tribune (Jan. 14, 1886) wrote of Woods: “…the greatest colored inventor in the history of the race and equal, if not superior, to any inventor in the country…”

1872—Charlotte E. Ray becomes the first Black female lawyer in American history. Born in New York City to a journalist father and a politically active mother, Ray was a brilliant student who was teaching at Howard University in Washington, D.C., by the time she was 19. By age 22 she had her law degree and was admitted to the D.C. bar. However, sexual and racial discrimination forced her to abandon her law practice and return to New York to teach. She died Jan. 4, 1911.

1971—Liberian President William Tubman dies. Tubman and his strongman rule had kept the West African nation founded by freed American slaves relatively stable but not necessarily democratic. His death laid the foundation for the anarchy and civil wars which would grip the nation for the next 30 years. Tubman also headed a class of so-called Americo-Liberians who often discriminated against the native African population.

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1867—The first national meeting of the Ku Klux Klan is held at the Maxwell House in Nashville, Tenn. The White supremacist organization and its various offshoots would go on to launch a wave of terror, which would result in death and injury to thousands of African Americans over the years.

The Klan would remain the nation’s most powerful anti-Black terrorist organization for the next 70 years. The first chapter, however, was actually formed a year earlier in Pulaski, Tenn.

Most of the early Klan members were former soldiers of the defeated Confederate Army from the Civil War. The group’s initial aim was to spread fear among Blacks and prevent them from voting. But as the organization grew, it expanded into anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic and anti-foreigner activities. The first grand wizard was Nathan Bedford Forest.

1944—The United Negro College Fund is incorporated. Over the years, the fundraising activities of the UNCF would result in thousands of college educations for African Americans.

1944—Whites only political primaries are declared unconstitutional. In a case known as Smith v. Allwright, the United States Supreme Court ruled that a “Whites only” primary law, which excluded Blacks from voting, was a violation of the 15th Amendment and

was thus unconstitutional. Such laws had been common throughout the South.

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1918—Jazz singing legend Ella Fitzgerald is born in Newport News, Va. Orphaned at an early age, Fitzgerald was literally living in the streets when she was discovered in Harlem, N.Y., by bandleader Chick Webb. Despite never having received formal vocal training, musical experts often compared her techniques and vocal range to that of a conservatory trained singer. One of the ultimate compliments to her abilities was given by the great song writer Ira Gershwin who said, “I didn’t realize our songs were so good until I heard Ella sing them.” Fitzgerald died at the age of 79 on June 15, 1997.

1943—Tuskegee Institute President Frederick Patterson writes his famous letter (published in the Pittsburgh Courier) urging the presidents of the nation’s predominantly Black colleges and universities to “pool their small resources and make an appeal to the national conscience” in order to produce more scholarship funds for the education of Black students. One year later the United Negro College Fund is incorporated with 27 member colleges.

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1886—The “mother of the Blues” Gertrude “Ma” Rainey is born Gertrude Pridgett in Columbus, Ga. She began her career touring with the Rabbit Foot Minstrels. She was the first person to sing the Blues in minstrel shows. Rainey also coached, then young Blues singer Bessie Smith who would become more famous and celebrated than Rainer. Rainey died Dec. 22, 1939.

1994—The first all race elections take place in then White ruled South Africa. The elections would bring an end to 300 years of White minority rule, known as apartheid, in the African nation as well as bring about the election of Nelson Mandela as the country’s first Black and democratically elected president. Mandela had spent 27 years in prison because of his leadership of the African National Congress which had led the struggle against apartheid.

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1903—W.E.B. DuBois’ “The Soul of Black Folks” is published. The book did much to outline and summarize progressive African American thought and opposition to the accommodation policies of Booker T. Washington— then the nation’s foremost Black leader. DuBois argued that “the problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line” and labeled Washington’s program as one of “industrial education, conciliation of the South, and submission and silence as to civil and political rights.” A collection of DuBois’ papers are currently being placed online by the University of Massachusetts.

1903—Maggie Lena Walker becomes the first Black woman to head a bank in America. In fact, she was the first woman of any color to head a bank when she was named president of the St. Luke Bank and Trust Company in Richmond, Va. Walker was an outstanding businesswoman who took over Richmond’s Order of St. Luke when it was nearly broke and rapidly losing membership. Within a few years the Order owned a bank, a newspaper, a printing press and a three-story department store despite the active opposition of Richmond’s White business community. Walker also helped found the Lilly Black Party in part as a slap at the segregated “Lilly White” political parties of the day.

One of her mottos was “Don’t get angry, get busy.” She died Dec. 15, 1934.

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1967—The World Boxing Association and the New York State Athletic Commission withdraw recognition of Muhammad Ali as world heavyweight boxing champion because of his opposition to the war in Vietnam and his resulting refusal to serve in the U.S. military. One of his famous phrases during the controversial period was, “I ain’t got no quarrel with those Vietcong.” In addition to being stripped of his title and license to box, Ali was sentenced to five years in prison for refusing to be inducted into the military. However, four years later the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the conviction and Ali was allowed to box again.

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UNCF hosts ‘Legacy of Excellence’ event in honor of Bill Nunn Jr.

by Rob Taylor Jr. Courier Staff Writer

Bill Nunn Jr., the famed Courier sportswriter, managing editor and Steelers scout whose eye for talent, especially talent coming from HBCUs, is the reason why people like Charlie Batch had a chance to play in the NFL, according to Charlie Batch himself.

During the United Negro College Fund’s “Legacy of Excellence” celebration, recognizing the contributions of Bill Nunn Jr., April 21, at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Downtown, Batch was asked what the legacy of Nunn meant to him.

“In 1973, he (Nunn) had Joe Gilliam (Black quarterback) on the team (Steelers),” Batch told the crowd. “People remember Terry Bradshaw, but in Terry’s words, ‘I couldn’t hold (Gilliam’s) jockstrap,’ that’s how good Joe was.

And when you see someone like that (Nunn) bringing a (Black) quarterback in, in the ‘70s, which was unheard of...and then 20 years later you have Kordell Stewart on the roster,” it’s normal for the Steelers to bring in a Black quarterback nowadays.

“I was a beneficiary of that,” Batch continued.

“And even though I was competing, I had to now mentor those younger guys, guys like Omar Jacobs in 2006, Dennis Dixon in 2008, Byron Leftwich in 2008 and 2009. And sitting in a room literally when we had three Black quarterbacks along with Ben Roethlisberger on the roster, that would have never happened without Bill Nunn.”

Not that you have to tell anyone from Pittsburgh this, but Nunn’s legacy across the country is that he transformed the NFL by championing talent from Black colleges,

and expanding pathways for Black athletes, coaches and executives. As a Courier sportswriter and managing editor, he would travel to Black colleges largely in the South, scouting the best players from those schools. Each January, he would print in the Courier a Black College All-America Team, and invite those players up to Pittsburgh for a banquet.

Eventually, the Steelers got tired of losing, hired Nunn as an official scout for the team, and the rest, they say, is history. As in numerous players from Black colleges being drafted by the Steelers in the 1970s en route to the franchise winning four Super Bowls and cementing the Steelers as one of the most iconic NFL franchises of all-time.

The April 21 evening at the AWAACC wasn’t without some awards being handed out. Bill Nunn Jr. Legacy Awards were given to: Charlie and Latasha Batch (Best of the Batch Foundation); Will Dawkins (General Manager, Washington Wizards, NBA); Dr. MaCalus V. Hogan, M.D., MBA (Chief, UPMC Orthopedic Surgery Department); Tracey McCants Lewis (Chief People Officer and General Counsel, Pittsburgh Penguins); Skyra Rideaux (Director, Inclusive People Systems, Blue Origin); and Dr. Wayne Walters (Superintendent, Pittsburgh Public Schools). Awardees who were not in attendance included Sandra Douglass Morgan (President, Las Vegas Raiders, NFL); Jerry Lorenzo (Fear of God clothing line); and Nicole Stovall (Chief Diversity Officer, Merck & Co.).

Also in attendance were actress Gail Bean, Latasha Gillespie, MBA (Founder, Logos Media Group), and Collette V. Smith, the NFL’s first-ever African

CHARLIE BATCH, SECOND FROM LEFT, WAS ONE OF THE HONOREES AT THE UNCF’S “LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE” EVENT, APRIL 21, 2026. PICTURED BELOW IS HIS WIFE, LATASHA BATCH. (PHOTOS BY ROB TAYLOR JR.)

American female coach (New York Jets, 2017).

The United Negro College Fund is one of the nation’s largest and most effective supporters of higher education and serves as a leading advocate for college-bound students. Since its founding in 1944, UNCF has raised more than $6 billion to support students’ access to higher education, provide scholarships and strengthen Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Each year, UNCF awards more than 13,000 scholarships to more than 10,000 students totaling more than $64 million.

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SPOTLIGHT ON SENIORS

The 'single story' that society has about seniors is wrong I often speak of society not being “user friendly” with regard to senior citizens. There are many negative presumptions about an aging population. Number one, with aging becomes diminished capacity, and sometimes there is a foregone conclusion that the older we get, the less we’ll be able to handle.

Also, once we become older, somehow we automatically cannot hear.

Have you ever noticed that many health care professionals and others who work with the senior population literally yell when speaking to us, usually when explaining or giving some type of instructions?

I wonder where this started. I am sure there was a time when these thoughts about "Seasoned Citizens" may have been appropriate.

In the 18th and 19th centuries the average grandparent was 60 years old, had lots of ailments and/or may have needed support from their children or other family members. They are most likely already retired or maybe helping to take care of grandchildren. Here we are in the 21st century, with technological and scientific advances in medicine and healthcare. Not only are we living longer, but grandparents can be as young as 39-42, and some great grandparents are as young as 55.

Could it be that as a society we have not mentally caught up with the changes, but instead maintained the same mindset that looks at aging as something that hampers life?

Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shared some years ago in a Ted Talk that when she left her country and came to America for her graduate degree, unfortunately, her roommate was disappointed when she learned that Adichie, first, spoke English fluently, and second, after asking her to share some of her “tribal” music, was informed that it was Mariah Carey who led her playlist.

Additionally, her roommate was shocked to learn Adichie actually knew how to use a stove!

“My roommate already felt sorry for me long before she saw me, and pity was a default position about me which concluded that because of the misery and poor development of my homeland, I could never be on the same sophistication or intellectual level as she," Adichie said. "My roommate had a single story of Africa.”

I would offer here that Ngozi Adichie’s refer-

RENEE P. ALDRICH ence to a “single story” is the same concept society uses in defining the life or lives that seasoned citizens get to live. Society has read a single story around what it means to age, or enter the seasoned stage of life, when in actuality our lives, as individuals, are composed of many overlapping stories. It's when we are exposed to a single story, as Chimamanda’s roommate was, that we make erroneous conclusions about a group of people, an individual, or about certain populations.

That "single story" concept that society has about seniors says that our capacity is drastically diminished, that we automatically lose the ability to function after a certain age and that because we are in our seasoned years, we are no longer interested in romance or sex or taking exciting trips or even in making a significant life change. These are the ill-informed ideas about seniors that result from the “single story.”

Conversely, there are many more stories of individuals over 65, like Ms. Joyce Sato (affectionately known as Miss Joy), who at 88 says she still “wants it all!” “I am a new breed of myself, I have traveled, I have deposited into others, and I worked a job until I was 81 years old; while the working part is over, nothing else is—I feel I have fresh experiences in front of me,” said Miss Joy.

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There is also the story of folks like Reggie Howze and his new wife, Shawna, a seasoned couple who recently celebrated not only their wedding anniversary, but both their birthdays, all of which were in March. She turned 71 and he turned 81.

They celebrated in New York where they enjoyed tickets to the Tamron Hall Show. A highlight of the visit to the show for Reggie was an invitation to dance on stage along with others who also had birthdays that day. The couple also saw a production of August Wilson’s "Joe Turner’s Come and Gone" (Reggie was a childhood friend of Wilson). Shawna is a master gardener, and Reggie has been a long distance runner and competed in many marathons over the years. He is currently training his wife in power-walking to compete in the National Senior Olympics in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2027.

Reggie Howze competed and came in second place in the country in the 5K in the National Senior Olympics in 2025. Together they are starting an initiative they call, “Living Well With Reggie and Shawna.”

"We are 81 and 71 years young, and we’re sharing our journey of faith, love, and living well through moments like this," Shawna Howze said.

Are you operating and making assumptions about seasoned citizens based on a single story?

Let’s not do that. Let’s broaden our view and be on the lookout for all the other stories.

None of this is to suggest that as we age, we don’t have to shift the way we do things, because we might have to. The body changes as we age, but living a healthy lifestyle and doing what we can to minimize stress, eliminate poor habits like smoking, and halt excessive use of alcohol and other mind-altering drugs will enhance our capacity to have a life without limits.

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Bill Nunn Jr.— in ‘a league of his own'

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tically expect that any amount of help could be on the horizon to help turn around this sad, non-competing franchise.

Pittsburghers young and old, rich and poor, White and Black were about to witness a sports team destined to become a “phoenix snatched from the smoldering ashes” of the steel manufacturers that once represented the economic wellness of the region that they were now abandoning, leaving the lights out and the furnaces stone cold.

There was a new portrait of the Steel City being painted depicting the rust-stained metropolis, shedding the skin of the industrial past.

There was also a cultural and sports revolution going on as well. Black athletes were beginning to exit the dark tunnel of Jim Crow in the early 1960s and were striving to become an integral part of the NFL landscape. When the NFL powers-that-be finally removed their blinders, they began to rapidly discover that many of the stories and exploits that were reported about the ability and athletic prowess of Black athletes were not fictional, and these so-called "tall tales" were making the leap from mythical to actual.

In 1969, when Pittsburgh Steelers General Manager Dan Rooney hired Chuck Noll as the head coach of the team and promoted part-time scout Bill Nunn Jr. to full-time, Noll and Nunn inherited a pro team that probably couldn’t defeat many college teams. As a new head coach, Noll was largely untested but was recognized as a brilliant young football tactician and teacher.

By retaining Bill Nunn Jr., the Steelers provided Noll with instant access to the pre-established HBCU pipeline that Nunn had created and maintained for almost two decades as a sportswriter and later managing editor of the Pittsburgh Courier. Bill Nunn Jr. was not a novice as a football scout, but together, Noll and Nunn were doing far more than “keeping hope alive” for the struggling franchise.

They were the help that was on the way. History would go on to prove that the talent evaluation methods of Bill Nunn Jr. cast a shadow that would cover far more than the landscape of the North Shore.

Before the AFL/NFL merger, the leagues were in stiff competition for players, especially the athletes from HBCU schools. Before the merger, Black players made up approximately 30 percent of the players in the AFL. That statistic provided evidence why the discerning eye that Nunn had for evaluating athletic talent was far more in demand than the Western Pennsylvania demographic could perceive at that time in sports history. The virtual monopoly held by the NFL in professional football for decades was now being threatened by the AFL. As far as scouting and drafting athletes from HBCU schools was concerned, Bill Nunn Jr. had tapped into a living and breathing gold mine, a mother lode of talent disguised as HBCU players. However, prior to hiring Nunn, it seemed that on many occasions, much of the talent draft-

ed by the Steelers may have been “fool’s gold.”

When the Steelers hired Nunn away from the Pittsburgh Courier, they were not only increasing their chances of creating a winning franchise for the City of Pittsburgh, but also creating a template that would increase the market share of the NFL far beyond its wildest dreams.

I would like to share an example with you of how Bill Nunn Jr. could effortlessly and positively change the trajectory of your life without fanfare or the need for praise or glorification. During the fall of 1995, Ulish Carter, the managing editor of the New Pittsburgh Courier at the time, was considering elevating me from a freelance reporter to a staff reporter. He telephoned me and set up a meeting at his office.

When I arrived, he was involved in a pleasant conversation with Mr. Nunn. I pulled up a chair and waited outside of his office for him to summon me in.

After we exchanged pleasantries, Mr. Nunn asked me, “why do you think that you should be elevated to the position of a staff writer for the Courier?" I don’t know whether my reply was based on nerves, stupidity or both. “I think that I am an excellent writer,” I replied, thinking that I was oozing with confidence. “Do you think that you’re a great writer or do you know that you’re a great writer?”

At that point, I was on the verge of swallowing my tongue. After Mr. Nunn left, Mr. Carter informed me that HBO had recently completed a documentary titled: "The Journey of The African American Athlete.”

HBO had contacted Bill Nunn to discuss the possibility of the film premiering in Pittsburgh rather than in a major market like New York City or Los Angeles. Mr. Nunn gave the information to Mr. Carter. Based on my experience in the world of entertainment, Mr. Carter assigned me as the point of contact for the event. That was my formal introduction to the Who’s Who of the Pittsburgh elite. Mr. Nunn was such a great thinker. He knew that the music and football were woven into the same fabric. He understood that a player had to learn and master the playbook and a musician had to master the music before they could veer off course and improvise.

The primary reason that Bill Nunn Jr. was such a great evaluator of athletic talent was that he was an even greater evaluator of himself. When he came out of West Virginia State (University), he was a great basketball talent and was offered a spot on Abe Saperstein's Harlem Globetrotters, but he declined. Knowing the content and character of Bill Nunn Jr., one could reasonably conclude that two of the reasons that he chose not to accept the offer were purpose and pride.

No matter how much of a feel-good story that the Harlem Globetrotters represented for normal Black Americans and the remainder of the world, realistically they were just another version of a vaudeville minstrel show.

Abe Saperstein had decided just to exchange the uniform of his semi-circus basketball team from

NEW PITTSBURGH COURIER SPORTSWRITER AUBREY BRUCE, LEFT, WITH FAMED COURIER SPORTSWRITER, MANAGING EDITOR AND STEELERS SCOUT, BILL NUNN JR. NUNN DIED IN 2014 AT AGE 89.

blackface and white lips to a pseudo patriot "Uncle Sam wants you" uniform based on red, white and blue and armed with a basketball. Saperstein also continued to adhere to the ageless template of the typical "Amos ‘n’ Andy"-type script.

Bill Nunn Jr. had many career choices. He wasn’t the typical young Negro from across the tracks to whom the Harlem Globetrotters represented the way out of poverty. The GPS to success for Bill Nunn Jr. was not situational or occasional. His map to greatness was generational. Bill Nunn Jr. was from a genetic line of scholars and academicians that were providing access and a way in for those who had been locked out of the chance to succeed for generations. Everywhere he traveled and worked there were no standards until he set them. He didn’t set the standard; he was the standard. As I always say: “Bill Nunn Jr. wasn’t the big man on campus, he was simply the campus."

During his tenure at the Pittsburgh Courier, Nunn traveled each week to the best games featuring Black colleges largely in the South. Each January, he would compile an annual HBCU All-America Team and host a banquet in Pittsburgh for the players.

The Steelers came calling, and soon enough, the Steelers were introduced to players from Black colleges that Nunn knew like John Stallworth (Alabama A&M University), Donnie Shell (South Carolina State University), Mel Blount (Southern University), L.C. Greenwood (Arkansas AM&N), Dwight White (East Texas State), Ernie Holmes (Texas Southern), Joe Gilliam (Tennessee State), and Frank Lewis (Grambling State).

In fact, the Steelers' 1974 Super Bowl-winning team featured 11 players from Black colleges. All because of Bill Nunn Jr. The Steelers, of course, won three more Super Bowls in the '70s, and Noll, the head coach, was deemed, "The Emperor." Between Noll and Nunn, the two of them orchestrated a dynasty that few will ever forget—the Steelers of the 1970s.

Bill Nunn Jr. passed away in 2014 at age 89.

Seven years later, in 2021, Nunn was posthumously inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, as

a Contributor.

If the title of “Emperor” was the appropriate title to honor the success of Chuck Noll, conferring the title of “Czar of Scouts” upon Bill Nunn Jr. is just as deserving.

Had Nunn been trapped by poverty and forced to accept an offer to perform for any sports franchise, that more than likely would have been

an ill-fated choice that would have landed him, as well as the Pittsburgh Steelers, somewhere in sports purgatory. Bill Nunn Jr. would have probably been unable to have a future impact on the success of the Pittsburgh Steelers or any other professional football team.

Several years ago, there was a young, ill-informed

aspiring sports journalist that had the audacity based on his inexperience to say that Bill Nunn Jr. was my “colleague.” I corrected him in the strongest terms.

I replied, “Bill Nunn Jr. could never be my colleague or the colleague of anyone else, because he was and remains in ‘a league of his own.’”

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Black business owners ready for ‘once in a lifetime event’ EVENTS FROM A1

The Cocoapreneur Market event will be held at 340 Third Avenue, Downtown, beginning at around 9 a.m. each day (April 23-25).

It's next to the building on Smithfield Street owned by The Greenwood Plan. "A Taste of the Hill District" will be held along Centre Avenue and Wylie Avenue in the Hill District, from noon to 8 p.m. each day (April 23-25). Combine all three events, and there will be no less than 150 Black-owned businesses featured at

those sites for the Draft attendees and for Pittsburghers in general.

"We're not going to let anyone forget the history that began here (in the Hill District)," Renee Wilson said at the April 20 news conference.

"We're going to have carnival rides, football, horses and all kinds of stuff for the children," Wilson added. "Everything that has to do with football and having fun and community."

Wilson, a longtime community advocate, said that when you look up historic neighbor-

hoods in Pittsburgh, the Hill District is among the most historic. And she's not about to let anyone forget that.

"We have a whole lot that's happening here on the Hill," said Matthew Green, with the organization Hill District Powered By The Community. "Everyone has come on board on this... bring your family, and the most important factor here is, this is three days, this is the largest vending that has ever happened in Pittsburgh.

It's going to be at least 300 vendors going down Wylie, coming back up

TIM STEVENS, CEO OF THE BLACK POLITICAL EMPOWERMENT PROJECT. Centre Avenue, coming down Elm Street, and back down Wylie."

For seniors, Wilson said there would be complimentary rides given to them throughout the three-day event.

Stevens was quick to point out that there are indeed Black businesses and entrepreneurs that were selected to participate in the NFL's Draft Source Program.

The NFL does not release the businesses selected until after the

NFL Draft is completed. But there was concern from a number of community members in past weeks about just how many Black businesses were included in the NFL Draft overall footprint. Because the NFL Draft takes place on the North Shore and its Draft Experience takes place largely at Point State Park, the number of Black-owned businesses on the North Shore and Downtown are miniscule. Thus, for

Black-owned businesses to get in on the projected up-to-$213 million economic impact the Draft could bring, they would have to be physically positioned in places like a nearby park, or in empty storefronts Downtown, etc. But in the case of the Cocoapreneur Market and A Taste of the Hill, they decided to make their own way.

TYLER COULVERSON PROMOTES THE COCOAPRENEUR MARKET EVENT, DOWNTOWN, APRIL 23-25.

B-PEP’S ROY BLANKENSHIP SPEAKS AT A NEWS CONFERENCE, APRIL 20. (PHOTOS BY J.L. MARTELLO)

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by Genea L. Webb For New Pittsburgh Courier

Cecilia Coleman-Finney’s father, the late Dr. James T. Johnson Jr., always told her to do what makes her heart sing.

“He was always supportive of me and told me to do what made me happy.

Happiness is when your heart smiles,” she said.

For the past decade, Coleman-Finney has held her Mother’s Day Extravaganza on Mother’s Day as a way to pay homage to mothers. The show includes a fashion show, vendors, dinner, a cash bar, live DJ, models, a performance this year by model/singer Jordann Versaw and camaraderie.

“The show brings community members, mothers and mother-like figures together. We all have mothers who are alive or who have transitioned,” Coleman-Finney told the New Pittsburgh Courier.

“We get together and eat and fellowship. I like the fun and laughter. It makes me happy. So when dad told me to do what makes me happy, I knew I still wanted to do the show.”

Coleman-Finney’s father, Dr. Johnson, died on March 16, 2026. He was co-founder of the Afro American Music Institute along with his wife and soulmate, Pamela.

“C.C.’s Mother’s Day Extravaganza” will be held

on May 9, 2026, at Hotel Indigo’s East Liberty location from 3 to 6 p.m. Doors open at 2 p.m. Tickets are $50 and can be purchased by calling 412-583-2649.

This year’s show will also showcase wares from five fashion designers. Stephanie Moye has served as both fashion designer and fashion coordinator of the extravaganza for the past five years.

“The event is a beautiful thing,” Moye said.

“It’s a way of celebrating my mother and honoring women. It’s a fun fest of bringing women together.

While my mom was alive, she attended every year so this is a way for me to honor her. It’s a wonderful outing. Mothers get to celebrate with their families and have a great dinner, see some great fashions, buy from some great vendors and experience some great entertainment. The c ommen tator —D er y ck Tines—shines a spotlight on the audience with humor, giving individuals their time to shine. The show is a mixture of fun and festivity.”

Designer Melissa Charles of MelissaSade Designs is ecstatic to be a part of C.C.’s Mother’s Day Extravaganza for the third year in a row.

“My fashion aesthetic is abstract 3D. Sometimes I’ll have actual flowers sewn into the garment or feathers to give it life,”

Charles told the Courier.

“I make men’s and women’s garments for all sizes.

I first heard about C.C.’s Mother’s Day Extravaganza from model Tanisha Thomas and once I met Ms. C.C., I knew I wanted to be a part of it. There’s always a great crowd. A lot of times in fashion you don’t see people’s reactions to the fashions, but at the show, the crowd claps and reaches out to us and cheers. Ms. C.C. tells us the reaction of the audience and that helps us grow as designers.”

In addition to Moye and Charles, the other designers featured in this year’s show are: Savannah Jackson of Sava.Nation Designs; MaLaika Burks of MaLaika & Co.; Laura Urmann Luzier of Laura Urmann Luzier Design; and Leah Thomas of A Woman’s Touch Fashion.

“I like to give up-andcoming designers exposure,” Coleman-Finney said. “Dad knew this event makes me happy and I know he’s proud of me.”

Her father was loved and admired by so many people. An accomplished pianist, jazz enthusiast and martial artist. Dr. Johnson was a mentor to many and supporter of all things music and those who create it.

On March 28, Pittsburgh City Councilman Khari Mosley made it “Dr. James T. Johnson Jr. Day” in the

CECILIA COLEMAN-FINNEY, WITH HER FATHER, THE LATE DR. JAMES T. JOHNSON JR. City of Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will dedicate its Wynton Marsalis tribute to Dr. Johnson the night before the Mother’s Day Extravaganza. A tribute to Dr. Johnson will also be held in Market Square

BAPTIST TEMPLE CHURCH Sunday Worship: 8 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.

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7241 Race Street Pittsburgh, Pa., 15208

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Sunday School/Breakfast: 9 a.m.

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EAST LIBERTY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Sunday Services: 8:45 a.m. and 11 a.m.

Summer Worship Sundays: 10 a.m.

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2535 Universal Road Penn Hills, Pa., 15235

Pastor— Robin Horton

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ST. JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH “The Love Church” Sunday School: 10 a.m.

Sunday Worship Service: 11 a.m.

209 Bridge St. Wilmerding, Pa., 15148 412-829-8925

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WHITE LILY BAPTIST CHURCH “Word Fed, Spirit Led” Sunday School: 10 a.m.

Sunday Worship Service: 11:15 a.m.

3621 Chartiers Ave. Pittsburgh, Pa., 15204 412-771-2533 Pastor—Rev. Antawn D. Coleman Sr.

Senior Pastor—Rev. Laphon Flood-Francis

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Sunday Worship Service: 11 a.m.

319 N. 2nd St. Apollo, Pa., 15613 724-596-4032

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NEW LIFE BAPTIST CHURCH

Sunday Worship Service: 10:15 a.m.

Servant Pastor A. Marie Walker

Pastor—

Nathaniel Pennybaker

Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship Service: 11 a.m.

Sunday Worship Service: 11 a.m.

Pastor—Rev. James D. Burwell

18 Harriet St., Rankin, Pa., 15105

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Wednesday Bible Study: 7 p.m.

90 Port Perry Rd. North Versailles, Pa., 15148 412-823-2841

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TRIEDSTONE BAPTIST CHURCH Wednesday Prayer Meeting: 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday Bible Study: 7 p.m.

Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship Service: 11 a.m.

Tuesday eve. prayer line 313-209-8800, passcode 05277

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Sunday School: 9:15 a.m.

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1301 Glenn St. Homestead, Pa., 15120 412-462-1011 www.clark1889.org

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want any of us to dwell.

He left positive energy, wise words and beautiful memories.”

“I have a lot of things to look forward to. Dad was one of a kind and we five kids learned to share him with everyone. My dad wouldn’t want any of us to dwell. He left positive energy, wise words and beautiful memories.”

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during this year’s Juneteenth celebration.

“I have a lot of things to look forward to. Dad was one of a kind and we five kids learned to share him with everyone,” Coleman-Finney told the Courier. “My dad wouldn’t

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CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH

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“A Church with a vision, A people with a prayer, worshipping God with a praise”

Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship Service: 10 a.m.

2200 Wylie Ave. Pittsburgh, Pa., 15219 Pastor—Rev. 412-566-1437 Courtney D. Meadows

Sunday Worship Service: 10:30 a.m.

1201 Hiland Ave. Coraopolis, Pa., 15108 412-264-3125

Pastor—Rev. Brian Carswell Flanagan Sr.

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The good ol' days were great! Trust me! :10—You know, out of respect for some of “You People,” I’ve been tapdancing around some hardcore issues so as not to step on your “wish you were taller...wish you were a baller” attitude. So now, little Johnny, it’s time we sit down and have some ol’ school, grown up, man to wanna be a man, didn’t I tell you once conversation! (Sorry about that, I had a flashback to my pop’s talking to me...) :09—First of all, please stop with this new age socalled NBA basketball... and for goodness sake, can you please start calling the European step-through move, traveling, because that’s exactly what it is! If there’s anybody out there 40 years old or younger who thinks today’s game

is better than the '70s and '80s, it’s only because you just weren’t there! I know this is hard for you to accept, but trust me, you have never seen and you will never see in your life the likes of Wilt Chamberlain's 100 points in a single game; Bill Russell's 11 NBA rings with one team; Oscar Robertson averaging a triple-double for a season when men were men and you could actually touch a player; Julius “Dr. J” Erving, who quite simply changed the way the world looked at basketball; “Pistol Pete” Maravich, the only man in NCAA history to average 45 points a game at LSU, an SEC major Division 1 conference; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the single greatest player of all-time in high school, college and the pros; Connie Hawkins,

the man Kareem said is the greatest player he’s ever seen; Michael “Air” Jordan, this one doesn’t need clarification, even you youngsters know that; Earvin “Magic” Johnson, listen people, these nicknames are given to players for a reason...he’s only the greatest point guard the world will ever know; Kobe “Black Mamba” Bryant, c’mon man, you already know. Then you just start running names —Isaiah Thomas, Karl Malone, Dennis Rodman, Willis Reed, Shaquille O’Neal, Larry Bird, Tim Duncan, James Worthy, Hakeem Olajuwon, Jerry “The Logo” West, Elgin Baylor, Scottie Pippen, Reggie Miller, Earl “The Pearl” Monroe, Walt Frazier, Bill Walton. C’MON MAN, STOP ME PLEASE. I CAN DO ANOTHER 20 NAMES BEFORE I GET TO LEBRON AND STEPH CURRY!!! And here’s this. Back in the day they wouldn’t think of tanking a game! Hey Commissioner Silver, do you wanna know how to stop teams from tanking?

If you tank, you’re out of the playoffs...period, end of story! :08—I know, I know, the pushback’s coming about LeBron, Curry, Durant, Giannis Antetokounmpo, but I am tellin’ ya, they would come up short back in the day. For example...

Steph Curry, who I love, may score 50 in Detroit against the “Bad Boys” who include Bill “I don’t care about ya” Laimbeer, Rick Mahorn and Dennis Rodman on a Tuesday night, but I promise you, he’s not gonna get 50 on Thursday night!!!!! :07—What is wrong with you people who want to knock college NIL (name, image and likeness)? The only problem with it is it came 20 years too late.

College athletes making money for schools and not getting paid, while others make millions has been a

DR. J’S ERA OF BASKETBALL.... OR LEBRON’S ERA OF HOOPS....WHICH IS BETTER? crime since the beginning of time! :06—OK, let me be real clear on this, so that even you good ol’ boys and girls still think it’s OK. You mean to tell me that out of 32 NFL teams, only three have Black head coaches, and given that 70 percent of NFL players are African American or nonWhite. You think that’s fair??? Man, please! The three current Black NFL head coaches are DeMeco Ryans of the Houston Texas, Todd Bowles of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Aaron Glenn of the New York Jets. :05—Here’s this difference. The legendary boxing we watched with Ali, Holmes, Sugar Ray 1 and 2, Duran, Hearns, Hagler and Tyson, just to name a few, was truly the sweet science of hitting and not getting hit. What you’re watching today is glorified studio wrestling... pure brutality at it’s worst!

There, I said it, but don’t tell those WWE guys I

said it. I am not looking for that kind of trouble. :04—Here’s what I’ll tell ya about baseball...Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Pete Rose, Roberto Clemente, Willie Stargell, Sandy Koufax, Randy Johnson, Nolan Ryan, Bob Gibson, Barry Bonds, Micky Mantle, Rickey Henderson, and Frank Robinson...just to name a few...enough said! :03—Flag football, pickleball, soccer, the X Games...all sports people play when they can’t play football, basketball, baseball and tennis for real! Now you can run and tell that one, cause I ain’t scared of no pickleball player. (Oh shut up please, I said it, but you were thinking it...yes you were...yes...you were!) :02—I’ll really prove this point in another direction. Who you gonna go see, The Temptations, Four Tops, Diana Ross, Earth Wind & Fire, AWB, Chicago, Luther, the Doobie Brothers, War, Stevie

Wonder, Aretha, Smokey, Blue Magic or....Jay-Z, SZA, Chris Brown, Taylor Swift, Drake, Bad Bunny or The Weeknd??? There’s no question, it’s not even close! I know, I know, it hurts you to hear it...but the truth does hurt! (OK, OK I will go see Beyoncé and Sabrina Carpenter... as the late, great Richard Pryor said, I may be old, but I ain’t no fool! (Mudbone!) :01—Hey, I gotta go, I can see the phone lighting up now, but ya’ll know the '70s was the bomb and we blew the rest of it up in the '80s! :00—Lock this in, coming your way Saturday, May 30, 2026 at Penn Hills High School, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., the Connie Hawkins “Legends” Youth Basketball Camp. Free—Free —Free to 7th, 8th and 9th grade boys and girls.

Featuring some of Western Pa.’s former all-time greatest players as coaches. Including Ron Carter, Jr.—VMI, L.A. Lakers;

Ulice Payne—Marquette NCAA Champion; Shawn Hawkins—European Pro League; Ron Brown— Penn State All-American; Bobby Franklin—Point Park College (now Point Park University) all-time leader scorer; Jeff Baldwin—Duquesne University; Chris Seneca—Bucknell, all-time assist leader; Dr. Karen Hall—UNLV; Darrin Walls—Waynesburg University, Houston Rockets; Margo Hinton —IUP Hall of Fame; Tim Appleton—European Pro League; Carlita Jones— Clarion University Hall of Fame; and Darren Morningstar—Pitt, Dallas Mavericks, just to name a few. Including officiated games, skills and drills, camp T-shirt, camp cap, water bottle, lunch and more. Call Achieving Greatness' office at 412902-5761 to register. Keep in mind, space is limited to 100 players! Call ASAP. More details to come.

GAME OVER.

Is the City of Pittsburgh truly prepared to host the NFL Draft?

The 2026 NFL Draft is finally here in Pittsburgh.

But are we really prepared? My response is a resounding no, and I am about to tell you so. Let’s get to crackin'.

According to various sources, the number of hotel rooms available daily in Pittsburgh hovers around 14,000.

The NFL may be expecting upwards of 250,000 visitors that may be attending the 2026 NFL Draft event on April 23-25, 2026, in Pittsburgh. According to event analysts, approximately 500,000700,000 people will be visiting Pittsburgh during the event. Is our fair city prepared to accommodate and service that number of people? The answer is leaning more toward maybe not, then maybe.

On March 19, 2024, Sierra Rehm posted the following on wpxi.com: "'Pittsburgh is the best choice': Gov. Josh Shapiro supports Steelers bid to host NFL Draft."

Governor Josh Shapiro sent a letter of support of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ bid to host the NFL Draft

in 2026 or 2027 to Commissioner Roger Goodell.

In that letter, Shapiro highlights the state’s expected economic activity in the coming years —like America’s 250th birthday —Pittsburgh’s historic connection to professional football, ties to several NFL legends and the cultural attractions throughout the city.

“Pittsburgh routinely holds large sporting events, is familiar with the hard work, excitement, and fun that comes with these types of events, and is well-prepared to efficiently handle the circumstances required to kick off a successful NFL Draft,” Shapiro’s letter said in part.

“Today, Pittsburgh has established itself as one of the most dynamic cities on the East Coast—and the birthplace of professional football; Pittsburgh is the best choice in the country to host the NFL Draft. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is excited and ready to work together to host this historic draft and show the country what Pennsylvania is all about,” Shapiro said in the release.

He also said: "Pennsylvania cities are already slated to hold national and international events in 2026—like the MLB All Star Game, FIFA World Cup, NCAA March Madness and the PGA Championship.”

The Pittsburgh political powers-that-be should have been upgrading the City of Pittsburgh infrastructure decades ago.

What were they waiting for, Christmas? Well, I guess so because they were all members of the yada, yada, yada club. Or waiting for a windfall or a reason to defray and deflect costs to the NFL or some other sources.

It seems to me that someone or a group of people were too greedy, selfish or both to invest or allocate the proper funding into the right places, instead of dropping ill-gotten dough into a few, “hot pockets.” Why were we forced to wait for an event to get our roads fixed to get our roads properly repaired and maintained? It causes me to wonder since the NFL Draft was held in Pittsburgh around 80 years ago, will it be another 80 years before the proper focus and attention will be put on our roads and inner city? Please allow me to reiterate the daydreams of Josh Shapiro, the esteemed Chief Executive of the Keystone State.

“Pittsburgh routinely holds large sporting events, is familiar with the hard work, excitement, and fun that comes with these types of events.”

Hard work, hard work, c’mon bro, the industrial revolution is over. We have to be ready. I beg

PITTSBURGH POLICE CHIEF JASON LANDO speaks at a news conference, April 20, 2026, detailing security efforts for the City of Pittsburgh as it prepares for the NFL Draft, April 23-25, 2026. (Photo by J.L. Martello to differ with that analysis. Why? Because usually with a playoff game, there is a concentration of two markets, because of the two teams that are competing in that game.

As far as a MLB All-Star Game is concerned, that is an exhibition game meant to profile players of excellence. That game cannot function as a measuring stick in comparison to the semi-rabid fans that are gathered together to take a glimpse into the crystal ball of the possible future and success of their franchise.

A Draft crowd does not move like a game crowd.

Fans at a game have action every few seconds.

They rise, sit, yell, and work the concourse like any normal game crowd.

A Draft audience moves differently. Fans wait.

On paper, late April in Pittsburgh sounds manageable. Typical daytime highs land in the mid-60s.

Morning and late-night readings usually settle in the low to mid 40s. Plenty of travelers read those numbers once and relax.

That is where the mistake begins. When you're near

the water, like the three rivers, you never know what could happen. Saturday, April 25, seems like there will be some opening of the skies via rain... we might dodge the rain on Thursday and Friday (April 23, April 24), but then again...you...never... know.

My name ain’t “Skippy,” but you can bet your last Trump crypto-dollar on FanDuel that it sure as heck is gonna be nippy.

Lets hope and pray that us and our city turn out OK.

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Property is Power!

Land exists in abundance “And God creates man in his own image...

And God blessed them and said, ‘Be fruitful and multiply. Replenish the Earth. Subdue it and have dominion.’” Genesis 1:28 For Black Americans, this passage carries a weight that is both spiritual and historical. To be instructed to “replenish,” to “subdue,” and to “have dominion” is not merely a theological directive; it is a declaration of agency, stewardship and rightful authority. Yet for centuries, the ability to exercise that dominion particularly over land was systematically denied. The question before us now is not whether that divine mandate exists, but whether we are prepared to fully step into it.

Power in America has never been abstract, it has always been measurable. It is recorded in deeds, enforced through contracts and preserved

What to do when inheriting a house that is paid off ANTHONY O. KELLUM through ownership. It determines who controls space, who shapes communities and, ultimately, who passes something of value on to the next generation. For Black Americans, distance from that power has never been accidental. It has been constructed through policy, practice and exclusion. Yet even as those barriers have shifted over time, a deeper question remains; how do we now engage with the very system that once locked us out?

The answer begins with a principle both simple and profound—Property is Power!

To understand that principle fully, one must first understand what it feels like to be without it. There is a particular kind of vulnerability that comes with not owning the ground beneath you.

It is not just financial, it is psychological. The instability, the lack of control, the quiet awareness that your living situation can be altered by forces beyond your influence, these are not just inconveniences, they are conditions of powerlessness.

Ownership changes that equation. It introduces control where there was once uncertainty. It replaces temporary occupancy with permanent stake. It shifts an individual or a family from participant to decision-maker and over time, it transforms not just personal circumstances, but collective outcomes.

This is where the conversation must deepen, particularly for the African American audience. Homeownership is too often framed as a milestone of adulthood or a marker of personal success. In reality, it is something far more consequential. It is an economic position—one that SEE PROPERTY IS POWER B2

Inheriting a house that is paid off puts you in a strong position with built-in equity, though your next steps matter. Start by confirming ownership, reviewing any tax considerations, and weighing whether keeping, renting, or selling supports your financial goals. Taking time to assess the situation early can help you preserve and make the most of the property’s value.

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always be sold or refinanced right away. The executor or personal representative manages the property until the legal transfer is complete.

This includes handling ongoing costs and basic upkeep to preserve the home’s value.

Title transfer is the key step that makes the inheritance official.

Once the deed is updated in your name, you take full legal ownership and responsibility.

Condition also plays a role in how smoothly the sale goes. Some homes benefit from light updates, such as: Fresh paint Cleaning Minor repairs Replacing worn hardware Others may be better suited for an as-is sale, especially if the cost of renovations would outweigh the return.

Timing matters as well. Market

Rushing decisions in estate planning strategies without understanding the full picture is the most common mistake.

Selling too quickly or ignoring tax details can all reduce the value of what you inherited. rives without much warning. A home tied to family memories suddenly becomes a major financial asset that needs clear direction. The shift from emotional attachment to practical decision-making can feel heavy, but handled carefully, it can turn into a stable and valuable opportunity for the future.

What Happens Legally When You Inherit A Paid-Off House?

The legal process starts with how the property was structured before the owner passed away. If the home was held in a trust, ownership can transfer directly to the named beneficiary with fewer delays. If it was passed through a will, the estate typically goes through probate, where a court validates the will and oversees the transfer.

During this stage, the home cannot

Selling a House Selling an inherited house that is paid off is often the most straightforward way to turn the asset into usable cash. This option works best when the property does not fit your lifestyle, requires significant repairs, or is shared among multiple heirs who want a clean resolution.

Of course, if you co-inherit a property, you might run into some issues.

A lawyer can help you define action for partition if needed.

Before listing the home, it is important to understand its current market value. A professional appraisal or comparative market analysis can give you a realistic price range.

Pricing correctly from the start can prevent the property from sitting too long, which can reduce buyer interest and lead to lower offers.

conditions, interest rates, and local demand can influence how quickly the home sells and at what price.

Taking a short period to assess these factors can help you avoid rushing into a sale that leaves money behind.

Managing Inherited Property: Keeping It Keeping an inherited house that is paid off can offer long-term stability, though it still requires a clear plan.

The absence of a mortgage lowers monthly pressure, but ownership comes with ongoing responsibilities that should be considered early.

Assess how the property fits into your life. Location, size, condition, and property taxes all play a role. A home that looks valuable on paper SEE PAID OFF B2

Stop funding your depreciation!

Looking rich is costing you real wealth!

If money truly matters to you—if you’re always talking about wanting more of it, needing more of it, and stressing when it’s not there—then why are you putting most of it into things that lose value?

That’s not a rhetorical question. That’s a financial mirror. You can’t “appreciate money” if you spend more money on “depreciating assets” than you do on “appreciating assets.”

That one statement might sound simple—but it’s really a whole sermon on how most people are handling their money... and why they’re not getting ahead.

The Problem: Spending Like You’re Rich Instead of Building Wealth There’s a hard truth most people don’t want to hear, but it explains everything: You’re not broke because you don’t make enough money. You’re broke because your money is going in the wrong direction.

Every day, I see people chasing the image of wealth while ignoring the foundation of it.

Nice cars. Designer clothes. Upgraded lifestyles. And behind the scenes? Emp-

ty savings. Maxed-out credit cards. Little to no investments.

Then the same people say, “I don’t have enough money to invest.” No—you’re just allocating it wrong.

Appreciating vs. Depreciating: Know the Difference An appreciating asset is something that grows in value or puts money in your pocket over time.

A depreciating asset does the opposite—it loses value and usually takes money out of your pocket.

Appreciating assets include: • Retirement accounts (401(k), IRA) • Stocks and index funds • Real estate • Businesses • Skills that increase your income Depreciating assets include: • Cars • Electronics

• Furniture • Designer items • Trend-based purchases Here’s the key: If most of your money is flowing toward things that lose value, your net worth will follow that same path—DOWN. The Car: America’s Biggest Depreciating Purchase A car is necessary.

I’m not arguing that. But let’s stop pretending it’s an investment.

A brand-new car starts losing value the moment you drive it off the lot.

That $50,000 vehicle can lose 20 to 30 percent of its value in the first year— and up to 60 percent over time.

Meanwhile, the average car payment is now over $700 a month. And I see it every day—people locked into $700, $800, even $1,000 monthly payments... while investing little to nothing.

That’s not a money problem. That’s a

priority problem.

You’re sending hundreds of dollars every month toward something that is losing value—while starving the things that could build your future.

When Your Lifestyle Outruns Your Net Worth Here’s the pattern: • Retirement account at $0... but the driveway looks like a dealership • No emergency fund... but the closet full of designer brands • Behind on bills... but always money for the latest phone That’s what happens when depreciating assets dominate your budget. You’re not building wealth—you’re renting a lifestyle.

And the real danger isn’t just the purchase—it’s the payment. You lock yourself into 5-, 6-, even 7-year loans on something that’s worth less every month... while your opportunity to build wealth slips further away.

The Psychology: Why People Keep Getting It Wrong Let’s keep it real—this isn’t just about numbers. It’s about behavior.

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Property is Power!

Land exists in abundance PROPERTY IS POWER FROM B1

converts income into equity, stability into leverage and presence into permanence.

The Black homeownership gap is not simply a statistic; it is a reflection of unequal participation in one of the most reliable wealth-building systems in American history. While incomes may rise and educational attainment may increase, the absence of ownership limits the ability to translate those gains into lasting wealth. Without property, progress remains fragile, subject to disruption, inflation and time.

And yet, opportunity is not scarce in the way many have been conditioned to believe. It is often overlooked. Land exists in abundance particularly within the very communities where disinvestment has occurred. Vacant lots, underutilized buildings, distressed properties these are not just signs of neglect, they are signals of opportunity. They represent entry points into ownership for those willing to see differently, think differently and act decisively.

The challenge, then, is not only external, it is internal.

A mindset shaped by exclusion can struggle to recognize opportunity, even when it is present. It can default to caution at the very moment boldness is required. It can view ownership as risk rather than as positioning. This is the quiet barrier that persists even as doors open.

To shift this mindset is not to ignore history, it is to respond to it with intention.

Ownership, particularly in real estate, demands a broader lens. It requires individuals to think beyond immediate comfort and consider long-term impact. A single property, properly understood, is not just a place to live. It is a financial instrument, a stabilizing force and, when multiplied, a mechanism for community transformation.

House by house, block by block, ownership has the capacity to reshape neighborhoods. It increases accountability, strengthens local economies and fosters a level of pride and investment that cannot be replicated through transient occupancy. When residents own, they are more likely to maintain, to improve and to advocate. The physical landscape begins to change but so does the social fabric.

This is where ownership becomes more than personal it becomes communal.

There is also a dimension of purpose embedded in this work that should not be overlooked. To provide housing, to restore properties, to reinvest in neglected spaces, these are not merely transactions, they are contributions. They represent a form of stewardship over community and environment, a recognition that ownership carries both privilege and responsibility.

And yet, even at its most sophisticated level, the principle remains accessible. Ownership does not require perfection, it requires preparation, education and the willingness to act.

There is a tendency, particularly among Black people, to wait for optimal conditions. Better rates, lower prices. But markets rarely align with ideal timing. What they reward instead is informed participation. The greater risk is not making an imperfect decision; it is making no decision at all.

If the goal is to close the wealth gap, to strengthen communities and to create something that endures beyond a single lifetime, then ownership cannot remain optional. It must become central. It must be pursued not only as a personal aspiration, but as a collective strategy. There is land in our communities. There are properties waiting to be restored, reimagined and reclaimed. There are real, tangible opportunities within reach. Property is Power!

(Dr. Anthony O. Kellum—CEO of Kellum Mortgage, LLC Homeownership Advocate, Speaker, Author NMLS # 1267030 NMLS #1567030 O: 313-263-6388 W: www.KelluMortgage.com.)

Property is Power! is a movement to promote home and community ownership. Studies indicate homeownership leads to higher graduation rates, family wealth, and community involvement.

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NAREB urges FHA to drop spousal debt rules it says unfairly limit homeownership

by Washington Informer The National Association of Real Estate Brokers is calling on the Federal Housing Administration to scrap underwriting rules it says unfairly penalize married borrowers by requiring lenders to count a non-borrowing spouse’s debt on mortgage applications—even when that spouse has no legal obligation to repay the loan.

NAREB President Ashley Thomas III, rallying Congress, housing advocates and state regulators behind the push, said the policy change is necessary to ensure equitable treatment for all borrowers regardless of marital status.

“FHA regulations create a punitive double standard that unfairly excludes creditworthy households from achieving the American dream of homeownership,” Thomas said.

“When we force lenders to count a spouse’s debts without counting their income, we are actively punishing married couples. This outdated practice restricts mortgage access and severely hurts families trying to become homeowners.”

Under current FHA guidelines, lenders in community property states must include a non-borrowing spouse’s debts in an applicant’s debt-to-income ratio—even if that spouse is not on the loan or the title.

The agency does not allow lenders to factor in that same spouse’s income unless they are an official co-borrower. The policy effectively inflates a borrower’s debt load, reducing pur-

chasing power and pushing some families into lower price points or out of the market altogether.

Community property states include Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin —several of which have among the largest Black populations in the country.

Thomas noted that Black homebuyers already face significant historic barriers, and said the FHA rule compounds them. Black households receive between 12 percent and 15 percent of all FHA loans—a disproportionately high share relative to their slice of overall mortgage originations—making the program a critical pathway to ownership. Black homeownership currently stands at just over 45 percent, compared with more than 74 percent for White households.

In community property states, Black borrowers already face higher loan denial rates and receive smaller approved mortgage amounts compared to White borrowers, NAREB said. Inconsistencies in how lenders interpret common-law marriages and spousal obligations add further confusion around eligibility.

NAREB is calling the effort the Community Property Fairness Initiative. The proposed change would align FHA practices with standards used by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which assess only the financial obligations of individuals who actually sign the note.

“The Community Property Fair-

ness Initiative is not about weakening underwriting standards or adding risk to our federal insurance funds,” Thomas said. “The goal is to ensure consistency, logic, and fairness in how we evaluate borrower obligations. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac already manage this successfully by focusing on contractual liability. It is time for the Federal Housing Administration to modernize its interpretation of state laws and align its rules with the conventional market so that all spousal obligations are handled uniformly across federal agencies.”

NAREB also argues the current FHA guidelines raise fair lending concerns. The Equal Credit Opportunity Act bars lenders from denying or discouraging loan applications based on marital status, and the group contends that any federal policy treating an application less favorably because an applicant is married or lives in a specific state runs counter to that law.

“NAREB is committed to supporting policies and practices that dismantle systemic barriers to property ownership,” Thomas said. “By raising the public discourse over this policy, NAREB aims to affirm that state community property laws do not mandate this restrictive underwriting. Eliminating this burdensome requirement will promote fair access to credit, standardize mortgage qualification processes, and help increase homeownership.”

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may not make sense if it increases commute time, requires major repairs, or carries higher annual costs than expected.

Financial planning is just as important as practicality. Even without a loan, you will still need to cover insurance, maintenance, utilities, and potential upgrades. Setting a realistic budget helps ensure the property remains an asset rather than a burden.

The condition should also be reviewed in detail. Many inherited homes have aging systems or deferred maintenance. Prioritizing essential repairs early can prevent larger expenses later and protect the home’s value over time.

Property Maintenance Tips Keeping an inherited house in good condition protects its value and prevents small issues from turning into expensive repairs.

Start with a full inspection so you know exactly what needs attention.

This helps you separate urgent repairs from routine upkeep and avoid guessing where to spend money first. Focus on systems that impact safety and structure, then move to cosmetic improvements.

A consistent maintenance approach often includes: Checking the roof, gutters, and drainage Servicing HVAC systems Inspecting plumbing for leaks, pressure issues, or aging pipes

Testing electrical systems Sealing windows and doors to improve energy efficiency Exterior care matters just as much as the inside. Overgrown landscaping, cracked walkways, or peeling paint can affect curb appeal and signal neglect to buyers or neighbors.

Frequently Asked Questions What Is the Most Common Inheritance Mistake?

Rushing decisions in estate planning strategies without understanding the full picture is the most common mistake. Selling too quickly or ignoring tax details can all reduce the value of what you inherited.

Many people skip key steps like: Getting a proper valuation Reviewing tax implications Talking through plans with other heirs Confirming legal ownership and title status A short pause to gather facts and get clarity usually makes the biggest difference.

What Devalues a House the Most?

Poor maintenance is one of the biggest drivers of lost value. Signs of neglect can signal larger hidden problems. Buyers often factor in repair costs and lower their offers accordingly.

Location also plays a major role.

Proximity to high-traffic roads, industrial areas, or declining neighborhoods can limit demand. Even a well-kept home may struggle to

hold value.

Outdated interiors can quietly drag down value as well. Things like the following make a property feel less move-in ready: Old kitchens Worn flooring Dated fixtures Outdated appliances Poor lighting What Are the Worst Things To Inherit?

Inherited properties with major structural issues can quickly become expensive. Homes with outdated systems, foundation damage, or long-term neglect may require immediate repairs that cost more than expected.

Properties with liens or unpaid taxes can also create problems. Even if the home is paid off, outstanding debts tied to the property may need to be resolved before you can sell or fully take ownership. This can delay decisions and reduce the overall value of the inheritance.

Inheriting a House That Is Paid Off: Now You Know There’s a lot to do when inheriting a house that is paid off. Use this information, and you should have an easier time.

Do you need more real estate advice? We have lots of other great posts to help you out.

Looking rich is costing you real wealth!

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People don’t overspend because they’re dumb. They overspend because of pressure, perception, and emotion.

• Social media has people comparing lifestyles instead of net worth • Peer pressure makes “average” feel like failure • Instant gratification feels better than long-term discipline • Nobody claps for your investments—but everybody notices your car That’s the trap.

You’re being rewarded socially for decisions that are hurting you financially.

The Wealth Gap Is Behavioral Two people can make the same income—and end up in completely different financial situations. Why? Because one prioritizes appreciating assets. The other prioritizes looking successful.

Fast forward 10 to 20 years: One has options, freedom, and peace of mind.

The other has bills, stress, and a lifestyle they have to maintain just to keep up appearances.

It’s not about how much you make. It’s about what you do with what you make.

Flip the Script: Use the Car, Don’t Let the Car Use You You don’t have to give up nice things— but they need to fit inside your financial plan.

1. Cap Your Car Costs Keep your total vehicle expenses (payment, insurance, gas, maintenance) around 10–15 percent of your takehome pay.

2. Buy Used, Buy Smart Let somebody else take the biggest depreciation hit. A 2-5 year-old car can give you most of the value for a fraction

of the cost.

3. Drive It Longer The real wealth-building happens when the car is paid off. That’s when you redirect that payment into investments.

4. Avoid Emotional Upgrades Don’t celebrate every raise with a new car. Celebrate by increasing your net worth.

Build the Appreciating Side of Your Life If you want to truly appreciate money, you have to give it somewhere to grow.

That means: • Investing consistently in retirement accounts • Building an emergency fund • Paying down high-interest debt • Investing in assets that generate in-

come or growth Here’s the reality: Every dollar you send toward something that loses value is a dollar that didn’t get the chance to grow for you.

Over time, that difference becomes life-changing.

Real Talk: You Don’t Need to Be Perfect—Just Intentional This isn’t about never enjoying your money. It’s about balance.

If you’re spending $800 a month on a car but investing $0—that’s a problem.

If you upgrade your phone every year but haven’t upgraded your financial strategy—that’s a problem.

If your lifestyle is growing faster than your assets—you’re moving backwards.

Even if it doesn’t feel like it yet.

Ask Yourself Before You Sign Before you commit to your next big purchase, ask yourself: If I lost my income tomorrow, could I comfortably afford this?

If I invested this money instead, what would it be worth in 10–15 years?

Am I buying value... or validation?

Be honest with yourself. Your future depends on it.

The Bottom Line Your spending is a mirror.

It reflects your real priorities—not the ones you talk about. So if you say you want wealth, freedom, and security...

Your money needs to move in that direction.

Stop funding your depreciation. Start funding your appreciation. Because you don’t appreciate money by spending it...

You appreciate money by positioning it.

Positioning it to grow. Positioning it to work for you. Positioning it to create options and freedom. Anybody can look rich for a moment.

But building wealth? That takes discipline, patience, and a willingness to move different—even when nobody’s watching.

So here’s the real question: Are you spending your money to impress people... or investing it to empower your future?

Because at the end of the day, your bank account doesn’t care how good you looked.

It reflects the choices you made. And those choices add up.

(Damon Carr, Money Coach & Tax Pro can be reached at 412-216-1013 or visit his website at www.damonmoneycoach.com) Helping you flip your finances from stressed to blessed—one smart decision at a time.

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America stands on the wrong side of history

by Washington Informer Editorial Staff In a moment that should have united the world in moral clarity, the United States instead chose denial.

On March 25, the United Nations General Assembly passed a landmark resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade the “gravest crime against humanity.”

The vote was decisive, with 123 nations voting in favor.

Yet the United States—alongside Israel and Argentina—opposed the resolution, while the United Kingdom and the European Union chose the cowardly path of abstaining.

This was not merely a diplomatic disagreement. It was a profound moral failure. Slavery was not an abstract historical wrong. It was a system of industrialized human theft, torture, rape, and generational dehumanization that forcibly displaced more than 12 million Africans and built the economic foundations of Western wealth.

The scars of that brutality remain visible today in racial wealth gaps, systemic inequality, and enduring discrimination across societies shaped by its legacy.

The resolution, led by Ghana and backed by African and Caribbean nations, sought not to rank suffering but to acknowledge the truth and pursue justice, including reparations. As Ghana’s leadership emphasized, this was about “moral recognition,” not retribution.

Legal scholar Justin Hansford, in a Reuters interview, called the measure a historic step—an overdue affirmation of what descendants of the enslaved have long known.

Yet the Trump administration rejected it, hiding behind legalistic arguments about “hierarchies of atrocities.”

That rationale rings hollow. Refusing to name slavery as one of the gravest crimes is not neutrality—it is erasure.

It signals an unwillingness to confront the full weight of history, especially when that history implicates power.

Let us be clear: this decision was not merely misguided; it was racist in effect and implication. At a time when the global community is grappling with systemic injustice, the United States chose to diminish one of the most defining atrocities in human history.

History will remember who stood for truth and who turned away. Unfortunately, the United States turned away from it.

(Reprinted from The Washington Informer)

Kamala Harris says she may take third bite at the apple

by Washington Informer Editorial Staff Former Vice President Kamala Harris confirmed during a fireside chat with the Rev. Al Sharpton at the annual National Action Network (NAN) conference on April 9, that she may run again for president.

In fact, Harris garnered some loud cheers in support of the notion.

But as Harris knows, while chants of “run again” may be heartwarming and encouraging, she would be wise not to gauge her chances for success on the singular affirmations of a presumably partisan crowd.

“I served for four years being a heartbeat away from the presidency of the United States,” Harris told Sharpton. “I know what the job is, and I know what it requires.”

Perhaps it’s that rare vantage point which she alone, and unlike no other Black woman in history, has ever been afforded, that has influenced her decision to bypass a run for California governor and to instead seriously ponder a third run for the White House.

If you believe the numbers, in a very early polling of a potential 2028 presidential race conducted by Race to the White House, Harris stands at the top of the field.

However, it’s impossible to determine if that’s because folks know who she is and recognize her name more than many of the other potential contestants.

Could it be that Americans have finally removed the blinders of racism and sexism in their evaluations of the potential candidates? Further, are the powerbrokers who hold the reins of the Democratic Party willing to give their unbridled energy and full support to a Black woman?

Can she be successful in her quest for the presidency while treading water in murky seas, which for 250 years, have provided life preservers to rich White men, albeit for one rare exception?

It’s easy to say, “May the best man—or woman—win.”

The question remains, is America serious? Are Americans ready for a woman of color—or a person who is not a White male—to lead as president of the United States?

(Reprinted from The Washington Informer)

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(TriceEdneyWire.com)—My good friend, the late Joe Madison, would often say “Now that you know, what are you going to do about it?” Today I decided to do the same as Joe so often asked.

First, the facts.

Donald Trump is doing everything possible to prevent people from voting by mail and in any way. Donald Trump started an unnecessary war, and can’t seem to decide what he wants out of the war and when it will end.

Donald Trump wants to ignore the Epstein issue and the women injured by Epstein and others when it’s obvious he knows a lot about it. Donald Trump has sent his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to run around the world trying to extract money for his personal use from everybody who will give it to him—like the Saudis who gave him two billion dollars that did not go into the U.S. Treasury, but into his pocket.

Donald Trump has assigned Jared Kushner, with no known skills in negotiating anything for the American people, but we are told he is now asking for five billion dollars from the Iranians.

Don’t you even wonder where it’s going if he gets it? Donald Trump has caused an increase in all prices like gasoline, food, utilities and all the essentials we need just to make ends meet daily.

Donald Trump has alienated so many of our friends around the world that they no longer trust America. Donald Trump has disgraced himself before many religious leaders, and most Cath-

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Commentary olics, with his efforts to vilify Pope Leo. Donald Trump has caused thousands of highly educated, productive and capable Black women to lose their jobs.

Donald Trump has gone overboard to find something wrong (as in illegal) with the brilliant New York Attorney General Tish James without cause.

Donald Trump acts like he barely knew the late Jeffrey Epstein when the evidence shows the contrary. Donald Trump has hired to high places the most incompetent people of any President of record.

Donald Trump has released from prison so many January 6th criminals who wrecked our Capitol Building and caused the death of several people who were trying to protect it. Donald Trump has told criminals he loves them immediately after they tried to destroy our Capitol. Donald Trump has shown he cares nothing for people like you and me.

Donald Trump is a convicted felon, and has shown no remorse for his behavior. Donald Trump is still trying to take Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid from people who need it. Don-

ald Trump has thrown the Ukrainian people to the dogs, and allowed so many to die unnecessarily. Donald Trump just wasted your tax dollars to send Vice-President J.D. Vance to Hungary to try without success to bring his dictator friend, Orban, across the victory line against the strong will of the Hungarian people.

Donald Trump has supported Vladimir Putin while he was killing so many of his own people. He supported Benjamin Netanyahu in every way he could—even while his own people disagreed with what he was doing when he was killing nearly 100,000 Palestinians—many of whom were innocent little babies. I used Trump’s name at the beginning of every statement so you would not miss who is to blame for all of the above.

Now that you know all of this, and this is not a complete list of Trump’s wrongdoing, are you aware that your vote during the midterm elections puts you in charge of what you can do when you vote? Trump has so many people in the House and the Senate who are actually defending him daily, so knowing these things about him—and there are far more I could include, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? Why not vote to change things? Why not do that to honor people who died to give us the right to vote!

(Dr. E. Faye Williams is president of The Dick Gregory Society.)

An improbable African American victory at the 1936 Hitler olympics Ninety years ago, a rising University of Pittsburgh sophomore named John Woodruff delivered a mesmerizing victory in the 800 meters race in the 1936 summer Olympic Games in Nazi Germany. Of course, Ohio State University African American sensation Jesse Owens triumphed with four gold medals at the Berlin games that summer.

But the drama of John Woodruff’s gold medal-winning performance likely upheld one’s faith in miracles.

Not only did John Woodruff come in first in the 800 meters race, he came from last place to do so. A Black small-town young man with worldclass talent, the native of Connellsville, Pennsylvania (a town near Pittsburgh) put his little birth place on the map.

Born in South Connellsville in 1915, John Woodruff was part of a working class family of 12 children. A standout football, as well as track and field athlete in high school, for college he enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh with a track and field athletic scholarship.

During his freshman year in college, John Woodruff experienced limited preparatory competition. That was yet another reason why his international Olympic gold was all the sweeter in that 800-meter race that summer of 1936, on the world stage.

In the race John Woodruff was in an inside lane. Soon, he was boxed in by other runners. He knew that fowling as he would try to break free would result in his elimination. He also knew that if he did not get clear that he would lose the race.

Astonishingly, John Woodruff stopped running; let all competitors move past him; restarted on the outside track; caught up; passed; and almost lost but won the 800. His nearly 10-foot stride didn’t hurt either.

In reporting on the race, the New York Times wrote John Woodruff’s version of the story of the race. And

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Commentary amid other reports that he paused or almost paused, he insisted, ‘’I didn’t pause; I stopped running’’.

John Woodruff still griped about the reported action decades later in an interview.

John Woodruff went on to win every varsity race in which he competed thereafter. After the Pan American 1937 Dallas, Texas race for which officials disallowed his record-setting time, some Arizona middle schoolers mathematically proved the officials to be in error decades later.

Further, also in 1937, the racist Naval Academy of the United States—in racially segregated Annapolis, Maryland—barred Black student athletes from a track and field meet there.

The University of Pittsburgh participated in the competition at Annapolis, leaving John Woodruff behind in Pittsburgh. Later—70 years later— his alma mater apologized to him. A few years after that, the U.S. Naval Academy apologized to late John Woodruff’s son, John Jr. and widow Rose, in 2009.

John Woodruff earned a master’s degree from New York University and was a member of the Black Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity (as was Martin Luther King, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois and Thurgood Marshall. Maryland Governor Wes Moore is an Alpha as well.)

The track star served his country in the racially segregated U.S. Army as a second lieutenant in 1941 and retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1957. By Executive Order 9981, President Harry S. Truman integrated the U. S. military in 1948.

John Woodruff did coaching, youth development work and worked in many public and private professional assignments in New York State and in New Jersey.

He gave his Olympic gold medal to his high school, but security issues concerning its public display surfaced, and he gave it to the University of Pittsburgh, which displays it in an elaborate kiosk in Hillman Library.

During the 1936 Olympics, it was reported that bigoted German fuhrer Adolph Hitler refused to shake hands with any Black medalists. ‘’President Franklin Roosevelt did not shake my hand either when we got stateside again,” John Woodruff later observed.

The 18 African American men and women competitors in the 1936 summer Olympics went on with life.

They had not only disproved the Nazi theory about Black inferiority, but their performances embarrassed the American White supremacy practices as well. (By the way, Tidye Pickett won the women’s 800 meters race, meaning an African American man and an African American woman owned the 1936 800 meters summer Olympics race.)

Even Black gold medalists, along with other victors, were given little oak saplings from Germany’s Black Forest. Some of the recipients threw their Nazi saplings overboard on the return cruise home. Jesse Owens and John Woodruff did not. The western Pennsylvanian’s little bit of German foliage was brought to Connellsville.

When John Woodruff died in 2007 a memorial service honoring him was held on an athletic field on Connellsville High School grounds. Nearby stood a 90-year-old, 50-foot tall mighty oak from Germany’s Black Forest.

(Robert Hill is an award-winning Pittsburgh writer and communications consultant.)

Student debt is failing millions

by Ben Jealous (TriceEdneyWire.com)—America’s student debt system is failing millions of people. About 42.7 million borrowers owe more than $1.6 trillion. More than 5 million have already gone more than a year without making a payment and are in default. Another 4 million were already in late-stage delinquency when the U.S. Department of Education issued its warning last year.

People do not usually end up in default because they are reckless.

They end up there because the payoff they were promised never arrives strongly enough or fast enough. Some cannot find steady work. Others find work that simply does not pay enough to carry the debt. That is what it looks like when a path to mobility stops working for too many people.

That is why apprenticeships matter.

They start with work, wages and skill, not a bill. They let people earn while they learn. They connect training directly to real jobs and real employers. And they do not belong only to the old trades, important as those trades remain.

America still needs more electricians, welders, plumbers, carpenters, machinists and construction workers. We need people who can build homes, modernize the grid, maintain infrastructure and keep the physical country running. But

apprenticeship is also being used in teaching, health care, public service, information technology and cybersecurity. Teacher apprenticeship has spread rapidly in recent years because states and employers are looking for better ways to fill essential jobs.

Several states are making real progress. Illinois has made meaningful moves, including a tax credit of $3,500 per eligible apprentice, with another $1,500 available when the apprentice or the employer is in an underserved area. North Carolina has built a substantial statewide apprenticeship system. Pennsylvania is putting more money into expansion.

That is real progress.

But Maryland is showing what it looks like when a state decides that apprenticeship belongs near the center of an economic mobility agenda. Gov. Wes Moore signed the RAISE Act and then launched a $5 million incentive program to help employers hire and train more apprentices. His administration has made clear that apprenticeship is a way to grow the workforce and expand economic opportunity.

For most families, the question is simple: Does a path lead to upward mobility or not?

Too many young Americans were told that if they studied hard, borrowed what they had to and got the degree, they would move up. Too often, they are still struggling to get

started.

The class side of this story is impossible to ignore.

The people most likely to get crushed by student debt are the people who had the least room for error to begin with. If your family has savings, a setback is still painful, but it is less likely to become a crisis. If your family does not, one loan payment can throw off the rent, the groceries, the child care or the car note.

That is why apprenticeships make so much sense. They let people build skill and income at the same time.

They let people move forward without first mortgaging their future.

Of course, apprenticeships are not perfect. They have to be funded well. Employers have to take them seriously. Programs have to help people finish. But those are problems worth solving. They are better problems than telling another generation of young people to borrow first and hope it works out later.

Student debt has left too many Americans stuck. Apprenticeships offer a better road. Illinois has started down it. Maryland is showing how much farther states can go.

The rest of the country should be paying attention.

(Ben Jealous is a professor of practice at the University of Pennsylvania and former president and CEO of the NAACP.)

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The Postal Service should be funded: Rain, snow, sleet or stalemate (TriceEdneyWire.com)—There is an institution older than the United States itself that is now fighting for its survival, and too many people in power are watching it happen without lifting a finger.

The United States Postal Service was founded in 1775, a year before the Declaration of Independence. Benjamin Franklin was the first Postmaster General. It has survived wars, depressions, technological upheavals, and the death of the handwritten letter. It has never missed a day of service. Today, it is being quietly bled out, and the silence from Congress is its own kind of crisis.

The Postmaster General has warned lawmakers that the agency is at a “critical juncture” and will run out of cash in less than a year unless Congress allows it to borrow more money. “At our current rate, we’ll be out of cash in less than 12 months. So in about a year from now, the postal service would be unable to deliver the mail,” Postmaster General David Steiner said before a House subcommittee.

This is not a hypothetical. USPS suspended employer pension contributions in April 2026, pausing roughly $200 million every two weeks to free $2.5 billion in cash just to keep the lights on.

This is the slow unraveling of an institution that helped build the American middle class.

The Postal Service was never just a place to buy stamps. It was infrastructure. It was connectivity before broadband. It was the original equalizer, guaranteeing that a family in rural Mississippi and a family in Manhattan received the same service at the same price. It built a path into the middle class for generations of Black Americans who could not access employment in the private sector. Postal work was union work, stable work, dignified work,

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To Be Equal one of the first federal employers to hire Black men and women at a meaningful scale. In city after city, the post office was not just a government building; it was a community anchor.

USPS continues to operate its universal delivery network, visiting 168 million addresses, six days a week. It remains the largest mail service in the world, delivering nearly 40 percent of mail sent globally. And it does all of this while operating under congressional mandates that private competitors never face, including the requirement to serve every address in America at a uniform price, regardless of how remote or expensive that delivery is.

The financial crisis did not appear overnight.

USPS has lost money almost every fiscal year since 2007, with net losses totaling approximately $109 billion from fiscal years 2007 through 2024. Much of that loss traces back to a 2006 law that forced the agency to pre-fund 75 years of retiree health benefits in just 10 years, a burden placed on no other federal agency or private company. Congress created the problem. Congress has been slow to solve it. And now, rather than stepping up with the legislative action that every credible financial analysis says is required, too many members are standing aside while the institution crumbles.

Privatizing the USPS could mean the end of guaranteed mail service to every American address, leaving many rural customers without the deliveries they depend on. For communities of color, the elderly, people with disabilities, and low-income families who depend on the Postal Service for medications, government benefits, and financial correspondence, this is not an inconvenience. It is a rupture in the basic terms of citizenship.

And this is where the stakes become undeniable, because we are not having this conversation about postal funding in a vacuum. We are having it in an election year, with a Supreme Court case sitting on the docket that could make the reliability of mail delivery a matter of life or death for American democracy.

The Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling in Watson v. Republican National Committee months before the November midterm elections. The case centers on the Republican Party’s challenge to Mississippi’s law allowing mail ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted if they arrive within 5 business days afterward. Twenty-nine states, plus Washington, D.C., count at least some timely cast ballots if received within a brief window after Election Day. The National Urban League filed an amicus brief defending those grace periods. We did so because we understand what is at stake. Black, Hispanic, and Native American voters encounter the greatest barriers to in-person voting due to greater polling relocation and removal. Mail voting is not a convenience for these communities. It is often their most reliable path to the ballot. Now consider what happens if the Court guts those grace periods just as the Postal Service is too underfunded to guarantee timely mail delivery. Voters who rely on mail voting, such as military and overseas voters, voters with disabilities, and older voters, would face the most significant impacts if postmark deadlines are struck down.

The two crises connect. A weakened Postal Service cannot guarantee that a ballot mailed on Election Day will arrive within the shrinking window the courts may allow. The math is simple, and the intent is legible. When you hollow out the institution and restrict the deadline simultaneously, you do not need to prevent people from voting. You just make their votes disappear in the mail.

Congress must act. Not eventually. Now. Increase USPS’s borrowing authority. Stabilize its finances. Restore the workforce that has been cut. Protect the institution that has served this country since before it was a country.

The National Urban League has spent more than 115 years fighting for the full citizenship of Black America. We have fought at the ballot box, in the courts, and in the halls of Congress. We know that democracy is not threatened only by dramatic, obvious assaults. Sometimes it is threatened by budget shortfalls, by inaction, and by the slow erosion of the infrastructure that connects people to their government and their rights.

Either way, this November, the people will have something to say about who chose to stand by while the mail stopped running.

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UN recognized slave trade as ‘gravest crime’ but whitewashed history

In 2007, the United Nations established the International Day of Remembrance for Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. It is observed annually on March 25th. Last month, Ghana’s president, John Dramani Mahama, commemorated the day by introducing a resolution to the United Nations General Assembly, recognizing the transatlantic slave trade as the gravest crime against humanity.

The resolution calls for formal apologies for historical wrongs, as well as reparation payments, to address slavery’s legacy, which currently persists through racism, discrimination, and inequality.

Resolutions approved by the General Assembly are not legally binding, but they reflect a worldwide consensus.

According to the Associated Press, the 193-member international body voted 123 to 3, with 52 abstentions. Argentina, Israel, and the United States voted against the resolution, while all 27 European Union countries, including the United Kingdom, abstained.

Many headlines reported that the UN resolution designated “slavery” as the gravest crime against humanity, but that’s not what the resolution declared.

It specified “racialized chattel enslavement of Africans” as the gravest crime, not slavery in general.

The distinction isn’t merely academic.

The precise wording implies that the forms of slavery practiced by Africans before they encountered the Europeans, such as domestic slavery, debt slavery, and military slavery, were benign because the enslaved individuals were not treated as property like those in European chattel slavery; however, once Europeans racialized slavery, it became malign because the Europeans believed all Black people were inferior to the White race, and the White race had the “God-given right” to enslave Blacks.

Historians acknowledge that, during the centuries of the transatlantic slave

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Check It Out trade, Europeans did not have the power to invade African states or kidnap Africans. This inability led to Europeans purchasing “enslaved people” from African slave traders; however, by naming “racialized chattel enslavement of Africans” as the “gravest crime against humanity,” the UN resolution absolves African slave traders of responsibility for their role in the transatlantic slave trade.

Angela Thompsell’s 2025 essay, African Traders of Enslaved People, posed the question: Why would Africans sell their people to Europeans? She replied, “The simple answer to this question is that they did not see enslaved people as ‘their people.’ Blackness (as an identity or marker of difference) was at that time a preoccupation of Europeans, not Africans. In this era, there was also no collective sense of being ‘African.’ In other words, African traders of enslaved people felt no obligation to protect enslaved Africans because they did not regard them as their equals.”

If African traders did not see the enslaved as equals, they considered them inferior. However, their perceived inferiority was due to status rather than race. The UN resolution expects the world’s governing entities to agree that treating a human being as inferior based on status is less destructive than treating a human being as inferior because of race. Simply put, the former is benign, whereas the latter constitutes the “gravest crime against humanity.”

To the enslaved, weren’t the outcomes

equal?

The distinction between slavery practiced by Africans and slavery practiced

by Europeans is made to target European countries and the United States for reparation payments.

However, there are two problems with overstating the difference.

First, if it is agreed that slavery practiced by Africans in the past was benign or less destructive than European enslavement, then slavery as it persists in modern-day Africa will never be regarded as malign.

According to Martin Plaut’s 2025 essay, Slavery in Africa Today: A Crisis Ignored by Its Own Institutions, “Slavery persists in parts of Africa in brutal, dehumanizing forms. Men, women, and children are trafficked, sold, and inherited as property. The suffering is real and ongoing. What is perhaps more shocking, however, is not just that slavery exists but that powerful regional institutions, notably the African Union and the Arab League, have failed to confront it with the urgency and clarity it demands … Whether out of political calculation, denial, or fear of self-implication, the silence from these bodies has contributed to a vacuum of accountability—and allowed the ancient crime of slavery to persist in the modern era.”

Second, since European slavery is regarded as the “gravest crime” against humanity, the legacy of European slavery, which currently persists through racism, discrimination, and inequality, becomes more vital to address than the abolition of modern slavery.

Sadly, all the African nations that supported this UN resolution held the Europeans to a higher standard than they held themselves—this behavior stems from an inferiority complex rooted in the legacy of slavery, which no amount of reparations payments can remedy.

The future of work is already here (TriceEdneyWire.com)—People keep talking about the future of work as if it is something waiting just around the corner—robots taking jobs, artificial intelligence transforming industries, entire occupations disappearing overnight. I’m speaking soon at a conference on this very topic, and the more I think about it, the more convinced I am that we are asking the wrong question. The future of work is not something waiting decades in the distance. For millions of Americans, it has already arrived—and it looks a lot like insecurity.

The latest employment report shows the economy adding 178,000 jobs in March, with unemployment holding at about 4.3 percent. Economists look at those numbers and pronounce the labor market strong. But statistics do not pay rent or buy groceries. Economists love numbers.

Workers live with consequences. Talk to workers and you hear something different: a growing sense that the rules of work are changing, and not necessarily for the better. And the surface numbers don’t tell the whole story. With several measures of labor underutilization, the unemployment rate looks more like 8 percent, and as high as 13 percent for African Americans.

For decades Americans believed that education, hard work, and loyalty to an employer would lead to stability. A job was supposed to provide more than wages. It was supposed to offer a path—a way to build a life, raise a family, and eventually retire with dignity.

That bargain is quietly disappearing.

Many of the fastest-growing occupations in the American economy are in what economists politely call the care sector: home health aides, childcare workers, nursing assistants, and elder care providers. These workers do the labor that allows the rest of the economy to function.

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Commentary They care for children, support people with disabilities, and help aging Americans live with dignity.

Yet the economy rewards that labor with wages that barely sustain the people doing it. The median pay for home health and personal care aides is about $16 an hour, roughly $32,000 a year for full-time work. Try paying rent, transportation, and groceries on that in most American cities. An economy that pays caregivers poverty wages is telling you exactly what it values.

More than four million Americans now work in these jobs, making caregiving one of the largest occupations in the country.

Demand will only grow as the population ages. Within the next decade, Americans over the age of 65 will outnumber children for the first time in our history.

That demographic reality reveals something uncomfortable about the American economy. The work that sustains human life—caring for children, tending to the sick, supporting the elderly—is treated as low-value labor. Meanwhile, sectors far removed from those everyday needs capture extraordinary wealth.

At the same time, the middle-class professional job that once symbolized stability is showing signs of fragility. Workers in media, technology, universities, and nonprofits increasingly face layoffs with little warning. Contract work replaces perma-

nent employment. People who once relied on one job now patch together two or three to stay afloat. Roughly five percent of American workers now hold multiple jobs, often because one paycheck no longer stretches far enough.

Artificial intelligence may accelerate these trends, but technology alone is not the story. The deeper issue is how our economy values work. In the emerging labor market, the jobs that generate the greatest social value often generate the least financial reward.

Black women understand this reality better than most. For generations they have participated in the labor force at high rates, sustaining families and communities while navigating an economy that rarely rewarded their labor with equal pay or equal opportunity. What many Americans are discovering today about instability and undervalued labor is something Black women have been managing for decades.

The future of work is not being shaped by technology alone. It is being shaped by power.

So when we talk about the future of work, we should be clear about what is really at stake. The question is not whether machines will replace humans. The question is whether work in America will continue to drift toward instability while the most essential labor remains the least rewarded.

The future of work is already here. And unless we rethink what work should provide—stability, dignity, and the ability to build a life—we may discover that the economy we are building works very well for profits, but not nearly as well for the people whose labor sustains it.

(Dr. Julianne Malveaux is a DC based economist and author. Juliannemalveaux.com).

A successful pushback against anti-wokeness

by G. Lamont Blackstone Just when we dearly needed something to counter “make America great again” narratives attacking workplace diversity, the Artemis II crew splashed down in the ocean, completing a spaceflight for the ages. And with crew staff Victor Glover and Christina Koch, the social epidemic of anti-wokeness—with its virulent strains of racism and sexism—was administered in inoculation. Think of it as a temporary vaccine against human resources stupidity.

With a Black man piloting the spacecraft, there was no crashing into the dark side of the moon. That was notwithstanding fears prominently expressed (by a famous MAGA advocate) of flying on commercial flights with Black pilots. Why the anxiety? Because he doubted Black pilots were qualified for their roles. Perhaps he was unaware of the Tuskegee Airmen’s glorious legacy.

Also, to all the purported “manly men” populating the dank abyss known as the manosphere, I pose two questions. Could they possibly summon the intestinal fortitude to endure the rigors of space that Christina Koch endured for ten days? And would their manly bravado have equipped them to serve, among other roles, as the flight’s “space plumber”—as she did?

Thus, America should be grateful that NASA is not part of the Department of Defense. For we would likely have seen Secretary Pete Hegseth purging Glover, a former Navy aviator, and Koch from the mission —just as he has repeatedly purged other Black and female talent in his culture war

against diversity. So because of Glover and Koch, maybe, just maybe, one day the diversity, equity and inclusion haters will understand that Black and female excellence is—dare I say?—out of this world.

American social epidemics can be enduringly malevolent (e.g., Jim Crow, 20th-century anti-Asian sentiments, and 21st-century antisemitism). Or they can be uplifting. The diversity of the Artemis II mission offers us the latter. But it will be essential to continuously circulate images of all four crew members together. American eyeballs should see them in our schools and in Congress.

But the Artemis II mission offers yet one additional high note.

Over the past centuries, Black Americans have experienced multiple divides—barriers either created intentionally or by the absence of empathy. There were the racial embargoes of segregation that hindered the pursuit of higher education, decent homes, and many jobs. In the early years of the Internet Age, a digital divide had evolved, characterized by limited access to computing power. That was based on the affordability of the technology or disparities in broadband availability in certain urban and rural communities.

Most recently, we are seeing yet another digital divide regarding access to and proficiency with artificial intelligence (AI).

As we march toward the year 2030, many Americans may face the threat of functional obsolescence or competitive disadvantage unless they are AI adept.

There is also, however, the risk of a “cosmic divide.” This would involve the absence

of Black Americans in future opportunities generated by space exploration. Will the USA, Russia, and China monopolize the contests to exploit the resources and possibilities of lunar exploration and, years later, even Mars? Might this even echo that voracious scramble at the Berlin Conference of 1884, which carved up Africa among the competing European powers?

So, here is the stark political reality. It confronts Black Americans and technical professionals of color—i.e., military officers, scientists, and engineers. NASA’s future objectives include establishing a long-term, continuous presence on and around the Moon. The Artemis II crew’s staffing, inclusive of Glover and Koch, had been established during the Biden Administration.

Yet I suspect that any attempt by Donald Trump to change the Artemis II crew would have delayed the recent mission.

And that likely would have disrupted the timeline for subsequent lunar missions.

But that doesn’t mean that his anti-Biden and anti-diversity instincts won’t attempt to bar a future Black presence in outer space.

There were no Africans or Black Americans at that Berlin Conference of the 19th century. There was, however, a Victor Glover on the 21st century’s Artemis mission.

And we should insist that Congress ensures that there are other Victor Glovers and Dr. Mae Jemisons involved in future space exploration and its economic ripple effects.

(G. Lamont Blackstone is the former chief investment officer of the first national equity investment fund to target inner-city neighborhoods.)

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CONDITIONS OF SALE Effective with the August 3, 2020, Sheriff Sale of real estate and all such monthly public sales thereafter shall be conducted virtually through video conferencing technology or live streaming. ALL PARTICIPANTS OR BIDDERS MUST BE REGISTERED AT LEAST 7 DAYS BEFORE THE DATE OF THE SALE IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE (VIRTUALLY OR IN PERSON) AT THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE SALES OF REAL ESTATE. REGISTRATION WILL BE AVAILABLE ON THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY SHERIFF’S WEBSITE: SHERIFFALLEGHENYCOUNTY.COM. The Successful bidder will pay full amount of bid in CASH, CERTIFIED CHECK OR CASHIERS CHECK at time of sale, otherwise the property will be resold at the next regular Sheriffs Sale; provided, that if the sale is made on MONDAY, MAY 4, 2026 the bidder may pay ten percent of purchasing price but not less than $75.00 in CASH, CERTIFIED CHECK, OR CASHIERS CHECK THE DAY IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE SALE, e.g. TUESDAY, MAY 5, 2026, BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 8:30AM AND 2:30PM IN THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE. Failure to pay the 10% deposit will have you banned from future Sheriff Sales. And the balance in CASH, CERTIFIED CHECK, OR CASHIERS CHECK, on or before MONDAY, MAY 11, 2026, at 10:00 O’CLOCK A.M. The property will be resold at the next regular Sheriff’s Sale if the balance is not paid, and in such case all money’s paid in at the original sale shall be applied to any deficiency in the price of which property is resold, and provided further that if the successful bidder is the plaintiff in the execution the bidder shall pay full amount of bid ON OR BEFORE THE FIRST MONDAY OF THE FOLLOWING MONTH, OTHERWISE WRIT WILL BE RETURNED AND MARKED “REAL ESTATE UNSOLD” and all monies advanced by plaintiff will be applied as required

by COMMON PLEAS COURT RULE 3129.2 (1) (a).

FORFEITED SALES WILL BE POSTED IN THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE AND LISTED ON THE SHERIFF OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY WEB SITE. AMENDMENT OF THE CODE SECOND CLASS COUNTY NEW CHAPTER 475 THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY CODE OF ORDINANCES, CHAPTER 475, ENTITLED TAXATION IS HEREBY AMENDED THROUGH THE CREATION ARTICLE XII, ENTITLED, “SHERIFF SALES”, AND COMPRISED AS FOLLOWS: SUBSECTION 475-60: RECORDING OF DEEDS AND NOTIFICATION OF SHERIFFS SALES TO TAXING BODIES. A. FOR ANY REAL PROPERTY OFFERED AT SHERIFFS SALE DUE TO NONPAYMENT OF REAL ESTATE TAXES AND PURCHASED BY A THIRD PARTY THROUGH SUCH SALE, THE SHERIFF SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR FILING THE DEED AND, WITHIN SEVEN DAYS OF FILING OF THE SHERIFFS DEED, PROVIDE WRITTEN NOTICE OF THE CONVEYANCE TO THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY OFFICE OF PROPERTY ASSESSMENTS. THE WRITTEN NOTICE REQUIRED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBSECTION SHALL INCLUDE THE DATE OF THE SALE, IDENTIFICATION OF THE PROPERTY SOLD BY BOTH ADDRESS AND LOT AND BLOCK NUMBER, AND THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE INDIVIDUALS OR OTHER ENTITY THAT PURCHASED THE PROPERTY. B. AT THE TIME OF THE SALE THE SHERIFF SHALL COLLECT ALL REQUISITE FILING COSTS, REALTY TRANSFER TAXES AND FEES, NECESSARY TO PROPERLY RECORD THE DEED. C. WITHIN SEVEN DAYS OF RECEIPT OF WRITTEN NOTICE FROM THE SHERIFF, THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY OFFICE OF PROPERTY ASSESSMENTS SHALL FORWARD COPIES OF SUCH NOTICE TO ALL TAXING BODIES LEVYING REAL ESTATE TAXES ON THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE MUNICIPALITY AND SCHOOL DISTRICT WHERE THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED. AS REQUIRED BY SECTION 14 OF ACT NO. 77 OF 1986, THE COST OF ALL DOCUMENTARY STAMPS FOR REAL ESTATE TRANSFER TAXES (STATE, LOCAL, AND SCHOOL) WILL BE DEDUCTED BY THE SHERIFF FROM THE PROCEEDS OF THE SALE. Purchasers must pay the necessary recording fees. Pursuant to Rule 3136 P.R.C.P. NOTICE is hereby given that a schedule of distribution will be filed by the Sheriff not later than 30 days from date of sale and that distribution will be made in accordance with the schedule unless exceptions are filed thereto within 10 days thereafter. No further notice of the filing of the schedule of distribution will be given.

A Land Bank formed under 68 Pa. C.S.A. 2101 et seq. may exercise its right to bid pursuant to 68 Pa. C.S.A. 2117(d) (2) through Pa. C.S.A. 2117(d) (4) on certain properties listed for sale under the municipal claims and Tax Lien Law, 53 P.S. 7101 et seq. The Sheriff of Allegheny County will honor the terms of payment which the Land Bank has entered with any municipalities having a claim against the property. If the Land Bank tenders a bid under Pa. C.S.A. 2117(d)(3) or 2117(d)(4) the property will not be offered for sale to others and the Property will be considered sold to the Land Bank for the Upset Price as defined in P.S.7279 and no other bids will be accepted.

NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT ALL SHERIFFS DEEDS TENDERED TO PURCHASERS WILL CONTAIN THE FOLLOWING: NOTICE: The undersigned, as evidenced by the signature(s) to this notice and the acceptance and recording of this deed, (is/are) fully cognizant of the fact that the undersigned may not be obtaining the right of protection against subsidence, as to the property herein conveyed, resulting from coal mining operations and that the purchased property, herein conveyed, may be protected from damage due to mine subsidence by a private contract with the owners of the economic interest in the coal. This notice is inserted herein to comply with the Bituminous Mine Subsidence and Land Conservation Act of 1966. as amended 1980. Oct. 10, P.L 874, No. 156 §1.

“This document may not sell, convey, transfer, include, or insure the title to the coal and right of support underneath the surface land described or referred to herein and the owner or owners of such coal may have the complete legal right to remove all of such coal, and in that connection damage may result to the surface of the land, any house, building or other structure on or in such land.”

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DEFENDANT(S): DOUGLAS M. GRIMSLEY; PAULA A. GRIMSLEY *************** CASE NO.: GD-25-011355 ********** DEBT: $167,240.15 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane.& Partners, PLLC *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 133 GAITHER DRIVE, SUITE F MOUNT LAUREL, NJ 08054 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 855-225-6906 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Indiana Township: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 214 BURWICK COURT, PITTSBURGH, PA 15238. Deed Book Volume 14081, Page 348. Block and Lot Number 0835-A-00001-0000-00.

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DEFENDANT(S): Monopoly Lane company, a Pennsylvania corporation *************** CASE NO.: GD-25-003518 ********** DEBT: $100,243.84 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Stem & Eisenberg, PC *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: The Shops at Valley Square, 1581 Main Street, Suite 200 Warrington, PA 18976 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (215) 572-8111 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny and Tenth Ward of the City of • Pittsburgh: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 5115 Kincaid Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15224-1218. DEED BOOK VOLUME 19613, PAGE 338. Block and Lot Number 50-F-22.

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DEFENDANT(S): JOHN M. MCCARTHY *************** CASE NO.: GD-25-011651 ********** DEBT: $208,363.09 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 133 GAITHER DRIVE, SUITE F, MOUNT LAUREL NJ 08054 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 855-225-6906 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Monroeville: Having erected thereon a dwelling· being known and numbered as 546 GREENLEAF DR, MONROEVILLE, PA 15146. Deed Book Volume 13023, Page 244. Block and Lot Number 0742-J-00224-0000-00.

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DEFENDANT(S): MICHELLE L. MCDONOUGH *************** CASE NO.: GD-24-014522 ********** DEBT: $223,573.45 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 133 GAITHER DRIVE, SUITE F, MOUNT LAUREL NJ 08054 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 855-225-6906 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Mt. Lebanon: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 1006 CONNOR RD, PITTSBURGH, PA 15234. Deed Book Volume 19101, Page 407. Block and Lot Number 0318-D-00065-0000-00.

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DEFENDANT(S): DEBORAH A. ANKER *************** CASE NO.: GD-25-010714 ********** DEBT: $97,285.43 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 133 GAITHER DRIVE, SUITE F, MOUNT LAUREL NJ 08054 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 855-225-6906 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Springdale: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 642 GRANT ST, SPRINGDALE, PA 15144. Deed Book Volume 17343, Page 110. Block and Lot Number 0733-A-00214-0000-00.

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DEFENDANT(S): GREGORY MOORE, IN HIS CAPACITY AS HEIR OF BEVERLY J. STAYMATES F/K/A BEVERLY J. MOORE; DERRICK MOORE, IN HIS CAPACITY AS HEIR OF BEVERLY J. STAYMATES F/K/A BEVERLY J. MOORE; MICHELLE GERACIA, IN HER CAPACITY AS HEIR OF BEVERLY J. STAYMATES F/K/A BEVERLY J. MOORE; JEFFREY STAYMATES, IN HIS CAPACITY AS HEIR OF WILLIAM J. STAYMATES; UNKNOWN HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNS, AND ALL PERSONS, FIRMS, OR ASSOCIATIONS, CLAIMING RIGHT, TITLE, OR INTEREST FROM OR UNDER BEVERLY J. STAYMATES F/K/A BEVERLY J. MOORE; UNKNOWN HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNS, AND ALL PERSONS, FIRMS, OR ASSOCIATIONS, CLAIMING RIGHT, TITLE, OR INTEREST FROM OR UNDER WILLIAM J. STAYMATES *************** CASE NO.: GD-25-007148 ********** DEBT: $110,926.91 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 133 GAITHER DRIVE, SUITE F, MOUNT LAUREL NJ 08054 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 855-225-6906 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Pleasant Hills: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 7 MELVIN DRIVE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15236. Deed Book Volume 12330, Page 12. Block and Lot Number 0388-F-00060-0000-00.

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DEFENDANT(S): DAVID WILLIAM CALLOS *************** CASE NO.: MG-25-000627 ********** DEBT: $ 210,048.17 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 133 GAITHER DRIVE, SUITE F, MOUNT LAUREL NJ 08054 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 855-225-6906 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Millvale: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 121 LIPPERT ST, PITTSBURGH, PA 15209. Deed Book Volume 17276, Page 589. Block and Lot Number Ol18-P-00070-0000-00.

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DEFENDANT(S): Margaret E. Hipsley *************** CASE NO.: MG-24-000118 ********** DEBT: $122,762.45 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Robert P. Wendt Esq;; Nicholas J. Kiger; Esq., Chrisovalante P. Fliakos; Esq *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 275 Curry Hollow Rd, Bldg. J,, Suite 280, Pittsburgh PA 15236 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 412.530-1025 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: All the following described real estate situated in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny and Township of Ross, Having erected thereon a residential single family dwelling being known and numbered as 30 E. Orchard· Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15202-; Deed Book 5010, Page 101; which has a Parcel Identification Number of 161-E-221

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PLAINTIFF(S) MCKEESPORT AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT AND BOROUGH OF WHITE OAK VS. DEFENDANT(S): CAROLINE STAMBOLIS AND ALEXANDRA MARIE STAMBOLIS *************** CASE NO.: GD-22-013500 ********** DEBT: $10,809.02 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): CHRISTOPHER E. VINCENT *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 546 WENDEL ROAD, IRWIN, PA 15642 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (724) 978-0333 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, BOROUGH OF WHITE OAK: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1140 SUMMIT STREET, MCKEESPORT, PA 15131. DEED BOOK 18153, PAGE 82.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 461-K-372.

9MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) MCKEESPORT AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT AND CITY OF MCKEESPORT VS. DEFENDANT(S): ELLIS PROPERTY OPTIONS, LLC, A PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED LIABILTY COMPANY *************** CASE NO.: GD-23-013163 ********** DEBT: $6,844.66 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): CHRISTOPHER E. VINCENT *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 546 WENDEL ROAD, IRWIN, PA 15642 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (724) 978-0333 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, CITY OF MCKEESPORT: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1823 FLAGLER STREET, MCKEESPORT, PA 15132. DEED BOOK 17782 PAGE 224.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 382-L-068.

10MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) EAST ALLEGHENY SCHOOL DISTRICT AND TOWNSHIP OF NORTH VERSAILLES VS. DEFENDANT(S): SUNSET DRIVE PROPERTIES, LLC *************** CASE NO.: GD-25-006376 ********** DEBT: $59,606.86 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): CHRISTOPHER E. VINCENT *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 546 WENDEL ROAD, IRWIN, PA 15642 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (724) 978-0333 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, TOWNSHIP. OF NORTH VERSAILLES: • HAVING ERECTED THEREON A COMMERCIAL STRUCTURE BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1300 - 1302 LINCOLN HIGHWAY, NORTH VERSAILLES, PA 15137. DEED BOOK 18005 PAGE 91.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 644-N-080.

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11MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): ANNGELA INVESTMENTS LLC, ANNROJ FERNANDEZ *************** CASE NO.: GD-25-008842 ********** DEBT: $122,001.14 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): KML LAW GROUP, P.C. *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA ,19106 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (215) 627-1322 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, BOROUGH OFBRACKENRIDGE: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 861 8TH AVENUE, BRACKENRIDGE, PA 15014. DEED BOOK 19078, PAGE 184.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 1224-B-21.

12MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): EUGENE J. KORBRA JR, SOLELY IN THEIR CAPACITY AS HEIR OF DONNA M. KOBRA aka DONNA MARIE KORBRA, DECEASED, SIMION S. KORBRA SOLELY IN THEIR CAPACITY AS HEIR OF DONNA M. KOBRA AKA DONNA MARIE KORBRA, DECEASED, TIFFANY M. SLEBRICH SOLELY IN THEIR CAPACITY AS HEIR OF DONNA M. KOBRA AKA DONNA MARIE KORBRA, DECEASED *************** CASE NO.: MG-25-000844 ********** DEBT: $81,680.02 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): KML LAW GROUP, P.C. *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA ,19106 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (215) 627-1322 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, BOROUGH OF WEST HOMESTEAD: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1000 KRAN DRIVE, HOMESTEAD PA 15120. DEED BOOK 6387, PAGE 177.

Block and LOT NUMBER 91-F-380.

13MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): DANIEL JOSEPH BAIN *************** CASE NO.: MG-25-001009 ********** DEBT: $237,131.26 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): KML LAW GROUP, P.C. *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA ,19106 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (215) 627-1322 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, TOWNSHIP OF HARRISON: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLJNG BEJNG KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1117 FREEPORT ROAD, NATRONA HEIGHTS, PA 15065. DEED BOOK 18578, PAGE 423. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 1367-G-248.

14MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): MARK GARFOLD *************** CASE NO.: MG-25-000894 ********** DEBT: $154,889.31 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): KML LAW GROUP, P.C. *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA ,19106 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (215) 627-1322 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, BOROUGH OF WHITEHALL: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 4906 E WILLOCK ROAD, PITTSBURGH, PA 15227. DEED BOOK 15945, PAGE 292.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 247-M-38.

15MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): MAURICIO IBARRA-VAZQUEZ, MAYRA GUADALUPE RAMIREZ-RAMIREZ *************** CASE NO. MG-25-001010 ********** DEBT: $217,458.32 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): KML LAW GROUP, P.C. *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA ,19106 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (215) 627-1322 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, MUNICIPALITY OF BETHEL PARK: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 3301 BETHEL CHURCH ROAD, BETHEL PARK, PA 15102. DEED BOOK 17745, PAGE 321. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 477-K-38.

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17MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): BRITTANY R. HURSEN AKA BRITTANY RUTH TURKO, JEFFREY J. TURKO *************** CASE NO. MG-25-000210 ********** DEBT: $217,458.32 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): KML LAW GROUP, P.C. *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA ,19106 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (215) 627-1322 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, MUNICIPALITY OF MONROEVILLE: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 854 COTTONWOOD DRIVE, MONROEVILLE, PA 15146. DEED BOOK 16520, PAGE 453. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 637-K-43.

18MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): MICHAEL J. WILLSON AKA MICHAEL WILLSON *************** CASE NO. MG-24-000902 ********** DEBT: $86,661.97 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): KML LAW GROUP, P.C. *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA ,19106 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (215) 627-1322 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, TOWNSHIP OF NORTH FAYETTE: PARCEL ONE: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 101 GORMLEY AVENUE OAKDALE, PA 15071. DEED BOOK VOLUME 13539, PAGE 86, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 492L-14.

PARCEL TWO: HAVING THEREON A VACANT LAND BEING KNOWN AS NOBLESTOWN RD, OAKDALE, PA 15071. DEED BOOK VOLUME 13539, PAGE 86, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 492-L-25.

19MAY26

PLAINTIFF SHALER AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT, VS. DEFENDANT(S): BRIAN PAUL BUECHEL *************** CASE NO. GD 25-008545 ********** DEBT: $43,919.98 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): JOHN T. VOGEL, TUCKER ARENSBERG, P.C. *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: TUCKER ARENSBERG, P.C. ONE PPG PLACE, STE 1500 PITTSBURGH, PA 15222 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 412.594.3902 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, BOROUGH OF MILLVALE HAVING ERECTED THEREON A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 301 EVERGREEN AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15209, DEED BOOK VOLUME 12439, PAGE 390, BLOCK AND LOT 79-C-270

20MAY26

PLAINTIFF SHALER AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT, VS. DEFENDANT(S): ALLYSON MAHON, solely as Co-Executrix of the Estate of Julie Dukovic, Deceased *************** CASE NO. GD 25-005672 ********** DEBT: $10,645.61 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): JOHN T. VOGEL, TUCKER ARENSBERG, P.C. *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: TUCKER ARENSBERG, P.C. ONE PPG PLACE, STE 1500 PITTSBURGH, PA 15222 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 412.594.3902 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, BOROUGH OF ETNA HAVING ERECTED THEREON A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 54 MAPLEWOOD STREET, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15223, DEED BOOK VOLUME 14593, PAGE 449, BLOCK AND LOT 167-A-116.

21MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Brian D. Mason and Sarah S. Mason, *************** CASE NO. GD-25-009504 ********** DEBT: $87,542.16 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Kristine M. Anthou, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: Grenen & Birsic, P.C. One Gateway Center, 9th Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-7650 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of West Elizabeth: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 816 KENNEDY STREET, WEST ELIZABETH, PA 15088. DBV 12394, PAGE 345, 8/L #1133-J-349.

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23MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) MOON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT Vs. DEFENDANT(S): CAVALLINO CAPITAL HOLDINGS, LLC *************** CASE NO. GD-24-006302 ********** DEBT: $21,720.68 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Elizabeth P. Sattler, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 445 Fort Pitt Boulevard, Suite 503, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 412-391-0160 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: Irt the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, TOWNSHIP OF MOON:

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HAVING ERECTED THEREON A COMMERCIAL BUILDING, KNOWN AS 470 MOON CLINTON ROAD, CORAOPOLIS, PA 15108. DEED BOOK 17565, PAGE 327.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 806-B-335.

24MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) MOON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT Vs. DEFENDANT(S): UNKNOWN HEIRS OF EDWARD J. LUBINSKY & UNKNOWN HEIRS OF JUNE G. LUBINSKY *************** CASE NO. GD-24-010615 ********** DEBT: $30,660.67 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Elizabeth P. Sattler, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 445 Fort Pitt Boulevard, Suite 503, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 412-391-0160 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, TOWNSHIP OF MOON: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING, KNOWN AS 319 SMALLWOOD DRIVE, CORAOPOLIS, PA 15108. DEED BOOK 4218, PAGE 97. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 597- E-142.

25MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) CITY OF CLAIRTON Vs. DEFENDANT(S): ALL UNKNOWN HEIRS OF DAVID D. LEE, DECEASED *************** CASE NO. GD-24-001815 ********** DEBT: $10,067.55 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): CHRISTOPHER E. VINCENT *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 546 WENDEL ROAD, IRWIN, PA 15642 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (724) 978-0333 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, CITY OF CLAIRTON: • HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 335 HORTON STREET, CLAIRTON, PA 15025. DEED BOOK 10955, PAGE 154.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 878-N-327.

26MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Anthony E. Martin, as Surviving Heir of Michael Martin a\k\a Michael J. Martin, Sr., Deceased, Denis A. Martin, as Surviving Heir of Michael Martin a\k\a Michael J. Martin, Sr., Deceased, John C. Martin, as Surviving Heir of Michael Martin a\k\a Michael J. Martin, Sr., Deceased, Michael J. Martin, as Surviving Heir of Michael Martin a\k\a Michael J. Martin, Sr., Deceased, Renee M. Markara, as Surviving Heir of Michael Martin a\k\a Michael J. Martin, Sr., Deceased, Robert S. Martin, as Surviving Heir of Michael Martin a\k\a Michael J. Martin, Sr., Deceased and Unknown Surviving Heirs of Michael Martin a/k/a Michael J. Martin, Sr., Deceased *************** CASE NO. MG-25-000501 ********** DEBT: $6,949.42 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Stephen M. Hladik, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: Hladik, Onorato and Federman, LLP 298 Wissahickon Avenue, North Wales, PA 19454 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (215) 855-9521 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny·, BOROUGH OF MUNHALL: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 2027 WHITAKER WAY, HOMESTEAD, PA 15120.

DEED BOOK VOLUME 10541, PAGE 431.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 180-C-164.

27MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Donna M. Vitovich a/k/a Donna Marie Vitovich *************** CASE NO. MG-25-000493 ********** DEBT: $96,304.15 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Stephen M. Hladik, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: Hladik, Onorato and Federman, LLP 298 Wissahickon Avenue, North Wales, PA 19454 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (215) 855-9521 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, BOROUGH OF BRIDGEVILLE: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 742 MAPLE STREET, BRIDGEVILLE, PA 15017. DEED BOOK VOLUME 1981, PAGE 91. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 322-C-344.

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33MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Unknown Surviving Heirs of Patricia D. Fuller, Deceased *************** CASE NO. MG-25-000820 ********** DEBT: $109,655.79 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Stephen M. Hladik, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: Hladik, Onorato and Federman, LLP 298 Wissahickon Avenue, North Wales, PA 19454 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (215) 855-9521 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, TOWNSHIP OF ELIZABETH:

DEFENDANT(S): LORI SHUCKHART AND ALL UNKNOWN HEIRS OF VIRGINIA L. LENKNER *************** CASE NO. MG-22-000961 ********** DEBT: $150,446.16 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 133 GAITHER DRIVE, SUITE F MOUNT LAUREL, NJ 08054 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 855-225-6906 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of West Homestead:

HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 403 OAK AVENUE, ELIZABETH, PA 15037. DEED BOOK VOLUME 4181, PAGE 139. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 1132-N125.

Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 1352 OVERDALE DR, HOMESTEAD, PA 15120. Deed Book Volume 11487, Page 472. Block and Lot Number 0132-E-00025-0000-:00.

29MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): TRAVIS P. RYAN, IN HIS CAPACITY AS HEIR OF GABRIELLE EVANA TAYLOR; UNKNOWN HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNS, AND ALL PERSONS, FIRMS OR ASSOCIATIONS, CLAIMINQ RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST, FROM OR UNDER GABRIELLE EVANA TAYLOR *************** CASE NO. GD-25-004009 ********** DEBT: $49,184.89 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 133 GAITHER DRIVE, SUITE F MOUNT LAUREL, NJ 08054 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 855-225-6906 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, North Versailles Township:

DEFENDANT(S): Edward F. Palma *************** CASE NO. MG-23-000556 ********** DEBT: $10,519.12 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): PADGETT LAW GROUP *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 700 Darby Road, Suite 100 Havertown, PA 19083 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 850-422-2520 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY AND TOWNSHIP OF ROSS: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS l00WILLIAM STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15229. DEED BOOK VOLUME 8991, PAGE 339. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 279-K-328.

30MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Visang Ventures LLC A/K/A Vsiang Ventures LLC *************** CASE NO. MG-24-000835 ********** DEBT: $262,316.07 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jacqueline McNally, Esq. *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 1325 Franklin Avenue, Suite 160, Garden City, NY 11530 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (212) 471-5100 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, and Borough of Glassport: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A COMMERCIAL BUILDING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 642 INDIANA AVENUE, GLASSPORT, PA 15045. DEED BOOK VOLUME 17953, PAGE 92. BLOCKAND LOT NUMBER: 0558-C-00198-0000-00

31MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): GIAP V. PHUNG *************** CASE NO. MG-25-001004 ********** DEBT: $149,753.71 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): ERIC ROCHKIND, ESQUIRE *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: McCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC 216 HADDON AVENUE, SUITE 201 WESTMONT, NJ 08108 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (856) 858-7080 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEAL TH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, 20TH WARD OF CITY OF PITTSBURGH: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1204 TWEED STREET, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15204. DEED BOOK V?LUME 17565, PAGE 590, BLOCK & LOT NUMBER 0042-J-00236-0000-00.

32MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): BLANCHE M. STUPAR *************** CASE NO. MG-25-000623 ********** DEBT: $ 62,696.82 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 133 GAITHER DRIVE, SUITE F MOUNT LAUREL, NJ 08054 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 855-225-6906 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Dravosburg: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 302 SHERMAN AVE, DRAVOSBURG, PA 15034. Deed Book Volume 10757, Page 509. Block and Lot Number 0309-L-00196-0000-00.

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34MAY26

Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 616 OVERHILL DR, NORTH VERSAILLES, PA 15137. Deed Book Volume 15597, Page 113. Block and Lot Number 0459-A-00137-0000-00.

35MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): PHILIP E. CUADRADO *************** CASE NO. MG-25-000845 ********** DEBT: $71,251.56 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 133 GAITHER DRIVE, SUITE F MOUNT LAUREL, NJ 08054 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 855-225-6906 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of White Oak: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 2003 KANSAS AVE, MC KEESPORT, PA 1513L Deed Book Volume 14511, Page 369. Block and Lot Number 0551-F-00156-0000-00.

36MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S): Steel Valley School District and Borough of Munhall Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Amber Magee Jackson *************** CASE NO. GD-24-005913 ********** DEBT: $37,495.73 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jeffrey D: Ries, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 714 Lebanon Road, West Mifflin, PA 15122 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 412-464-9997 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: ALL THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED REAL ESTATE SITUATE IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, AND BOROUGH OF MUNHALL. BEING A RESIDENTIAL VACANT LOT, KNOWN AS MARGARET STREET, BOMESTEAD, PENNSYLVANIA 15120, FORMERLY KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1324 MARGARET STREET, HOMESTEAD, PENNSYLVANIA 15120.

DEED BOOK VOLUME 11875, PAGE 268, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 13l-D-242.

37MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Ryan R Rodeheaver *************** CASE NO. GD-25-008195 ********** DEBT: $41,967.11 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Lois M. Vitti *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 663 Fifth Street, Oakmont, PA 15139 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 412-281-1725 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County· of Allegheny, Township of Ross: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING-KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS l56 2ND AVENUE, .PITTSBURGH; .PA15229, DEED BOOK 13485; PAGE 294.

BLOCK and LOT 430-P-173

38MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S): Steel Valley School District and Borough of Munhall Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Erik M. Snyder *************** CASE NO. GD-25-006403 ********** DEBT: $10,683.93 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jeffrey D. Ries, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 714 Lebanon Rd., West Mifflin, PA 15122 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 412-464-9997 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: ALL THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED REAL ESTATE SITUATE IN THE. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, AND BOROUGH OF MUNHALL. HAVING ERECTED THEREON A TWO-STORY, OLD-STYLE FRAME DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 231 EAST EUGENE AVENUE, HOMESTEAD, PENNSYLVANIA 15120.

39MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Rebecca K. Metzger *************** CASE NO. GD-25-004947 ********** DEBT: $326,446.32 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Richard J. Thomas *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 6 Federal Plaza Central, #1300, Youngstown, Ohio 44503 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 330-744-1148 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Oakmont: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 404 WASHINGTON AVENUE, OAKMONT, PA 15139.

DEED BOOK 17067, PAGE 260. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0363-L-00265-000000.

40MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Jeffrey P. Derrico, as Executor of the Estate of Paula Weshner *************** CASE NO. MG-25-000983 ********** DEBT: $47,002.79 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): MDK Legal *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: P. 0. Box 165028 Columbus, OH 43216-5028 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 614-220-5611 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, North Fayette Township: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 7308 Noblestown Road,Oakdale, PA 15071. Document Number 130801, Deed Book Volume 8371, Page 286. Block and Lot Number 0491-A-00023-0000-00.

41MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Christopher Huziak *************** CASE NO. MG-25-000952 ********** DEBT: $119,211.33 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): MDK Legal *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: P. 0. Box 165028 Columbus, OH 43216-5028 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 614-220-5611 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Glassport: PARCEL 1 Having erected a dwelling being known and numbered as 735 Indiana Avenue, Glassport, PA 15045, Document Number 2021-34232, Deed Book Volume 18632, Page 569, Block and Lot Number 0558-G-003530000-00.

PARCEL2 Vacant land being known and numbered as Indiana Avenue, Glassport, PA 15045, Document Number 2021-34232, Deed Book Volume 18632, Page 569, Block and Lot Number 0558-G-00349-0000-00.

42MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Allana M. Stapleton; Frank R. Marquez *************** CASE NO. MG-25-000794 ********** DEBT: $70,662.80 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): MDK Legal *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: P. 0. Box 165028 Columbus, OH 43216-5028 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 614-220-5611 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of White Oak: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 1100 Monongahela Boulevard, McKeesport, PA 15131 AKA 1100 Monongahela Boulevard, White Oak, PA 15131. Document Number 201829702, Deed Book Volume 17366, Page 533. Block and Lot Number 0461-K-000760000-00.

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43MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Kenneth B. Kennedy; Kelly A. Kennedy *************** CASE NO. MG-25-001030 ********** DEBT: $139,864.21 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): MDK Legal *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: P. 0. Box 165028 Columbus, OH 43216-5028 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 614-220-5611 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Town of McCandless: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 8131 Lindisfarne Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15237. Document Number 2016-32542, Deed Book Volume 16571, Page 374.

Block and Lot Number 0612-F-001970000-00.

49MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): CICC & SONS INVESTMENTS, LLC *************** CASE NO. GD-25-010384 ********** DEBT: $592,763.45 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Michelle L. Pierro., Esq. (PA ID No. 317454) *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: Metz Lewis Brodman Must O’Keefe, LLC 444 Liberty Ave. Suite 2100 Pittsburgh, PA 15222 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 918-1100 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: Parcel 1 In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Castle Shannon: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 938 OAKDALE AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15234. DEED BOOK VOLUME 19082, PAGE 209.

Block & Lot # 190-B-52

44MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Bryan P. Crowe *************** CASE NO. MG-25-000904 ********** DEBT: $190,618.20 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): MDK Legal *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: P. 0. Box 165028 Columbus, OH 43216-5028 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 614-220-5611 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of Pittsburgh, Ward 17: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 1924 Larkins V{ay, Pittsburgh, PA 15203. Document Number 2021-39179, Deed Book Volume 18685, Page 138. Block and Lot Number 0012-K-00260-0000-00.

45MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Jeanae M. Torres *************** CASE NO. MG-25-001060 ********** DEBT: $168,721.90 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): MDK Legal *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: P. 0. Box 165028 Columbus, OH 43216-5028 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 614-220-5611 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Penn Hills: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 221 Evaline Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15235. Document Number 2022-39650, Deed Book Volume 19158, Page 482. Block and Lot Number 0296-C-00048-0000-00.

46MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Amanda Jackson, as believed Heir to the Estate of Stephen C. Jackson; Unknown Heirs to the Estate of Stephen C. Jackson; Unknown Administrators to the Estate of Stephen C. Jackson *************** CASE NO. MG-25-000950 ********** DEBT: $64,467.47 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): MDK Legal *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: P. 0. Box 165028 Columbus, OH 43216-5028 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 614-220-5611 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Monroeville: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 2620 3rd Street, Monroeville, PA 15146. Document Number 2020-1556, Deed Book Volume 17907, Page 516. Block and Lot Number 0545-M00221-0000-00.

47MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): ESSIE HUMPHRIES *************** CASE NO. MG-24-000785 ********** DEBT: $28,123.10 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Michelle L. Pierro., Esq. (PA ID No. 317454) *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: Metz Lewis Brodman Must O’Keefe, LLC 444 Liberty Ave. Suite 2100 Pittsburgh, PA 15222 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 918-1100 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 25rd Ward of Pittsburgh: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 525 CHAUTAUQUA STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15214. DEED BOOK VOLUME 18134, PAGE 530.

Block & Lot# 46-N-35

48MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): 10989 FRANKSTOWN RD LLC *************** CASE NO. GD-25-011384 ********** DEBT: $302,970.85 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Michelle L. Pierro., Esq. (PA ID No. 317454) *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: Metz Lewis Brodman Must O’Keefe, LLC 444 Liberty Ave. Suite 2100 Pittsburgh, PA 15222 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 918-1100 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Penn Hills Municipality: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A COMMERCIAL BUILDING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 10989 FRANKSTOWN ROAD PITTSBURGH, PA 15235. DEED BOOK VOLUME 17180 PAGE 396.

Block & Lot# 368-L-295

Parcel 2 In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Dormont: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1807 NEW HAVEN AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15216. DEED BOOK VOLUME 19127, PAGE 483.

Block & Lot # 63-G-119 Parcel 3 In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 27th Ward of Pittsburgh: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 4145 GITTENS STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15212. DEED BOOK VOLUME 19124, PAGE 475.

Block & Lot# 114-J-59

50MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): CICCARELLI & SONS LLC *************** CASE NO. GD-25-010379 ********** DEBT: $585,271.63 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Michelle L. Pierro., Esq. (PA ID No. 317454) *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: Metz Lewis Brodman Must O’Keefe, LLC 444 Liberty Ave. Suite 2100 Pittsburgh, PA 15222 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 918-1100 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: Parcel 1 In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 19th Ward of Pittsburgh: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1525 ORANGEWOOD AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15216. DEED BOOK VOLUME 17934, PAGE 444.

Block & Lot# 35-D-124 Parcel 2 In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 19th Ward of Pittsburgh: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 462 WILLIAM STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15211. DEED BOOK VOLUME 17989, PAGE 485.

Block & Lot# 4-L-202

51MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): CICC & SONS INVESTMENTS, LLC *************** CASE NO. GD-24-012432 ********** DEBT: $724,369.38 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Michelle L. Pierro., Esq. (PA ID No. 317454) *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: Metz Lewis Brodman Must O’Keefe, LLC 444 Liberty Ave. Suite 2100 Pittsburgh, PA 15222 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 918-1100 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: Parcel One In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 19th Ward of Pittsburgh: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 176 SOUTHERN AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15211. DEED BOOK VOLUME 18807PAGE 541.

BLOCK & LOT #4-P-124 Parcel Two In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Whitacker: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 258 FREIDEL STREET, HOMESTEAD, PA 15120. DEED BOOK VOLUME 18703 PAGE 201.

BLOCK & LOT #180-K-148 Parcel Three In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Bellevue: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A TWO-FAMILY DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 119 CEDAR AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15202. DEED BOOK VOLUME 18768 PAGE 101.

BLOCK & LOT #113-G-232 Parcel Four In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Dormont: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 2645 CONNECTICUT AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15216. DEED BOOK VOLUME 18804 PAGE 35.

BLOCK & LOT #63-H-178

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52MAY26

DEFENDANT(S):) CICC & SONS INVESTMENTS, LLC *************** CASE NO. GD-24-012442 ********** DEBT: $311,613.66 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Michelle L. Pierro., Esq. (PA ID No. 317454) *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: Metz Lewis Brodman Must O’Keefe, LLC 444 Liberty Ave. Suite 2100 Pittsburgh, PA 15222 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 918-1100 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: Parcel One In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 1st Ward of Pittsburgh: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A TWO-FAMILY DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1010 HAMPSHIRE AVENUE PITTSBURGH, PA 15216. DEED BOOK VOLUME 18628 PAGE 204.

BLOCK & LOT #35-F-229 Parcel Two In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Homestead: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 125 W 13TH AVENUE HOMESTEAD, PA 15120.

DEED BOOK VOLUME 18672 PAGE 473.

BLOCK & LOT #131-8-182

53MAY26

DEFENDANT(S):) CICC & SONS INVESTMENTS, LLC *************** CASE NO. GD-25-010649 ********** DEBT: $100,381.78 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Michelle L. Pierro., Esq. (PA ID No. 317454) *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: Metz Lewis Brodman Must O’Keefe, LLC 444 Liberty Ave. Suite 2100 Pittsburgh, PA 15222 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 918-1100 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: Parcel 1 In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Munhall: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 123 DAHLIA STREET, HOMESTEAD, PA 15120.

DEED BOOK VOLUME 18222 PAGE 25.

Block & Lot# 180-B-71

54MAY26

DEFENDANT(S):) 1580 ELECTRIC, LLC *************** CASE NO. GD-25-011044 ********** DEBT: $493,151.51 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Scolieri Beam Law Group, P.C. *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 1207 Fifth Ave., Suite 200, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 412-765-0546 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of North Braddock: Having erected thereon a commercial building being known and numbered as 1580 ELECTRIC AVENUE, EAST PITTSBURGH, PA 15112. Deed Book Volume 19452, Page 153, Block and Lot No.: 0375C-00260-0000-00

55MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) CHARTIERS VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT Vs. DEFENDANT(S):CARRIE ANN AIELLO & AUDREY MARIE BAGA & JAMES FRIEDL *************** CASE NO. GD 16-001737 ********** DEBT: $22,981.82 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 21O Pittsburgh, PA 15203 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Scott: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 505 FINLEY AVE., CARNEGIE, PA 15106. DEED BOOK 13300, PAGE 183.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 102-N-52.

56MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) Elizabeth Forward School District Vs. DEFENDANT(S):The Unknown Heirs of Larry G. Yaroscak, Deceased *************** CASE NO. GD-24-010997 ********** DEBT: $21,809.76 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 21O Pittsburgh, PA 15203 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Elizabeth: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 301 HOYOS HOLLOW ROAD, ELIZABETH, PA 15037. DEED BOOK 8984, PAGE 310.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 1267-H-328.

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57MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) South Allegheny School District Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Pittsburgh Malt Industries Inc. *************** CASE NO. GD 24-009807 ********** DEBT: $15,130.21 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 21O Pittsburgh, PA 15203 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Glassport: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A COMMERCIAL OFFICE/APARTMENTS OVER BUILDING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS_ 609 MONONGAHELA AVENUE, GLASSPORT, PA 15045. DEED BOOK 18767, PAGE 120.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 558-8-82.

58MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) BRENTWOODBOROUGH·SCHOOL·DISTRICT and BRENTWOOD BOROUGH Vs. DEFENDANT(S): KRISTY A. WEISS and MATTHEW WEISS, as Joint Tenants With a Right of Survivorship *************** CASE NO. GD 25-008555 ********** DEBT: $28,371.03 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): JOHN T. VOGEL, TUCKERARENSBERG, P.C. *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: TUCKER ARENSBERG, P.C. 1500 ONE PPG PLACE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15222 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 412.594.3902 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY ·OF ALLEGHENY, BOROUGH OF BRENTWOOD: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 4031 MEADOWBROOK BOULEVARD, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15227, DEED BOOK VOLUME 18364, PAGE 313, BLOCK AND LOT 247-A-43

59MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) Township of South Fayette Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Joann Cappellano *************** CASE NO. GD 23-009328 ********** DEBT: $1,882.48 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): JOHN T. VOGEL, TUCKERARENSBERG, P.C. *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 • Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of South Fayette: Having erected thereon a two-story frame house being known as 7 Wabash Avenue, Morgan, PA 15064. Deed Book Volume 12369, Page 479. Block & Lot No. 324-B19.

63MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S): James C. Gibson & Sandra L. Gibson *************** CASE NO. GD 25-000232 ********** DEBT: $2,572.07 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place, Ste. 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Crafton: Having erected thereon a two-story masonry frame house being known as 68 Lincoln Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15205.

Deed Book Volume 8936, Page 543. Block & Lot No. 40-A-125.

64MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Shawn S. Evans & Kathleen A. Evans *************** CASE NO. GD 20-002588 ********** DEBT: $3,506.66 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place, Ste. 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of McKeesportWard 12: Parcel #1: Having erected thereon a one-story frame house being known as 510 Lemon Avenue, McKeesport, PA 15132. Deed Book Volume 9274, Page 573. Block & Lot No. 464-S-388.

Parcel #2: Being thereon vacant residential land being known as Lemon Avenue, McKeesport, PA 15132. Deed Book Volume 14724, Page 187. Block & Lot No. 464-S-374.

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65MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S): William Kennington *************** CASE NO. GD 24-011664 ********** DEBT: $3,137.64 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place, Ste. 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Penn Hills: Having erected thereon a one-story stucco house being known as 849 4th Street, Verona, PA 15147. Deed Book Volume 12431, Page 390, Block & Lot No. 364-H48.

66MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Paul A. Newcomb *************** CASE NO. GD 24-009729 ********** DEBT: $5,468.51 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place, Ste. 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Penn Hills: Having erected thereon a two-story masonry frame house being known as 117 Colonial Village Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15235. Deed Book Volume 11152, Page 160, Block & Lot No. 634-R-162.

67MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Latoi Gentilcore *************** CASE NO. GD 25-001708 ********** DEBT: $2,530.58 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place, Ste. 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Munhall: Having erected thereon a two-story frame house being known 604 East 19th Avenue, Homestead, PA 15120. Deed Book Volume 18080, Page 592, Block & Lot No. 131-H-1’74.

68MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Latoi Gentilcore *************** CASE NO. GD 25-001707 ********** DEBT: $1,989.18 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place, Ste. 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Munhall: Having erected thereon a two-story brick house being known 1313 Margaret Street, Homestead, PA 15120. Deed Book Volume 18023, Page 216, Block & Lot No. 130-S335.

69MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Latoi Gentilcore *************** CASE NO. GD 25-001705 ********** DEBT: $3,419.29 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place, Ste. 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Munhall: Having erected thereon a two-family two-story frame house being known 1308 Louise Street, Homestead, PA 15120: Deed Book Volume 18022, Page 118, Block & Lot No. 130-:S-279.

70MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) Borough of Castle Shannon Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Erica A. Olson *************** CASE NO. GD 24-000077 ********** DEBT: $2,640.66 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place, Ste. 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Castle Shannon: Having erected thereon a one-story frame house being known as 4149 Mathilda Street, Pittsburgh, PA 152p4. Deed Book Volume 11165, Page 293. Block & Lot No. 250-P-38.

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PLAINTIFF(S) Borough of Leetsdale Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Deborah M. Palmer *************** CASE NO. GD 25-005312 ********** DEBT: $3,190.36 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place, Ste. 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Leetsdale:

PLAINTIFF(S) County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Kathleen D. Geiger *************** CASE NO. GD 25-003766 ********** DEBT: $2,445.61 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place, Ste. 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of North Versailles:

Having erected thereon a one-and-a-half story masonry frame house being 1mown as 417 Washington Street, Leetsdale, PA 15056. Deed Book Volume 9339, Page 256. Block & Lot No. 814-S-93.

Having erected thereon a one-story brick house being known as 608 Maplehurst Drive, North Versailles, PA 15137. Deed Book Volume 7477, Page 13. Block & Lot No. 459-F-50.

72MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) Township of O’Hara Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Intissar LLC *************** CASE NO. GD 25-006998 ********** DEBT: $2,843.68 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place, Ste. 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of O’Hara: Having erected thereon a two-story masonry frame house being !mown as 251 Kittanning Pike, Pittsburgh, PA 15215.

Deed Book Volume 19032, Page 261.

Block & Lot No. 223-H-40.

73MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Kimberly A. Parsons *************** CASE NO. GD 24-009432 ********** DEBT: $2,320.63 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place, Ste. 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Penn Hills: Having erected thereon a two-story brick house being known as 721 Sara Lane, Verona, PA 15147. Deed Book Volume 12961, Page 505, Block & Lot No. 446-D-285.

74MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Tonecia Parker *************** CASE NO. GD 24-009735 ********** DEBT: $5,848.05 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place, Ste. 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Penn Hills: Having erected thereon a two-story brick house being known as 237 Emrose Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15235. Deed Book Volume 16338, Page 26, Block & Lot No. 369-K243._

75MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Linda K. Boeltz *************** CASE NO. GD 25-003687 ********** DEBT: $2,373.73 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place, Ste. 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Pleasant Hills: Having erected thereon a one-story frame house being known as 276 Nantucket Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15236. Deed Book Volume 13440, Page 472, Block & Lot No. 388-R-186. •

77MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Ciccarelli & Sons LLC *************** CASE NO. GD 25-000221 ********** DEBT: $2,670.97 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place, Ste. 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Bellevue: Having erected thereon a three-family, two-and-a-half story brick house being known as 292 North Balph Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15202. Deed Book. Volume 18340, Page 464. Block & Lot No. 215-S54.

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79MAY26

PETITIONER(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Unknown Heirs of Amy Carton a/k/a Amy Roberts & Vincent Carton *************** CASE NO. GD 25-013051 ********** DEBT: $18,113.97 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place, Ste. 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Sewickley: Being thereon vacant land known as Pine Road, Sewickley, PA 15143. Deed Book Volume 8919, Page 467. Block & Lot No. 421-J-28.

80MAY26

PETITIONER(S): Borough of Mt. Oliver Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Mary T. Embry *************** CASE NO. GD 12-016609 ********** DEBT: $11,314.16 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place, Ste. 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Mt. Oliver: Having erected thereon a two-story brick house being known as 172 Ormsby Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15210. Deed Book Volume 5700, Page 337. Block & Lot No. 33-D-152.

81MAY26

PETITIONER(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Clarence Montgomery, with Notice to Heirs and Assigns & Alice Montgomery, with Notice to Heirs and Assigns *************** CASE NO. GD 25-013106 ********** DEBT: $12,763.47 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place, Ste. 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of West Mifflin: -Being thereon vacant land known as Garfield Avenue, West Mifflin, PA 15.122.

Deed Book Volume 3892, Page 321. Block & Lot No. 181-C-90.•

82MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S): Steel Valley School District and Borough of Munhall Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Shiquita Williams *************** CASE NO. GD-25-000253 ********** DEBT: $7,349.45 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jeffrey D. Ries, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 714 Lebanon Rd., West Mifflin, PA 15122 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 412-464-9997 *************************** ALL THE’ FOLLOWING DESCRIBED REAL ESTATE SITUATE IN THE COMMONWEAL TH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, AND BOROUGH OF MUNHALL. HAVING ERECTED THEREON A TWO-STORY, OLD-STYLE FRAME DWELLING, KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1032 HAYS LANE, HOMESTEAD, PENNSYLVANIA 15120.

DEED BOOK VOLUME 18344, PAGE 578, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 179-P,..146.

83MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S): Steel Valley School District and Borough of Munhall Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Steven J. Vais *************** CASE NO. GD-23-010906 ********** DEBT: $6,144.31 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jeffrey D. Ries, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 714 Lebanon Rd., West Mifflin, PA 15122 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 412-464-9997 *************************** ALL THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED REAL ESTATE SITUATE IN THE COMMONWEAL TH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, AND BOROUGH OF MUNHALL. HAVING ERECTED THEREON A TWO-STORY, OLD-STYLE BRICK DWELLING, KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 212 EAST 18TH AVENUE, HOMESTEAD, PENNSYLVANIA 15120.

DEED BOOK VOLUME 10228, PAGE 155, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 131-H-32.

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84MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): CICC & SONS INVESTMENTS, LLC *************** CASE NO. GD-24-012438 ********** DEBT: $713,408.48 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Michelle L. Pierro., Esq. (PA ID No. 317454) *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: Metz Lewis Brodman Must O’Keefe, LLC 444 Liberty Ave. Suite 2100 Pittsburgh, PA 15222 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 918-1100 *************************** Parcel One In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Munhall: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A FOUR-FAMILY DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1131 MCCLURE STREET, HOMESTEAD, PA 15120. DEED BOOK VOLUME 18683 PAGE 538.

BLOCK & LOT #130-R-348 Parcel Two In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 10TH Ward of Pittsburgh: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 5303 DUNCAN STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15201. DEED BOOK VOLUME 18585 PAGE 467.

BLOCK & LOT #80-D-390

85MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Laura A. Linski a/k/a Laura A. Triantafillos *************** CASE NO. MG-25-000337 ********** DEBT: $51,970.99 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): LOGS Legal Group LLP *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 985 Old Eagle School Road, Suite 514 Wayne, PA 19087 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (610) 278-6800 *************************** Parcel One In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Dormont: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 2735 PHILADELPHIA AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15216. DEED BOOK VOLUME 9263, PAGE 29, BLOCK AND LOT 0063-G00272-0000-00.

86MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): MICHAEL J. SELWOOD and THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA *************** CASE NO. MG-25-000679 ********** DEBT: $38,424.87 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): David L. Scherer, Esquire McGrath McCall, P.C. *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: Four Gateway Center, Suite 1340, 444 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 412-281-4333 *************************** Parcel One In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of O’Hara: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLING KNOWN AS 124 CROFTON DRIVE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15238, AND DESIGNATED AS BLOCK AND LOT 289-M-58, DEED BOOK VOLUME 14514, PAGE 187.

88MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) BETHEL PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT VS. DEFENDANT(S): JAMES M. BRICKETT *************** CASE NO. GD-25-006793 ********** DEBT: $9,567.65 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Grace E. Delaney, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 445 Fort-Pitt Boulevard, Suite.5_03, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 412-391-0160 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, MUNICIPALITY OF BETHEL PARK: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING, KNOWN AS 4858 CRISS ROAD, BETHEL PARK, PA 15102. DEED BOOK 11201, PAGE 92. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 317-P-46.

89MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Terry L Pronko *************** CASE NO. MG-25-000106 ********** DEBT: $147,465.14 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Stern & Eisenberg, PC *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: The Shops at Valley Square, 1581 Main Street, Suite 200 Warrington, PA 18976 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (215) 572-8111 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny and Sixth Ward of the City of Pittsburgh: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 3644 Mintwood St, Pittsburgh, PA 15201. Deed Book Volume 8180, Page 353. Block and Lot Number 49-N-324.

90MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Paul Robert Ryan AKA Paul R. Ryan and Tricia A. Ryan A/K/A Tricia R. Tarlo *************** CASE NO. MG-25-000866 ********** DEBT: $131,978.19 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Stern & Eisenberg, PC *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: The Shops at Valley Square, 1581 Main Street, Suite 200 Warrington, PA 18976 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (215) 572-8111 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny and Township of Reserve: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 2045 E Beckert Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15212-1403. DEED BOOK VOLUME 16343, PAGE 328. Block and Lot Number 048-A-88.

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91MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Jessica L. Netherland, Donald E. Tichenor and The United States ofAmerica *************** CASE NO. MG-25-000140 ********** DEBT: $165,162.78 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): EMMANUEL J. ARGENTIERI *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 52 NEWTON AVENUE, P.O. BOX 456, WOODBURY, NJ 08096 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (856) 384-1515 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Baldwin: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 5606 5th Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15236. Deed Book Volume 17202, Page 537. Block and Lot 0473-C00100-0000-00.

92MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Jerry Fender, husband of deceased, Peter Zatolochenko, son of deceased, Stephen Zatolochenko, son of deceased, Unknown heirs, devisees, successors, assigns and all persons, firms, associations claiming right, title or interest from or under the Stella M. Zatolochenko a/k/a Stella M. Fender, deceased mortgagor and owner *************** CASE NO. GD-23-001043 ********** DEBT: $30,282.17 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Roger Fay, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 14000 Commerce Parkway, Suite H, Mount Laurel, NJ 08054 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (856) 724-1888 *************************** In the of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Stowe Township: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 70 Harlem Avenue, McKees Rocks, PA 15136. Deed Book Volume 9731, Page 526. Block and Lot Number 0073-M-00167-0000-00.

93MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Brian Guenin *************** CASE NO. MG-24-000332 ********** DEBT: $146,355.22 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Roger Fay, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 14000 Commerce Parkway, Suite H, Mount Laurel, NJ 08054 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (856) 724-1888 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny and Harrison Township: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 1251 8th Avenue, Natrona Heights, PA 15065. Deed Book Volume18951, Page 290. Block and Lot Number 1367-S-00057-0000-00.

94MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Unknown heirs, successors, assigns and all persons, firms or associations claiming right, title or interest from or under Leo B. Hill a/k/a Leo Bernard Hill, deceased owner and mortgagor *************** CASE NO. MG-22-000360 ********** DEBT: $113,781.49 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Roger Fay, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 14000 Commerce Parkway, Suite H, Mount Laurel, NJ 08054 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (856) 724-1888 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny and Crescent Township: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 415 Valley View Drive, Crescent, PA 15046. Deed Book Volume 12829, Page 454. Block and Lot Number 0810-C-00322- 0000-00.

95MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Meghann R. Jobb *************** CASE NO. MG-24-000891 ********** DEBT: $171,023.27 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Roger Fay, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 14000 Commerce Parkway, Suite H, Mount Laurel, NJ 08054 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (856) 724-1888 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny and Borough of Elizabeth: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 310 Center Avenue, Elizabeth, PA 15037. Deed Book Volume 18956, Page 314. Block and Lot Number 1272-F-00281-0000-00.

96MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Douglas A. Tomes; Sarah E. Tomes *************** CASE NO. MG-18-000675 ********** DEBT: $163,491.03 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jacqueline F. McNally, Esq *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 1628 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19103 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (212) 471-5100 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, and Borough of Ingram: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 66 ADMIRAL DEWEY AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15205. DEED BOOK PAGE 16281, PAGE 15. BLOCKAND LOT NUMBER 0070-S-00112-0000-00.

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97MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Glenn J. Myers *************** CASE NO. GD-23-007483 ********** DEBT: $161,365.12 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Nicole Francese, Esq *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 1628 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 300, Philadelphia, PA 19103 / 1325 Franklin Avenue, Suite 160, Garden City, NY 11530 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (212) 471-5100 *************************** IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY.OF ALLEGHENY, AND TOWNSHIP OF WILKINS: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 602 BROWN AVENUE, TURTLE CREEK, PA 15145 DEED BOOK VOLUME 10533, PAGE 352 ET SEQ. BLOCKAND LOT NUMBER 373-D-214

98MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): 522 Freeland St. PA LLC *************** CASE NO. MG-23-000759 ********** DEBT: $169,762.61 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jacqueline F. McNally, Esq. *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 1628 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 300, Philadelphia, PA 19103 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (212) 471-5100 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, and 18th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 522 FREELAND STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15210. DEED BOOK VOLUME 18903, PAGE 64. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0014-E-00051-0000-00.

99MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Real Deals, LLC *************** CASE NO. GD-25-001399 ********** DEBT: $147,659.07 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Nicole Francese, Esq. *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 1628 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 300, Philadelphia, PA 19103 / 1325 Franklin Avenue, Suite 160, Garden City, NY 11530 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (212) 471-5100 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, and Borough of Munhall: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1304 MARGARET STREET, HOMESTEAD, PA 15120. DEED BOOK 18601, PAGE 11.

BLOCKAND LOT NUMBER 0130-S-003500000-00.

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DEFENDANT(S): Justin Bernstein *************** CASE NO. MG-24-000565 ********** DEBT: $86,997.17 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Nicole Francese, Esq. *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 1628 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 300, Philadelphia, PA 19103 / 1325 Franklin Avenue, Suite 160, Garden City, NY 11530 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (212) 471-5100 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, and Borough of Brackenridge: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1049 UNION AVENUE, BRACKENRIDGE, PA 15014 DEED BOOK VOLUME 14111, PAGE 522.

BLOCKAND LOT NUMBER 1367-L-000080000-00

101MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): BRIAN A. PILYIH AND MONICA L. PILYIH *************** CASE NO. MG-25-000589 ********** DEBT: $27,150.03 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): PADGETT LAW GROUP *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 700 Darby Road, Suite 100 Havertown, PA 19083 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 850-422-2520 *************************** IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY AND BOROUGH OF PLUM: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 9118 MAPLE STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15239. DEED BOOK VOLUME 9659, PAGE 13. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 1100-B00072-0000-00.

102MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Kevin T. Beliles *************** CASE NO. MG-25-000874 ********** DEBT: $152,319.39 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Powers Kirn, LLC *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: Eight Neshaminy Interplex, Suite 215, Trevose, PA 19053 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 215-942-2090 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Shaler: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 207 Friday Road, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15209.

Deed Book Volume 15245, Page 27, Instrument 2013-13062, Block and Lot Number l 18-M-262.

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103MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Elisa T. Sanders and Charles S. Sanders *************** CASE NO. MG-23-000641 ********** DEBT: $1,575,713.53 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Powers Kirn, LLC *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: Eight Neshaminy Interplex, Suite 215, Trevose, PA 19053 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 215-942-2090 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Marshall: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 117 Archberry Drive, Wexford, Pennsylvania 15090.

Deed Book Volume 14245, Page 456, Instrument 2010-10358, Block and Lot Number 1996-G-15.

104MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): LYNN CLIFFORD MORRIS, II *************** CASE NO. MG-25-000744 ********** DEBT: $137,665.28 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): ERIC ROCHKIND, ESQUIRE *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: McCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC 216 HADDON AVENUE, SUITE 201 WESTMONT, NJ 08108 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (856) 858-7080 *************************** IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, BOROUGH OF BRIDGEVILLE HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1374 TERRACE STREET, BRIDGEVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA 15017. DEED BOOK VOLUME 19040, PAGE 515, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0254-E-00332-0000-00.

105MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): YANIC P. BRUN A/KIA YANIC PIERRE BRUN *************** CASE NO. MG-25-000578 ********** DEBT: $24,690.54 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): ERIC ROCHKIND, ESQUIRE *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: McCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC 216 HADDON AVENUE, SUITE 201 WESTMONT, NJ 08108 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (856) 858-7080 *************************** IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, 15th WARD OF CITY OF PITTSBURGH: BEING VACANT LAND BEING KNOWN AS 2ND AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15207. DEED BOOK VOLUME 12417, PAGE 21. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0057-B-00067-0000-00.

106MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Laverne S. Krashna-Hickman, Individually and as Administrator of The Estate of Reginald J. Hickman a/k/a Reginald Joseph Hickman, Deceased *************** CASE NO. GD-25-011030 ********** DEBT: $78,993.80 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Stephen M.. Hladik, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: Hladik, Onorato and Federman, LLP 298 Wissahickon Avenue, North Wales, PA 19454 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (215) 855-9521 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, MUNICIPALITY OF MONROEVILLE: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 817 GARDEN CITY DRIVE, MONROEVILLE, PA 15146. DEED BOOK VOLUME 18808, PA’3E 234. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 637-D-166.

107MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Antoinette Adams, as Administrator of the Estate of James Adams a/k/a James E. Adams, Sr., Deceased *************** CASE NO. GD-25-010917 ********** DEBT: $43,303.93 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Stephen M.. Hladik, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: Hladik, Onorato and Federman, LLP 298 Wissahickon Avenue, North Wales, PA 19454 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (215) 855-9521 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, WEST MIFFLIN BOROUGH: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 3110 WEST STREET, WEST MIFFLIN, PA 15122. DEED BOOK VOLUME 9899, PAGE 225. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 181-F-366.

108MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): Kelly M. Cummings *************** CASE NO. MG-25-000943 ********** DEBT: $141,363.12 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Stephen M.. Hladik, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: Hladik, Onorato and Federman, LLP 298 Wissahickon Avenue, North Wales, PA 19454 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (215) 855-9521 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 18TH WARD OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING BEING _KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 437 IBERIA STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15211.

DEED BOOK VOLUME 17099., PAGE 92.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 3-N-49.

110MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): MICHAEL J. GRAHAM *************** CASE NO. MG-25-000992 ********** DEBT: $174,155.12 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): LEON P. HALLER, ESQUIRE *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: PURCELL, KRUG AND HALLER 1719 NORTH FRONT STREET HARRISBURG, PA 17102 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 717-234-4178 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Wilkins: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 104 HIBISCUS DRIVE TURTLE CREEK, PA 15145. DEED BOOK VOLUME 18555, PAGE 306. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 454-A-65.

111MAY26

DEFENDANT(S): STACEY DZURENDA *************** CASE NO.MG-24-000295 ********** DEBT: $231,771.34 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): LEON P. HALLER, ESQUIRE *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: PURCELL, KRUG AND HALLER 1719 NORTH FRONT STREET HARRISBURG, PA 17102 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: 717-234-4178 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Robinson: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 282 CORAOPOLIS ROAD, CORAOPOLIS, PA 15108. DEED BOOK VOLUME 18251, PAGE 16. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 2l1S-153

114MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) Wilkinsburg Borough Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Center Street Associates #3 LP *************** CASE NO.GD 25-013397 ********** DEBT: $26,513.36 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg: BEING VACANT LAND KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS REBECCA AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15221. DEED BOOK 11814, PAGE422.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 233-E-296.

115MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) Wilkinsburg Borough Vs. DEFENDANT(S): The Unknown Heirs of Ruth A. Walton, Deceased *************** CASE NO.GD 25-013408 ********** DEBT: $14,804.24 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg: BEING VACANT LAND KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 2120 VILLAGE DRIVE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15221. DEED BOOK 5242, PAGE 601.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 297-A-154.

116MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) Wilkinsburg Borough Vs. DEFENDANT(S): The Unknown Heirs of Blanche Glenn, Deceased *************** CASE NO.GD 25-013421 ********** DEBT: $14,272.08 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg: BEING VACANT LAND KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 60 LABELLE AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15221. DEED BOOK 6170, PAGE 475.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 232-S-107.

117MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) Wilkinsburg Borough Vs. DEFENDANT(S): The Unknown Heirs of Mary Nowlin, Deceased *************** CASE NO.GD 25-013427 ********** DEBT: $17,418.04 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg: BEING VACANT LAND KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1636 LAKETON DRIVE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15221. DEED BOOK4130, PAGE 642.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 232-H-184

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PLAINTIFF(S) Wilkinsburg Borough Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Florence E. Thomas II Ross, Herbert L. Thomas, Jr. and Christina L. Thomas *************** CASE NO.GD 25-013399 ********** DEBT: $27,535.50 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg:

PLAINTIFF(S) Wilkinsburg Borough Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Donald C. Graffius and the Unknown Heirs of Rose Graffius, Deceased *************** CASE NO.GD 25-013420 ********** DEBT: $28,450.29 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg:

PETITIONER(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Elsie Marthus, with Notice to Heirs and Assigns *************** CASE NO.GD 25-013102 ********** DEBT: $3,760.13 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of White Oak:

BEING VACANT LAND KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1634 LAKETON ROAD, PITTSBURGH, PA 15221. DEED BOOK 9298, PAGE 264.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 232-H-183.

BEING VACANT LAND KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS MONTIER STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15221. DEED BOOK 5442, PAGE 106. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 232-L-385.

Having erected thereon a two-story frame house being known as 100 Congress Street, McKeesport, PA 15131. Deed Book Volume 5220, Page 289. Block & Lot No. 460-P-249.

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PLAINTIFF(S) Wilkinsburg Borough Vs. DEFENDANT(S): The Unknown Heirs of Pearl M. Sanders, Deceased *************** CASE NO..GD 25-013429 ********** DEBT: $15,363.82 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg: BEING ALL THAT VACANT LAND KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS MAPLE STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15221. DEED BOOK 6275, PAGE 816.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 232-L-305.

120MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S) Wilkinsburg Borough Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Center Street Associates #2 LP *************** CASE NO.GD 25-013398 ********** DEBT: $26,064.98 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg: BEING VACANT LAND KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS ELLA STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15221. DEED BOOK 11563, PAGE 327.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMSER 233-N-73.

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PETITIONER(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Unknown Heirs of Jean Ann Leck, Unknown Heirs of Keith B. Laughlin, Unknown Heirs of Karl K. Laughlin, Unknown Heirs of Kenneth J. Laughlin, & Unknown Heirs of Mary M. Little *************** CASE NO.GD 25-013049 ********** DEBT: $11,925.03 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of ClairtonWard 1: Being thereon vacant land known as N 4th Street, Clairton, PA 15025. Deed Book Volume 5736, Page 355. Block & Lot No. 764-C-98.

126MAY26

PETITIONER(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Jack Leech, with Notice to Heirs and Assigns *************** CASE NO.GD 25-013047 ********** DEBT: $3,844.31 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Munhall: Being thereon vacant land known as Margaret Street, Homestead, PA 15120. Deed Book Volume 8611, Page 346. Block & Lot No. 130-S-336.

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PLAINTIFF(S) Wilkinsburg Borough Vs. DEFENDANT(S): The Unknown Heirs of Loretta E. Martin, Deceased *************** CASE NO.GD 25-013422 ********** DEBT: $28,957.37 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg:

PETITIONER(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Joshua Everette *************** CASE NO.GD 25-013103 ********** DEBT: $6,286.65 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Braddock:

BEING VACANT LAND KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS WOOD STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15221. DEED BOOK 4120, PAGE 368.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 175-M-352.

Having erected thereon a two-story brick house being known as 149 Comrie Avenue Rear, Braddock, PA 15104. Deed Book Volume 16520, Page 163. Block & Lot No. 236-G-154.

122MAY26

PETITIONER(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Dianna E. Wolf *************** CASE NO.GD 25-013045 ********** DEBT: $6,028.56 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Millvale:

PLAINTIFF(S) Wilkinsburg Borough Vs. DEFENDANT(S): The Unknown Trustee of Trust Number 1104-1104 ½RELT *************** CASE NO.GD 25-013416 ********** DEBT: $19,838.40 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg: BEING VACANT LAND KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS SHERMAN STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15221. DEED BOOK 11079, PAGE 13.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 232-L-64.

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PLAINTIFF(S) Wilkinsburg Borough Vs. DEFENDANT(S): The Unknown Heirs of Dolores G. Saxon, Deceased *************** CASE NO.GD 25-013404 ********** DEBT: $23,478.12 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg: BEING VACANT LAND KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1837 MONTIER STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15221. DEED BOOK 8211, PAGE 367. . BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 232-H-246.

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128MAY26

Having erected thereon a two-story brick house being known as 1137 Evergreen Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15209. Deed Book Volume 13321, Page 156. Block & Lot No. 165-P-39.

129MAY26

PETITIONER(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Duane Burgwin *************** CASE NO.GD 25-013048 ********** DEBT: $2,796.60 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Homestead: Having erected thereon a two-family two-story frame house being known as 102-104 E 14th Avenue, Homestead, PA 15120. Deed Book Volume 17426, Page 336. Block & Lot No. 131-C-108.

131MAY26

PETITIONER(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Unknown Heirs of Constance Shirokey *************** CASE NO.GD 25-013104 ********** DEBT: $4,063.05 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Munhall: Having erected thereon a two-story frame house being known as 3513 Trautman Street, Homestead, PA 15120. Deed Book Volume 6435, Page 978. Block & Lot No. l 32-R-175.

132MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Capital Equity Partners, LLC *************** CASE NO.GD 12-023328 ********** DEBT: $4,669.12 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Homestead: Having erected thereon a two-story frame house being known as 121 East 17th Avenue, Homestead, PA 15120. Deed Book Volume 13889, Page 554. Block & Lot No. 131-G-156.

133MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Edward W. Ryan, with Notice to Heirs and Assigns *************** CASE NO.GD 17-011356 ********** DEBT: $4,049.31 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Homestead: Having erected thereon a two-story frame house being known as 1900 McClure Street, Homestead, PA 15120. Deed Book Volume 4168, Page 691. Block & Lot No. 131-H-207.

134MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Mark Winkler, with Notice to Heirs and Assigns *************** CASE NO.GD 23-001025 ********** DEBT: $3,900.49 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 525 William Penn Place Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Glassport: Having erected thereon a two-story frame house being known as 305 North Monongahela Avenue, Glassport, PA 15045.

Deed. Book Volume 13441, Page 431.

Block & Lot No. 384-R-257.

135MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S): Wilkinsburg School District and Wilkinsburg Borough Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Buffalo Niagara Realty, LLC *************** CASE NO.GD 25-009500 ********** DEBT: $34,498.11 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 424 S. 27th Street; Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg: BEING A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1502 WOOD STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15221.

DEED BOOK 14717, PAGE 42.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 175-H-304

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PLAINTIFF(S): Wilkinsburg School District and Wilkinsburg Borough· Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Romulus Bryant *************** CASE NO.GD 25-009503 ********** DEBT: $6,681.97 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 424 S. 27th Street; Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg: BEING A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1304 SINGER PLACE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15221.

DEED BOOK 15476, PAGE 249.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 232-J-32.

137MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S): Wilkinsburg School District and Wilkinsburg Borough· Vs. DEFENDANT(S): 1308 Wood Street Land Trust *************** CASE NO.GD 25-009685 ********** DEBT: $111,391.33 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 424 S. 27th Street; Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg:’ BEING A THREE FAMILY DWELLING. KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1308 WOOD STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15221.

DEED BOOK 9792, PAGE 507.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 175-M-334.

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PLAINTIFF(S): Wilkinsburg School District and Wilkinsburg Borough· Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Security Pacific ‘ National Bank, Trustee for American Housing Trust VII *************** CASE NO.GD 25-010974 ********** DEBT: $7,490.69 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 424 S. 27th Street; Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 811 SWISSVALE AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15221. DEED BOOK 8377, PAGE 522.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 233-E-11.

139MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S): Wilkinsburg School District and Wilkinsburg Borough· Vs. DEFENDANT(S): The Unknown Heirs of Lawrence R. Molden, Deceased *************** CASE NO.GD 25-010973 ********** DEBT: $44,926.52 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 424 S. 27th Street; Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 743 HILL AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15221. DEED BOOK5051, PAGE 221. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 232-J-124.

140MAY26

PLAINTIFF(S): Wilkinsburg School District and Wilkinsburg Borough· Vs. DEFENDANT(S): The Unknown Heirs of Nikolai Muchaj, Deceased *************** CASE NO.GD 25-009552 ********** DEBT: $39,107.23 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 424 S. 27th Street; Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg: BEING VACANT LAND KNOWN AS SWISSVALE AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15221. DEED BOOK 3870, PAGE 145.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 233-J-2110000-2.

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PLAINTIFF(S): Wilkinsburg School District and Wilkinsburg Borough· Vs. DEFENDANT(S): Sherry Toliver, Known Heir of Isabel Martin, Deceased and All Unknown Heirs of Isabel Martin, Deceased *************** CASE NO.GD 25-009538 ********** DEBT: $2,148.87 ****** NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire *********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY: 424 S. 27th Street; Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 *********************** ATTORNEY PHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 *************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg: BEING A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 829 ARDMORE. BOULEVARD, PITTSBURGH, PA 15221. DEED BOOK 13029, PAGE 575.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 233-F-134.

TOWNSHIP OF WILKINS PUBLIC NOTICE OF INTENT TO ADOPT PROPOSED ORDINANCE NUMBER 1145 The Wilkins Township Board of Commissioners will consider adoption of the following Ordinance at a public meeting to be held on the 11th day of May 2026 at 7:00 p.m. in the Municipal Building, 110 Peffer Road, Wilkins Township, Pennsylvania. The complete text of the Ordinance is on file and may be inspected in the Office of the Township Secretary at the aforementioned Municipal Building during normal business hours.

The title and summary of the Ordinances is as follows: PROPOSED ORDINANCE #1145 TITLE AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWNSHIP OF WILKINS, ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, AMENDING THE CODIFIED BOOK OF ORDINANCES, CHAPTER 450 ARTICLE V, ILLUMINATED AND ELECTRONIC MESSAGE CENTER SIGNS, TO AMEND SECTION 450-29, ADDING THE DEFINTION OF UNICOLOR AND SECTION 450-40, TO AMEND PARAGRAPH E, ALLOWING FOR UNICOLOR CHANGEABLE COPY ON ELECTRONIC MESSAGE CENTER SIGNS AND TO AMEND SECTION 450-45, GAS STATIONS, PARAGRAPH E, ALLOWING FOR RED, GREEN AND AMBER DIGITS ON ELECTRONIC FUEL PRICE SIGNS SUMMARY This Ordinance will permit Illuminated and Electronic Message Center Signs to utilize unicolor changeable copy and would permit gas stations with electronic fuel price signs to utilize red, green or amber numbers to denote the fuel types being offered.

Extra Space Storage, on behalf of itself or its affiliates, Life Storage or Storage Express, will hold a public auction to sell the contents of leased spaces to satisfy Extra Space’s lien at the location indicated: 1005 E Entry Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15216 on 5/6/2026 at 11:30 AM. Nurzhan Axakalov 6114, Yukisha Hudson 9112. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com.

Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

Extra Space Storage, on behalf of its affiliates, Life Storage or Storage Express, will hold a public auction to sell the contents of leased spaces to satisfy Extra Space’s Lien at the location indicated: 3200 Park Manor Blvd.

Pittsburgh, PA 15205 on May 6, 2026 at 1:00 pm. 2013 Marcos Peralta; 2275 Daniel Holst; 3084 Kenneth Todd; 3118 Teiona Mott.

The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com.

Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell the contents of leased spaces to satisfy Extra Sp a c e ’s lie n a t th e l ocati on indicated: 902 Brinton Road Pittsburgh, PA 15221 on MAY 6TH 2026.

S H AW N TA G O G G I N S 1 0 8 3 , JOHN ABRAHAM 2105,TIARA LAW 2229,TREVOR LLOYD 2243,JORDAN SCOTT 3061,LIANA MANEESE 3063, RICHARD HAMILTON 3073,BRANDI CALHOUN 3103,LEA WASHINGTON 3149.

The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com.

Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell the contents of leased spaces to satisfy Extra Space’s lien at the location indicated: 6400 Hamilton Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15206 May 6, 2026, at 1:45pm.

Nils Hammer-1017, Kenneth Fryncko-2022, Deirere Battle-2081, Anita Drummond-3007, Holly Tyler-3080, Calvina Y Terrell-5089, and William Hutchinson-L029. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com.

Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

Extra Space Storage, on behalf of itself or its affiliates, Life Storage or Storage Express, will hold a public auction to sell the contents of leased spaces to satisfy Extra Space’s lien at the location indicated: 141 N Braddock Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15208 on 5/6/2026 at 11:00 AM. 1123A-Eliang Silva, 2072-Chris Daley, 2087-Lydia Austin, 3094-James Powell, 3214A-Milton B Hibbler ,3226A-Shakena Pollard,3264A-Paulette Legrand ,5049-Kendall Daniels,5065-Vincent Constable. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com.

Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

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Extra Space Storage, on behalf of itself or its affiliates, Life Storage or Storage Express, will hold a public auction to sell the contents of leased spaces to satisfy Extra Space’s lien at the location indicated: 111 Hickory Grade Road Bridgeville PA 15017, May 6, 2026, at 12:30 PM. Andrew Henry 1033, 18 & Co. Events and Rentals 2219, Christine Murray 2221, Cynthia Southern 3396. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com.

Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell the contents of leased spaces to satisfy Extra Space’s lien at the location indicated: 880 Saw Mill Run Blvd, Pittsburgh, PA 15226, May 6, 2026 at 1:15pm.

Kelly Brandt 1100, George Edmundd 2056, Karrin Holmes 3229, Donna carter 4185. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com.

Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

Extra Space Storage will be holding a public auction to sell the contents of leased spaces to satisfy Extra Space’s lien at the location indicated: 700 E. Carson St., Pittsburgh, PA 15203 on May 6, 2026 at 12:15pm.

1002 Robert Swygert, 1026 Carla Runco, 172 Apryl Thomas, 3010 Noelle Fala, 3137 Dionys Mraz, 4098 John Lover-Buchanan. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com.

Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell the contents of leased spaces to satisfy Extra Space’s lien at the location indicated: 1212 Madison Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15212, on 5/6/2026 @ 1:30pm for: 2018 – Richard Lindsey, 6016 – Jordan Tillman, and 6070 – Janelle Hein The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com.

Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

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LEGAL ADVERTISING Legal Notices Name/Attorney Name: Mary Elizabeth Fischman, Esq. Address: 6000 Brooktree Road, Ste 301, Wexford, PA 15090 Phone: 412-765-2726 Email: bfischman@dornish.net •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• •••••• NANCY A. BIGLEY A/K/A NANCY ANN BIGLEY, deceased, of Pittsburgh), PA. File Number No. 7749 of 2025.

Paul T. Bigley, Exectr.

112 Hodgson Road, Darlington, PA 16115 or to: Mary Elizabeth Fischman, Esq. 6000 Brooktree Road, Ste 301, Wexford, PA 15090

NOTICE OF TRUST ADMINISTRATION.

The Trustee named below give notice of the death of HELEN M. CAMPBELL, late of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, who died on February 5, 2026. During her lifetime, the sai.d Decedent established the Helen M. Campbell Revocable Living Trust under Trust Instrument d ated Mar ch 24, 2000, a s subsequently amended and completely restated on May 2, 2007. The Trustee request all persons having claims against the Decedent to make known the same in writing to them or their attorney, and all persons indebted to the Decedent to make payment to them without delay: David C. Campbell, Trustee 185 Madison Avenue Blairsville, GA 30512 or to: AUBREY H. GLOVER, Atty; BRENLOVE & FULLER, LLC 401 Washington Avenue Bridgeville, PA 15017 Estate of MARION CICCO AKA MARION H. CICCO, Deceased, Estate No. 022602218, or to Anthony T. Floro, Attys, 7411 University Blvd. Moon Township, PA 15108-2592 PNC Bank Estate Settlement Department 300 Fifth Avenue, 3pt Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15222 Thank you, Kimberly Warner Estate of DIANE C. CULBERT, AKA DIANE CHRISTINE CULBERT, No. 02-26-01565 Date of Death: 12/22/2025 PNC Bank, National Association Attn: Paul Palko, VP 300 Fifth Ave, FL 31 Pittsburgh, PA 15222 And/or: Mitchell Moximchalk, Esquire K&L Gates 210 Sixth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15222 Estate of RICHARD J. KITCHEN, Case No. 2071 of 2026. Colleen Shawley appointed Administratrix by Order dated March 31, 2026. Peter B. Lewis, Counsel, Neighborhood Legal Services, 928 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15222.

Estate of DAVID ALAN KOCHER, Deceased of Pittsburgh,Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, No. 02-26-02174,Edward W. Kocher, Executor, 639 Osage Road, Pittsburgh, PA, or to TODD A. FULLER, Atty; BRENLOVE & FULLER, LLC., 401 Washington Avenue, Bridgeville, PA 15017 Estate of MR. WILLIAM DAVID KOCZUR, Deceased of 1221 Oakglen Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15204, Estate No. 02-25-07925, Ms. Kimberly Cisar, Executrix, c/o Feldman Law Group, 1322 5th Avenue, Coraopolis, PA 15108 Estate of MR. WALTER MARSHALL LEAVER, JR., , Deceased of 7123 Vivianna Way, Pittsburgh, PA 15225., Estate No. 02-2602186, Ms. Marsha Peck, Executrix, c/o Feldman Law Group, 1322 5th Avenue, Coraopolis, PA 15108 Estate of MOSLEY, THADDEUS GILMORE, Deceased, of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, No. 022602241, Khari Mosley and Lorna Mosley, Executors, 1008 Manor Building, 564 Forbes Ave., or Deborah A. Liotus, Attorney, 1008 Manor Building, 564 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15219.

Estate of MR. ROSS F. PISANO, Deceased of 1726 Montour Street, Coraopolis, PA 15108, Estate No. 02-26-01740, Ms. Michele A. Pisano, Executrix, c/o Feldman Law Group, 1322 5th Avenue, Coraopolis, PA 15108

ANNOUNCEMENTS Meetings

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Allegheny County Housing Authority (ACHA) is currently in the process of changing its 20262027 Agency Plan in conjunction with the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act. Changes to the Agency Plan, once approved by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), will guide the ACHA in serving the needs of low-income and very low-income families The proposed changes to the Agency Plan and all supporting documents will be available for review and inspection by the public at the principal office of the ACHA located at 301 Chartiers Avenue, McKees Rocks, PA 15136.

A public hearing has been scheduled to present the changed Agency Plan and to allow public participation; information regarding the hearing is also contained on the Authority’s website at www.achsng.com: DATE: Friday, June 26, 2023 TIME: 10:15 a.m.

PLACE: Allegheny County Housing Authority – Central Office 301 Chartiers Avenue, McKees Rocks, PA 15136 Prior to the public hearing, comments can be directed in writing to:

Estate of MADELYN MAE THOMAS deceased, of North Versailles, PA 15137, No. 02-262370, Ursula R. Paton, 3296 Fairview Street, North Versailles, PA 15137 and Desirae L. Gentile, 710 Everglade Drive, McKeesport, PA 15135 or to Jennifer Roller Chontos, Chontos & Chontos, P.C., 561 Beulah Road, Turtle Creek, PA 15145 Estate of LISA B. AUEL (deceased), of Pittsburgh, No. 01022 of 2026, Thomas D. Saunders, Exec., or to Julie Kline, Esq., Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky, 444 Liberty Avenue, Ste. 2200, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 Estate of LAWRENCE GALLO A/K/A LAWRENCE V GALLO A/K/A LAWRENCE V. GALLO (deceased), of Verona, PA. No. 1372 of 2026, Robert Gallo, Extr., 5000 Baker School Road, Trafford, PA 15085 or to Lois M. Vitti, Vitti Law Group, Inc., 663 Fifth Street, Oakmont, PA 15139.

Estate of PHYLLIS B. STEWART, Pittsburgh PA, No.: 1802 of 2026, Kimberly Robinson, Executrix, Correspondence to: Rosalyn Guy-McCorkle, Esquire, 445 Fort Pitt Blvd, Suite 120, Pittsburgh PA 15219 412-281-8250, rguymccorkle@aol.com

Richard Stephenson, Executive Director Allegheny County Housing Authority 301 Chartiers Avenue McKees Rocks, PA 15136

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PUBLIC HEARING NO TI CE I S HEREBY G I VEN that a public hearing will be held before the Home Rule Transition Reapportionment Committee, Borough of Wilkinsburg, Allegheny County, PA on Thursday, April 30, 2026, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., in-person and remotely through Zoom. The meeting will take place in the Wilkinsburg Borough Council Chambers (2nd Floor), 605 Ross Avenue, Wilkinsburg, PA 15221.

The purpose of this meeting is to provide a public forum for community engagement and feedback.

The vir t ual m eet ing link and instructions regarding remote participation by the public shall be posted on the official website of the Borough of Wilkinsburg (https://www.wilkinsburgpa.gov/), prior to the hearing.

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HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) FOR THIRD-PARTY PROPERTY MAINTENANCE SERVICES RFP #250-20-26 The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP) hereby requests proposals from qualified Firms or Individuals capable of providing the following service(s): THIRD-PARTY PROPERTY MAINTENANCE SERVICES RFP documents will be available on or about April 20th, 2026.

Copies of RFP documents are not available for in-person pickup.

Firms interested in responding may obtain a copy of the RFP documents from the Business Opportunities Section of the HACP Website, www.hacp.org. Prospective Offerors may register as a vendor on the website and download the documents free of charge.

A pre-submission meeting via audio conference will be held via Zoom on April 29th, 2026, at 10:00 A.M. Meeting ID: 897 7896 8370 Passcode: 718703 Call In: +1 (301) 715-8592 US (Washington D.C) The deadline for final submission of written questions is April 30th, 2026, at 10:00 A.M. The deadline for submission of proposals is May 8th, 2026, at 10:00 A.M. Proposals must be sent to: Mr. Brandon Havranek, Associate Director of Procurement Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh 412 Boulevard of the Allies 6th Floor, Procurement Department Pittsburgh, PA 15219 The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh will only be accepting physical proposals dropped off in person from 8:00 AM until the closing at 10:00 AM on May 8th, 2026. Proposals may still be submitted electronically at the following link: https://www.dropbox.com/request /frqDcZng7oo1mRbTV5XB and can still be mailed via USPS at which time they will be Time and Date Stamped at 412 Boulevard of the Allies Lobby, Pittsburgh, PA 15219.

THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH STRONGLY ENCOURAGES CERTIFIED MINORITY-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES AND WOMAN-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES TO RESPOND TO THIS SOLICITATION. Caster D. Binion, Executive Director Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh HACP conducts business in accordance with all federal, state, and local civil rights laws, including but not limited to Title VII, the Fair Housing Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act, The PA Human Relations Act, etc. and does not discriminate against any individuals protected by these statutes.

THE BOARD OF PUBLIC EDUCATION OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PITTSBURGH Sealed bids will be received in the Bellefield Avenue Lobby, Administration Building, 341 South Bellefield Avenue until 11:00 A.M. prevailing time May 5, 2026 and will be opened at the same hour in the administration building cafeteria: Arts Education Supplies & Equipment General Information regarding bids may be obtained at the Purchasing Office, 341 South Bellefield Avenue, RM 349 Pittsburgh, PA 15213. The bid documents are available on the School District’s Purchasing web site at: www.pghschools.org Click on Our Menu; Community; Bid Opportunities; Bids and Proposals; find under Open Solicitations.

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NOTICE TO BIDDERS BEN AVON BOROUGH ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA Sealed Proposals will be received by Ben Avon Borough at the Municipal Building, 7101 Church Avenue, Ben Avon, Pennsylvania 15202 until 10:30 A.M. prevailing time on May 12, 2026 to be publicly opened and read immediately thereafter for the following project:

NOTICE TO BIDDERS EMSWORTH BOROUGH ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA Sealed Proposals will be received by Emsworth Borough at the Municipal Building, 171 Center Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15202 until 2:00 P.M. on May 12th, 2026, to be publicly opened and read aloud at that time for the following project:

2026 BEN AVON BOROUGH ROAD PROGRAM Base Bid Pavement Maintenance on Breading Road and Spruce Street in Ben Avon Borough including the following approximate quantities: 3,100 S.Y. of 3.5” +/- Rotomilling and Profiling, 175 S.Y. of Soft Spot Repair, 400 TONS of 2” of 19 mm Superpave Binder (0-0.3 ESAL’s), 3,100 S.Y. of 1.5” 9.5 mm Fine Grade Superpave Wearing Course (0-0.3 ESAL’s), MH Frame and Lid Replacement, 15 LF of Sanitary Sewer Repairs, 20 LF of Storm Sewer Repairs, Traffic Control, Resident Notification, and Restoration.

All Proposals must be in the hands of Ben Avon Borough, 7101 Church Avenue, Ben Avon, Pennsylvania 15202, by 10:30 A.M. prevailing time, May 12, 2026 and the same will be opened and read publicly immediately thereafter. Proposals shall be delivered in a sealed envelope and clearly marked on the outside with the words “2026 BEN AVON BOROUGH ROAD PROGRAM”.

Copies of Drawings, Specifications, Instructions to Bidders, General Conditions, Forms of Proposals and Agreement are on file and open to public inspection at the office of The Gateway Engineers, Inc., 100 McMorris Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15205-9401 where sets of said documents may be obtained upon payment of $50.00 per set. No refund will be made for the return of any documents. An additional $10.00 will be required for each set of plans if they are to be mailed.

All bidders shall be PennDOT pre-qualified and submit their PennDOT Pre-Qualification Certificates as well as the Anti-Collusion Affidavit with the Proposal in order for the Proposal to be considered responsive.

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Pennsylvania Prevailing Wages must be paid on this contract.

Proposals to receive consideration must be accompanied by a Certified Check or Bidder’s Bond from a Surety Company authorized to do business in Pennsylvania, made to the order of the Ben Avon Borough in an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the total amount of the Proposal as a guarantee that, if the Proposal is accepted, the successful Bidder will enter into an Agreement within 15 days after Notice of the Award of the Contract.

The Proposals must be made to Ben Avon Borough, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and shall remain firm for a period of sixty (60) days. No Bidder may withdraw his Proposal during the sixty (60) day period without forfeiting his Bid guarantee.

Performance, Maintenance, and Labor and Material Payment Bonds, along with Public Liability and Property Damage Certificates of Insurance in the amounts specified, as well as Certificates of Workman’s Compensation must be filed with the executed Agreement upon acceptance of the Proposal from the successful Bidder.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all Bids, or any part thereof, for any reason, and also reserves the right to waive any informality therein.

Terrie Patsch Borough Secretary BID ADVERTISEMENT CONTRACT NUMBER: 75-26-23 M-47 REGIONAL DEFECT REMOVALS Sealed Bids are requested by Wilkinsburg Borough at 605 Ross Avenue, Wilkinsburg, PA 15221 until 12:00 P.M. prevailing time, May 11, 2026 for the M-47 Regional Defect Removals project. Bids will be opened publicly and read aloud immediately after the closing time for receipt of Bids.

Interested parties may view the Profile and Bid Schedule for this Project on the internet at: www.niraengineers.com.

All Bid Documents are available via email request to bids@niraengineers.com.

Electronic bid documents are available for a $25.00 fee and printed bid documents are available for a $60.00 fee with an additional charge of $15.00 when shipping is requested. Checks are to be made payable to NIRA Consulting Engineers, Inc. Each Bid must be accompanied by a Bid Bond, in the form of a Certified Check or Corporate Surety Bid Bond, in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the Bid Proposal made in the favor of the Municipal Authority of the Township of Robinson. Only bids from Contractors who have obtained documents directly from NIRA Consulting Engineers, Inc. will be accepted at bid opening.

A Performance Bond, Labor and Material Payment Bond, and Maintenance Bond in the amounts specified within the Contract Documents will be required of the successful Bidder.

Bidders on this work will be required to comply with the Provisions of the Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Act 442. The Prevailing Wage Scale is included in these Specifications.

Bidders on this work will be required to comply with the Provisions of the Public Works Employment Verification Act (PWEVA).

Adherence to Instructions to Bidders is required.

No Bid or any part thereof shall be withdrawn by Bidder for a period of sixty (60) days subsequent to the Bid Opening.

The right is reserved by the Owner to reject any or all Bids or parts of bids and to waive technical defects in any Bid. FORM OF ADVERTISEMENT 1. The Public Parking Authority of Pittsburgh (“Authority”) shall accept sealed bids for the performance of the work described below (the “Work”) at its office at 232 Boulevard of the Allies, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15222, until 10:00 a.m. local time on Tuesday, May 12, 2026.

2. DESCRIPTION OF WORK: The Project entails the Backup Emergency Generator for the Mellon Square Garage.

3. The Instructions to Bidders, including the Form of Bid, Form of Agreement, General Conditions, Plans and Specifications, and meeting information will be made available after 3:00 p.m. local time on Monday, April 20, 2026, via email request to the Authority’s Project Management Department at projectmanagement@pittsburghparking.com.

4. A Mandatory pre-bid conference will be held in person Mellon Square Garage located at 530 Smithfield Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15222, at 1:00 p.m. local time on Monday, April 27, 2026. The purpose of the pre-bid conference is to provide additional detail regarding the Work. The information provided at the pre-bid conference will be essential in preparing a bid to perform the Work. Persons or entities that intend to submit bids to perform the Work are required to attend the pre-bid conference with at least one representative who will understand the information presented at the pre-bid conference in a manner that allows such information to be incorporated in the preparation of the bid to perform the Work. It is expected that the representative who attends the pre-bid conference will be experienced in construction matters and employed by the bidder in a supervisory capacity. In person Pre-bid attendance is mandatory, and each attendee must sign in on the project sign-in form.

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Sealed bids must be dropped off to the Public Parking Authority of Pittsburgh at 232 Boulevard of the Allies, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, no later than 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. Bids received prior to the deadline will be publicly opened and read at that time.

6. Each bid submitted must be accompanied by a bid guaranty of ten percent (10%) of the proposed bid in the form of a bid bond, certified cashier’s or treasurer’s check payable to the Authority.

7. The Authority reserves the right to in its sole discretion, (i) change, at any time prior to the bid deadline at 10:00 a.m. local time on Tuesday, May 12, 2026 the Contract Documents; (ii) waive any defect, irregularities, or informality in any or all submitted bids; and (iii) reject any or all submitted bids.

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Base Bid This project involves pavement maintenance of various streets in Emsworth Borough, including the following approximate quantities: 4,650 SY of Profile Milling; 4,650 SY of 1.5” 9.5mm Superpave Wearing Course; Base Repair; 2” 19 mm Superpave Binder Course; Bituminous Wedge Curb Replacement; Concrete Curb Replacement; Concrete Sidewalk Replacement; Manhole and Inlet Frame Adjustments; Installation of ADA Handicap Ramps; Restoration of All Disturbed Areas; Traffic Control and Resident Notification for the street segments as specified in the included mapping.

Add Alternate Bid No. 1 – Gibb Street Approximately 1,500 SY of additional 3.5” +/- Profile Milling; 1,500 SY of 1.5” 9.5mm Superpave Wearing Course; 2” 19 mm Superpave Binder Course; Bituminous Wedge Curb Replacement; Manhole and Inlet Frame Adjustments; Restoration of All Disturbed Areas; Traffic Control and Resident Notification for the street segments as specified in the included mapping.

Add Alternate Bid No. 2 – Columbia Gas Restoration Approximately 19,000 SY of additional 1.5” +/- Profile Milling; 19,000 SY of 1.5” 9.5mm Superpave Wearing Course; Bituminous Wedge Curb Replacement; Restoration of All Disturbed Areas; Traffic Control and Resident Notification for the street segments as specified in the included mapping.

Proposals shall be delivered in a sealed envelope and clearly marked on the outside with the words “2026 EMSWORTH BOROUGH ROAD PROGRAM”.

All bidders shall be PennDOT pre-qualified and attach their PennDOT Pre-Qualification Certificates to the outside of the proposal envelope in order for it to be opened and read publicly. Anti-Collusion Affidavit is also to be submitted with the Proposal in order for the Proposal to be considered responsive.

Copies of Drawings, Specifications, Instructions to Bidders, General Conditions, Forms of Proposals and Agreement are on file and open to public inspection at the office of The Gateway Engineers, Inc., 100 McMorris Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15205-9401 where sets of said documents may be obtained upon payment of $75.00 per set. No refund will be made for the return of any documents.

An additional $20.00 will be required for each set of plans if they are to be mailed.

Pennsylvania Prevailing Wages must be paid on this contract.

Proposals must be submitted on the forms provided by the Municipality.

Proposals to receive consideration must be accompanied by a Certified Check or Bidder’s Bond from a Surety Company authorized to do business in Pennsylvania, made to the order of Emsworth Borough in an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the total amount of the Proposal as a guarantee that, if the Proposal is accepted, the successful Bidder will enter into an Agreement within 15 days after Notice of the Award of the Contract.

All Proposals must be in the hands of Emsworth Borough, 171 Center Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15202, by 2:00 P.M. prevailing time May 12th, and will be opened and read publicly aloud immediately following. The Proposals must be made to Emsworth Borough, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and shall remain firm for a period of sixty (60) days. No Bidder may withdraw his Proposal during the sixty (60) day period without forfeiting his Bid guarantee.

Performance, Maintenance, and Labor and Material Payment Bonds, along with Public Liability and Property Damage Certificates of Insurance in the amounts specified, as well as Certificates of Workman’s Compensation must be filed with the executed Agreement upon acceptance of the Proposal from the successful Bidder.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all Bids, or any part thereof, for any reason, and also reserves the right to waive any informality therein.

Bidders are advised that the Borough will award the contract to the lowest responsible, responsive, and Qualified Bidder based on the total bid submitted. However, Bidders are advised that the Borough expressly reserves the right to reject all bids, and specifically reserves the right to award to the lowest responsible, responsive and Qualified Bidder a contract for all or any portions of the work listed in the Proposal, and in awarding a contract for less than the total work listed, or less than all portions of the work listed, the contract price will be determined from the total quantities for each item listed and the unit price bid for each item listed.

Cathy Jones Borough Secretary DOCUMENT 00030-AA ADVERTISEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT ALLEGHENY COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA The Allegheny County Airport Authority will be receiving scanned PDF proposals through Submittable, and a submission link will be sent to each registered plan holder. Submissions are to be submitted via Submittable by 1:00 p.m. prevailing local time on May 20, 2026, and bids will be opened by the Airport Authority and results will be emailed by end of business day of bid opening for the following project: ALLEGHENY COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY PROJECT NUMBER 8G1-26 (GENERAL) REHABILITATE RUNWAY 10L-28R PHASE 3 AT PITTSBURGH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT A pre-bid conference will be held at 11:00 a.m., on April 29, 2026, at the Allegheny County Airport Authority, 1305 Cherrington Parkway Suite 100, Moon Township, PA 15108.

Attention is called to the fact that not less than the minimum salaries and wages, as determined by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, must be paid on these projects.

Proposals must be made on the Authority’s form and in accordance with the Plans and Specifications and the “Instructions to Bidders”’.

The non-refundable charge of $150.00 for the Bid Documents and the Plans, and Specifications through the bidding platform Submittable at https://acaacapitalprograms.submittable.com.

Please note that Submittable does not support Internet Explorer 11. Submittable recommends the following browsers: Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Apple Safari.

This project has DBE participation goals; DBE firms must be certified with the Pennsylvania Unified Certification Program) (PA UCP). Firms must be certified prior to award of contract. A searchable database of DBE firms can be found on the PA UCP web site: https://paucp.dbesystem.com/ The Airport Authority reserves the right to reject any and all bids or waive any informalities in the bidding.

No bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of sixty [60] days after the scheduled closing time for receipt of bids.

To view a complete advertisement, which is also included in the bidding documents visit www.flypittsburgh.com – ACAA Corporate – Business Opportunities or call 412-472-3677 or 412-472-2136.

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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT INVITATION FOR BIDS: The Allegheny County Housing Authority is requesting bids from qualified contractors for: CONTRACT: ACHA-1716 INTERIOR & EXTERIOR IMPROVEMENTS AT BLAWNOX APARTMENTS; Bids must be accompanied by a bid bond, certified check, or bank cashier’s check, payable to the Allegheny County Housing Authority in the amount of five percent (5%) of the bid.

DOCUMENTS: Bid documents & specifications will be available on/ after Wednesday, April 22, 2026.

Complete IFB Documents can be downloaded from the Housing Agency Marketplace: https://ha.internationaleprocurement .com/ (ACHA-1716); or from the Pittsburgh Builder’s Exchange, or the McGraw-Hill websites.

FEE: No Charge for Emailed / Electronic Transfer documents.

PRE-BID CONFERENCE SITE WALK THRU: (non-mandatory) Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at 10:00 AM EST at BLAWNOX APARTMENTS, 701 CENTER AVENUE, BLAWNOX, PA 15238 QUESTION SUBMITTAL DEADLINE: Thursday, May 7, 2026, at 10:00 AM EST BIDS DUE: Thursday May 14, 2026, at 10:00 AM EST at the Allegheny County Housing Authority (ACHA) Central Office, 301 Chartiers Avenue, McKees Rocks, PA 15136

ADVERTISEMENT Sealed bid proposals are hereby solicited for the Community College of Allegheny County,800 Allegheny Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15233 on the following items: BID PROPOSAL NO. 1148 BIOLOGY LAB RENOVATIONS – BOYCE CAMPUS GENERAL, ELECTRICAL, HVAC, AND PLUMBING (FOUR PRIME CONTRACTS) A mandatory pre-bid meeting and site visitation will be held on Thursday, April 30, 2026, at 12:30 p.m. Meet at the Boyce Campus Security Office, inside front entrance, 595 Beatty Road, Monroeville, PA 15146.

Bids will be received at the Purchasing Department until 2:00 P.M. Prevailing Time on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, at which time they will be publicly opened.

PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENT COMPLIANCE IS REQUIRED. Any bid or proposals received after this deadline will be considered as a “late bid” and will be returned unopened to the offerer.

Proposals may require Bid Bonds, Performance Bonds, Payment Bonds, and Surety as dictated by the specifications.

No bidder may withdraw his bid or proposal for a period of ninety (90) days after the scheduled closing time for receipt of bids.

The Board of Trustees reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

The Community College of Allegheny County is an Affirmative Action/ Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and encourages bids from Minority/Disadvantaged owned businesses.

For more information, contact Michael Cvetic at mcvetic@ccac.edu.

Bid forms are also available on the CCAC website: www.ccac.edu.

Community College of Allegheny County Purchasing Department 800 Allegheny Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15233

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HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) FOR Annual Unit Inspections: Pre-REAC/NSPIRE RFP #300-19-26 The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP) hereby requests proposals from qualified Firms or Individuals capable of providing the following service(s):

LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE Pittsburgh Regional Transit is seeking a Learning and Development Associate to coordinate all aspects of New Hire Orientation – scheduling, communicating with applicants, assisting with paperwork completion, and ensure the daily schedule stays on track. Support new employees and their managers throughout the onboarding process. Assist colleagues with various functions of the department such as departmental communications, managing employee inquiries, and supporting classroom needs.

Administer employee special programs including tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment assistance, and police training and education incentive. Conduct applicant background screenings when necessary.

COMPENSATION ANALYST Pittsburgh Regional Transit is seeking a Compensation Analyst to participate in the planning, implementation, and administration of wage and salary programs for the Port Authority of Allegheny County d/b/a Pittsburgh Regional Transit’s (PRT) wage and salary programs.

Conducts analysis and interpretation r e l a t e d t o t h e o r g a n i z a t i o n ’s compensation programs. Participates in and interprets compensation surveys. Recommends changes to ensure the maintenance of company compensation objectives.

FLEET MAINTENANCE ADMINISTRATOR Pittsburgh Regional Transit is seeking a Fleet Maintenance Administrator to establish, coordinate and administer policies, procedures, and documentation necessary for the processing and filing of all bus fleet warranty claims for Port Authority of Allegheny County d/b/a Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT). Also, to promote and continually improve the Bus Fleet Warranty Program. To provide support and assistance regarding troubleshooting and reporting relating to the Maintenance Work Order Information System. Develops and performs complex warranty analyses.

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Annual Unit Inspections: Pre-REAC/NSPIRE The documents will be available no later than April 20, 2026, and signed, sealed proposals will be accepted until 10:00 a.m. on May 19, 2026. The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh will only accept physical proposals dropped off in person from 8:00 AM until the closing time of 10:00 a.m. on May 19, 2026, in the lobby of One Stop Shop at 412 Boulevard of the Allies.

Pittsburgh, PA 15219. Proposals may be uploaded to the Authority’s online submission site; the link is accessible via the HACP website and within the RFP. Sealed proposals may still be mailed via USPS, at which time they will be Time and Date Stamped at 412 Boulevard of the Allies, 6th Floor - Procurement, Pittsburgh, PA 15219.

Parties or individuals interested in responding may download a copy of the Solicitation from the Business Opportunities page of www.HACP.org.

Questions or inquiries should be directed to: Mr. Brandon Havranek, Associate Director of Procurement /Contracting Officer Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh 412 Boulevard of the Allies 6th Floor - Procurement Department Pittsburgh, PA 15219 412-456-2890 A pre-submission meeting will be held via Zoom meeting on May 7, 2026, at 09:00 a.m. Please see the meeting information below: Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 872 3404 5922 Passcode: 848944 +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago, Illinois) The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh strongly encourages small businesses, minority businesses, women’s business enterprises, and veteran-owned businesses to respond to this solicitation.

Caster D. Binion, Executive Director Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh HACP conducts business in accordance with all federal, state, and local civil rights laws, including but not limited to Title VII, the Fair Housing Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act, The PA Human Relations Act, etc. and does not discriminate against any individuals protected by these statutes.

Essential Functions: • Coordinates new hire orientation by creating and distributing communications to PRT’s new hires and presenters. Proctors new hire orientations and acts as a liaison between new hire and hiring department. Conducts new hire orientation tours and monitors completion of orientation trainings.

• Support the department through various duties such as drafting employee communications, running training reports, sending training reminders, processing invoices, supporting instructors before/during courses, and reviewing/proofing trainings and training materials.

• Responsibilities will include supporting additional programs or functions identified for employee recruitment and retention. Conducts background checks on perspective candidates which includes various communications to verify education, previous and current employers, and motor vehicle records.

Job requirements include: • High School Diploma or GED. • At least two (2) years of experience in a customer service-focused role.

• Minimum of one (1) year of experience managing projects • Highly competent in the use of Windows, Microsoft Word, and Excel, and PowerPoint, with at least two (2) years of experience managing and manipulating data.

• P ro fe s s i o n a l a n d e ffecti ve communication skills • Excellent public speaking skills.

• Ability to manage multiple tasks, high volume, and adhere to deadlines and remain detail oriented.

• Willingness and ability to work shifts and pass days.

• Valid PA Driver’s License.

Preferred attributes: • Associate degree in Communications, Education, Human Resources Management, or directly related field from an accredited school.

• Demonstrated ability in the use of Adobe Acrobat to create forms and documents.

• Experience with paying invoices through a PeopleSoft.

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K-8 ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING & OUTDOOR EDUCATOR Falk Laboratory School, a coeducational K-8 laboratory school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, affiliated with the University of Pit t s burg h, s eek s a f ull- t i me , experienced K-8 Environmental Learning & Outdoor Education Teacher, beginning August 15th, 2026. We are seeking an educator who sees the natural world not as a subject to be taught, but as a living system to be studied, cared for, and improved through the work of children - through inquiry, action, and project-based learning.

For full detailed position announcements and consideration for any of these positions, please go to https:// www.join.pitt.edu under faculty positions and upload your materials.

The review of applications will begin in February and will continue until the position is filled.

The University of Pittsburgh is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and values equality of opportunity, human dignity, and diversity. EEO/AA/M/F/Vets/Disabled.

The Borough of Bellevue is accepting applications for the following positions: Pool Manager, Lifeguards and Pool Cashiers. For more information and an application, go to: https://www.bellevuepa.org/ employment-opportunities Applications being accepted until positions are filled. EOE

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(Annual Salary $51,600 - $77,300) We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. Interested candidates should forward a cover letter (with salary requirements) and resume to: Danielle Jacobson Employment Department 345 Sixth Avenue, 3rd Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2527 DJacobson@RidePRT.org EOE

Essential Functions: • Uses HRIS system to manage several wage and salary processes, including but not limited to: o Employee compensation, transfer, job title, and other types of changes. o Salary plans and structures within Peoplesoft foundational set-up tables for collective bargaining agreements o Job code and position management information. o Researching and resolving compensation related issues.

• Participates in transit industry and general industry compensation surveys. Conducts market reviews of company jobs to determine market competitiveness.

• Serves as process owner in administering the performance evaluation process utilizing the E-Performance PeopleSoft module.

Participated in the administration of the associated merit program.

Job requirements include: • High school diploma or GED. • Bachelor’s degree in business administration, human resources management, industrial relations, or related field from an accredited college or university. Related experience may substitute for education on a year-for-year basis.

• Minimum of two (2) years of Human Resources experience, specifically managing EEOC and FLSA compliance.

• Minimum of (2) years of data management, analysis, and reporting, preferably focused on employee/ organizational data.

• Ability to conduct quantitative analyses and interpret data, including wage data, wage trends, and prepare spreadsheets to ensure adherence to compensation strategies.

• Ability to communicate effectively and professionally with employees and senior executives. Must be comfortable presenting programs to groups and members of senior management using complicated numerical analysis and presenting in an easy-to-understand manner for individuals who may not be mathematically inclined.

• Detail-oriented and comfortable working in a fast-paced office environment; outstanding planning and time-management capabilities; and superior organization skills and dedication to completing projects in a timely manner.

• Ability to work in a diverse environment; experience working collaboratively with others; capability of adjusting priorities and deviating from routines.

• Knowledge and understanding of state and federal wage and hour laws.

• Demonstrated ability in the use of Windows, Microsoft Word, and Excel.

• Must be able to maintain confidentiality.

Preferred attributes: • Progress towards Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) Designation from the World at Work professional organization.

• Training and experience in Peoplesoft Human Resources Management System (HRMS).

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(Annual Salary $63,500 - $95,300) We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. Interested candidates should forward a cover letter (with salary requirements) and resume to: Missy Ramsey Employment Department 345 Sixth Avenue, 3rd Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2527 MRamsey@RidePRT.org EOE

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Essential Functions: • Collects, organizes and interprets warranty specifications. Develops and implements procedures in conjunction with maintenance department to recover labor and parts costs of defective parts which exceed the specified failure rate in warranty contracts, monitors failures which may constitute fleet defect status.

Prepares warranty claims to recover funds and/or replacement parts/ services from manufacturers or suppliers. Reviews all warranty-related documents to interpret and enforce options available.

• Interprets warranty data to identify trends and presents information to Bus Maintenance management so this data may be utilized to reduce miles between road failures.

• Reviews vendors technical documents and present warranty coverage for compliance with-in federal government specifications and industries standards for optimizing vehicle warranties.

Job requirements include: • High school diploma or GED. • Associate degree in business or two (2) year technical degree in automotive and diesel or related field from an accredited school.

Related experience may be substituted for education on a year-for-year basis.

• Minimum of five (5) years of experience with Work Order and or Warranty Systems.

• Effective and professional communication skills.

• Customer focused, well organized, and results-oriented.

• Strong computer and statistical analysis skills.

• Ability to work independently.

• Proficiency in the use of Windows, Microsoft Word, and Excel.

Preferred attributes: • Maintenance experience with bus fleets and /or heavy automotive vehicles.

• Proven track record of increasing recoverable via claims or warranty processes.

• Supervisory experience with bus fleets and / or heavy automotive vehicles.

Annual Salary ($70,500 $105,800) We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. Interested candidates should forward a cover letter (with salary requirements) and resume to: Joe Sekely Employment Department 345 Sixth Avenue, 3rd Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2527 JSekely@RidePRT.org EOE

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