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Homeownership no longer a dream; it’s reality in McKees Rocks Newly-renovated homes capped at $180,000 thanks to ‘Homes By LEVEL’ by Rob Taylor Jr. Courier Staff Writer
Right now, the median sale price of a home in Allegheny County is almost $270,000. And to make matters worse, it's actually cheaper in Pittsburgh to purchase a home than to rent, which exposes just how much it costs to rent within the city. These numbers leave many African Americans in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County scrambling to find subsequent housing. And this is where "Homes By LEVEL" comes in. Its founder and CEO, Jason Tigano, has a personal mission to help people who may not be able to afford market-rate homes get into newly-remodeled homes. Homes that they can be proud of. Homes that can serve as wealth-building tools in the future. Five of those homes were recently put on the market for sale at a price of $180,000, which, in this county, is a deal. Holding back tears, Chantel Perkins said at a celebration for the newly-remodeled homes that "homeownership has been a dream...there
were moments where I felt like this journey was impossible, but today is proof that dreams are achievable when determination, hard work, perseverance and faith meets the perfect opportunity." Perkins was able to close on one of the newly-remodeled homes along Woodward Avenue in McKees Rocks, one of five newly-remodeled homes from Homes By LEVEL on the street. There are three homes that are still available today for purchase. "This home isn't just about changing my address; it's changing my family's future. This home is our foundation, our safe place, and the beginning of a legacy that continues for generations," Perkins said. Tigano told the New Pittsburgh Courier that Homes By LEVEL, also known as LEVEL: Equity Building (based in Brookline), received the first-ever scattered-site, residential Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP) grant in 2020 in partnership with McKees Rocks Borough. That's when Tigano's nonprof-
DENNIS AND SAMANTHA GUY WERE THE FIRST HOMEBUYERS OF THE RENOVATED HOMES COMPLETED BY HOMES BY LEVEL. PICTURED AT RIGHT IS HOMES BY LEVEL’S FOUNDER AND CEO, JASON TIGANO. (PHOTO BY ROB TAYLOR JR.)
it began working closely with the community to create pathways to homeownership for its residents by, in layman terms, gutting the blighted properties and fixing them up to look and feel like new. With additional assistance from the state Department of Community and
Economic Development, the Hillman Foundation and Allegheny County, LEVEL: Equity Building was able to complete its first renovated home in 2022 in McKees Rocks. Dennis and Samantha Guy purchased the home on Gardner Street in McKees Rocks and moved into the home in
April 2024. They were on hand for the Aug. 5, 2026, celebration of the five remodeled homes on Woodward Avenue. "It really set us up (well)," Dennis Guy told the Courier. "Samantha just finished her first children's book; it gave me the ability to go back to school...and now I'm
applying to Ph.D. programs this fall, so things are going great." Samantha Guy added: "When you rent, you can't paint, you can't make things your own," she said, but as a homeowner, she can do anything she wants to the SEE LEVEL A5
30 years of pain—Fawn Walker-Montgomery overcomes, authors first book Endometriosis less likely to be properly diagnosed in Black women by Renee P. Aldrich For New Pittsburgh Courier
When Fawn Walker-Montgomery was 25 years old, after she had been suffering painful, debilitating menstrual cycles for the past 13 years, the pain often so severe she would pass out, her mother thought it was time for some serious medical intervention. Turns out, Walker-Montgomery had endometriosis, as did her grandmother. “I was not given any advice as to how I should proceed, or what I should expect; all they did was say, OK, you have this disease, and even though I already had a daughter, they advised me that I would probably have trouble getting pregnant
again," Walker-Montgomery recalled. "(They) gave me some birth control pills, and sent me on my way." She was never told it was a chronic disease, that it could increase in stages, and that it could spread throughout her reproductive system. In the meantime, Walker-Montgomery went on with her life, continuing to struggle with stomach pain, and frequent trips to the ER, and still no health care provider associated her ongoing problems to endometriosis. In 2020, at 40 years old, she contracted long COVID and began experiencing a very bad pain on her right side that stayed with her for a year. The pain stayed, trips to the ER continued. Doc-
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tors called it everything including diverticulitis and IBS, or Irritable Bowel Syndrome. When the pain became too much and was lasting too long, she sought the help of a gynecologist and insisted she be referred to a specialist. The gynecologist did find fibroids and suggested that since they were small, they could wait to remove them until after the doctor had her baby. But Walker-Montgomery said waiting was not an option: “I’ve already been in this pain for a year.” She finally found an endometriosis specialist who finally told her she had not just endometriosis, but Stage 4 endometriosis, which spread to her rectum and possibly her heart, and that she’d need a hysterectomy. She told the New Pittsburgh Courier she was shocked to hear this news (she received the news in 2022). SEE FAWN A3
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GUARDIAN KATE CORBETT AND NEUROLOGY PA EMILY FLECKENSTEIN enjoy playtime with formerly conjoined twins Hiyab and Wuhbto at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital on Sept. 16, 2026. (Photo by Lawrence Bryant/St. Louis American)
Global effort brings Ethiopian twins to St. Louis for life-changing surgery by Kenya Vaughn The St. Louis American
Two toddlers who survived one of the rarest and most complex procedures in pediatric medicine were the center of a celebration Wednesday morning inside SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Hospital’s Danis Auditorium. But the most powerful moment of the morning wasn’t at the podium. A few floors up, in a designated play area, Hiyab and Wuhbto—2year-old craniopagus twins born in northern Ethiopia and separated earlier this year—lay together on a pillow. When Kate Corbett—their primary caregiver in St. Louis—started singing, both girls lit up. They smiled, laughed and rocked to the rhythm of her voice. They looked around at the reporters and cameras that hovered above them with the wide-eyed curiosity of any toddlers. It was the kind of everyday moment that had once been impossible. Dr. Hassain Marandi, president of SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital, opened the press conference by acknowledging the magnitude of what the girls had overcome. “Today we celebrate the extraordinary milestone in the lives of two young girls,” he said. “This achievement reflects Cardinal Glennon’s commitment to providing highly specialized pediatric care for the most complex medical conditions.” Chief Medical Officer Dr. Andrew White called the separation “a triumph for medicine.” “Conjoined twins are exceptionally rare,”
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he said. “Craniopagus twins—joined at the head—are rarer still.” Hiyab and Wuhbto were born facing opposite directions, sharing a network of veins that made separation extraordinarily dangerous. Their journey to St. Louis began with a phone call from a colleague working in northern Ethiopia. White immediately knew Cardinal Glennon had the expertise—and the responsibility—to help. Their arrival in the United States required an international coalition. World Pediatrics coordinated travel, visas and logistics. Ethiopian Airlines removed six rows of seats to accommodate a special bed. Ronald McDonald House and Ranken Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital supported their care. “When World Pediatrics was asked to help, we knew their journey would require more than connecting them with a hospital,” said board chair Linda Norman. “Even the most advanced medical care cannot change a child’s life if the child cannot reach that care.” Dr. Joanna Kemp, head pediatric neurosurgeon, described the preparation. “Our responsibility was to understand exactly how the twins were connected,” she said. “Months before entering the operating room, our teams were engaged in extensive imaging, simulations and multidisciplinary reviews.” Six major procedures —and more than sixty caregivers—contributed to the final separation. Four surgeries were required to divide the shared veins. The brains were mostly separate, but small fused areas required careful navigation. Dr. Kevin Chen led the reconstruction efforts. Three-dimensional imaging was one of several technological tools the team relied upon. “In a case this rare, planning can make a meaningful difference,” he said. “The skull reconstruction was like a jigsaw puzzle—in the best way possible.” The separation began with the twins lying on their sides on two operating beds. It ended at 2:31 a.m. after nearly 24 hours. Wuhbto has already undergone her cranioplasty. Hiyab’s is scheduled for later this fall. After surgery, the girls moved to Ranken Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital, where Dr. Nick Holekamp said they are making daily progress. “They are beginning to take advantage of the miracle of the surgeries,” he said. “They’re learning to sit upright, eat, speak, socialize and play—including with each other.”
Before surgery, they could not see one another. Now they steal toys, refuse naps and interact like any toddlers. “They are starting to do all the things toddlers are known to do,” Holekamp said. “Like refusing to take a nap and stealing each other’s toys. It’s remarkable.” Their guardian, Abebe Fantahun—founder of Lola Children’s Home in Tigray—said the girls became family the moment they entered his care. “My hope is that they will return home knowing how deeply they are loved—both in Ethiopia and in St. Louis,” he said. Corbett, who also serves as senior program director for the U.S. region for World Pediatrics, said their personalities are already clear. “Music is their love language,” she said. “Wuhbto is feisty and rambunctious. Hiyab welcomes you immediately—and her giggles are contagious.” She described the moment they first saw each other after surgery. “It was so beautiful,” she said. The separation also created the opportunity for Corbett and others to form a deeper connection with the girls. “As caregivers, what do you do when your little one is upset?” Corbett said. “You pick them up and you put them on your shoulder. And we weren’t able to do that. After surgery, we were able to draw them close, put them on our shoulders and love them as we would our own kids.” The girls were quiet, though their eyes wandered as members of the media and the medical staff that made their separation possible observed them. Corbett pointed out that their names mean “gift.” And on Wednesday, surrounded by the people who fought for their future, they were exactly that. “I hope St. Louis is a household name for these girls in Ethiopia,” she said. “I want them to know that they were loved—and how much faith and love their parents had to have to let their girls go into the loving arms of Abebe.” Corbett also noted that about 30 families from their region of Ethiopia live in St. Louis, and several have helped care for the girls as they recover and stay connected to their homeland and native language. “These girls are here because you chose to care,” Fantahun said. “Thank you for believing in them.”
1926—Legendary jazz great John Coltrane is born on this day in Hamlet, N.C. He is generally credited with reshaping modern Jazz and setting a pattern which would be followed by generations of Jazz saxophonists. 1930—Singer-performer Ray Charles is born on this day in Albany, Ga. Charles pioneered the soul music genre during the 1950s by combining blues, R&B and gospel styles into the music he recorded for Atlantic Records. He also contributed to the integration of country music, R&B and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his two Modern Sounds albums. While he was with ABC, Charles became one of the first Black musicians to be granted artistic control by a mainstream record company.
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1957—President Dwight Eisenhower orders federal troops into Little Rock, Ark., to prevent angry Whites from interfering with the integration of the city’s Central High School by nine Black students. The confrontation was one of the most dramatic during the early days of the Civil Rights Movement. Governor Orval Faubus had vowed to go to jail to block the court ordered desegregation of the school claiming that Whites would be destroyed if they integrated with Blacks. But the confrontation settled the issue of whether states had to obey orders issued by federal courts. 1965—President Lyndon Johnson issues what is generally considered the nation’s first affirmative action order—Executive Order #11246. It required companies receiving federal construction contracts to ensure equality in the hiring of minorities. Despite a disastrous war in Vietnam that would eventually force his resignation, the Southern-born Johnson generally supported a host of legislative and executive efforts beneficial to Blacks.
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1861—The Secretary of the Navy authorizes the enlistment of free Blacks and slaves as Union sailors in a bid to help the North win the Civil War against pro-slavery Southern Whites who had proven more difficult in battle than the North had originally expected. 1962—In another one of those instances demonstrating the tenacity of racism among Southern Whites, Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett defies a federal court order and personally stands in the door to block the admittance of a Black student—James Meredith—to the University of Mississippi. Meredith would eventually be admitted and graduate. Historians now generally believe Ross’ “show” was primarily designed to curry favor among White voters not actually to stop desegregation of the then-all-White university.
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1867—Maggie L. Walker is born. She would become the most prominent Black businesswoman in the Richmond, Va., area and one of the wealthiest Black women in the nation. She also became the first Black woman to establish a bank in the nation. A social activist, she would help establish the Lilly Black political party in part as a slap at the “Lilly White” political parties of the day. 1907—The People’s Savings Bank is incorporated in Philadelphia by one of the nation’s early Black Congressman George H. White. White had been pretty much forced out of Congress as Jim Crow laws led to the increasing disenfranchisement of Black voters after Reconstruction. After leaving Congress, he turned his attention to Black economic advancement. His bank helped thousands of Blacks buy homes. 1929—Ida Stephens Owens is
born. She would become the nation’s first Black female bio-chemist. 1937—Blues great Bessie Smith dies of injuries sustained in an automobile accident near Clarksdale, Miss. Rumors spread that White medics refused to treat her. However, later information did cast doubt on the accuracy of those rumors.
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1817—Hiram R. Revels is born free in Fayetteville, N.C. Revels becomes the first Black to serve in the United States Senate shortly after the Civil War. 1876—Edward Mitchell Bannister upsets racist Whites who believe Blacks have no artistic skill by winning a bronze medal for a painting he displayed at the American Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. 1950—Gwendolyn Brooks is awarded Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry—“Annie Allen.” She was the first Black so honored. Brooks published her first poem in a children’s magazine, “American Childhood,” when she was 13 years old. By the time she was 16, she had compiled a portfolio of around 75 published poems and had her work critiqued by poet and novelist James Weldon Johnson. At 17, she started submitting her work to “Lights and Shadows,” the poetry column of the Chicago Defender, an African American newspaper. Her poems, many published while she attended Wilson Junior College, ranged in style from traditional ballads and sonnets to poems using blues rhythms in free verse. 1950—Ralph J. Bunch is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in mediating a conflict between Palestinians and the newly established Jewish state of Israel. Arabs had gone to war arguing the Jewish state had been established on land which rightfully belonged to the Palestinians.
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1785—Abolitionist and writer David Walker is born. Walker is best known for his powerful anti-slavery pamphlet “David Walker’s Appeal.” The “Appeal” was published on this same day in 1829. 1833—Reverend Lemuel Haynes dies at 88. He was one of the leading Black veterans of America’s war for independence from England. 1868—The Opelousas Massacre occurs. Racist Whites launch a terror campaign in St. Landry Parrish, La., resulting in the deaths of at least 200 Blacks. 1895—The National Baptist Convention is founded. 1991—Jazz Trumpeter Miles Davis dies in Santa Monica, Calif., of a stroke. He was 65.
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1784—First African American Masonic lodge is established by Prince Hall. Hall headed lodge number 459 and was referred to as the “Worshipful Master.” He would also become a leading figure in the struggle for African Americans rights during this early period in U.S. history. 1940—The first U.S. merchant ship commanded by a Black captain—Hugh Mulzac—is launched in Wilmington, Del. The ship is named the “Booker T. Washington.” 1962—President John F. Kennedy finally sends federal troops to force the integration of the University of Mississippi. 1975—The nation’s first Blackowned television station—WGPR— begins broadcasting in Detroit. 1979—William Arthur Lewis, economics professor at Princeton University, becomes the first Black to receive a Nobel Prize in Economics. 2001—Mabel Fairbanks dies at 85. She was the first Black woman to be inducted into the Figure Skating Hall of Fame. She coached Olympic greats Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner.
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After decades of pain, Fawn WalkerMontgomery overcomes, authors first book FAWN FROM A1
Endometriosis is a chronic medical condition where tissue similar to the inner lining of the uterus grows outside of a woman's uterus onto other parts of the body. According to the Cleveland Clinic, "when this tissue grows in the wrong places, it can cause painful symptoms that can impact not only your menstrual cycle, but also your daily life." “I was so angry with the health care system, and seeing other Black women were going through this," Walker-Montgomery said. She felt that what happened to her was a form of medical racism.
“As a community organizer and an advocate for the well-being of my community, I felt compelled to share my story," she added. Wa l k e r- M o n t g o m e r y is currently CEO and Co-founder of Take Action Advocacy Group, and is the principal consultant of Fawn Walker-Montgomery Consulting. The 46-yearold’s book, "Healing In The Fight—A Black Woman’s Journey with Endometriosis and Radical Self Care," is purposed to share not only this decades-long saga with this disease, the literal silence from the health care system in regard to the true nature of endometriosis and what exactly her diagnosis at the age of 25 could mean for her, but also to share her discovery of the healing that has helped her. “The story is a memoir, and motivated by the Stage 4 diagnosis and the hysterectomy," Walker-Montgomery said. "I write about not only the journey with the endometriosis, but the intersections with my work and community organizing that go along with it. I wanted Black women to know they are not alone, but to also see some ways of healing.” Wa l k e r- M o n t g o m e r y shared that she "was offered to have a hysterectomy as early as my 20s; I was told that it was what I was eating, I needed to lose weight, it was stress, I was even told it may have been in my mind. The pain was so severe I can’t even imagine how I withstood it. One way I dealt with it was pressing into my work." Wa l k e r- M o n t g o m e r y, who's also served two terms as a McKeesport Councilwoman, said she "bought into the Strong Black Woman concept which was completely the wrong messaging, based in White supremacy." It was only when the pain would not go away that it became clear she needed to change how she did things. A spiritual awakening
tied to moments of silence allowing her to hear from her ancestors about her need to “rest and to be still” and give her body space to replenish helped her turn the corner on her health. "Through this process, I began to practice African spirituality—like Hoodoo—one of the healing tools we brought with us when we were kidnapped," she said. "Hoodoo is simply going back to the ways of our ancestors." In her book, it details the number of surgeries Walker-Montgomery has experienced. She talks about the hysterectomy she had, and how long it took for
doctors to perform. "It was horrible and doctors said my case (of endometriosis) was one of the worst they had seen," Walker-Montgomery told the Courier. "Healing In The Fight: A Black Woman's Journey With Endometriosis and Radical Self-Care," can be found on Walker-Montgomery's website, fawnwalker.net. She self-published the book, which is why she urges people to purchase the book from her directly on her website. However, the book is also available on Amazon, Goodreads and at City Books (908 Galveston Avenue, North Side). Walker-Montgomery's book is both a deeply personal memoir and a powerful act of advocacy. It chronicles her journey through chronic pain, medical gaslighting, and the emotional weight of being expected to stay strong in silence — while weaving in the healing power of African spirituality, rest, and community as pathways to liberation. "The book...provides accurate knowledge about what endometriosis is and how it affects patients, their families, and their communities," Walker-Montgomery said. "The book also explores the intersections of living with a chronic illness and racism, including racist medical gaslighting, capitalism, patriarchy, and oppressive standards in women’s health. I also discuss how I had to unlearn White supremacy in order to reach real healing. To heal, we must love ourselves and step into our own power. The book also highlights the benefits of using natural and holistic methods to support healing, and it encourages Black women to reconnect with ancestral healing and with the healing power that lives within us."
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Homeownership no longer a dream; it’s reality in McKees Rocks
NOMINATIONS ARE NOW OPEN The Women of Excellence Award celebrates local African American women who motivate and inspire others through their vision and leadership, exceptional achievements and participation in community service. The selected honorees will join an exclusive society of professional women who have previously received this distinction.
NEW HOME BY LEVEL HOMEOWNER CHANTEL PERKINS HUGS THE NONPROFIT’S FOUNDER AND CEO, JASON TIGANO, DURING THE AUG. 5, 2026, CELEBRATION IN MCKEES ROCKS. (PHOTOS BY MARANIE STAAB) LEVEL FROM A1
house. And Dennis Guy said he learned how to make a patio for their new home..."it can survive an earthquake, it's one hell of a patio now," he said. Tigano told the Courier exclusively that in all the years he's worked in the real estate and economic development industries, he felt that there was "no money for homeownership," and the funding/grants for low- to middle-income residents steered them towards renting. "What we've learned through this journey we've been on is the rippling impacts," Tigano continued. "When you rent, you stay in your place three to four years (on average). That means the kids are moving schools all the time." He said officials with the Sto-Rox School District said a third of its students that start the school year in the district "don't finish the year in the district, because the family moves out of the district." But by offering homeownership instead of rentals, Tigano said, "we're going to keep kids in the district and be able to educate them K-12." Tigano also said the
average net worth of a renter is $10,000. But the average net worth of a homeowner is $400,000. The homes that LEVEL: Equity Building have offered for sale so far have a $180,000 cap. It's not going up. This means that, when a prospective homeowner also applies for Allegheny County's "1st Home Allegheny" grant, that homeowner could use the up-to-$45,000 grant from the county to knock down the home's sale price even further, possibly to $135,000. "This is what it's all about," Tigano told the Courier exclusively. "It's really authentically affordable. If you can qualify for the 1st Home Allegheny with this program, and you're buying a house for $130,000 to $150,000, there is no full gut rehab house you're going to get for that. It doesn't exist." Tigano said in 2027, his nonprofit will be renovating four more homes, making it 10 renovated homes that Homes By LEVEL would have completed for the McKees Rocks community. Tigano said it took more than $2 million in grants for the five homes on Woodward
Avenue to be renovated for sale. Heather Jarrett, communications and outreach manager for Homes By LEVEL, said that Perkins and another homebuyer, Melissa Williams-Miles, have purchased two of the five homes on Woodward Avenue, leaving three that are currently available. Interested firsttime homebuyers can email: hello@homesbylevel. org. "I want to extend my deepest gratitude to the LEVEL team," Perkins said at the Aug. 5 celebration. "Thank you for believing in families like mine and making homeownership possible for so many. You're doing more than just building houses; you're creating opportunities, strengthening communities and giving families the chance to build generational wealth."
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CRITERIA: 1. The nominee must a be a woman 40 years of age or older, who resides in the Greater Pittsburgh area. 2. The nominee must be active in her career or profession. Career or profession is defined as paid employment in her field. Nominees must agree to have their photograph and biographical information published in the New Pittsburgh Courier. All nominees selected as a Women of Excellence will be featured in a 2026 edition of the New Pittsburgh Courier 3. Evaluations will be based on the quality of a nominee’s achievements rather than the quantity of information submitted. 4. Selections will be made by the New Pittsburgh Courier Women of Excellence Selection Committee based on the following criteria: • Local African American executive or business owner • Proven success in career/profession • Positive role model • Demonstrative community service
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A silent problem— addiction in seniors In this column we have spoken about aging in this country in the most positive ways. We’ve covered essential aspects like maintaining optimal health by engaging healthy habits, the importance of keeping a positive attitude in the approach of our lives, and about being intentional about all of this. We have discussed facts like aging does not mean losing our capacity to contribute to society. Nor is it ever too late to do something different. Our talents are still valid and still work even though we’ve aged. And misrepresentation by the media does not negate that. With all this said, there is the reality that we are human, and that humanism makes us susceptible to anything other humans are—and that includes vices. Maya Angelou, at a woman’s conference in 2013, famously quoted an African slave named Terenius Afer. Afer was sold to a Roman Senator, ultimately freed and became a famous playwright. He is credited for saying what Angelou shared at that event: “I am a human being, so nothing a human
can do is foreign to me.” There is an issue among the senior population that is so sensitive; it does not get addressed and often remains silent, making it all the more insidious; and that is the use of drugs among the senior population. I refer here to substance abuse that exists within individuals beyond age 60 or 70 and even 80—being addicted to drugs. There are many reasons seniors get addicted to drugs; these include loneliness, residuals from pain meds they were once subscribed for a broken hip or knee surgery or back problem, and/or residuals from a former lifestyle. The most challenging to address is that of the “pill” problem; it’s the addiction that ends up remaining hidden. This is unfortunate because according to the International Psychogeriatric Association publication, “The health effects of substance use in the geriatric population can be more dangerous than in younger substance abusers. Chronic health conditions and prescribed medications can increase the adverse effects of substance use.”
RENEE P. ALDRICH Dr. Erica L. Givner, DSW, LCSW, EMDR-C, Founder and Clinical Director of Vision Towards Peace Psychiatric Outpatient Center in Wilkinsburg, shared the following: "Substance abuse among seniors is actually a problem that remains silent for the following reasons...If not associated with longstanding use of drugs, the abuse generally comes in the form of misplaced opioid use. In other words, ‘pills.’ "Pills which are prescribed by their personal physicians, and as a result they (seniors) are not
likely to identify as being addicted because their doctors are sanctioning the use. And that ‘white coat’ connection is everything to them—if the doctor says it, then that settles it." Dr. Givner added: "Along with this, physicians (some, not all) generally won’t be courageous enough to tell a senior patient they are addicted, or even to stop prescribing to senior patients because of prevailing ailments, such as knee replacements, back or hip problems. These two elements are what makes the matter of drug use in seniors particularly hard to address; you cannot fix what you won’t name.” The top three substances that get abused are alcohol, pain medications and cannabis/illicit drugs. Alcohol is the easiest because of its easy access, less societal stigma, and a consciousness that says it's "not really a drug." However, it has the same properties as pain medication and is therefore a depressant. And as we know, use enough of it and it will cause us to be incapacitated. De’netta Benjamin-Mill-
er, LCSW, Executive Director of Sojourner House, and the owner of Focus on Life Therapeutic Services, explained in the matter of alcohol abuse that isolation plays a role in resulting in seniors who may turn to alcohol as a coping mechanism. It may start out as just a glass of wine a night, and the next thing you know, you are up to 3 to 4 glasses every night. Also, Benjamin-Miller said, losing a spouse after 30-40 years is an example of a senior using alcohol to cope with the grief. Prescription drugs are the next common; the National Institutes of Health's Institute on Drug Abuse reports that chronic health conditions tend to develop as part of aging, and older adults are often prescribed more medicines than other age groups, leading to a higher rate of exposure to potentially addictive medications. One study of 3,000 adults aged 57-85 showed common mixing of prescription medicines, non-prescription drugs, and dietary supplements. More than 80 percent of participants used at least one prescription medication daily, with nearly half
using more than five medications or supplements. And when it comes to cannabis/marijuana, "Baby Boomers" seem to embrace marijuana more so than previous generations. The matter of substance abuse within our senior population is real, but some of it is silent because of the reasons stated. Thankfully, there are solutions. First, it begins with education/information; next, communication with our healthcare providers and family members. Be open if you have concerns about the number of pills you are taking, or if you have a loved one who seems to be depending on pain medication more than usual, it's time to interject. If we are to age atomically, then we must be intentional about that decision. Embrace the things that lead to that, and negate anything that distracts from that outcome.
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MICHELE P. ELLISON NOVEMBER 1, 1954—AUGUST 28, 2026 Michele Pearl Ellison was born on November 1, 1954, in Queens, New York, to Ruby Miles and James Monroe Ellison. The second born of three girls to a couple who dedicated their lives to community activism in the Suffolk County, Long Island hamlet of Wyandanch, Michele’s own path into social justice and healing work began as a little girl. Merely months after the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the burning of the Ellison home on Straight Path launched what would become for Michele a lifetime of advocacy for the fair treatment of African Americans as well as other systematically minoritized groups. The blaze, which an all-white fire crew let destroy the Ellison home as the family watched, led to a community-wide march wherein a 9-year-old Michele joined her mother and father in calling for the department’s integration. The quiet little girl was brought more and more out of her shell as time went on. She helped her father around his real estate and insurance office that doubled as a meeting place for local branches of the VFW, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and the NAACP. She tagged along to help her parents with voter registration drives and watched as they fought for quality healthcare services for Wyandanch and pushed for accountability by the local police department. Free, unstructured time was rare in the Ellison household, and Michele would, over a lifetime, construct her own legacy for being in service through faith to justice and humanity. After finishing grammar school in Wyandanch, Michele’s education continued at Long Island Lutheran High School where service projects including in Antigua through Operation Crossroads Africa highlighted early the importance of cross-cultural connections. This competency would only grow in importance for Michele as time went on. She briefly attended Pacific Lutheran University in Washington state before being sidelined by pneumonia that brought her closer to home. She attended SUNY at Empire State where she earned her Bachelor of Science in Social Work and Human Services. Later, she earned her Master of Social Work in Policy, Planning and Administration at SUNY at Stony Brook, and her Master of Divinity at Virginia Union’s Samuel Proctor Dewitt School of Theology. In more recent years, Michele began her pursuit of a doctorate in Creative Ministry at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary however withdrew from the program this winter after a six-year battle with ovarian cancer. This May, she was awarded a Certificate in Advanced Studies in Ministry recognizing her work in the program. Over her career, Michele’s leadership, service, and ministry would extend from theory in college classrooms where she taught, to practice and advocacy in the communities where she lived. Her work delved into issues related to African Americans’ access to quality educational opportunities, employment, health care, and housing and economic development, and police accountability, substance abuse and addiction, and youth violence prevention. In her capacity as an ordained minister, she preached in Lutheran, Baptist, and Episcopal contexts across the country and as a chaplain, provided spiritual care including at UPMG Children’s Hospital, NYU Medical Children’s Hospital (NYU Langone Health) and Memorial Sloan Kettering. In addition, as chaplain, she provided grief support to military families, herself the daughter of a WWII army veteran. When Michele arrived in Pittsburgh the week of September 11, 2001, she quickly got involved in social welfare program administration and advocacy that would span over the next 20 years – working on local police accountability, contributing to national immigration policy recommendations, and gaining acceptance to Leadership Pittsburgh where she joined others in shaping community development and equity conversations. She was active in the Black Political Empowerment Project (BPeP) where she served as a volunteer and a producer of “Thoughts for Today” and “BPeP Community Moments,” which air on WGBN 1360AM. During the 2020 presidential election cycle, Michele’s question was selected to be answered at a televised town hall for former Vice President Joe Biden who was then a candidate for president. She is listed in the International Who’s Who of Professionals and the archives of Torchbearers-Trailblazers: Women in the Civil Rights Movement at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Non-Violent Change in Atlanta, Ga. Seeking justice was what anchored Michele (Micah 6:8). “You don’t have to be marching on a picket line – your work can be a form of fighting for civil rights.” Michele, who founded Life-Long Lessons LLC, a human services firm that integrated spirituality and mental health, provided consulting including to the American Bible Society and the Council of Churches of the City of New York. In addition to delivering workshops and motivational speeches, she was also a writer of essays, poetry, and devotionals. She authored Rising: 100 Meditations and Affirmations for Military Families, and was in the process of writing her memoir at the time of her passing. She is survived by her sisters Nadia Ellison Tyson of Islandia, N.Y., Pamela I. Ellison of Lorton, Va., step-sister Frances Ellison-Dansby of Atlanta, Ga., cousin Sandra Pettaway, cousin once removed Walter Callaway, three nieces Bravetta Hassell, Shaude Tyson, and Paris (Tyson) Robbins, two great nephews, a great niece, and a host of further extended family. She will be missed by family, by her dear lifelong best friend JoyAnne Amani (Richardson) of Baltimore, close friend Shontell Giles of Richmond, Va., members of InterPlay Pittsburgh including Sheila Collins, Lynn Coghill, Lois Toni McClendon, and Lavern Baker, and a community of colleagues and other friends spanning from these United States and overseas in China where Michele taught briefly. A memorial service celebrating Michele’s life will be held at 11am on Saturday, September 26, at First Lutheran Church, 615 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15219. The ashes of Michele will be interred at the church, where they will rest in peace. 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Weekly Inspiration “That we should be no schism in the BODY; but that the members should have the same care for one another. And whether one member suffer with it; or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it. Now you are the BODY OF CHRIST and members in particular.” - 1 Corinthians 12:25-27 REV. WALKER SAYS: ALL the parts of the BODY are needed, because we are the BODY OF CHRIST. We need all the parts of the BODY — eye, hand, feet, heart, liver, etc. We are not separate parts but unified to work together as our own bodies do. Be your part of the BODY OF CHRIST, to the GLORY OF GOD.
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CLARK MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday School: 9:15 a.m. Sunday Worship Service: 11 a.m. 1301 Glenn St. Homestead, Pa., 15120 412-462-1011 www.clark1889.org
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Pittsburgh legends score big at ‘Lit’ for Bill Neal Before I dive into the details of one of the greatest nights of my life, allow me to begin with what is without question the most important part of it all. I want to take this opportunity to thank a number of people for going out of their way to do something meaningful
for me by hosting a party in my honor at “Lit Lounge,” Friday, Sept. 11, 2026. First of all, a huge special thank you to David “Quick” Strothers for organizing a salute and honorary night for yours truly. When Quick contacted me a month ago to get my OK on the idea, my first reaction was I thought he was joking. When I realized he was serious...believe it or not, I was speechless...yeah, I know you find that hard to believe! I went on to tell him that nothing like this had ever been done for me other than our 50year anniversary celebration two years ago, organized and orchestrated by some of Pittsburgh’s finest, including Dwayne Woodruff, Senator Jay Costa, and BB Flenory, featuring the great Norm Nixon, L.A. Laker NBA champion and a cast of hundreds including many of Western Pa.’s greatest athletes and community leaders and, of course, the great Achieving Greatness Inc. Executive Team. Since that time I did my best to stay out of the way and let nature take its course, and I have to tell ya, that nature showed up and showed out. Quick, along with the help of some of Pittsburgh’s best including Cal Taylor, Clarence Hopson, Otis Foster, Sam Sing Jr., Donna Shear, and of course none of which would have been possible without the generosity of Brother Gaddafi hosting the event at his “Club Lit” along with his daughter Jasmine, the bar maids and the kitchen crew. You’ll pardon a few nec-
essary analogies, but once the offense was set up and put into motion, the only thing left to do was get the ball into the end zone, and score they did. Flashing back, I know you didn’t believe that part about me being speechless...(no you didn’t, oh just stop, you know you didn’t even though it was true!). But this part is equally as true (IT’S NOT EASY WRITING THIS STORY IN THE FIRST PERSON TALKING ABOUT MYSELF...). But I’ll tell ya what my old grandpapa said, “It takes a poor dog that won’t wag his own tail!” Anyway, it was a throwback old school par-tay not to be forgotten. As a matter of fact, it was a “Function at the Junction and everybody was there!” “Big John” Marshall, Ms. Sandy Green, Kurt Bruce, Bobbie and Jan Franklin, Ms. Dana Watson, Ricky and Dr. Charlene Coleman, Dr. Stagger of Penn Hills, Mr. and Mrs. Odell Miller, George Jones, Margo Hinton and a number of others who made up the 100-plus who danced to ole school R&B of The Ole School Master DJ Tuffy. And putting away a ton of wings, fries, and yep... that shrimp fried rice! All in all, it was a virtual Who’s Who of the legendary players who helped launch my career with the establishment of the nationally recognized Connie Hawkins Pro/ Am Summer Basketball League and all the other stars who shine bright in the 'Burgh: doctors, lawyers, educators, lawmen, entrepreneurs, actors and all “the everyday people!” As I stated, that evening, while some of my oldest and dearest friends came out to say thank you to me for 50-plus years of dedicated community service...showcasing 20 programs a year for 50 straight years, it’s me who wants to thank all of you Pittsburghers and beyond who helped grow and develop the Champions Association and Achieving Greatness and all the wonderful programs we provided. In conclusion, it can never be overstated how much I owe to the great Connie Hawkins, Willie Stargell, Franco Harris, Dwayne Woodruff,
THE LEGENDS OF THE GAME (LEFT TO RIGHT)—ODELL MILLER, DENNIS BRIGGS, BILL NEAL, DAVID STROTHERS, GEORGE JONES, BOBBY FRANKLIN, CLARENCE HOPSON, CAL TAYLOR. (PHOTOS BY BARRETT SCHLEY)
WELCOME TO “LIT”MY FRIENDS...CO-OWNER—“JASMINE” Dom Gambino, and Bill and Jack Goodrich...my Mount Rushmore of support for all they’ve done to help me help others Achieve Their Greatness!
Thanks again to all those who came out and know that we raised over $1,500 for the upcoming Toys for Tots/Champions Christmas Party and
THE PRODUCER OF THE EVENT, THE LEGENDARY DAVID “QUICK” STROTHERS, WITH BILL NEAL. Toy Giveaway, coming up Saturday, Dec. 19, 2026, at the McDonald’s East Liberty Station, noon to 4 p.m. For more information call AGI at 412-902-
5761. Game not over—I’ve got another 50 years to go!
The fire-starter, Aaron Rodgers, may be torching the Steelers' 2026 season The Pittsburgh Steelers visited Foxborough, Mass., to play against the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium, Sept. 20,206. They returned to Pittsburgh after a 20-3 drubbing administered by the Patriots and were forced to gaze into the mirror of reality and saw that their thick macho man healthy and “Rumpelstiltskin-type” beards had been removed, painlessly, along with their dignity. In November 2025, I penned an article titled: "Is the problem with the Steelers the defense, or Aaron Rodgers?" Here are a few excerpts from that article. The column pointed out that, “The Pittsburgh Steelers kept their cowboy costumes on as they corralled and placed a halter on the bucking and feisty Indianapolis Colts and broke the number one offense in the NFL by the score of 27-20, Nov. 2. One of Mike Tomlin’s recent acquisitions, defensive back Jalen Ramsey, gave a pregame motivational oration that might’ve been just what 'Doc, Mike Tomlin,'
ordered.” Well ladies and gents, during this year's foray into Beantown, the Steelers were not as fortunate because they had no prognosticator besides Paul Revere and yours truly and as we all know, they very seldom pay any attention to me. However, at that time, the “prince of narcissism,” Aaron Rodgers was
disturbed by the pregame motivational speech from Steelers defensive back Jalen Ramsey. Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers found fault with the length of the speech that Ramsey delivered to the team saying: “Jalen kind of went on and on and had the attention in the room and he said some really, really good stuff.” Now hear and read this; in the near and distant fu-
ture, I suggest that Aaron Rodgers enlist the help of Ramsey and his oratorical skills in the hope that there might be a more positive outcome for the squad from the Steel City in upcoming games. However, this next excerpt I wrote hit me like a ton of bricks. I was thoroughly convinced that, “Ramsey spoke to his teammates from the heart. It also had a positive effect on his team. The prior week that the Steelers were preparing to face the Packers, it is my opinion that Aaron Rodgers (had) spent a bit too much time talking about being inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame as a Green Bay Packer as opposed to avoiding the NFL 2025 'Hall of Shame' as a Pittsburgh Steeler." Did Aaron Rodgers’ comments help to motivate the men from Lambeau instead of the Men of Steel? Was Ramsey supposed to go by the 125-words-perminute format so as not to keep “Mr. Green Bay Packer” too long? Now let’s take a look at the 2026 “bus schedule”
that bus driver Aaron Rodgers has posted and what teammate will be destined to become a “Rodgers round the Rosey” speed bump during this Pittsburgh Steelers current season. Brandon Contes recently posted an article: “Aaron Rodgers throws Mike McCarthy under the bus." Contes writes, "Aaron Rodgers has looked like one of the worst quarterbacks in the NFL through two weeks this season, but don’t expect him to take any of the blame. In recent years, NFL fans have grown accustomed to Rodgers appearing like a shell of his MVP-self. They’ve also grown accustomed to Rodgers reflecting on his poor performances by finger-pointing. And Rodgers was at it again Sunday evening after the Steelers appeared offensively inept in their 20-3 loss to the New England Patriots.” Aaron Rodgers is not infected by the gene of narcissism. That is much too simple of an analogy. Could narcissism be centrally located somewhere in the reservoir of his
gene pool? Historical journals state that the chant, “He’s here, he’s there, he’s everywhere, so beware” comes from English football terrace chants, part of a long‑standing fan tradition of celebrating high‑energy, “workhorse” players whose presence seems to cover the entire pitch. The earliest well‑documented versions come from chants used for Premier League players like Park Ji‑sung and Joey Guðjónsson, long before its pop‑culture reuse. I was on the train at the beginning of the week, and I listened to a few inebriated post-teens chanting: “He’s here, he’s there, he’s everywhere, so beware." They also had chant number two waiting in the can. By that time, I turned on the record mode on my phone and they drunkenly began to shout, “Aaron Rodgers looked like the artful dodger, the Patriots made him holler.” Man, the “yinzers” are colder than a polar bear in Alaska chowin' down on a lukewarm seal. Hey, but they can be consoled by the
fact that at the very least, Steelers ex-head coach Mike Tomlin won’t be issuing any quotes about “standards,” because current Steelers head coach Mike McCarthy is now currently talking about new standards, of which there appears to be none. Many of the local yokels are diligently searching for a few “worthy” individuals whose images they can chisel onto the face of “Mt. Saint Yinzer,” but they had better check with Pittsburgh’s chief meteorologist Stephen Cropper before they get to work because they don’t want all of their hard work to be in vain, erased in the future by a landslide, lava flow, or a wildfire or two. The Pittsburgh Steelers offense currently resembles “men on fire” with multiple arsonists residing comfortably in the Steelers locker room. Heck, there might even be a fire-starter or two, hanging around the front office.
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What does the Fed’s latest interest rate increase mean for Black America? Interest rates are numbers, but their consequences are human. When the Federal Reserve raises interest rates, the conversation quickly turns to inflation, Treasury yields, basis points and monetary policy. Those concepts matter, but for ordinary families the question is much simpler: What does this mean for me, my family and my ability to own property? For Black America, that question deserves particular attention not because the mathematics of a mortgage changes according to race, but because we do not enter the housing market from the same historical starting point. The Black homeownership rate continues to significantly trail the rate for White households. That gap represents more than who owns a house and who does not. Over generations, it has meant differences in access to equity, appreciating assets, financial stability, inheritance and the ability to transfer wealth from one generation to another. This is why changes in the cost of money have consequences that extend well beyond a monthly mortgage payment.
ANTHONY O. KELLUM The Federal Reserve recently increased its benchmark federal funds rate by one-quarter of a percentage point as it continues its effort to control inflation. It is important to understand that this does not mean mortgage rates automatically increase by one-quarter of a percentage point. Mortgage rates are influenced heavily by the bond market, particularly longer-term Treasury yields, along with inflation expectations, economic growth, investor demand and expectations about future Federal Reserve policy. Nevertheless, the broader reality is straightforward; money remains expensive, and housing affordability is under considerable pressure. Consider what that means in actual dollars. On a $300,000, 30-year mortgage at 6.5 percent, the principal-and-interest payment is approximately $1,896 per month. At 7.5 percent, that same $300,000 mortgage costs approximately $2,098 per month. That is roughly $202 more each month, or more than $2,400 a year, before property taxes, homeowners’ insurance and other housing expenses are considered. For a working family, $200 a month is not an abstract economic statistic; it is groceries, utilities, gas, savings or money that could otherwise be invested. This is the legitimate challenge of higher interest rates...they reduce purchasing power. A family that could comfortably qualify for a particular price range SEE PROPERTY IS POWER B2
Despite fair housing courtroom victories, HUD seeks more cuts by Charlene Crowell (TriceEdneyWire.com)—Despite getting slapped down by three courts over this summer, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) still plans to continue its efforts to hobble fair housing investigations and enforcement. In late August, a federal judge warned that Congress—not federal agencies—authorizes and appropriates funding for programs and operations. Noting on August 26 that “HUD failed to make “a satisfactory explanation for its decision,” Judge Myong J. Joun ruled, “It belies credulity to think that five awards alone could broaden and strengthen fair housing work across the nation, and excluding almost all existing fair housing organizations will certainly not strengthen fair housing work. I cannot ignore this disconnect.” Judge Joun’s ruling rejected HUD’s attempt to limit grant criteria to only organizations with annual budgets of $5 million or more. That move would have had the effect of shrinking over 100 fair housing organizations to only five nationwide. In March 2025, a court ordered HUD to reinstate Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP) grants it had terminated for more than 60 organizations. Later in June, yet another court ruled HUD must administer appropriated FHIP funds when the agency refused to disburse FHIP funds for the 2024 fiscal year. “When someone is wrongfully turned away from a housing opportunity because they have experienced domestic violence, because of a disability, their gender, or the color of their skin, they don’t call Washington,”, said Lisa Rice, President and CEO of the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) reacting to the decision. “They call the fair housing organization in their community. HUD tried to shut the doors of the frontline groups who fight housing injustice and today a federal court emphatically said ‘no.’” Rice and other housing advocates still worry that this recent courtroom victory will be short-lived, as it only affects funding appropriated through the end of the current fiscal year, September 30. For the new fiscal year that begins
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For the new fiscal year that begins October 1st, HUD has already made clear its intent to resume efforts to further diminish fair housing funding. Its budget request of $68 million for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) would continue recent fair housing cuts, this time by 21 percent. October first, HUD has already made clear its intent to resume efforts to further diminish fair housing funding. Its budget request of $68 million for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) would continue recent fair housing cuts, this time by 21 percent. In 2024, Congress provided $86 million to fund FHEO, far below
the $153 million needed to fully staff the division. As a result, FHEO now has only a third of the staff it had on January 20, 2025. Two other fair housing programs targeted for cuts are the Private Enforcement Initiative, which pays for the investigations and testing that prove discrimination happened, and the Education and Outreach Initia-
tive, that funds efforts to ensure people know they have rights in the first place. These and other regressive actions will continue to be legally challenged by NFHA and its consortium of more than 290 private, nonprofit fair SEE HUD B2
ELSI: A simple formula for building wealth Everybody wants the secret to building wealth. People buy books, follow financial gurus, chase hot stocks and scroll social media looking for a magical money hack. Building wealth is not necessarily complicated. It does, however, require patience, discipline and consistent execution. I teach a simple formula called ELSI: Earn. Live Below Your Means. Save. Invest. Meet Kevin, a 36-year-old IT support specialist earning $74,000 per year. On paper, Kevin makes a respectable income. But Kevin gets paid on Friday and is broke by Monday. His take-home pay is approximately $2,150 every two weeks. One Friday, his $685 car payment was automatically withdrawn. Car insurance took another $215. Credit-card minimum payments totaled $300. Buy-now-pay-later plans took $180, while streaming services, apps and memberships claimed $85. Kevin then spent $225 eating out and ordering delivery, $200 hanging out over the weekend and $100 filling his gas tank. By Monday morning, only $160 remained. His second monthly paycheck faced $1,450 in rent, $250 for utilities, $160 for phone and internet service, and $400 for groceries. Those bills totaled $2,260—$110 more than the paycheck.
After using $110 of the $160 left from payday weekend, Kevin had only $50 remaining for the month. Nothing went to savings, extra debt payments or investments outside his workplace plan. Kevin did not necessarily have an income problem. He had a gap problem. The gap is the difference between what you earn and what you spend. That space is where financial freedom is created. The larger the gap, the more money you have available to eliminate debt, build savings, invest and create options. E—Earn You cannot build wealth without income. Income is the raw material of your financial future. Improve your skills. Earn certifications. Ask for the promotion. Negotiate your compensation. Change employers if the marketplace will pay more for your experience. Start a side hustle, build a business or find another way to create value. One paycheck may be enough to begin, but additional income can accelerate your goals. A second stream can
help eliminate debt, increase savings and fund investments without squeezing every dollar from your primary paycheck. Multiple streams of income is a necessity, not a luxury. However, earning more will not make you wealthy if every additional dollar immediately becomes another expense. Earning is the engine, but an engine without direction can drive you straight into a financial ditch. L—Live Below Your Means This is where many people fumble the bag. They receive a raise and buy a more expensive vehicle. They get a bonus and book a vacation. They earn a promotion and decide they need a bigger house, new furniture and a lifestyle that announces their new title. That is lifestyle inflation. It quietly keeps high earners living paycheck to paycheck. Increase your income without increasing your foolishness. When your income rises, give your financial goals a raise before upgrading your lifestyle. Increase your retirement
contribution. Add more to savings. Pay extra toward high-interest debt. Then decide how much of the remaining money you can responsibly enjoy. Grow the gap. The gap is not merely leftover money. It is your debt-destroying power, investment capital and future freedom. A raise should improve your financial position—not merely increase your monthly bills. S—Save Life be LIFE’N! Cars break down. Furnaces quit. Children need braces. Medical deductibles happen. Jobs disappear. Family emergencies show up without calling first. Without savings, every unexpected expense becomes new debt. You are forced to borrow, swipe a credit card or raid your retirement account because life happened while your bank account was unprepared. Start with an emergency fund. A reasonable long-term target is three to six months of essential expenses, although people with irregular income or greater family responsibilities may need more. But do not stop there. Create a lifelong sinking fund. A sinking fund is money intentionally reserved for future expenses and goals. Car repairs, home maintenance, SEE DAMON CARR B2
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housing organizations; state and local civil rights agencies; and individuals throughout the United States. As it works to ensure every neighborhood has the resources people need to thrive and expand equitable housing opportunities for all people and communities, the organization also analyzes housing trends. For example, NFHA’s most recent analysis of fair housing trends found that in 2024: From 2023 to 2024, housing discrimination complaints based on color increased 26.2 percent. Nationwide, 32,321 housing discrimination complaints were filed—one of the highest figures in more than two decades. Nearly 75 percent of all housing discrimination complaints were investigated and filed by community-based local fair housing agencies. 83.56 percent of the year’s complaints were rental related. As only 44.7 percent of Blacks owned their homes in 2024, Black families are more likely to become rental victims of racial housing discrimination. The irony of these and other
still unfolding events is that the agency designated to enforce the nation’s fair housing law is clearly demonstrating its determination to roll back over 60 years of hard-won civil rights. NFHA’s analysis aptly summarizes why the fight for fair housing must continue: “In the U.S., place is inextricably linked to opportunity: where we live determines our access to fresh air, clean water, well-resourced schools, healthcare facilities, reliable transportation, good jobs, quality internet service, and much more. Meanwhile, too many people are stuck in places that impede—rather than promote—their ability to thrive. Millions of Americans struggle under the weight of excessive housing costs, a dearth of affordable housing supply, and a lack of resources and amenities in the communities where they live.” (Charlene Crowell is a senior fellow with the Center for Responsible Lending.)
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when rates were lower may have to purchase a less expensive property, contribute a larger down payment or reconsider the timing of a purchase. Some families will decide that they should wait. Financial prudence should always come before the emotional desire to own a home. But there is another side of the equation that receives considerably less attention. Markets adjust when money becomes more expensive, fewer buyers are able or willing to compete for property. Demand can weaken, price appreciation can slow and, depending on local supply and demand, sellers can become more willing to negotiate. This does not mean that home values automatically decline every time mortgage rates increase. Real estate is local, and limited housing inventory can keep prices elevated even in a high-rate environment, but higher rates can change something almost as important as price... “negotiating and leverage.” The buyer who once competed against 15 offers may now compete against three. A seller who previously refused to pay closing costs may reconsider. Builders may offer incentives; sellers may agree to contribute toward an interest-rate buydown. Properties that once sold in days may sit on the market long enough for a thoughtful buyer to conduct proper inspections, negotiate repairs and make a rational financial decision instead of reacting to the fear of missing out. That is why I believe buyers should learn to evaluate the entire transaction rather than becoming fixated on a single number called the mortgage rate. When interest rates are extremely low, buyers can afford larger mortgage balances,
demand often increases and competition can push property prices higher. When rates rise, financing becomes more expensive, demand can weaken and the balance of negotiating power can begin to shift. The relationship is not perfect, and it certainly does not mean that higher rates and lower prices always “wash each other out.” But it does mean that the price of the property and the price of the money used to purchase it should always be considered together. A 6 percent mortgage attached to an overpriced property is not automatically a better financial decision than a 7 percent mortgage attached to a property purchased at the right price with meaningful seller concessions. The more sophisticated questions are: What am I actually paying for the property? What is my monthly obligation? What concessions can I negotiate? How long do I intend to own it? What are the taxes and insurance? What is the neighborhood’s long-term economic trajectory? And most importantly, does this purchase fit comfortably
within my family’s broader financial plan? For Black Americans, I believe there is an additional lesson here. We cannot build our homeownership strategy around waiting for the perfect economy. History has rarely presented Black families with perfect economic circumstances. If we wait for low interest rates, low property prices, plentiful inventory, rapidly rising wages, economic certainty and ideal credit conditions to occur simultaneously, we could spend years waiting while ownership and wealth creation continue around us. That is not an argument for buying a house simply because one is available, quite the opposite—we should be prudent. We should know our numbers, protect our emergency reserves, understand our credit and refuse to become house-poor merely for the privilege of saying that we own something. We should compare financing options, negotiate aggressively, understand seller concessions and rate buydowns, and recognize the difference between qualifying for a mortgage and comfortably
affording one. Ownership without financial stability defeats much of the purpose of ownership. The same discipline applies to real estate investors. Higher financing costs expose weak investments very quickly. A property that appeared profitable when inexpensive money was available may no longer produce adequate cash flow at today’s borrowing costs. That forces investors to become more disciplined about purchase price, rents, taxes, insurance, repairs, vacancy, maintenance and debt service. In some respects, difficult markets can create better investors because appreciation can no longer be casually assumed to rescue a poorly structured transaction. There is also an important distinction between today’s mortgage and a forever mortgage. If someone purchases a sound property at a price they can comfortably afford and interest rates eventually decline, refinancing may become an option. There is no guarantee that rates will decline, when they will decline or that every homeowner will qualify to refinance when
they do. Therefore, no one should purchase a home today based on the assumption that refinancing will save them tomorrow. The payment needs to make sense today. If refinancing becomes advantageous later, that should be viewed as an opportunity rather than the foundation of the original decision. After more than three decades in mortgage lending, I have watched markets change repeatedly. Interest rates rise and fall. Property values accelerate and cool. Credit standards tighten and loosen. Economic confidence comes and goes. Yet one principle has remained remarkably durable: ownership matters. For Black America, increasing homeownership is not simply about accumulating houses. It is about accumulating assets. It is about equity, stability, inheritance and having something tangible to transfer to the next generation. A home can become collateral for opportunity, a source of retirement security, an asset inherited by children or simply the place where a family lives without wondering what next year’s
rent increase will be. Real estate alone will not solve the racial wealth gap, but it remains one of the most accessible wealth-building assets available to ordinary American families. Higher interest rates therefore deserve our attention and our respect, but they do not deserve our fear. A difficult housing market should lead to greater financial education, not financial paralysis. We should not teach our communities to purchase property at any cost. We should teach them how to recognize value. We should discuss credit at the dinner table, teach our children how mortgages work and make concepts such as equity, leverage, cash flow and appreciation part of our everyday financial vocabulary. Perhaps the most important question, then, is not whether mortgage rates will be higher or lower next month. It is whether we are preparing ourselves to recognize opportunity whenever it appears. The objective should be larger than surviving the current interest-rate cycle. It should be creating a culture in which ownership becomes increasingly normal, financial literacy becomes generational and property becomes one of the instruments through which families build lasting economic power. That is the larger meaning behind three simple words: Property is Power!
(Dr. Anthony O. Kellum— CEO of Kellum Mortgage, LLC Homeownership Advocate, Speaker, Author MLS # 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
ELSI: A simple formula for building wealth DAMON CARR FROM B1
insurance deductibles, travel and major purchases should not become emergencies when you had time to prepare. Emergency savings protects you from something. A sinking fund prepares you for something. Opportunity cash positions you to act on something. Cash does more than rescue you from bad luck. It gives you options when good opportunities appear. The deal of a lifetime is not a deal if you do not have the money to take advantage of it. I — Invest Saving protects you. Investing grows you. You need both. Cash should be safe and accessible, but cash alone is unlikely to build enough long-term wealth for retirement. Inflation gradually reduces what money can buy. Investing gives your dollars the opportunity to grow. Begin with your workplace retire-
ment plan, especially if your employer offers a matching contribution. Capture the full match. That money is part of your compensation and leaving it behind is like refusing money you already earned. Invest consistently in diversified assets that fit your goals, time horizon and risk tolerance. Avoid building your future around one hot stock, one social-media prediction or anything you do not understand. When investment earnings begin generating earnings of their own, compounding starts doing some of the work. But compounding needs money and time. The longer you wait, the harder your future dollars must work. Do not spend your entire life working for money. Put your money to work for you. That is ELSI: Earn. Live Below Your Means. Save. Invest. Simple? Absolutely. Easy? Nope.
The math is rarely the biggest problem. Behavior is. You must resist lifestyle creep, save when spending would feel better and invest when markets are exciting, boring or temporarily falling. You must stay focused while other people finance appearances. Stop spending all your money trying to look successful. Earn more. Grow the gap. Keep cash ready. Invest the difference. That is how you stop merely looking wealthy and start actually building wealth.
(Damon Carr, Money Coach & Tax Pro can be reached at 412-216-1013. Be sure to follow me on Social Media) Helping you flip your finances from stressed to blessed—one smart decision at a time.
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‘We the People’— Which people? (TriceEdneyWire.com)—The Constitution begins with three powerful words: “We the People.” History immediately asks: Which people? When those words were written, “we” did not include enslaved people, Indigenous people, women or many White men without property. Enslaved Black people were counted as three-fifths of a person for representation, although they had no representatives of their own. From the beginning, counting people has been about power. Now the Trump administration is considering sweeping changes to the 2030 Census. Its proposal could exclude undocumented immigrants and some people who are legally present—including refugees, asylum seekers and students—from population totals used to divide seats in the House of Representatives. The administration is also reconsidering questions about race and ethnicity. Reuters reported details of the proposal here. The census is not clerical housekeeping. It is a ledger of power. Numbers become congressional seats. Numbers become federal dollars. Numbers become schools, hospitals and highways. Change the numbers, and you change who gets what. The administration says people without sufficient legal ties or allegiance to the United States should not be included in apportionment totals. Critics contend that this approach conflicts with the Fourteenth Amendment. Its language says representatives must be apportioned according to the “whole number of persons in each state.” Not citizens. Not permanent residents. Persons. An immigrant without citizenship is still a resident. She rides the bus, buys groceries and pays rent. He works, worships, raises children and contributes to the economy. Residents use schools, hospitals, roads and emergency services. Governments must plan for their presence regardless of immigration status. Excluding millions of residents could produce a census that does
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not reflect the population actually living here. It could also shift House seats and Electoral College votes away from states with large immigrant populations. Those states would not have fewer residents. They would have fewer residents counted for representation. There is an economic consequence, too. Census Bureau data help guide trillions of dollars in federal spending. The numbers inform decisions involving health care, housing, education, transportation, nutrition and emergency services. In fiscal year 2021, at least 353 federal programs used census-related data in distributing more than $2.8 trillion. The Census Bureau explains how its data inform federal funding. The census is economic infrastructure. An inaccurate count can mean crowded classrooms, burdened clinics and inadequate transportation. Governments cannot plan intelligently for people who disappear from the data. The possible elimination of questions about race and ethnicity raises another issue. Race is a social construct, not a biological fact. Yet racial data are used to identify disparities and enforce civil-rights protections. Race may be constructed, but racial inequality can be measured. Without those data, how do we document disparities in employment, housing, lending and education? How do we identify differences in maternal mortality, unemployment, income and wealth? How do courts evaluate claims involving racially polarized voting? How do communities determine whether public investment is reaching them? Eliminating racial categories would not eliminate racial disparities. It would make those disparities harder to measure. If the racial wealth gap is not measured, officials cannot track whether it is widening or narrowing. If Black women’s employment losses are not reported separately, their experiences disappear inside national averages. If racially polarized voting is not documented, certain forms of discrimination become harder to establish in court. No numbers, no evidence. No evidence, no accountability. The census has never been racially innocent. The original count accommodated slavery. Later counts used crude and demeaning racial classifications. Census categories have reflected the prejudices, assumptions and power arrangements of their times. That history calls for better data, not statistical blindness. What does this have to do with the 2026 midterms? The November election will not use the 2030 Census. But the Congress elected this year will serve during critical years of census development, testing and preparation. It will appropriate money for the Census Bureau, conduct oversight, hold hearings and consider legislation affecting the count. The midterm connection is not rhetorical. It is institutional. The census is conducted by the executive branch, but Congress controls funding and exercises oversight. The composition of Congress will therefore influence how closely proposed changes are examined, which questions officials must answer and whether the Census Bureau has the resources to conduct an accurate count. The census does not belong to one president or one party. It is a constitutionally required count with consequences that last an entire decade. Changes this sweeping invite public scrutiny, transparent methods and constitutional review. “We the People” began as an aspiration, not an accurate description of American democracy. Generations of excluded Americans fought to enlarge the meaning of “we.” They transformed constitutional language into demands for citizenship, representation, equality and justice. The question remains as old as the Constitution itself: Who are “We the People”? Before America can answer, it must decide who will be counted.
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Why I support Cuba TriceEdneyWire.com—Dr. Ron Daniels, President of the Institute of the Black World, invited several U.S. leaders to go on a fact-finding mission to Cuba. Among those who went were Dr. Daniels, Louis Romain, Dr. Julianne Malveaux, Rev. Robert Turner, Dr. James Early, reporters from The Final Call, The Informer, World Conference of Mayors, Black Social Workers, young people, etc. I’ve been blessed to visit and work in many places in the world. I’ve seen people struggle in many of those places. Some have given up struggling to make their country better, but not Cubans! We saw them carrying on with the best they have, and they gave us the very best of everything available to them. Many places are indeed run down from a lack of care through no fault of their own. There’s trash on many streets, not because Cubans don’t want to take the trash away, but because of the blockade of the United States against them. They have no fuel to send garbage trucks to pick it up. All the nations I’ve visited taught me something, but in no place were we more welcomed to see anything we wanted to see in Cuba, including visiting with Cuba’s President and elected leaders, community organizers and justice workers, hospitals, and their famous medical school where young people who might never have had the opportunity to become doctors are doing so due to the gra-
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Commentary ciousness of the Cuban people. Some of those students are from the U.S., and are studying in Cuba because they were not given a chance for various reasons to study in the U.S. No matter what, these students soldier on, studying under the most difficult of conditions now caused by the U.S. with the frequent power outages, lack of much-needed equipment and forms of treatment brought on by the U.S. with the cruel blockade of necessities. Yet they are willing to remain in Cuba because they know the value of becoming doctors and being willing to go into the most difficult, and dangerous places in the world to provide health care. Cuba has research programs going on with something plaguing the United States now. They have done some of the most advanced memory care studies that we, in the U.S. are unable or unwilling to conquer. While visiting hospitals, we saw doctors with tears in their eyes because they were unable to provide their bestknown treatment because of the U.S. blockade of goods, equipment and medication. They often struggle to get to where their patients need them
because of the unavailability of fuel to travel where needed. One member of our team became ill in Cuba. They gave him the best treatment they could without charge—while here in the U.S. we have a doctor suing his patients who have no money to pay after his fellow Republicans deleted, out of spite, the health benefits President Barack Obama worked to give them. We met people who’re suffering from the inability to get vitamins for headaches, eye drops, etc. because of the U.S. blockade. Yet, the Cubans showed us no hatred. They just struggle for peace from threats of destruction from the U.S. government, for an opportunity to feed their families, have gasoline to travel to work and for their children to go to school and have lights to study when it’s dark. We take these things for granted, but our government shows no regard for others needing the same thing. As an American, I’m hurt and embarrassed about what the U.S. is doing to Cuba—a country that has done nothing to us. I pray that our people will stand up and do everything possible to allow Cuba to live free without U.S. interference. President Obama respectfully visited Cuba and began an effort to resolve differences now shut down by current U.S. leaders. Thank you to Congressman Jonathan Jackson who is a major leader to free Cuba from U.S. cruelty. (Dr. E. Faye Williams)
Introducing our Congressional Blueprint to bring affordability for all
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(TriceEdneyWire.com)—“The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled, and feed the unfed.”—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It is a peculiar time in America, when economists offer varying outlooks on our economy. Some herald the artificial intelligence era as a period of great prosperity. The stock markets continue to climb, nearly unscathed by a war that costs the nation nearly $1 billion every day. And the current administration, despite firing the official overseeing the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly jobs report just over a year ago, says the job market shows signs of growth. But for most Americans, the reality paints a much dimmer picture. This Iran war has cost the average household over $1,200 in the last seven months as gas prices reach record highs. Access to safe, affordable food is growing scarcer, with nearly weekly recalls on nutritious items. And as tariffs and global spats threaten energy prices as we enter the colder months, disastrous cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP benefits loom on the horizon to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy in the Big Ugly Bill. The Urban League movement sees the pain Americans face every day, and we’re meeting the moment the best way we can through job programs and housing and education supports, but now is also a time for Congress to act. Less than two months ahead of the midterm elections, we’re no longer waiting on either side of the aisle to present an agenda that will serve the people. We’ve developed one ourselves.
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To Be Equal I’d like to introduce our blueprint to rescue the American Dream and put working families first: the Affordability for All agenda. This agenda is informed by research from our Washington Bureau, anecdotes from our affiliates, and insights from my leadership as President of the National Urban League for over 23 years. These are the six calls to action: 1. Pass a National Living Wage No one who works full time should live in poverty. Raise the federal minimum wage to reflect today’s cost of living and index it to inflation so wages keep pace with rising costs. 2. Repeal and Replace the Big Ugly Bill H.R. 1, “the Big Ugly Bill,” represents one of the greatest threats to affordability for working families. Repeal its harmful cuts and restore investments in Medicaid, education, student aid, nutrition assistance, and other programs that help families succeed, not just survive. 3. Housing Vouchers Housing vouchers should work more like SNAP or Medicaid: if you qualify, you receive assistance. Fully fund the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program, so every eligible family can access
safe, affordable housing while expanding pathways for homeownership. 4. Launch a National Affordable Housing Trust America cannot solve the housing crisis without dramatically increasing the supply of affordable homes. Establish a robust national Housing Trust Fund to finance the construction and preservation of affordable and workforce housing at the scale the crisis demands. 5. Restore Affordable Internet Access Reestablish and strengthen the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) so every family can afford broadband. In today’s economy, internet access is as essential as electricity for work, education, healthcare, and economic mobility. 6. End Inflationary Tariffs that Raise Costs American families should not bear the cost of policies that make everyday goods more expensive. Repeal inflationary tariffs and replace them with trade policies that strengthen American competitiveness without driving up household costs. Our nation is facing an unprecedented crisis driven by unregulated technology that threatens to upend our workforce and education system. We have had enough of spending our resources on misplaced priorities and vanity projects for a President who has shown Americans time and time again that their livelihoods and future are not a priority. Now is the time to act. Now is the time to adopt the Affordability for All agenda and make America prosperous again.
Troy Davis’ ghost still speaks (TriceEdneyWire.com)—I woke up Monday thinking about Troy Davis. Fifteen years ago, Georgia executed him. He was innocent. I was outside the prison that night. As the old song goes, that’s the night the lights went out in Georgia. No physical evidence tied Troy to the killing of Officer Mark MacPhail. The case rested on eyewitnesses. Seven of the nine later recanted or changed their accounts. Several swore the police had pressured them. They pointed instead to another man at the scene, the man who first gave police Troy’s name. One witness testified he saw that man fire the shots. Good people spoke up. William Sessions, who ran the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) under three presidents, wrote that the case was permeated in doubt. Bob Barr, a Republican who supports the death penalty, wrote that condemning a man on the skimpiest of evidence does not serve justice. I am grateful to them. But they did not have what I had. I worked that case for fifteen years. I read the affidavits myself. I did not come away with doubt. I came away certain. Georgia killed the wrong man. Troy saw what we could not. He kept telling us the only way to break the killing machine was to make the country watch it work. So we built our campaign around a hashtag, #TooMuchDoubt. His execution became the second most tweeted event on earth that year. Weeks later, Gallup found support for the death penalty at a 39-year low. The next spring, Connecticut abolished the death penalty with a horrific murder case still in the headlines. Troy made that possible. A year later, Maryland became the first state south of the
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Commentary Mason-Dixon Line to abolish. I watched that vote from the Senate balcony in Annapolis, beside Kirk Bloodsworth. Maryland had sent Kirk, a White waterman and former Marine, to death row for a murder he did not commit. DNA freed him. Virginia followed in 2021, the first state of the old Confederacy to abolish. Then we stopped. No state has abolished the death penalty since Washington struck it from its books in 2023. The machine kept running. Since 1973, at least 203 people have been exonerated from death row. For every eight people executed, one has been exonerated. Two years ago Missouri executed Marcellus Williams, after the very prosecutor’s office that convicted him asked a court to throw out the conviction. The death penalty preys on the poor. About 95 percent of the people on death row could not afford a lawyer. Lynching still haunts us. At least ten Black people have been found hanging this year. Most have been ruled suicides. Their families want independent reviews. This month Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley and 59 colleagues asked the Justice Department and the FBI to investigate every one. Frederick Douglass is often called the father of the civil rights movement. He was the first civil rights leader to call publicly for abolishing the death penalty. He said its roots were intertwined with
the roots of the lynching tree. Both had to be cut down. I learned the path thirty years ago at the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. The Eighth Amendment bans cruel and unusual punishment. The Supreme Court judges what is unusual by looking at the states. In 2005, once most states had barred executing children, the Court ended the practice. The threshold for ending the death penalty is 26 states. We have 23. We need three. Ohio is closest. Its Republican governor, Mike DeWine, has not carried out a single execution. In June he called for abolition. Pennsylvania’s governor, Josh Shapiro, refuses to sign death warrants. North Carolina has not executed anyone in twenty years. Much of the country is moving the other way. States executed 47 people last year, the most since 2009. Florida alone killed 19. In January 2025 the president signed an order pressing states to seek more death sentences. These are hard times. We carry many fights. We cannot set this one down. Two weeks before he died, Troy asked me to be an uncle to his nephew, De’Jaun. I said yes. I had known him since he was three. Today he is an engineer, helping build a dental school in Savannah, his uncle’s hometown. Troy should have lived to see it. Three states. Call your governor. Call your legislators. Douglass told us to cut down both trees. One is still standing. And it is time for the lights to stay on in Georgia. (Ben Jealous is a Professor of Practice at the University of Pennsylvania and a former national president of the NAACP.)
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The power of spoken words (TriceEdneyWire.com)—Our words matter. The Bible teaches that words carry the deep power to heal, hurt, build up, or destroy. On one side, careless speech can be damaging and destructive. On the other side, words can bring calmness in the midst of chaos. Our words matter, whether we use them as a weapon to attack or a shield to protect. Our words matter because they reflect our inner conscience and heart. Former U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney once said, “But my promise before God to apply impartial justice required that I put my personal feelings and political biases aside.” At critical moments of our history, citizens expect our leaders to be conscience-driven servants whose inspiring words are consistently matched with inspiring actions. Sen. Romney never became president. But a president’s words can shape the nation’s identity, change the political landscape, influence global politics, and set the country’s moral and legal tone. In times of crisis, presidents rely on speeches to calm a frightened nation, such as President Franklin D. Roosevelt rallying the country after Pearl Harbor or President George W. Bush uniting a grieving public at Ground Zero after 9/11. Roosevelt’s famous phrase, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” came during his first inaugural address at the height of the Great Depression. It was meant to counter the panic, uncertainty, and fear and replace it with public confidence and collective action. Before television, almost every home in America had a radio, and FDR used it to enter every household. His fireside chats (evening radio addresses) were intimate speeches with a conversational tone and encouraging patriotic themes. He never painted a dark picture of America; instead, he urged people to face the future with patience, understanding, and faith. His calming manner lifted the public’s confidence and their trust in him as president. President Barack Obama’s three words, “Yes we can,” align with FDR’s messages, offering a shared vision of unity and progress. Obama’s vision of unity confronted the nation’s legacy of culture wars when he stated, “There is not a liberal America
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Commentary and a conservative America—there is the United States of America.” His words mattered because they highlighted a nation long divided politically, culturally, and racially. President Abraham Lincoln navigated the same cultural and racial fault lines. In his House Divided speech, Lincoln stated, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” In doing so, he warned that the United States could not permanently endure being a nation consisting of half slave and half free states. It became one of the defining summaries of the cultural crisis before the Civil War. In a moment of executive accountability, Lincoln also used the five powerful words written by his predecessor, President Thomas Jefferson. Before Jefferson became the third president of the United States, he was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. It was written as a formal explanation of why the American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain. It became a point-by-point list of grievances and injustices against King George III and the British government. When Jefferson wrote “all men are created equal” as part of the Declaration of Independence, he did so as a man who was socially oppressed and suffering. “All men are created equal” turned the Declaration of Independence from a list of grievances into a profound commitment to preserving human dignity. Those five powerful words made the Declaration of Independence into a social justice document. Jefferson’s message of justice became timeless. Despite one man being king (King George III) and the other a subject of the king (Thomas Jefferson), in God’s eyes both men are created equal and have basic rights as human beings. Lincoln, in his Gettysburg Address, used “all men are created equal” as he tied it to the abolition of slavery. Women’s rights advocates used “all men and women are created equal” when fighting to get women the right to vote. Dr. Martin Luther King used “all men are created equal” in his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, which demanded equal rights for Blacks. As an enslaver, Jefferson was selective in his fight for human dignity. His fight for freedom from British oppression did not result in freedom for Blacks suffering from the oppression of slavery. While diversity, equity, and inclusion were delayed, future generations picked them up. Again, words backed by action matter, and a future president took the baton of DEI and ran with it… even when it meant putting aside personal feelings and political biases. When President Lyndon Johnson spoke the words, “We shall overcome,” he used the civil-rights movement anthem in his 1965 address to Congress urging voting-rights legislation after violence in Selma, Alabama. In doing so, the phrase tied the presidency directly to the mass movement for racial justice. Johnson was instrumental in changing the political landscape when he stated, “We are not fully free until all of us are free.” Presidential words can also be damaging when setting a fearful tone for the nation. When President Richard Nixon mentioned to an aide, “People react to fear, not love. They don’t teach that in Sunday school, but it’s true,” Nixon was speaking as an elected official who was fully aware of the impact fear plays in building walls and suspicion of others. Nixon’s defining words, “I am not a crook,” made him inseparable from the Watergate scandal. Speaking of crooks, the current president has no words of historical significance. President Harry Truman said it best when he stated, “The buck stops here,” when referring to executive responsibility. This is true even of the current president. (David W. Marshall founded the faith-based organization TRB: The Reconciled Body and wrote God Bless Our Divided America.)
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Lindsay Clancy and Latarsha Sanders: similar isn’t the same Similar (adjective): Looking or being almost, but not exactly, the same —Cambridge Dictionary *** By now, everyone has heard of the Lindsay Clancy multiple murder case, which took place in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and resulted in a mistrial. Clancy is a White woman in her thirties who murdered her three children in 2023 before attempting suicide by jumping from a window and becoming paraplegic. Clancy’s defense admitted that their client committed the murders but contended that she should not be held criminally accountable since she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and other mental illnesses and was overmedicated. Clancy’s defense was able to show her medical records to the court as proof that she sought treatment for documented mental problems, raising reasonable doubt in many jurors’ minds that Clancy was sane at the time she committed the murders. While Clancy’s trial was still underway, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (MSJC) ruled that the judge during Latarsha Sanders’ trial wrongfully prevented her defense from presenting her medical records to the jury in 2022. These medical records stated Sanders was “grossly psychotic,” and the MSJC vacated her life sentence for murdering her children and ordered a new trial. Sanders is a Black woman, and the judge was William F. Sullivan, the same judge who presided over the Clancy trial. The same district attorney, Timothy Cruz, prosecuted both Sanders and Clancy. Social media memes surfaced highlighting the similarities of the two cases and pointed out that the Black woman
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Check It Out was convicted while the White woman received a mistrial. These memes imply the court purposely excluded Sanders’ medical records and that her conviction was a result of systemic racism. Sanders’ sympathizers assumed it was the race of the defendants that made the difference, but there was a nonracial factor that made a big difference—when the medical records were compiled. The defense for Clancy was able to show that their client sought various sorts of mental health treatment in the months before she killed her children. In other words, the defense did not utilize the medical records to prove a diagnosis of mental illnesses; rather, they were used to verify she was receiving treatment for them. Sanders, on the other hand, had no documented history of mental illness before she murdered her children. Her diagnosis came after she was arrested. In other words, her medical records were compiled while she was in jail, awaiting trial. Her post-arrest mental evaluation revealed that she was “grossly psychotic” and suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, which went undetected and untreated for decades. The prosecutor argued that Sanders’ mental state after the murders was not a relevant factor in determining her mental state at the time of the murders. This is a valid legal argument, but the prosecutor’s goal was to prevent the jury
from hearing any evidence that could raise reasonable doubt about the defendant’s guilt. The judge ruled that the medical records could not be discussed during the trial until the prosecutor “opened the door” on cross-examination, but the MSCJ stated that the sole issue before the jury was whether Sanders lacked criminal responsibility and excluding the post-arrest records “constituted prejudicial error.” In other words, it was up to the jury to decide whether Sanders’ post-arrest medical records were relevant or irrelevant. New trials are frequently granted due to procedural errors, but another nonracial factor that differed between the two cases was the behavior of the women after they killed their children. Clancy immediately attempted suicide right after she killed her children. The defense maintained that Clancy’s suicide attempt was proof of psychosis, while the prosecution argued that it was the culmination of a premeditated plan, indicating that she was aware of the wrongfulness of the acts she committed. After Sanders killed her children, court records state that she cleaned the apartment. When the police entered, they noticed a strong odor of cleaning fluids. The officers discovered bottles of ammonia and bleach on the kitchen table, as well as a blood-soaked mop, but Sanders told the state police that her eldest son and his father had killed the children. Sanders insisted that she did not participate and that she tried to stop the killings. The cover-up and the lie indicated to the jury that Sanders was aware of the wrongness of her actions. The cover-up and the lie probably had more to do with her conviction than the exclusion of her post-arrest medical records.
Public school segregation 72 years after Brown Nearly three-quarters of a century ago, public schools in America should have achieved racial integration. Considering five consolidated cases, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1954 that official racial segregation in the nation’s public schools was unconstitutional. Topeka, Kansas; Clarendon County, South Carolina; Prince Edward County, Virginia; Claymont and Hokessin, Delaware and Washington, D.C. comprised the five school districts in the landmark decision. Eventually—and to this day—the finding of the Court in the five cases became known as Brown v. the Board of Education (of Topeka, Kansas) or the Brown decision. The matter of Clarendon County, South Carolina refusing to provide school bus service for segregated Black children as it did for Caucasian youngsters literally became a Federal case. Attending public school in that county could involve a trek of as many as nine miles walk to school for Black learners but not school bus-riding White ones— among other disparities. And South Carolina law allowed racially segregated schools under the U.S. Supreme Court’s odious “separate but equal’’ 1896 finding in Plessy v. Ferguson. The obvious realities Black school children faced were indeed separate but clearly not equal. Through the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational fund Director-Counsel Thurgood Marshall and his team in 1950 decided to legally challenge the constitutionality of school segregation itself, rather than merely challenge unconstitutional unequal treatment of Black school children. The position of the legal team evolved to the argument that separate was inherently unequal in forced racially segregated public schooling. If Thurgood Marshall was a fraction as erudite, persuasive and eloquently
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Commentary powerful as was Sidney Pointier playing him in the 1991 docudrama “Separate but Equal”, the entire court should have given Thurgood Marshall a standing ovation—disorder in the court notwithstanding. Buttressing their case, the Marshall team presented evidence by Black New York City psychologists Mamie and Kenneth Clark (cited in the 11th footnote of the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court Brown decision) that their ‘’doll studies “—in which most Black children in the studies preferred White dolls among dolls identical except for color—showed Black children suffered low self-esteem from attending schools that were segregated by law. Throughout the south, the U.S. Supreme Court Brown decision was defied. In the case of Brown ll, the Court directed in 1955 that school integration must proceed ‘’with all deliberate speed.’’ The late distinguished Pittsburgh attorney Eric Springer remarked that the decision was the only “take your time to obey the Constitution” directive that the U.S. Supreme Court ever issued. Slow, stop and reverse—as the saying goes—defined school integration in numerous American school districts. The defiance was not only in the south. Nationwide, many school districts’ otherwise uneventful public school integration was only a justice seeker’s pipe dream. As late as the 1960s, White Boston School Committee Chair Louise Day Hicks despised public school integration
in Boston and by 1974 inspired violence against helpless little Black school children being bussed by Federal court order to achieve racially integrated public schools. In 1968, fed up with failed attempts to integrate Brooklyn, New York’s Ocean Hill-Brownsville schools, Black community leaders sought local control of the segregated schools. Yes, the schools were de facto (in reality) rather than de jure (by law) segregated; segregated nonetheless. As far west as Los Angeles, intractable issues of school segregation/integration claimed the attention of the residents of the city of angels for years. After the Los Angeles Unified School District was formed in 1961, unrest over racial segregation in its schools raged into the 1970s. In this century segregation persists in United States public schools. More than one third of the nation’s children attend schools that are more than 75 percent of the same race or ethnicity, according to ABC News. In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as African American Rachel Poole— the late celebrated psychiatric nurse—graduated covaledictorian from Westinghouse High School in 1942, that public school was 65 percent White and 35 percent Black, she said in an interview. Despite that pre-Brown version of integration, Westinghouse is a modern-day overwhelmingly Black segregated public school, 72 years after the Brown school integration decision. The 2026 enrollment of Westinghouse is more than 90 percent Black, according to the Public School Review. Seemingly, segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace foresaw the continuing feature of post-Brown American public education, declaring in 1963, “segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.’’ (Robert Hill is an award-winning Pittsburgh writer and communications consultant)
Being ‘nice’ about racism in small towns Being nice about racism will not stop it! This is something that’s common in all communities, but in small towns it’s often worse. The opportunities, resources, and privileges are directly affected by racism. Neighborhoods are under-resourced, over-policed, and experience patterns with systematic racism. Typically, the same politicians are elected, have common family names with high amounts of elected power (nepotism), and incidents of discriminatory practices in schools as well as local sports. One thing that keeps this pattern going is the community’s acceptance of “niceness” as a response to racism. Locally, I’ve seen how this shows up in the language and cultural dynamics of community organizing. For example, simply saying we all “need to work together” is not a policy solution! We hear this often at community meetings around racism. Mostly connected with words such as equity, tolerance, unity, resilience, and law and order. Resilient is often used to distract from the fact that we shouldn’t have to be this damn resilient to survive in communities our ancestors were a part of building! In small towns, these ideas are often tied to “nice” shared memories among people who went to the same high school and know each other personally. This is reflected through a “White gaze,” that suggest your White high school friends or partners can’t be racist because they’ve been
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Commentary accepted in the hood or have Black children. Those relationships are often weaponized and at times used to steer people into accepting solutions that aren’t rooted in real change. It’s also connected to how some people accept mediocre programs and events as solutions while continuing to work with people who undermine their self-interest in the name of “working together.” Overly focusing on organizers’ language and expecting people fighting racism to use “nice” words is another example. Pushing people to shy away from using words that will make White people uncomfortable like defund, Black liberation, and abolition. Racism is violent so expecting people to respond nicely to this is wild. Even now, as you read this, some people will automatically think, “she’s just being negative and not focusing on the strengths.” However, to develop real community solutions for Black people, we have to do the work to understand the “why.” We can hold both truths!
Local systems in smaller communities use these cultural aspects to move away from real effective policy change. You see this a lot with police violence and solutions like eating donuts and playing basketball with cops. None of which are policy-changers that lead to stopping police from harming Black people. Additionally, with using power dynamics of fear to be a part of and sabotage Black spaces that promote revolutionary socialism, Black feminism, African spirituality, African centered teachings and Black queer feminism. To me, this is a part of the miseducation of small Black communities. Something that is overlooked in these conversations. From the attacks on access to food, safe drinking water, housing and education. This is intentional and history has taught us being “nice” about racism is not the same thing as addressing it. Moreover, that people won’t traditionally change until they feel uncomfortable. So, we need to do exactly that, make people uncomfortable. Demand change not connected to a White gaze and support revolutionary acts that disrupt the status quo i.e., boycotts. Break tables and don’t get caught up with just having a seat! Accept that being “nice” about addressing racism isn’t enough. The solutions should be rooted in solutions that lead to immediate change for Black people and others most affected.
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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, OCTOBER 5, 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, OCTOBER 6, 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 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 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.” 1OCT26
DEFENDANT(S): JOHN T. BRABENDER ************* CASE NO. MG-26-000063 ************* DEBT $162,922.77 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): KML LAW GROUP, P.C. ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (215) 627-1322 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, 26TH WARD CITY OF PITTSBURGH: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 4100-4102 PERRYSVILLE AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15214. DEED BOOK 18015, PAGE 93. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 162-R-265.
2OCT26
DEFENDANT(S): JEFFREY BAUMAN, JACQUELINE BROWN ************* CASE NO. . MG-26-000216 ************* DEBT $245,912.33 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): KML LAW GROUP, P.C. ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (215) 627-1322 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, BOROUGH OF BALDWIN: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 918 NURNBERGER DRIVE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15236. DEED BOOK 19895, PAGE 294. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 314-K-230.
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3OCT26
DEFENDANT(S): JAY M. DIGIACOMO ************* CASE NO. AR-25-008498 ************* DEBT $4,353.65 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): FRED C. JUG, JR ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 310 GRANT STREET, SUITE 1109, PITTSBURGH, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-255-6500 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, SOUTH FAYETTE TOWNSHIP: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A HUNTING RIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES ASSOCIATION UNIT BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 405 LARK TREE CIRCLE, BRIDGEVILLE, PA 15017. DEED BOOK 10948, PAGE 643. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0572-B-00009.
4OCT26
DEFENDANT(S): UNKNOWN HEIRS OF VINCENT CATALANO ************* CASE NO. AR-25-009094 ************* DEBT $18,544.93 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): FRED C. JUG, JR ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 310 GRANT STREET, SUITE 1109, PITTSBURGH, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-255-6500 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, BOROUGH OF SWISSVALE: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A FOREST CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION UNIT BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1400 SMOKEY WOOD DR, UNIT 609, PITTSBURGH, PA 15218. DEED BOOK 11414, PAGE 110. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0234-P-00165-3609-00.
5OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S) MT. LEBANON SCHOOL DISTRICT vs DEFENDANT(S): EDWARDS REALTY & ASSOCIATES, LP ************* CASE NO. GD-25-013736 ************* DEBT $15,656.78 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Elizabeth P. Sattler, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 437 Grant Street, Suite 918, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-391-0160 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, MUNICIPALITY OF MT. LEBANON:
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HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING, KNOWN AS 950 MARGARETT A AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15234. DEED BOOK 15070, PAGE 505. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 250-E-234.
6OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S) GATEWAY SCHOOL DISTRICT vs DEFENDANT(S): NICHOLAS D. MALICH ************* CASE NO. GD-24-007903 ************* DEBT $17,563.32 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Elizabeth P. Sattler, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 437 Grant Street, Suite 918, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-391-0160 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, MUNICIPALITY OF MONROEVILLE: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING, KNOWN AS 1318 WOODLAND DRIVE, MONROEVILLE, PA 15146. DEED BOOK 14171, PAGE 583. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 979-K-257.
7OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S) BETHEL PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT vs DEFENDANT(S): UNKNOWN HEIRS OF ROBERTA K. SCHIEGG ************* CASE NO. GD-23-010820 ************* DEBT $24,770.39 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Elizabeth P. Sattler, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 437 Grant Street, Suite 918, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-391-0160 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, MUNICIPALITY OF BETHEL PARK: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING, KNOWN AS 5595 FLORIDA AVENUE, BETHEL PARK, PA 15102. DEED BOOK 7803, PAGE 610. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 566-J-61.
8OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S) BETHEL PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT vs DEFENDANT(S): DONALD J. KRAMER ************* CASE NO. GD-24-002264 ************* DEBT $30,718.00 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Elizabeth P. Sattler, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 437 Grant Street, Suite 918, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-391-0160 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, MUNICIPALITY OF BETHEL PARK: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING, KNOWN AS 3213 WELLSVIEW ROAD, PITTSBURGH, PA 15241. DEED BOOK 8078, PAGE 118. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 394-M-80.
9OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S) BALDWIN-WHITEHALL SCHOOL DISTRICT vs DEFENDANT(S): THEIN WAI & MA MYINT ************* CASE NO. GD-25-010199 ************* DEBT $5,627.70 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Elizabeth P. Sattler, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 437 Grant Street, Suite 918, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-391-0160 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, BOROUGH OF BALDWIN: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING, KNOWN AS 494 BIRO DRIVE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15227. DEED BOOK 17227, PAGE 322. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 187-G-98.
11OCT26
DEFENDANT(S): LVLM Murray Properties LLC ************* CASE NO. MG-26-000366 ************* DEBT $146,283.41 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jacqueline McNally, Esq. ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 1628 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 300 Philadelphia, PA 19103 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (212) 471-5100 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, AND THE 18THWARD OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 622 LILLIAN STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15210. DEED BOOK VOLUME 19605, PAGE 511. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0014-J-00118-0000-00
12OCT26
DEFENDANT(S): Lewisbrothers0412 LLC ************* CASE NO. GD-26-000354 ************* DEBT $311,715.74 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Robert Fiacco, Esq. ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 1628 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 300 Philadelphia, PA 19103 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (212) 471-5100 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, AND THE 16THWARD OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 2307 SALISBURY STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15210. DEED BOOK VOLUME 19803, PAGE 267, ET SEQ., BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0013-G-00309-000000
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13OCT26
DEFENDANT(S): Blue Line Housing LLC ************* CASE NO. GD-26-004432 ************* DEBT $107,679.91 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Nicole Francese, Esq. ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 1628 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 300 Philadelphia, PA 19103 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (212) 471-5100 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, AND TOWNSHIP OF NORTH VERSAILLES: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 404 OAKHURST AVENUE, NORTH VERSAILLES, PA 15137. DEED BOOK VOLUME Vl-19741, PAGE 272. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0459-P-002510000-00
14OCT26
DEFENDANT(S): WILLIAM DARIN CLARK, AS EXECUTOR AND HEIR OF THE ESTATE OF CAROLYN D. CLARK A/K/A CAROLYN CLARK; KEITH L. CLARK A/KIA KEITH LAMONT CLARK, IN HIS CAPACITY AS HEIR OF CAROLYN D. CLARK A/K/A CAROLYN CLARK; UNKNOWN HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNS, AND ALL PERSONS, FIRMS, OR ASSOCIATIONS, CLAIMING RIGHT, TITLE, OR INTEREST FROM OR UNDER CAROLYN D. CLARK A/ KIA CAROLYN CLARK ************* CASE NO. GD-25-000366 ************* DEBT $54,681.46 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 133 GAITHER DRIVE, SUITE F MOUNT LAUREL, NJ 08054 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 855-225-6906 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Penn Hills: ·Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 316 MCCUTCHEON LANE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15235. Deed Book Volume 9751, Page 640. Block and Lot Number 0295-M00389-0000-00.
15OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S) VERONA BOROUGH Vs. DEFENDANT(S): ARGH1, LLC ************* CASE NO. GD-25-001271 ************* DEBT $7,340.63 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Elizabeth P. Sattler, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 437 Grant Street, Suite 918, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-391-0160 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, BOROUGH OF VERONA: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING, KNOWN AS 514-518 SPRUCE STREET, VERONA, PA 15147. DEED BOOK 18528, PAGE 232. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 364-G-50.
16OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S) UPPER ST. CLAIR SCHOOL DISTRICT Vs. DEFENDANT(S): YE LI ************* CASE NO. GD-25-012415 ************* DEBT $9,612.00 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Elizabeth P. Sattler, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 437 Grant Street, Suite 918, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-391-0160 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, TOWNSHIP OF UPPER ST. CLAIR: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING, KNOWN AS 159 BOXFIELD ROAD, PITTSBURGH, PA 15241. DEED BOOK 18379, PAGE 57. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 320-S-44.
17OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S) STO-ROX SCHOOL DISTRICT Vs. DEFENDANT(S): WEST COMMUNITIES PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT, LLC ************* CASE NO. GD-23-011292 ************* DEBT $18,697.38 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Elizabeth P. Sattler, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 437 Grant Street, Suite 918, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-391-0160 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, TOWNSHIP OF STOWE: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING, KNOWN AS 804 DOHRMAN STREET, MCKEES ROCKS, PA 15136. DEED BOOK 18466, PAGE 430. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 73-R-146.
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18OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S) Riverview School District Vs. DEFENDANT(S): VINCENT CIRIGLIANO ************* CASE NO. GD 24-011996 ************* DEBT $10,593.79 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Verona: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A COMMERCIAL SMALL DETACHED RETAIL BUILDING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 749 ALLEGHENY RIVER BLVD., VERONA, PA 15147. DEED BOOK 3939, PAGE 533. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 364-K-197.
19OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S) Wilkinsburg School District and Wilkinsburg Borough Vs. DEFENDANT(S): JONATHAN E. CARPENTER & ALYSIA L. CARPENTER ************* CASE NO. GD 26-001801 ************* DEBT $19,726.28 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 468 1/2 SWISSVALE AVE., PITTSBURGH, PA 15221. DEED BOOK 9767, PAGE 273. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 233-J-220.
20OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S) Riverview School District Vs. DEFENDANT(S): GEORGE DOAS ************* CASE NO. GD 25-004939 ************* DEBT $20,688.50 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Oakmont: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 524 EDGEWOOD AVE., OAKMONT, PA 15139. DEED BOOK 18497, PAGE 363. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 362-L-6.
21OCT26
DEFENDANT(S): STEPHANIE L. RANDALL WILLIAMS, CAMIJJA R. WILLIAMS ************* CASE NO. MG-26-000483 ************* DEBT $137,855.78 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): KML LAW GROUP, P.C. ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (215) 627-1322 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, BOROUGH OF BELLEVUE: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 79 GRANT AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15202. DEED BOOK 15976, PAGE467. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER l 13-D-235.
22OCT26
DEFENDANT(S): PATRICK J. MULLIGAN ************* CASE NO. MG-24-000540 ************* DEBT $159,954.43 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): KML LAW GROUP, P.C. ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (215) 627-1322 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, TOWNSHIP OF COLLIER: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 100 SCOTT WAY, CARNEGIE, PA 15106. DEED BOOK 14282, PAGE 81. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 147-F-34.
23OCT26
PLAINTIFF SHALER AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT, Vs. DEFENDANT(S): WEST PENN PROPERTIES GROUP, LLC, Pennsylvania Limited Liability Company ************* CASE NO. GD 26-002323 ************* DEBT $10,473.38 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): JOHN T VOGEL, TUCKER ARENSBERG, P.C. ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): TUCKER ARENSBERG, P.C. ONE PPG PLACE, STE 1500 PITTSBURGH, PA 15222 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412.594.3902 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** IN THE COMMONWEAL TH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, RESERVE TOWNSHIP HAVING ERECTED THEREON A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 2750 MOUNT TROY ROAD, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15212, DEED BOOK VOLUME 18507, PAGE 222, BLOCK AND LOT 78-M-36.
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24OCT26
PLAINTIFF SHALER AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT, Vs. DEFENDANT(S): KEVIN DONAHUE AND JESSICA DONAHUE, HUSBAND AND WIFE ************* CASE NO. GD 26-001936 ************* DEBT $16,844.32 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): JOHN T VOGEL, TUCKER ARENSBERG, P.C. ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): TUCKER ARENSBERG, P.C. ONE PPG PLACE, STE 1500 PITTSBURGH, PA 15222 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412.594.3902 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, BOROUGH OF MILLVALE: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A COMMERCIAL BUILDING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 623 NORTH AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15209 , DEED BOOK VOLUME 18213, PAGE 511, BLOCK AND LOT 118-L-67.
26OCT26
DEFENDANT(S): JIMY J. TRAINOR ************* CASE NO. MG-26-000016 ************* DEBT $98,531.77 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLP ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 485F Route 1 South, Suite 300, Iselin, NJ 088303072 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (445) 207-4041 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY AND MUNICIPALITY OF PENN IDLLS: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 529 CROCUS AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15235. DEED BOOK VOLUME 19062, PAGE 225. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0451-B00259-0000-00.
27OCT26
DEFENDANT(S): Michael J. Schlutz ************* CASE NO. MG-25-000286 ************* DEBT $157, 001.94 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jared M. Greenberg, Esq ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 200 Eagle Road, Bldg 2, Suite 120 Wayne, PA 19087 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (484) 367-4191 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of West Deer: Having erected thereon a Single Family Dwelling being known and numbered as 221 Wineberry Drive, Cheswick PA 15024. Deed Book Volume 15024 Page 527. Block and Lot Number 1360-H00021-0000-00.
28OCT26
DEFENDANT(S): SVN Capital Group LLC, a Pennsylvania limited liability company ************* CASE NO. GD-25-012644 ************* DEBT $135,182.74 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Stern & Eisenberg, PC ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): The Shops at Valley Square, 1581 Main Street, Suite 200 Warrington, PA 18976 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (215) 572-8111 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny and Borough of Homestead: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 1512 Mifflin Street, Homestead, PA 15120-1758. Deed Book Volume DE VL-19944, Page 336. Instrument#2025-2977. Block and Lot Number 0131-C-00311-0000-00.
29OCT26
DEFENDANT(S): Pittsburg Luxe LLC ************* CASE NO. MG-26-000156 ************* DEBT $66,008.34 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Nicole Francese, Esq. ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 1628 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 300 Philadelphia, PA 19103 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (212) 471-5100 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, AND 7TH WARD IN THE CITY OF MCKEESPORT: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 2417 RIVERVIEW STREET, MCKEESPORT, PA 15132. DEED BOOK VOLUME Vl-19365, PAGE 490. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0381-N-00103-0000-00
30OCT26
DEFENDANT(S): JAMISON SMOOT ************* CASE NO. MG-25-000852 ************* DEBT $181,661.73 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Queen N Stewart, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): Five Greentree Centre 525 Route 73 North, Suite 309 Marlton, NJ 08053 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (516) 699-8902 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny and 26th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 234 Marshall Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15214. Deed Book Volume 12194, Page 497. Block and Lot Number 0077-N-00058-0000-00.
31OCT26
DEFENDANT(S): Deaundre Overby, AKA DeAundre Overby ************* CASE NO. MG-26-000045 ************* DEBT $158,923.41 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): MDK Legal ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): P. 0. Box 165028 Columbus, OH 43216-5028 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 614-220-5611 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Liberty: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 319 Scene Ridge Road, McKeesport, PA 15133. Document Number 202331284, Deed Book Volume 19501, Page 122. Block and Lot Number 0555-E-00005-0000-00.
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32OCT26
DEFENDANT(S): Brandon Pool ************* CASE NO. MG-26-000242 ************* DEBT $145,596.93 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): MDK Legal ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): P. 0. Box 165028 Columbus, OH 43216-5028 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 614-220-5611 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of Pittsburgh, Ward 31: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 1339 Leaside Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15207. Document Number 2022-40168, Deed Book Volume 19164, Page 100. Block and Lot Number 0184-F-00139-0000-00.
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33OCT26
DEFENDANT(S): Richard Brent Jensen ************* CASE NO. MG-26-000410 ************* DEBT $140,481.74 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): MDK Legal ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): P. 0. Box 165028 Columbus, OH 43216-5028 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 614-220-5611 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of Pittsburgh, Ward 20: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 3042 Glen Mawr Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15204. Document Number 2019-15099, Deed Book Volume 17632, Page 121. Block and Lot Number 0042-H-00012-0000-00.
34OCT26
DEFENDANT(S): Raul A. Murguia ************* CASE NO. MG-26-000423 ************* DEBT $260,266.54 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): MDK Legal ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): P. 0. Box 165028 Columbus, OH 43216-5028 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 614-220-5611 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, South Fayette Township: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 5209 Forest View Drive, Mc Donald, PA 15057. Document Number 2015-6305, Deed Book Volume 15907, Page 407. Block and Lot Number 0403-D-00040-0000-00.
35OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) Renaldy PA Property LLC, ************* CASE NO. GD-26-004915 ************* DEBT$ 255,059.81 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Kristine M. Anthou, Esquire, ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): Grenen & Birsic, P.C. One Gateway Center, 9th Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-7650 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 26th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 33 RIVERVIEW AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15214. DBV 19961, Page 48, B/L#116-N-140.
36OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) Renaldy PA Property LLC, ************* CASE NO. GD-26-004914 ************* DEBT $195,725.87 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Kristine M. Anthou, Esquire, ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): Grenen & Birsic, P.C. One Gateway Center, 9th Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-7650 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Brentwood: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 3032 CHURCHVIEW AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15227. DBV 19953, PAGE 536, B/L #94-S-4.
37OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) S & T Investment LLC, a Pennsylvania limited liability company ************* CASE NO. GD-24-000634 ************* DEBT $234,668.33 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Michael J. Palumbo, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 4700 Rockside Road, Suite 440, Independence, Ohio 44131 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (216) 503-9512 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of Pittsburgh, Ward 24: Having erected thereon a dwelling known and numbered as 1108 High Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15212. Deed Book Volume 18830, Page 123. Block and Lot Number 24-B-229.
38OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) 76 PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC ************* CASE NO. GD-26-002025 ************* DEBT 186,472.75 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jill M. Fein, Esquire / Hill Wallack LLP ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 1000 Floral Vale Boulevard, Suite 300, Yardley, PA 19067 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (215) 579-7700 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of West Mifflin HAVING ERECTED THEREON A TWO-STORY MULTI-FAMILY BUILDING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 2600-2602 NEW ENGLAND RD, WEST MIFFLIN, PA 15122 DEED BOOK VOLUME 19732, PAGE 133, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 469-C-99.
39OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) Clifford A. Caplan, Co-Administrator of the Estate of Lorraine S. Caplan, Deceased and Matthew D. Speamer a/k/a Matthew David Speamer, Co-Administrator of the Estate of Lorraine S. Caplan, Deceased ************* CASE NO. MG-26-000302 ************* DEBT $425,757.64 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Stephen M. Hladik, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): Hladik, Onorato and Federman, LLP 298 Wissahickon Avenue, North Wales, PA 19454 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (215) 855-9521 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 14TH WARD OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIL DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 6305 DARLINGTON ROAD, PITTSBURGH, PA 15217. DEED BOOK VOLUME 12245, PAGE 502. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 86-M-135.
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40OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) Kathleen Louise Stephens a/k/a Kathleen L. Stephens ************* CASE NO. MG-25-000986 ************* DEBT $57,758.05 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Stephen M. Hladik, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): Hladik, Onorato and Federman, LLP 298 Wissahickon Avenue, North Wales, PA 19454 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (215) 855-9521 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, TOWNSHIP OF O’HARA: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1002 POWERS RUN ROAD, PITTSBURGH, PA 15238. DEED BOOK VOLUME 8440, PAGE 418. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 291C-66.
46OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S) BOROUGH OF MOUNT OLIVER Vs. DEFENDANT(S) BERNITA L. DOLBY ************* CASE NO. GD-25-011358 ************* DEBT $5,918.07 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): CHRISTOPHER E. VINCENT ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 546 WENDEL ROAD, IRWIN, PA 15642 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (724) 978-0333 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, BOROUGH OF MOUNT OLIVER: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 130 KOEHLER STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15210. DEED BOOK 14724, PAGE 38. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 14-M-160.
47OCT26
41OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) Joseph Szewczyk, a/k/a Joseph F. Szewczyk, ************* CASE NO. MG-26-000439 ************* DEBT $59,023.40 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Kristine M. Anthou, Esquire, ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): Grenen & Birsic, P.C. One Gateway Center, 9th Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-7650 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Castle Shannon:
Parcel I: having erected thereon a residential single-family dwelling being known and numbered as 951 Frazer Street, Springdale, PA 15144 a/k/a 951 Frazier Street, Springdale, PA 15144; deed book volume 18994, page 523; which has a Block and Number of 732-P-320. Parcel II: having erected thereon vacant land known and numbered as 951 Frazier Street, Springdale, PA 15144; deed book volume 18994, page 523; which has a block and number of 732-P-318. Parcel III: having erected thereon vacant land known and numbered Railroad St, PA 15144; deed book volume 18994, page 523; which has a block and number of 732P-315.
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 3518 ROSALIA AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15234. DBV 13249, PG 224, DEED WAS RE-RECORDED ON 8/23/2007 IN BOOK 13350, PG 224 & ON 9/12/2007 IN BOOK 13373, PG 66, TO CORRECT MARITAL STATUS. B/L #190-N-188.
DEFENDANT(S) Julie B. Minor ************* CASE NO. MG-25-000127 ************* DEBT $122.646.33 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Robert P. Wendt, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 275 Curry Hollow Rd, Bldg. 1, Suite 280, Pittsburgh, PA 15236 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-350-1025 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** All the following described real estate situated in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, and Borough of Springdale
42OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) Denise Kelly ************* CASE NO. MG-22-000683 ************* DEBT $71,409.16 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Robert P. Wendt, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 275 Curry Hollow Rd, Bldg. 1, Suite 280, Pittsburgh, PA 15236 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-350-1025 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** All the following described real estate situated in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, and Borough of White Oak. Having erected thereon a residential single-family dwelling being known and numbered as 1705 Hill Street, McKeesport, PA 15131; Deed Book 12222, Page 566; which has a Block and Lot of 550-P-249
43OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S) MOON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT Vs. DEFENDANT(S) NEECAY PARTNERS LLC ************* CASE NO. GD-24-002294 ************* DEBT $23,203.01 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Elizabeth P. Sattler, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 437 Grant Street, Suite 918, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-391-0160 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, TOWNSHIP OF MOON: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING, KNOWN AS 502-504 CYPRESS DRIVE, CORAOPOLIS, PA 15108. DEED BOOK 15418, PAGE 55. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 505-M-53.
44OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S) West Mifflin Area School District and West Mifflin Borough Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Joseph Scott Nebinski ************* CASE NO. GD-24-008123 ************* DEBT $12,847.03 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jeffrey D. Ries, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 714 Lebanon Road, West Mifflin, PA 15122 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-464-9997 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** ALL THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED REAL ESTATE SITUATE IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, AND BOROUGH OF WEST MIFFLIN. HAVING ERECTED THEREON A ONE-STORY FRAME DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 607 GRANT AVENUE EXTENSION, WEST MIFFLIN, PENNSYLVANIA 15122. DEED BOOK VOLUME 16794, PAGE 17, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 240-H-31.
45OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S) Steel Valley School District Vs. DEFENDANT(S) James B. Sampson ************* CASE NO. GD-26-003326 ************* DEBT $11,301.26 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jeffrey D. Ries, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 714 Lebanon Road, West Mifflin, PA 15122 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-464-9997 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** IN THE COMMONWEAL TH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, BOROUGH OF MUNHALL: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A 1.5 STORY BRICK OLD STYLE DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 114 KENNEDY AVENUE, HOMESTEAD, PENNSYLVANIA 15120, DEED BOOK VOLUME 12443, PAGE 105, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 133-D-42.
49OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S): Township of Leet Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Marlynn Singleton ************* CASE NO. GD 25-007437 ************* DEBT $4,180.40 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Leet: Having erected thereon a two-story masonry frame house known as 149 Pilgrim Drive, Sewickley, PA 15143. Deed Book Volume 11031, Page 400. Block & Lot No. 815-K-351.
50OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Richel Slifer ************* CASE NO. GD 25-003997 ************* DEBT $3,010.28 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Bethel Park: Having erected thereon a one-story brick house being known as 5919 Dorlyn Drive, Bethel Park, PA 15102. Deed Book Volume 17536, Page 503. Block & Lot No. 773-A-132.
51OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Michelle L. Fertig Warheit ************* CASE NO. GD 25-009314 ************* DEBT $2,451.71 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Harrison: Having erected thereon a one and a half story frame house being known as 1303 Harvard Avenue, Natrona Heights, PA 15065. Deed Book Volume 13372, Page 364. Block & Lot No. 1519C-104.
53OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Karen P. Beasley ************* CASE NO. GD 24-008177 ************* DEBT $4,616.79 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Penn Hills: Having erected thereon a two-story brick house being known as 52 Everett Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15235. Deed Book Volume 15565, Page 37. Block & Lot No. 173-S-47.
54OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S) 718 Plum LLC ************* CASE NO. GD 26-000385 ************* DEBT $4,616.79 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Oakmont: Having erected thereon a two-story industrial mini warehouse being known as 718 Plum Street, Oakmont, PA 15139. Deed Book Volume 19779, Page 8. Block & Lot No. 364-D-397-0-1.
55OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Jacob S. Dubois ************* CASE NO. GD 25-012044 ************* DEBT $2,826.64 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Bellevue: Having erected thereon a two-story brick house being known as 20 Rheams Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15202. Deed Book Volume 19173, Page 433, Block & Lot No. l 13-M-323.
56OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Carl L. Reed & Margaret A. Reed ************* CASE NO. GD 25-010352 ************* DEBT $3,131.74 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Findlay: Having erected thereon a one-story frame house being known as 129 Old Ridge Road, Coraopolis, PA 15108. Deed Book Volume 7852, Page 472. Block & Lot No. 592-P-142.
59OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Christopher Lee ************* CASE NO. GD 25-009931 ************* DEBT $2,783.20 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Elizabeth: Having erected thereon a one-story frame house being known as 302 Rothey Drive, Elizabeth, PA 15037. Deed Book Volume 19611, Page 227. Block & Lot No. 1132-N-243.
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52OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S) David W. Elliott ************* CASE NO. GD 25-008685 ************* DEBT $2,763.49 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Findlay: Having erected thereon a one-story frame house being known as 3126 Santiago Road, Imperial, PA 15126. Deed Book Volume 8076, Page 448. Block & Lot No. 917-L-253.
PLAINTIFF(S): Woodland Hills School District Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Shannon Full ************* CASE NO. GD 23-008583 ************* DEBT $3,172.24 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Swissvale: Having erected thereon a two-story brick house being known as 7464 Delmar Way, Pittsburgh, PA 15218. Deed Book Volume 15791, Page 253. Block & Lot No. 178-C-2.
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PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Jason Lawson ************* CASE NO. GD 24-008323 ************* DEBT $1,819.97 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Penn Hills:
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S) William J. Roy, Jr. & Lisa M. Roy ************* CASE NO. GD 24-011299 ************* DEBT $3,473.70 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Kennedy:
Having erected thereon a two-story frame house being known as 4808 Verona Road, Verona, PA 15147. Deed Book Volume 18407, Page 83, Block & Lot No. 367-F-242.
Having erected thereon a one-story brick house being known as 221 Barbara Drive, McKees Rocks, PA 15136. Deed Book Volume 8648, Page 412. Block & Lot No. l l 1-S-189.
62OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Helen Prior, with Notice to Heirs and Assigns ************* CASE NO. GD 25-010222 ************* DEBT $3,499.97 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of East Deer: Having erected thereon a two-story frame house being known as 187 Freeport Road, Creighton, PA 15030. Deed Book Volume 16872, Page 209. Block & Lot No. 730-B-72.
63OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S): North Hills School District Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Lawrence Carson, Executor of the Estate of Gertrude Carson, Deceased ************* CASE NO. G.D. 25-008527 ************* DEBT $4,036.36 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Ross: Having erected thereon a one-story brick house being known as 155 Jacks Run Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15214. Deed Book Volume 4829, Page 305. Block & Lot No. 162-A-266.
65OCT26
70OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Miguel R. Parkinson ************* CASE NO. GD 25-008114 ************* DEBT $2,805.65 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of North Versailles: Having erected thereon a two-story frame house being known as 520 Westinghouse Avenue, North Versailles, PA 15137. Deed Book Volume 19906, Page 464, Block & Lot No. 459-F-225.
71OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S) AL Francis & Company LLC ************* CASE NO. GD 25-008177 ************* DEBT $2,496.94 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of North Versailles: Having erected thereon a one-story brick house being known as 3818 Foster Road, North Versailles, PA 15137. Deed Book Volume 17625, Page 418, Block & Lot No. 548-R-345.
73OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S): North Hills School District Vs. DEFENDANT(S) David P. Matvey ************* CASE NO. G.D. 24-001540 ************* DEBT $7,283.54 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Ross:
PLAINTIFF(S): Borough of McKees Rocks Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Ronald Trautman, Administrator of the Estate of Joan Trautman, Deceased ************* CASE NO. GD 23-002702 ************* DEBT $3,414.11 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of McKees Rocks:
Having erected thereon a two-story frame house being known as 123 6th Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15229. Deed Book Volume 17199, Page 260. Block & Lot No. 430-R-282.
Having erected thereon a two-story frame house being known 817 Boquet Street, McKees Rocks, PA 15136. Deed Book Volume 5757, Page 357. Block & Lot No. 43-E-170.
66OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S): Borough of Sewickley Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Adam Randall and the United States of America ************* CASE NO. GD 25-004079 ************* DEBT $12,146.31 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Sewickley: Having erected thereon a three-story brick commercial apartment building being known as 220 Graham Street, Sewickley, PA 15143. Deed Book Volume 15425, Page 534. Block & Lot No. 421J-299
67OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Danielle M. Palaski & Patrick S. Tardio ************* CASE NO. GD 24-010647 ************* DEBT $3,374.00 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** . In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Scott: Having erected thereon a one-story brick house being known as 1383 Raven Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15243. Deed Book Volume 13870, Page 411. Block & Lot No. 143-E-10.
68OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Bruce L. Griffin, II ************* CASE NO. GD 24-011186 ************* DEBT $3,070.56 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Penn Hills: Having erected thereon a one-story brick house being known as 322 Dorothy Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15235. Deed Book Volume 17642, Page 306. Block & Lot No. 368-0-262.
74OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) ANGELITA DUHAYLONSOD AKA ANGELITA K. DUHAYLONSOD ************* CASE NO. GD-25-013644 ************* DEBT $64,006.29 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): KML LAW GROUP, P.C. ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET, PHILADELPHIA,PA 19106 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (215) 627-1322 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, 2ND WARD CITY OF CLAIRTON: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 621 THOMPSON AVENUE, CLAIRTON, PA 15025. DEED BOOK 19123, PAGE 249. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 1002-C-192
75OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) PHILLIP G. MACKES ************* CASE NO. MG-26-000141 ************* DEBT $47,910.32 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): KML LAW GROUP, P.C. ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET, PHILADELPHIA,PA 19106 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (215) 627-1322 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, 15TH WARD CITY OF PITTSBURGH: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1010 GREENFIELD AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15217. DEED BOOK 12858, PAGE 407. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 88-A-84.
76OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S) Wilkinsburg School District and Wilkinsburg Borough Vs. DEFENDANT(S) IM PITTSBURGH LLC ************* CASE NO. GD 26-003348 ************* DEBT $25,126.28 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A COMMERCIAL AUX. BUILDING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 900 BRINTON RD., PITTSBURGH, PA 15221. DEED BOOK 18405, PAGE 407. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 233-R-210.
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PLAINTIFF(S) Wilkinsburg School District and Wilkinsburg Borough Vs. DEFENDANT(S) CFAW HOLDINGS LLC ************* CASE NO. GD 25-009039 ************* DEBT $24,450.61 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg:
DEFENDANT(S) WALTER V. LEON aka WALTER V. LEON III ************* CASE NO. MG-26-000072 ************* DEBT $39,336.27 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): ERIC ROCHKIND, ESQUIRE ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): McCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC 216 HADDON AVENUE, SUITE 201 WESTMONT, NJ 08108 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (856) 858-7080 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, BOROUGH OF WEST MIFFLIN:
DEFENDANT(S) DAVID A. CESPEDES ************* CASE NO. MG-25-000146 ************* DEBT $14,497.96 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): David W. Raphael, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF PENNSYLVANIA, 626 Washington Place, 25th Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 465-9718 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** ALL OF THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED REAL ESTATE SITUATED IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF LLEGHENY, AND THE BOROUGH OF WEST VIEW:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A THREE FAMILY DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 411 ROSS AVE., PITTSBURGH, PA 15221. DEED BOOK 18299, PAGE 55. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 175-R-225.
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 3712 RODEO DRIVE, WEST MIFFLIN, PENNSYLVANIA 15122. DEED BOOK VOLUME 14779, PAGE 64, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0310-A-00142-0000-00.
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBEREDAS 84 MOUNT VERNON AVE., PITTSBURGH, PA 15229. AT DBV 14708, PG 205. BLOCK/LOT 0280-G-00094
78OCT26
85OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S) Borough of Jefferson Hills Vs. DEFENDANT(S) JOANNE SANDS ************* CASE NO. GD 25-001904 ************* DEBT $14,630.98 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Jefferson Hills:
DEFENDANT(S) RHONDA V. THOMAS AND THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT ************* CASE NO. MG-26-000240 ************* DEBT $97,549.10 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): LEON P. HALLER, ESQUIRE ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): PURCELL, KRUG AND HALLER 1719 NORTH FRONT STREET HARRISBURG, PA 17102 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 717-234-4178 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 27th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 138 COAL VALLEY RD., CLAIRTON, PA 15025. DEED BOOK 5841, PAGE 695. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 559-S-182.
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1240 SUPERIOR AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15212. DEED BOOK VOLUME 14062, PAGE 522. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 45-E-276.
79OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S) Wilkinsburg School District and Wilkinsburg Borough Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Arlene D. Howard ************* CASE NO. GD 21-002638 ************* DEBT $19,252.59 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A TOWNHOUSE DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1527 WEINMAN STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15221. DEED BOOK 5637, PAGE 750. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 232-S-44.
86OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) SAMUEL OLALERE AJIBOYE; THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT ************* CASE NO. MG-25-000949 ************* DEBT $96,489.46 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Carolyn Treglia, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): Brock & Scott, PLLC 2011 RENAISSANCE BOULEVARD, SUITE 100 KING OF PRUSSIA, PA 19406 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (844) 856-6646 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, BOROUGH OF WEST MIFFLIN Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 3911 VISTAVIEW STREET, WEST MIFFLIN, PA 15122. Deed Book Volume 16434, Page 121. Block and Lot Number 0238-C-00290-0000-00 aka 0238C00290000000 aka 238-C-290
80OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) Jason D. McGee and Shannon M. McGee ************* CASE NO. MG-25-000243 ************* DEBT $42,016.44 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Robert P. Wendt, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 275 Curry Hollow Rd, Bldg. 1, Suite 280, Pittsburgh, PA 15236 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-530-1025 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** All the following described real estate situated in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, and Borough of Greentree. Having erected thereon a Two-Story Brick Dwelling Being Known and Numbered as 98 E. Manilla Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15220; Deed Book 12801, Page 394; Instrument NO. 2006-10107; which has a Block and Lot of0017-F-00092-0000-00.
87OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) RICARDO SERNA; RAVEN SERNA ************* CASE NO. MG-26-000308 ************* DEBT $240,906.49 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Carolyn Treglia, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): Brock & Scott, PLLC 2011 RENAISSANCE BOULEVARD, SUITE 100 KING OF PRUSSIA, PA 19406 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (844) 856-6646 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, TOWNSHIP OF RICHLAND Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 203 FORESTWOOD DR, GIBSO IA, PA 15044. Deed Book Volume 18748, Page 562. Block and Lot Number 1506-H-00165-0000-00 AKA 1506-H-165 AKA 1506-H-00165
81OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) PITTSBURG LUXE LLC AND JILL HUBBELL ************* CASE NO. GD-26-004638 ************* DEBT $135,835.86 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): 485F Route l South, Suite 300, Iselin, NJ 088303072 ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 275 Curry Hollow Rd, Bldg. 1, Suite 280, Pittsburgh, PA 15236 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (445) 207-4041 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY AND 32ND WARD OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 2541 LIBRARY ROAD, PITTSBURGH, PA 15234. DEED BOOK VOLUME 19587, PAGE 579. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0138-E00094-000-00.
82OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) Janet Gunter ************* CASE NO. MG-26-000411 ************* DEBT $64,783.96 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Stem & Eisenberg, PC ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): The Shops at Valley Square, 1581 Main Street, Suite 200 Warrington, PA 18976 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (215) 572-8111 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny and Fifth Ward of the City of Pittsburgh: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 752 Anaheim Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15219-5002. Deed Book Volume 10487, Page 608. Block and Lot Number 0027-B-001670000-00.
83OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) PAULA VILLOTTI ROESCH, KNOWN SURVIVING HEIR OF MELISSA M. SPROUSE, A.S., A MINOR, KNOWN SURVIVING HEIR OF MELISSA M. SPROUSE, AND UNKNOWN SURVIVING HEIRS OF MELISSA M. SPROUSE ************* CASE NO. MG-24-000792 ************* DEBT $175,007.13 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): ERIC ROCHKIND, ESQUIRE ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): McCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC 216 HADDON AVENUE, SUITE 201 WESTMONT, NJ 08108 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (856) 858-7080 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, BOROUGH OF OAKDALE: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 518 N. HIGHLAND AVE, OAKDALE, PENNSYLVANIA 15071. DEED BOOK VOLUME 16404, PAGE 499, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0492-B-00245-0000-00.
88OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) SEAN A. KERRIGAN aka SEAN KERRIGAN ************* CASE NO. GD-25-013760 ************* DEBT $93,325.60 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Carolyn Treglia, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): Brock & Scott, PLLC 2011 RENAISSANCE BOULEVARD, SUITE 100 KING OF PRUSSIA, PA 19406 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (844) 856-6646 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, BOROUGH OF TRAFFORD Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 551-557 5TH STREET EXT, TRAFFORD, PA 15085. Deed Book Volume DE-12608, Page 547. Block and Lot Number 0861J00276000000 a/k/a 861-J-276 a/k/a 0861-J-00276-0000-00
89OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) WESLEY W. RITTERBUSCH ************* CASE NO. MG-26-000265 ************* DEBT $21,553.69 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): James McNally, Esq. ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 626 Washington Place, Suite 1902, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-434-5530 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Bethel Park: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A TWO STORY DWELLING BEING K OWN AND NUMBERED AS 5493 MAIN STREET, BETHEL PARK, PA 15102. DEED BOOK VOLUME 17483, BOOK 300. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 567-H-102.
90OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) DANIEL P. PETROVICH ************* CASE NO. MG 24-000955 ************* DEBT $111 811.63 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jeffrey R. Lalama, Esquire laden RankinWahlers, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): Meyer, Unkovic & Scott, LLP 600 Grant Street, 50th Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-456-2876 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of South Park: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1048 BARNSLEY DRIVE, SOUTH PARK, PENNSYLVANIA 15129, DEED BOOK VOLUME 15799, PAGE 222. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 1007-C-00050-000000.
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92OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) Ronald Sean Brogan, Known Heir of Gloria J. Brogan, Deceased Mortgagor And Unknown Heirs of Gloria J. Brogan, Deceased Mortgagor ************* CASE NO. MG-24-000351 ************* DEBT $46,483.30 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): DANIEL J. CAPECCI, ESQUIRE ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 9000 MIDLANTIC DRIVE, STE 300, PO BOX 5054, MT LAUREL, NJ 08054 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (856) 810-5815 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Harrison HAVING currently erected thereon a single family dwelling being known as l509 4th Street, Natrona Heights, PA 15065, Deed Book 6398, Page 113, Block and Lot 1518-H-105.
93OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) Solar Green Development, LLC ************* CASE NO. GD-25-009435 ************* DEBT $6,442,408.90 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): For Plaintiff: Christopher S. Winkler and Louis A. DePaul For Defendant: NIA ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): For Plaintiff: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, 600 Grant Street, 44th Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 For Defendant: NIA ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: For Plaintiff: 412-566-6000 For Defendant: NIA ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST AND CLAIM OF SOLAR GREEN DEVELOPMENT, LLC, OF, IN, AND TO THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY: ALL THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED REAL ESTATE SITUATED IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, TOWNSHIP OF FINDLAY: HAVING THEREON VACANT COMMERCIAL LAND BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 3291 BURGETTSTOWN ROAD, IMPERIAL, PENNSYLVANIA 15126; DEED BOOK VOLUME NUMBER 18423, PAGE 65, BLOCK AND LOT NO.: l l 75-A-00337-0000-00.
94OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S) Penn Hills School District and Municipality of Penn Hills Vs. DEFENDANT(S) ANTHONY IRA BENTLEY, JR. AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ************* CASE NO. GD 24-014208 ************* DEBT $45,581.05 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 21O Pittsburgh, PA 15203 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Penn Hills: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A COMMERCIAL GARAGE BUILDING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 3618 LAKETON RD., PITTSBURGH, PA 15235. DEED BOOK 15614, PAGE 289. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 369-F-251.
95OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S) Wilkinsburg School District and Wilkinsburg Borough Vs. DEFENDANT(S) William A Smith ************* CASE NO. GD 17-009398 ************* DEBT $89,851.39 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 21O Pittsburgh, PA 15203 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1414-1416 NORVELL DR., PITTSBURGH, PA 15221. DEED BOOK 17617, PAGE 120. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 297-J-98.
96OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S) South Allegheny School District Vs. DEFENDANT(S) J J OIL & GAS, INC. ************* CASE NO. GD 25-002738 ************* DEBT $24,720.83 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 21O Pittsburgh, PA 15203 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Lincoln: BEING ALL THAT AGRICULTURAL VACANT LAND BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS HARRISON RD., ELIZABETH, PA 15037. DEED BOOK 14397, PAGE 455. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 877-K-71.
97OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S) SHALER AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT, Vs. DEFENDANT(S) JANET L. MCLAUGHLIN and KRZYSZTOF CIESLUK ************* CASE NO. GD 26-002431 ************* DEBT $34,194.43 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): JOHN T. VOGEL, TUCKER ARENSBERG, P.C. ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): TUCKER ARENSBERG, P.C. ONE PPG PLACE, STE 1500 PITTSBURGH, PA 15222 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412.594.3902 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, TOWNSHIP OF SHALER HAVING ERECTED THEREON A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 203 SANDY DRIVE, GLENSHAW, PENNSYLVANIA 15116 , DEED BOOK VOLUME 15645, PAGE 421, BLOCK AND LOT 432-S-231.
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119OCT26
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, October 7, 2026, at 12:30 PM. Ashley Jenkins 3206. 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.
98OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) LOGAN E. BARIE ************* CASE NO. AR-23-004334 ************* DEBT $27,217.40 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Fred C. Jug, Jr. ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 310 Grant Street, Suite 1109, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-255-6500 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, TOWN OF MCCANDLESS: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A CALAIS VILLAGE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION UNIT BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 595 CALAIS DRIVE, UNIT 220, PITTSBURGH, PA 15237. DEED BOOK 18385, PAGE 243. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 713-H-00595-0220.
100OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) SYCAMORE TREE PROPERTIES, LP. AND ANDRES GUILLERINO URIBE-AGUDELO ************* CASE NO. MG-25-000939 ************* DEBT $442,683.99 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): JOHN J. WINTER, ESQUIRE ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): CHARTWELL LAW 700 AMERICAN AVENUE, SUITE 303 KING OF PRUSSIA. PA 19406 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (610) 666-7700 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. County of Allegheny, City of Pittsburgh, I 0th Ward PARCEL I HAVING ERECTED THEREON. A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 5302 DUNCAN STREET. PITTSBURGH, PA 15201. DEED BOOK 18742. PAGE 422: BENG PARCEL NUMBER 81-A-4 l: PARCEL 2 HAVING ERECTED THEREON. A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 5306 DUNCAN STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15201. DEED BOOK 18664. PAGE 28: BEING PARCEL NUMBER 81A-43.
101OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) LVLM Murray Properties LLC ************* CASE NO. GD-26-004276 ************* DEBT $93,302.17 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Danielle Johnson, Esq. ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 1628 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 300 Philadelphia, PA 19103 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (212) 471-5100 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, AND BOROUGH OF MUNHALL: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 611 EAST 18TH AVENUE, HOMESTEAD, PA 15120. DEED BOOK VOLUME 19510, PAGE 82. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0131-D-003510000-00.
102OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) THIRD GEN PROPERTIES, LLC, TIMBERS BUILDING COMPANY and DANIEL PALMER, JR ************* CASE NO. GD-26-005852 ************* DEBT $205,278.78 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): CHARLES N SHURR, JR., ESQUIRE ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): KOZLOFF STOUDT 2640 WESTVIEW DRIVE WYOMISSING, PA 19610 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 610-670-2552 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Borough of Forest Hills, County of Allegheny: PARCEL I: Having erected thereon an Industrial Warehouse being known and numbered as 2101 Ardmore Blvd., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15221. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds Book Volume 17241, Page 306. Block and Lot Number 300-H00041. PARCEL II: Being a Commercial Property being known and numbered as 2101 Ardmore Blvd., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15221. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds Book Volume 17241, Page 306. Block and Lot Number 300-H-00036.
103OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) 411 SEVENTH AVENUE ASSOCIATES, L.P. ************* CASE NO. GD-25-008329 ************* DEBT $19,796,162.30 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): VICTORIA D. SUMMERFIELD, ESQUIRE ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): Union Trust Building 50 I Grant Street, Suite 300 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-454-5000 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** ALL THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED REAL ESTATE SITUATED IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, SECOND WARD OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH: PARCEL #1: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A COMMERCIAL BUILDING BEING KNOWN AS 411-415 SEVENTH AVE UE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15219. DEED BOOK VOLUME 11233, PAGE NUMBER 184, BLOCK 2-A, AND LOT NUMBER 188. PARCEL #2: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A COMMERCIAL BUILDING BEING KNOWN AS 411 SEVENTH AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15219. DEED BOOK VOLUME 11233, PAGE NUMBER 184, BLOCK 2-A, AND LOT NUMBER 190.
104OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) NICOLE KERR, KNOWN HEIR OF JAMES F. FRANK AND SUSAN A. FRANK AND ALL OF THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF JAMES F. FRANK AND SUSAN A. FRANK ************* CASE NO. MG-26-000345 ************* DEBT $52,418.50 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): David L. Scherer, Esquire McGrath McCall, P.C. ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): Four Gateway Center, Suite 1340, 444 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-281-4333 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, First Ward of the City of Duquesne: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A ONE AND ONEHALF STORY BRICK DWELLING KNOWN AS 219 HERMAN AVENUE, DUQUESNE, PA 15110, AND DESIGNATED AS LOT & BLOCK 304-A-10, DEED BOOK VOLUME 5797, PAGE 541.
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105OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) GREGORY W. TOLBERT ************* CASE NO. MG-25-000809 ************* DEBT $30,626.85 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): David L. Scherer, Esquire McGrath McCall, P.C ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): Four Gateway Center, Suite 1340, 444 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-281-4333 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of Clairton: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A 1½ STORY BRICK HOUSE AND DETACHED GARAGE KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 915 WADDELL AVENUE, CLAIRTON, PA 15025, DEED BOOK VOLUME 7570, PAGE 493. LOT & BLOCK 879-B-46.
106OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) REVIVE PITTSBURGH REAL ESTATE, LLC ************* CASE NO. GD-22-009987 ************* DEBT $424,240.76 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Gary W. Darr, Esquire McGrath McCall, P.C. ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): Four Gateway Center, Suite 1340, 444 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-281-4333 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Penn Hills: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLING KNOWN AS 134 ANGE DRIVE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15235, DEED BOOK VOLUME 17824, PAGE 86, BLOCK & LOT NO. 538-S-198.
107OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S): Steel Valley School District Vs. DEFENDANT(S) William Edward Short, with notice to heirs, executors, administrators, successors, or assigns or any other person found to have an interest in the property ************* CASE NO. GD-24-013067 ************* DEBT $7,985.42 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Jeffrey D. Ries, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 714 Lebanon Road, West Mifflin, PA 15122 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-464-9997 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** ALL THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED REAL ESTATE SITUATE IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, AND BOROUGH OF HOMESTEAD. HAVING ERECTED THEREON A TWO-STORY FRAME DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 128 EAST 12TH AVENUE, HOMESTEAD, PENNSYLVANIA 15120. DEED BOOK VOLUME 9831, PAGE 495, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 130-P-393.
108OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) ARAMINTA JANAI DENDY ************* CASE NO. MG-24-000905 ************* DEBT $85,253.39 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Carolyn Treglia, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): Brock & Scott, PLLC 2011 RENAISSANCE BOULEYARD, SUITE 100 KING OF PRUSSIA, PA 19406 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (844) 856-6646 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, BOROUGH OF TURTLE CREEK Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 1609 MOBILE AVE, TURTLE CREEK, PA 15145. Deed Book Volume 18331, Page 492. Block and Lot Number 0544-J-00084-0000-00 aka 0544-J-00084 aka 544-J-84
109OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) ANTHONY W. LUTZ; KERRY LYNN LUTZ F/K/A KERRY LYNN FLUHR ************* CASE NO. MG-26-000311 ************* DEBT $79,287.02 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Carolyn Treglia, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): Brock & Scott, PLLC 2011 RENAISSANCE BOULEYARD, SUITE 100 KING OF PRUSSIA, PA 19406 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (844) 856-6646 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 18TH WARD OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 46 HARWOOD STREET PITTSBURGH, PA 15211. Deed Book Volume 10129, Page 139. Block and Lot Number 0004R00300000000 A/K/A 0004-R-00300-0000-00 A/KIA 4-R-300
110OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) THOMAS L. GILMER; ALMA J. GILMER ************* CASE NO. MG-24-000568 ************* DEBT $75,301.77 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Carolyn Treglia, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): Brock & Scott, PLLC 2011 RENAISSANCE BOULEYARD, SUITE 100 KING OF PRUSSIA, PA 19406 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (844) 856-6646 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, MUNICIPALITY OF PENN HILLS Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 2907 GILMORE AVE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15235. Deed Book Volume 6960, Page 521. Block and Lot Number 0296-E-00291-0000-00 a/k/a 296-E-291
111OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) AAA 2ND STREET, LLC and 363 2ND STREET AND ASSOCIATES, LLC. ************* CASE NO. GD-25-004965 ************* DEBT $403,242.74 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Michelle L. Pierro., Esq. (PA ID No. 317454) ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): Metz Lewis Brodman Must O’Keefe, LLC 444 Liberty Ave. Suite 2100 Pittsburgh, PA 15222 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 918-1100 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Pitcairn: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A COMMERCIAL BUILDING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 363 2ND STREET, PITCAIRN, PA 15140. DEED BOOK VOLUME 19978, PAGE 126. BLOCK & LOT #747-A-251.
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112OCT26
DEFENDANT(S) Key STONE INTEGRATED CARE. LLC ************* CASE NO. GD-20-008252 ************* DEBT $2.805.954.94 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): David A. Strassburger. Esquire (PA ID No. 76027) ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky Four Gateway Center. Suite 2200 444 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh. PA 15222 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-5423 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** ALL THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED REAL ESTATE SITUATED IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, 10th WARD, CITY OF PITTSBURGH, AND HAVING ERECTED THEREON A ONE STORY COMMERCIAL CONCRETE BLOCK BUILDING, BEING CURRENTLY KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 211 52ND STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15201, DEED BOOK VOLUME 17055, PAGE 502, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0080-C-00179-0000-00.
PETITIONER(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Unknown Heirs of Wilbert J. White & Unknown Heirs of Mary A. White ************* CASE NO. GD 26-005145 ************* DEBT: $8,611.24 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of Pittsburgh- Ward 29:
113OCT26
PETITIONER(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Candace Warnock & William Warnock ************* CASE NO. GD 26-005045 ************* DEBT: $4,651.28 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of Pittsburgh- Ward 29:
PLAINTIFF(S) Wilkinsburg School District and Wilkinsburg Borough Vs. DEFENDANT(S) 515 Wallace Avenue, Inc. ************* CASE NO. GD-26-004076 ************* DEBT $2.805.954.94 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): David A. Strassburger. Esquire (PA ID No. 76027) ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky Four Gateway Center. Suite 2200 444 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh. PA 15222 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-5423 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** ALL THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED REAL ESTATE SITUATED IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, 10th WARD, CITY OF PITTSBURGH, AND HAVING ERECTED THEREON A ONE STORY COMMERCIAL CONCRETE BLOCK BUILDING, BEING CURRENTLY KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 211 52ND STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15201, DEED BOOK VOLUME 17055, PAGE 502, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0080-C-00179-0000-00.
114OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S) Township of Reserve Vs. DEFENDANT(S) UC Realty LLC ************* CASE NO. GD 25-006822 ************* DEBT $2,911.81 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Reserve: Having erected thereon a two-story frame house being known as 3590 Mount Troy Road Pittsburgh, PA 15212. Deed Book Volume 17951, Page 151. Block & Lot No. 117-B-147.
115OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S) Township of Reserve Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Richard E. McKenzie, with Notice to Heirs and Assigns ************* CASE NO. GD 25-009150 ************* DEBT $3,693.64 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Reserve: Having erected thereon a one-story brick house being known as 101 Klementina Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15212. Deed Book Volume 7684, Page 218. Block & Lot No. 117-B-155.
116OCT26
PLAINTIFF(S) County of Allegheny, City of Pittsburgh and School District of Pittsburgh Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Shane Tracy Enterprise, Inc. ************* CASE NO. GD 16-014323 ************* DEBT: $87,496.92 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of Pittsburgh- Ward 17: Having erected thereon a three-story commercial building being known as 1925 East Carson Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15203. Deed Book Volume 17637, Page 6. Block & Lot No. 12-F-127.
117OCT26
PETITIONER(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S) William L. Himes ************* CASE NO. GD 26-005030 ************* DEBT: $13,552.84 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of Pittsburgh- Ward 16: Having erected thereon a two-story brick house being known as 2231 Arlington Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15210. Deed Book Volume 11469, Page 234. Block & Lot No. 13-K-308.
118OCT26
PETITIONER(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Ebony Thomas, with Notice to Heirs and Assigns ************* CASE NO. GD 26-005148 ************* DEBT: $12,521.97 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of Pittsburgh- Ward 30: Having erected thereon a two-family two-story brick house being known as 246 Charles Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15210. Deed Book Volume 13296, Page 208. Block & Lot No. 14-K-289.
Having erected thereon a one-story brick house being known as 231 Spencer Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15227. Deed Book Volume 10575, Page 188. Block & Lot No. 94-K-182.
120OCT26
Having erected thereon a two-story frame house being known as 112 Newett Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15210. Deed Book Volume 16379, Page 199. Block & Lot No. 60-L-110.
121OCT26
PETITIONER(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Regis R. Knorr, with Notice to Heirs and Assigns ************* CASE NO. GD 26-005039 ************* DEBT: $8,423.16 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of Pittsburgh- Ward 16: Having erected thereon a two-story frame house being known as 2025 Spring Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15210. Deed Book Volume 9671, Page 111. Block & Lot No. 13-K-135.
122OCT26
PETITIONER(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Unknown Heirs of Johnnie L. Griffin & Unknown Heirs of Inez Griffin ************* CASE NO. GD 26-005144 ************* DEBT: $11,410.62 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of Pittsburgh- Ward 30: Having erected thereon a two-story brick house being known as 433 Jucunda Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15210. Deed Book Volume 4806, Page 213. Block & Lot No. 14-J-55.
123OCT26
PETITIONER(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S) William K. Rigby ************* CASE NO. GD 26-005147 ************* DEBT: $9,974.25 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of Pittsburgh- Ward 29: Having erected thereon a two-story frame house being known as 108 Minooka Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15210. Deed Book Volume 13499, Page 410. Block & Lot No. 60-B-87.
124OCT26
PETITIONER(S): County of Allegheny Vs. DEFENDANT(S) Bethel L. Christian, With Notice to Heirs and Assigns & Terrance B. Christian ************* CASE NO. GD 26-005025 ************* DEBT: $11,237.86 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S): Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S): 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 ******************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: ***************************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of Pittsburgh- Ward 30: Having erected thereon a two-story masonry frame house being known as 322 Bausman Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15210. Deed Book Volume 12631, Page 185. Block & Lot No. 14-P-239.
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: 2016 Lebanon Rd, West Mifflin, PA 15122 on October 7th, 2026 at 11:45am. Reggie Williams C216, Tijour Andrews CC247, Shyann Johnson D027. 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 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 10/07/2026 @ 1:30pm. For Tiffany Falconer 1006 and Jeanette Lofton 3095. 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 location indicated: 6400 Hamilton Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15206, October 7, 2026 at 1:45pm. Alysse Griffin-1031, Leona Pettegrew-2045, DeAnna Bennerman -3090. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be paid 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 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 October 7, 2026 at 1:00 pm. 1018 Ashley Moore; 1029 Leslie Ann Parrish; 1030 Leslie Ann Parrish; 2175 Eric Decker; 3283 Sam Garlick. 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 on October 7, 2026 at 1:15pm. Cameron Nicholas 4047, Lawrence Palmer 4153. 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: 141 N Braddock Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15208 on October 7th, 2026 at 11:00 AM. Mandol Ruggs-1027, Rocky Jackson-2056, Stephen Johnson-2123A, Joseph Ingram Jr-2196A, Tametha Purter-3052. 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 October 7, 2026 at 12:15pm. 29B Kristyna Wright, 3018 Jaymar Jones, 3041 Lateeya Egleston. 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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TREASURER’S SALE SALE BY THE TREASURER OF THECITY AND SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PITTSBURGH OF REAL ESTATE TO SATISFY UNPAID CLAIMS FOR CITY, SCHOOL AND ALLEGHENY COUNTY TAXES TO BE HELD ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2026 AT 10:00 A.M. Notice is hereby given that pursuant to the provisions of Act No. 171 of 1984, approved by the Governor October 11, 1984, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which in part authorizes and empowers the City Treasurer of cities of the second class to sell, at public sale, lands or real estate upon which the taxes assessed and levied by the City or School District or Allegheny County are delinquent and unpaid; this Act is known as the Second Class City Treasurer’s Sale and Collection Act. The following properties in the City of Pittsburgh will be exposed to public sale in City Council Chambers, City-County Building 5th Floor, Pittsburgh, PA, on Friday, October 2, 2026 at 10:00 A.M. and continued by adjournment to such time or times, as the City Treasurer shall designate such properties shall be sold for unpaid taxes which have been assessed against said properties. The following schedule shows (opposite each numbered property or properties) the City, School and County taxes for 2025 and prior years as well as Pittsburgh Water, demolition, and other municipal charges which are unpaid but does not include advertising, posting and lien charges all of which are legally due and must be paid prior to the above date and time of sale in order to avoid sale. Names shown are those of owners, lienholders, or other known interested parties who may retain a legal interest in the property described. Said Sale will be made without prejudice to any other liens or claims of the City, School District of Pittsburgh or County of Allegheny, for any other unpaid taxes, or other municipal charges and claims, whether liened or not, against the respective property which have been inadvertently omitted and not included herein. TERMS OF SALE: As soon as the property is struck down, the purchaser shall: (1) Immediately pay the advertised amount by cashier/certified check or cash set forth opposite the particular property sold. Payment must be in cash, certified check or cashier’s check. (2) Any amount bid in excess of the upset price must be received in the Department of Finance on or before 2:00 P.M. the day of sale. Funds to be paid by cash, certified check or cashier’s check. (3) Pay any and all other City, School and County tax claims and municipal charges and claims, whether liened or not, together with any penalty and interest, advertising cost, posting cost and County Department of Court Records’ costs owed against the property purchased upon demand after the sale. (4) Failure to comply with item 3 will result in the initial payment being forfeited and the sale being canceled. For information call the Office of the City Treasurer, City of Pittsburgh, City-County Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. Phone: (412) 255-2525 William S. Urbanic, Treasurer, City and School District of Pittsburgh 1-800-Pack-Rat (PA-Leetsdale-5463) 142 Ferry St. Leetsdale, PA 15056 877-774-1537 Tenant:
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Bruno,Samuel D71176 Cortez,Juan D60785 Haney,Aaron 803990 Haney,Aaron 704317 Houston,Derrick D52594 Jennewein,Jennifer 703481 Jones,Kevin D65319 Kenny,Erin D00805 Livingston,Sandra 352078 Lowrey & Schidek, Heather & Cristopher D56650 Lucas,Rebecca 351189 Lucas,Rebecca 800676 Lucas,Saria D03154 Moon,Briona D05212 M-Pogo Ltd, M-Pogo Ltd D53685 M-Pogo Ltd, M-Pogo Ltd D00176 M-Pogo Ltd, M-Pogo Ltd D69196 Petrovsky, James/Mary D58588 Robertson,Eric 804726 Robertson,Eric D06239 Stoyanoff & Swartz, Nick & Betsy D72065 1-800-Pack-Rat (PA-Leetsdale -5463), 142 Ferry St, Leetsdale, PA 15056, has possessory lien on all of the goods stored in the units above. All these items of personal property are being sold pursuant to the assertion of the lien on 9/22/2026 at 10:00 AM in order to collect the amounts due from you. The sale will take place on www.storagetreasures.com from 9/22/2026 to 9/29/2026 at 12:00 PM
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FOURTH WARD 2. HORNE D STUART - 1040027H00144011200. 166 N DITHRIDGE ST UNIT 2-K, HAMPTON HALL CONDO LOT 204.1XAVG176.275 N DITHRIDGE ST 2.9015% PT 5 STY BRK STL & CON APT BLDG UNIT #2-K PARTIAL CLAIM...............$26,491.20 3. LOKEY BASYA - 1040027L00182 00. 215 LYTTON AVE, SCHENLEY FARMS CO PLAN LOT 50X136.63 LYTTON AVE 2 1/2 STY BRK-FRA HSE 215 2 CAR BRK & FRA GARAGE PARTIAL CLAIM...............$75,991.96 4. PURDOM DARVELLA - 1040029G00286 00. 3200 DAWSON ST, LINDEN LAND CO PLAN 4 LOT 30X120 DAWSON ST PARTIAL CLAIM...............$95,139.43 FIFTH WARD 5. ELLISON FREDERICK W MYERS ZULIE ELLISON LOUISE - 1050010F00018 00. 23082310 WEBSTER AVE, A HOEVELER PLAN 26-27 LOT 41.22X100 IN ALL WEBS TER AV NR SOMERS ST 3-2 STY FRA HSES 2308-2310 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$63,022.62 7. PATTERSON NICOLE - 1050010H00154 00. 566 FRANCIS ST, LOT = 54.00X120.25X59.70X120.00 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$87,679.41 8. EST OF HARRY WILLIAMS SR & WILLIAMS CLAUDETTE - 1050010K00052 00. 2162 WYLIE AVE, JAS B IRWIN PLAN 34 LOT 20X76 WYLIE AVE 3 STY BRK HSE-STO & ADDN 2162 CON BLK GAR PARTIAL CLAIM...............$73,654.86 9. A PAR RESOURCE CENTER - 1050010K00204 00. 643 LAWSON ST, WM PORTERS PLAN PTS 129-130 LOT 42.87X40 IN ALL LAWSON ST 3 STY BRK HSE & 3 GARS 643 LAWSON ST PARTIAL CLAIM..............$120,388.44 10. NORTH SIDE LODGE NO 124 D INC (THE) - 1050010L00127 00. WYLIE AVE, E P JONES PLAN PT 15 LOT 26X78X17 RR WYLIE AV C OR SOMERS ST E P JONES PLAN 14 LOT 20X94.35 WYLIE AV 3 STY BRK BLDG 2315-17 PARTIAL CLAIM..............$119,629.07 11. B&B’S F A I T H REALTY - 1050010L00167 00. 2446 WYLIE AVE, LOT 20.88X90 WYLIE AVE 2 1/2 STY BRK HSE 2446 1 C GAR PARTIAL CLAIM...............$47,271.25 12. ELLISON FREDERICK - 1050010R00108 00. CENTRE AVE, E P JONES PLAN 5-PT 4 LOT 20X100X33.49 RR IN AL L CENTER AVE COR LAPLACE 2 STY STUC DWLG & STO 2400 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$92,184.57 13. ROBINSON DIANA - 1050010S00005 00. CENTRE AVE, BRACKENRIDGE PLAN PT PURPT 3 LOT 25X174.47 CENT ER AV 2 STY BRK DUPLEX 2514 1-2 CAR BRK GAR PARTIAL CLAIM...............$89,930.41 SEVENTH WARD 14. LOBL ANDREW B & LOBL STACY C - 1070052A00156 00. 401 N NEVILLE ST, LOT 60X120 NEVILLE ST 2 1/2 STY BRK HSE 401 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$42,857.81 15. HORNE D STUART & HORNE KTHY M - 1070052D00275 00. 629 COPELAND ST, MC FARLAND PLAN 37 LOT 25X100 COPELAND ST COR E LMER ST 2 STY BRK APT & GAR 629 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$26,710.30 TENTH WARD 20. EST OF SHELDON HOLDEN & SMITH LAUREN SMITH LAUREN T - 1100050K00227 00. DEARBORN ST, MICHAEL O HARA PLAN 20 LOT 20X100 DEARBORN ST B ET MILLVALE & WINEBIDDLE AVES PARTIAL CLAIM..................$906.06 22. WALKER MAGGIE - 1100081R00122 00. MOSSFIELD ST, 360-361 LOT 42.24XAVG157.72 IN ALL MOSSFIELD ST BET PACIFIC SCHENLEY AVES 2 STY FRA HSE 5216 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$78,866.00 TWELFTH WARD 23. COOPER EUGENE - 1120124H00151 00. 1321-1323 PAULSON AVE, EDWARD W DEAN PLAN 9-10 LOT 50X120 IN ALL PAULS ON BET DUNMORE & NELSON STS 2-2 STY BRK HSES 1321-1323 2 CAR CB GAR 1 CAR CB GAR & APT ABOVE PARTIAL CLAIM..............$134,033.68 25. SMITH JOHN W & SMITH ANNIE L - 1120172N00133 00. 6903 WILTSIE ST, 156-157PT 155 & PART OF LARIMER AVE (VACATED) LOT 66.86XAVG112.16X94.51 RR IN ALL WILTSIE ST 1 STY BRK HSE & GAR 6903 LOT 25X110 WILTSIE AVE PARTIAL CLAIM...............$73,881.43 26. TILLMAN JOHN L & TILLMAN ANNA - 1120173P00082 00. 279 SILVERTON AVE, E E TERRACE PLAN 279 LOT 25X95 SILVERTON & EVER TON 2 STY FRA COTG PARTIAL CLAIM...............$87,597.99 THIRTEEN WARD 27. SANTERCANGELO ANTHONY - 1130175C00342 00. 7812 HAMILTON AVE, BANK OF COMMERCE PLAN PT 208 LOT 70XAVG48.82X73 2 STY BRK & STEEL GAR 7812 .33 RR HAMILTON AVE PARTIAL CLAIM..............$113,924.25 28. DARSON ENTERPRISES LLC - 1130231F00292 00. 8415 FRANKSTOWN AVE, STANDARD PL PLAN PTS 42-43-44 LOT 59.52XAVG120.27 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$16,161.26 30. LIPSCOMB KEVON D - 1130232E00119 00. 502 HAVERHILL ST, NIMICK TER PLAN 154 LOT 30X110 HAVERHILL ST 2 STY FRA HSE 502 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$69,663.00 FOURTEENTH WARD 31. SPENCER GREGORY R & SPENCER JANET O - 1140052K00208 00. 1020 DEVONSHIRE RD, LOT 60XAVG116.37 DEVONSHIRE PLACE 2 1/2 STY BRK V HSE & ATT GAR #1020 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$81,182.76 33. GALLAGHER TODD - 1140085C00270B3 00. 300 N WOODLAND RD UNIT 3B, GREYSTONE CONDO IRREG LOT 146.57X99.54X127.26 (.73299 ALD) PVT R/W RR 5TH AV PT 2 1/2 STY STONE BLDG-UNIT 3B PARTIAL CLAIM...............$62,121.49 35. SOORIAMURTHI VIJAYASREE & RAJA SOORIAMURTHI ESWER - 1140086H00003 00. 1548 SHADY AVE, LOT 40.03XAVG119.68 SHADY AV 2 1/2 STY BRK HSE 1548 1 STY BRK GAR PARTIAL CLAIM...............$39,283.90 36. LOBL ANDREW B & LOBL STACY - 1140087A00190 00. 5500 HOBART ST, LOT 80X175 HOBART ST 2 1/2 STY BRK HSE 5500 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$59,612.14 37. RAVICK LOUIS - 1140088G00313A 00. KEMPER ST, BLVD LD CO PLAN 225-226-227 LOT 75X135.22 X78.63 RR IN ALL KEMPER ST 50% LOT FACING KEMPER ST PARTIAL CLAIM...............$72,025.63 38. MARZZARELLA MARK - 1140088R00001 00. SALINE ST, 1/2 A LD SALINE AVE 1 STY BRK V & FRA HSE #4601 (UNF-V&B) 1 STY I C GAR PARTIAL CLAIM...............$78,475.73 39. NICOLETTI ANTONIO & NICOLETTI LUCY - 1140088R00012 00. 4621 SALINE ST, LOT 25.275XAVG233.73 SALINE AV 2 STY FRA HSE 4621 1 STY I C GAR PARTIAL CLAIM...............$81,114.10 40. LEONELLO FRANK - 1140126D00161 00. 7090 THOMAS BLVD, NORTH POINT BREEZE PLAN OF LOTS NO 2 LOT 1 = 105.57X97.70X97X91.35 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$55,536.75 41. FELDSTEIN JUNE D - 1140126F00057 00. 6859 REYNOLDS ST, M L JACKSON PLAN 4 LOT 55.96XAVG121.29X55.66 RR REYNOLDS ST 2 1/2 STY BRK V HSE-GAR 6859 STRIP 4.5X24 IN RR DALLAS AVE PARTIAL CLAIM...............$30,694.24 42. RADBORD RUTH - 1140126J00058 00. 6808 LINDEN LN, LINDEN HTS PLAN 8 LOT 59X100 LINDEN LANE 1 STY BRK V HSE-GAR 6808 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$45,096.58 43. KASCHAUER ERNEST J & EST OF DIANE KASCHAUER KASCHAUER MARIE D 1140129D00222 00. 1248 WINDERMERE DR, YE OLDE SWISSVALE FARME PLAN PT 30 LOT 60X105 W INDERMERE DR 2 STY BRK V HSE-GAR 1248 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$31,942.27 44. FAGIER FATHIA A - 1140129J00046 00. 132 BLACKMORE ST, E E FULMER ESQ PLAN 14 LOT 24X97.6 BLACKMORE AVE 2 STY FRA ALUM SDG HSE 132 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$73,044.64 45. BROWN MICHAEL JOSEPH - 1140176N00040 00. 900 S BRADDOCK AVE, LOT 38X130 BRADDOCK COR HENRIETTA 2 STY BRK HSE 900 BRK GAR PARTIAL CLAIM...............$40,073.46 FIFTEENTH WARD 46. HAMOVITZ NEIL - 1150054M00051 00. 864 FLEMINGTON ST, BEECHWOOD BLVD PLAN 264 LOT 25X90 FLEMINGTON AV E 2 STY TILE HSE 864 & GAR IN BSMT PARTIAL CLAIM..............$107,023.87 47. SCAFURI PAMELA M - 1150055B00259A 00. 4239 HALDANE ST, SCHENLEY PARK LD CO PLAN PTS 104-105 LOT 17X100 IN ALL HALDANE ST FRA DWLG HSE 4239 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$80,803.75 48. AHARON NANCY - 1150088F00065 00. 3421 BEECHWOOD BLVD, C NINEHAUSER EST PARTN PLAN PT PURP A LOT 37.5X 140 BEECHWOOD BLVD 2 STY BRK HSE 3421 C B GAR PARTIAL CLAIM...............$33,674.07
HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH PUBLIC NOTICE OF THE REVISED MOVING TO WORK HOMEOWNERSHIP PLAN The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP) is a participant in the federal Moving to Work (MTW) Demonstration Program. The HACP MTW Homeownership Program is a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) approved MTW activity and is contained in the MTW Annual Plan appendices. HACP is updating its MTW Homeownership Plan. Key changes include increasing the employment requirement from 12 months to 24 months, strengthening homeownership preparation and partnerships, clarifying eligibility, application and waiting-list procedures, establishing processes for scattered-site homeownership opportunities, and enhancing financial assistance, home warranty coverage, education, and other supports intended to promote sustainable homeownership. The revised Homeownership Plan is available for review and comment from Sunday, from August 23, 2026, to September 22, 2026, on the HACP Web Site: www.hacp.org. Printed copies of the FY 2027 MTW Homeownership Plan can be obtained by contacting Serra Heck in the HACP Asset Management Department at 412-456-5000 extension 3291, or Serra.Heck@hacp.org. Public Hearings to receive public comments on the FY 2027 HACP MTW Homeownership Plan will be held on Thursday, September 3, 2026, at 9:30 a.m., and 5:30 p.m. via Zoom. The Zoom Meeting information can be accessed at www.hacp.org Written comments on the FY 2027 HACP MTW Homeownership Plan must be addressed to: “Attention: Serra Heck - HACP FY 2027 Moving to Work Homeownership Plan” at the HACP Asset Management Office, 412 Boulevard of the Allies, 7th Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, or Serra.Heck@hacp.org, and must be received by 5:00 pm Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, September 22, 2026. Once approved, the final FY 2027 HACP MTW Homeownership Plan will be effective on the first day of the fiscal year, January 1, 2027, or after the HACP receives approval from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Moving to Work Office, whichever occurs later. If you are a person with disability and need assistance, an alternate format of this notice, or accessible ways to submit comments, please contact the Disability Compliance Office at 412-456-5282 or dial 711 for TTY.
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SIXTEENTH WARD 49. CITYSIDE LEASING & GENERAL LLC - 1160012K00068 00. 2116 CAREY WAY, 2116 CAREY WAY SUBDIVISION LOT 2 = 20X60X20X60 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$36,450.03 51. DWYER CHARLES D III - 1160030A00087 00. 3024 MARY ST, THOS MC CLURG PLAN 19 LOT 24XAVG86.88X24.18 REA R MARY ST 2 1/2 STY ALUM-FRA-SHG HSE #3024 MARY ST PARTIAL CLAIM..............$110,492.49 SEVENTEENTH WARD 53. SELECT PROTFOLIO & SERVICING INC ATTN REMIT - 1170014C00305 00. 1006 E WARRINGTON AVE, REV TWIGG PLAN PTS 333-334 LOT 18X69.19X17.6 RR IN ALL WARRINGTON AVE 2 1/2 STY FRA HSE 1006 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$54,485.45 55. EST OF EDWARD PAUL GORNY & GORNY CATHERINE - 1170014M00076 00. 1789 ARLINGTON AVE, C FOERSTERS PLAN 30 LOT 30X188.92 ARLINGTON AV 2 1/2 STY ALUM HSE #1789 2 CAR C B GAR PARTIAL CLAIM...............$56,686.29 EIGHTEENTH WARD 56. PARKER KEVIN T - 1180014J00217 00. 518 CEDARHURST ST, MC LAIN & MAPLE PLAN 474 LOT 25X127.5 CEDARHURS T ST 2 STY FRA HSE 518 FRA GAR PARTIAL CLAIM...............$48,646.84 57. SOLOMON SHEILA D & SOLOMON KEVIN L - 1180014J00218 00. 520 CEDARHURST ST, MC LAIN & MAPLE PLAN 473 LOT 25X127.5 CEDARHURS T ST 2 STY BRK & SHG HSE 52 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$54,044.10 58. BARNETT JAMES G JR - 1180014J00219 00. 522 CEDARHURST ST, MC LAIN & MAPLE PLAN 472 LOT 25X127.5 CEDARHURS T ST COR PINE ST 2 STY FRA HSE 522 I C GAR PARTIAL CLAIM...............$22,015.32 60. SOROCZAK MARGARET - 1180015S00066 00. MICHIGAN ST, T S MAPLE PLAN 1 LOT 30X100 MICHIGAN ST PARTIAL CLAIM................$3,168.93 61. O’DONNELL ANDREA LYNN - 1180033E00163 00. 113 DUART ST, JOSEPH S RAGO PLAN 1 IRREG LOT 79.60X62.75X 87.78 CLARREN WAY 2 STY BRK & FRA HSE 113 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$87,210.15 NINETEENTH WARD 63. EDGOS CHARALAMBOS & EDGOS SOHIA - 1190004G00123 00. 128 WYOMING ST, R COWAN PLAN PT 38 LOT 51.5X61.38 WYOMING COR S YCAMORE 3 STY BRK & TILE BLDG 1 STY BRK V GAR PARTIAL CLAIM...............$48,513.96 64. KIWEW HOLDINGS LLC - 1190034A00290 00. PLATT AVE, WEST LIBERTY PLAN LOTS NO 4 SUBDIVISION REVISION TO LOTS 206-211 LOT 1=182.00 X86.00 X 65.85 X 115.63 X 159.77 X 260.31 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$41,595.44 65. SHARP ROBERT - 1190035N00157 00. 2024 BROADWAY AVE, W LIBERTY 2 PL 703 LOT 30.52X110 BROADWAY 2 STY BRK & FRA BLDG #2024 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$74,432.82 66. KRAUS LOUIS N - 1190062D00203 00. 1931 WOODWARD AVE, PAUL PLACE PLAN LOT 87 = 30 X 100 X 30 X 100 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$57,216.63 67. BODNAR ALEXANDER JR & EST OF CATHERINE I BODNA - 1190062E00097 00. 2367 BENSONIA AVE, W LIBERTY 1ST PLAN 185 LOT 30X110 BENSONIA AV 2 STY BRK VEN HSE 2367 C B GAR PARTIAL CLAIM...............$25,705.03 TWENTIETH WARD 68. NRLL EAST LLC - 1200016N00110 00. BANKSVILLE RD, BULFORD PLAN LOT 134.34XAVG100X132.83 RR BANKSV ILLE RD PARTIAL CLAIM...............$60,459.09 69. HICKS JERRY - 1200020F00122 00. 114-115 STEM ST, ROBERT STEVENSON HRS PLAN 114-115 LOT 50X100 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$77,877.47 70. GLOGOSKY VASZELY & EST OF SUSAN GOLGOSKY GERLOSKY ANNA GERLOSKY STEPHEN - 1200042D00039 00. WALCOTT ST, THOS H HUNTER PLAN 12 LOT 25X120 PARTIAL CLAIM..............$106,831.18 71. FLETCHER CARLA - 1200042D00205 00. 118 SAGINAW ST, J A WOOD & SON PLAN 62 & PT A LOT 25X100 IN ALL SAGINAW AVE 2 STY FRA HSE 118 2 STY FRA HSE RR PARTIAL CLAIM...............$93,932.16 72. EST OF LUCILLE BARNES - 1200042M00016 00. 533 SHERWOOD AVE, SHERADEN TERRACE PLAN PTS 137- 138-139-140-141 LOT 44X104 IN ALL SHERWOOD AV 2 STY BRK VEN HSE 533 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$71,425.57 73. RUGGIERO MARGARET G - 1200042M00109 00. 2906 GLEN MAWR ST, SHERADEN TER PLAN 379-380 LOT 50X100 IN ALL GLE N MAWR AVE NR SHERWOOD 2 STY ALUM SDG HSE-FORMER STOREROOM-#2906 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$66,108.45 TWENTY-FIRST WARD 74. PITTSBURGH REALTY & INVESTMENTS LLC - 1210022P00124 00. 1400 PENNSYLVANIA AVE, LOT 53X175 PENNA AV COR MANHATTAN ST 2 STY BRK M HSE 1400 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$51,746.47 TWENTY-FOURTH WARD 75. ATALLAH EDWARD A - 1240023H00136 00. COMPROMISE ST, BATES HOAG HENDERSON PLAN 69 LOT 24X107 COMPROM ISE ST PARTIAL CLAIM...............$91,110.92 TWENTY-SIXTH WARD 78. NATEK INVESTMENTS LLC - 1260077N00329 00. 131 HAWKINS AVE, FRANK STADLER PLAN 10 LOT 21.4X110 HAWKINS AVE 2 1/2 STY BRK DWLG 131 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$46,442.18 79. MARTIN W V JR - 1260116P00181 00. 185 WATSON BLVD, WATSON LD & IMP CO PLAN 645- 646 LOT 100X137.5 IN ALL WATSON BLVD 2 STY FRA HSE #185 1 1/2 STY C B GAR PARTIAL CLAIM...............$75,805.10 TWENTY-SEVENTH WARD 80. KUCZYNSKI THEODORE S - 1270045A00302 00. 2911 BREKER ST, JOS BREHER HRS PLAN 45 1/2-44 LOT 34.50X100 IN ALL BREKER ST 2 1/2 STY BRK VEN HSE 2811 1 STY C B GAR PARTIAL CLAIM...............$79,282.82 81. MCCREADY DENNIS - 1270045E00287 00. 2634 SHADELAND AVE, C M SIEBERTS PLAN PTS 2-3-4 & 5 LOT 22X86 IN AL L SHADELAND AVE 2 STY MANSARD BRK HSE 2634 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$71,580.14 83. WILLIAMS FREDERICK - 1270075S00108 00. MCCLURE AVE, R H LECKY PLAN 7 LOT 20X90 MC CLURE AV R H LECKY PLAN G LOT 32X90 MC CLURE AV 2 STY BRK & C B WHSE 321-3212 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$63,783.01 84. GONDAK WANDA & MESSINA MICHELE - 1270076A00168 00. 3516 DIPLOMA ST, BRIGHTON HTS HARBISON ADDN PLAN 38-37 LOT 80X90 IN ALL DIPLOMA ST 2 1/2 STY BRK HSE 3516 1 STY FRA GAR PARTIAL CLAIM..............$103,370.68 85. LESKO GEORGE - 1270076N00384 00. 3100 BRIGHTON RD, TRI LOT 76.92X53.66X97.22 BRIGHTON RD 3 STY BRK VEN HSE-OFFICE 3100 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$77,021.44 86. JOHNS CRAIG P - 1270114G00098 00. 3930 BRIGHTON RD, BRIGHTON LAND CO PLAN 90 LOT 45X120 BRIGHTON RD 2 STY BRK VEN HSE 3930 2 CAR C B GAR PARTIAL CLAIM...............$65,223.63 TWENTY-EIGHTH WARD 87. EST OF FRANK J KLEINE & KLEINE ADELAIDE E - 1280018J00268 00. 2082 ARNOLD ACRES DR, ARNOLD ACRES 2ND ADDN PLAN 29 LOT 52XAVG119.94X 76.13 ARNOLD ACRES DR 1 STY BRK V BUNG-INT GAR 2082 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$57,332.81 88. EST OF CAROL L ERDNER - 1280040G00273 00. 4 ELMONT ST, WEST PITTSBURGH PLAN LOT 675 = 25 X 100 X 25 X 100 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$68,623.92 89. KELLY EILEEN L - 1280070H00051 00. 94 BERRY ST, .62 RR IN ALL MUTUAL ST J R MC GINLEY PLAN 2-PT 1 LOT 136XAVG141.94X155 2 STY BRK & SHG HSE 94 PARTIAL CLAIM..............$156,258.61 THIRTIETH WARD 93. STEIN BERNARD D - 1300014R00172 00. 89 AMANDA AVE, PLAN 292 LOT 24X100 AMANDA ST 2 1/2 STY INSL BRK HSE PARTIAL CLAIM...............$45,161.36 THIRTY-FIRST WARD 94. EST OF KENNETH A FALCE & STARK EDWARD A - 1310091E00023 00. 297 BALDWIN RD, HAYS EST PLAN 752 LOT 25.03XAVG91.25 BALDWIN RD 2 STY FRA ALUM SID HSE #297 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$73,937.35 95. BALEZENTIS GEORGE & BALEZENTIS ANNA - 1310131N00031 00. BENEZET ST, NEW HOMESTEAD PLAN 1496-1497 LOT 50X110 PARTIAL CLAIM................$1,433.76 THIRTY-SECOND 96. MIKUS DARYN SCOTT - 1320095N00019 00. 2361 GLENBURY ST, FAIRHAVEN PLAN 9 LOT 66X127 GLENBURY ST 1 1/2 STY BRK V HSE 2361 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$73,158.56
IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA CIVIL DIVISION CITIBANK, N.A., NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE OF THE NEW RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2019-4 c/o NEWREZ LLC 75 Beattie Place, Suite 300 Greenville, SC 29601 Plaintiff vs. THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNS, AND ALL PERSONS, FIRMS, OR ASSOCIATIONS CLAIMING RIGHT, TITLE, OR INTEREST FROM OR UNDER GROVER C. WALKER, DECEASED 5447 Hillcrest Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15206 Defendant ACTION OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE NOTICE
You have been sued in court. If you wish to defend against the claims set forth in the following pages, you must take action within twenty (20) days after this complaint and notice are served, by entering a written appearance personally or by attorney and filing in writing with the court your defenses or objections to the claims set forth against you. You are warned that if you fail to do so the case may proceed without you and a judgment may be entered against you by the court without further notice for any money claimed in the complaint or for any other claim or relief requested by the plaintiff. You may lose money or property or other rights important to you. YOU SHOULD TAKE THIS PAPER TO YOUR LAWYER AT ONCE. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A LAWYER OR CANNOT AFFORD ONE, GO TO OR TELEPHONE THE OFFICE SET FORTH BELOW TO FIND OUT WHERE YOU CAN GET HELP.
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Estate of ROSE M. CRISANTI deceased of Shadyside, Estate No:022605528 Caren Gram and James Crisanti, 116 Springbrook Drive, Venetta, Pa 15367, 706 South Aiken Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15232 Extr. or to Caren Gram, 116 Springbrook Drive, Venetta, Pa 15367 Estate of ALBERT F. KAMPER, deceased of the Ross Township, Pennsylvania, File No.: 02-26-05584, Andrew C. Kamper, Executor or to Gregory W. Bevington, Atty, 310 Grant Street, Grant Building, Suite 1102, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Estate of ROBERT A. ZOVKO, SR. deceased of Brentwood, Pennsylvania, File No.: 02-2605846, Gregory A. Zovko, Executor or to DJ Nichols, Atty, 6 Clairton Blvd., Pittsburgh, PA 15236 Estate of RUTH COLLINS, deceased of the Ohio Township, Pennsylvania, File No.: 0225-07108, Sean R. Hogan, Executor or to Gregory W. Bevington, Atty, 310 Grant Street, Grant Building, Suite 1102, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Estate of JEFFREY T. COLLINS, deceased of the Ohio Township, Pennsylvania, File No.: 02-26-5438, Sean R. Hogan, Executor or to Gregory W. Bevington, Atty, 310 Grant Street, Grant Building, Suite 1102, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Petition to Determine Title to 1500 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15221, formerly owned by Elsie Betty Boyd, deceased, filed August 31, 2026, by Deborah A. Jefferson, No. 5610 of 2026. Peter B. Lewis Counsel, Neighborhood Legal Services, 928 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15222.
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OFFICIAL WILKINSBURG BOROUGH NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Borough Council of the Borough of Wilkinsburg will consider adopting Ordinance # 26-003 at the regular meeting of Borough Council held on November 4, 2026 at 7:00 p.m. at 605 Ross Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15221 with a public hearing on this matter on 10/21/26 at 6 PM at the same location. ORDINANCE # 26-003 AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOROUGH OF WILKINSBURG, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,TO INCREASE THE EARNED INCOME TAX RATE FROM 1% TO 2% FOR RESIDENTS AND FROM 0% TO 1% FOR NON-RESIDENTS COMMENCING JANUARY 1, 2027 THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2027 AND CONTINUING IN EFFECT FOR EACH YEAR THEREAFTER, UNLESS OTHERWISE REVISED BY ORDINANCE OF THE WILKINSBURG COUNCIL. The complete text may be examined daily during regular business hours in the Office of the Borough Manager. MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY A regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the College will be held on: October 1, 2026 4:30 PM CCAC - Main Campus Byers Hall 808 Ridge Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15212 The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP) will hold a regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners on Thursday, September 24, 2026 @ 10:30 a.m. EST. The hybrid meeting will be conducted via Zoom Conferencing and in-person on the Lower Level Conference Room of 412 Boulevard of the Allies, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. You must register to attend the in-person meeting. Registration for attending the meeting in-person and registration to provide public comment will both open on Monday, September 21, 2026 at 11 a.m. and posted to www.hacp.org. 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
OFFICIAL NOTICE BOROUGH OF AVALON ZONING HEARING BOARD NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2026, AT 6:00 P.M. PREVAILING TIME AT THE AVALON BOROUGH ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, 640 CALIFORNIA AVE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15202. The Zoning Hearing Board of Avalon Borough, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania will hold a Hearing on Monday, October 12, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. prevailing time at the Avalon Borough Administration Building on the Zoning Appeal filed by Laura DelFratte on behalf of Virginia Avenue Land Company, LLC, for property located on Virginia Avenue, Avalon, PA 15202, Lot and Block Numbers 214-G-80 and 214-G-90 in the COS: Civic and Open Space Conservation District. Applicant is appealing a permit review that indicated a proposed plan to develop currently vacant land violated Section 2000-416.B.2 of the Avalon -Bellevue-Bellevue Avon Joint Zoning Ordinance. Copies of the application are on file at the Avalon Borough Administration Office. Please call (412) 761-5820 or visit the Administration Office, 640 California Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15202 during regular business hours (Monday-Friday, 8:00 am – 4:00 pm) if you wish to review these materials. Lorraine Makatura BOROUGH MANAGER The Wilkins Township Civil Service Board will meet on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 beginning at 6:30 PM at the Municipal Building, 110 Peffer Road, Turtle Creek, PA 15145. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the Chief’s recommendation for disqualification of a candidate for police officer and any other business that may come before the Board. Sincerely, TOWNSHIP OF WILKINS
HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH INVITATION FOR BIDS (IFBs) FOR Hodgkiss and Sweetbriar Rehabilitation IFB #600-27-26 THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH (“HACP”) will receive sealed bids for the Hodgkiss and Sweetbriar Rehabilitation AMP-22 & AMP-39 The construction work is estimated to begin January 2027 Bid Documents will be available on or about Monday, September 14, 2026, and may be obtained HACP’s webpage, www.hacp.org. Bidders may register on the website and download the bid documents free of charge. A Pre-Bid Conference and Site Visit will be held in person on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. at 447-449 Sweetbriar Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15211. 10:30 a.m. at 453-455 Sweetbriar Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15211 11:30 a.m. at 1233 Hodgkiss Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15212. Bidders shall come prepared to review all aspects of the construction site necessary to prepare a bid. Bids will be received at: HACP Procurement Department 412 Boulevard of the Allies, 6th Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Attn: Brandon Havranek, Associate Director of Procurement until 10:00 a.m. October 13, 2026. HACP will also accept online submissions for this Invitation for Bid in addition to accepting submissions at our 412 Boulevard of the Allies office. For respondents wishing to submit online, please access the instructions provided in the project manual or on HACP’s website to submit the bid digitally. In addition to the electronic submittal above, HACP will only be accepting physical bids dropped off in person from 8:30 a.m. until the closing time of 10:00 am on October 13, 2026, in the lobby of 412 Boulevard of the Allies, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. Sealed bids may still be mailed via USPS at which time they will be Time and Date Stamped at 412 Boulevard of the Allies, 6th Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. All bids must be received at the above address no later than October 13, 2026, at 10:00 a.m., regardless of the selected delivery mechanism. HACP reserves the right to waive any informality in or reject any and all bids. No bid shall be withdrawn for a period of sixty (60) days subsequent to the opening of bids without the consent of HACP. The Contractor will be required to comply with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity requirements for Federally Assisted Construction Contracts. The Contractor must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of race, color, religion, sexual preference, handicap or national origin. HACP has revised its website. As part of those revisions, vendors must now register and log-in, in order to view and download IFB/RFP documentation. THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH STRONGLY ENCOURAGES CERTIFIED MINORITY-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES AND WOMAN-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES TO RESPOND TO THE SOLICITATION. Additional information may be obtained by contacting Brandon Havranek, Associate Director of Procurement at (412) 456-5890. 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.
PORT AUTHORITY OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY D.B.A. PITTSBURGH REGIONAL TRANSIT “PRT” Electronic Proposals will be received online at PRT’s Ebusiness website (http://ebusiness.rideprt.org). Proposals/bid submittals will be due 11:00 AM on October 7, 2026, and will be read at 11:15 AM., the same day, through your web browser via Microsoft Teams video conferencing, for the following: Electronic Proposal - Ebusiness website (http://ebusiness.rideprt.org) Bid Number
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No bidder may withdraw a submitted Proposal for a period of 75 days after the scheduled time for opening of the sealed bids. To join the bid opening through Microsoft Teams meeting on your computer, mobile app or room device Meeting ID: 275 428 445 359 835 Passcode: p8Nh966H Or call in (audio only) 412-927-0245 Phone Conference ID: 242 899 822# No bidder may withdraw a submitted Proposal for a period of 75 days after the scheduled time for opening of the sealed bids. A Pre-Bid Conference will be held for each of the above items at 10:00 AM on September 22, 2026, through your web browser via Microsoft Teams video conferencing. Attendance at this meeting is not mandatory but is strongly encouraged. Join on your computer, mobile app or room device Meeting ID: 256 374 235 197 412 Passcode: qY7DK6Xa Or call in (audio only) 412-927-0245 Phone Conference ID: 111 830 114# Questions regarding any of the above bids will not be entertained by the PRT within five (5) business days of the scheduled bid opening. These contracts may be subject to a financial assistance contract between Port Authority of Allegheny County d.b.a. PRT and the United States Department of Transportation. The Contractor will be required to comply with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. Contractor is responsible for expenses related to acquiring a performance bond and insurance where applicable. All items are to be FOB delivered unless otherwise specified. Costs for delivery, bond, and insurance shall be included in bidder’s proposal pricing. Port Authority of Allegheny County d.b.a. PRT hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in regard to any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprise will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, or national origin in consideration for an award. The Board of PRT reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
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GENERAL CONSTRUCTION – CONTRACT – PA 18-4-2026.1 EXTERIOR MODERNIZATION Located At KENSINGTON MANOR 1141 4th Avenue New Kensington, PA 15068 Bid submission for the referenced project through sealed bids which will be received by the Westmoreland County Housing Authority, until October 16, 2026, at 10:00 A.M. (eastern standard time). Bids shall be deposited at the Administrative Office of the Westmoreland County Housing Authority, 167 South Greengate Road, Greensburg PA 15601. Bids received will then be opened publicly. Pre-Bid Meeting: September 25, 2026, at 2:00 P.M. (eastern standard time) located at KENSINGTON MANOR – COMMUNITY ROOM. Attendance is not mandatory, but highly recommended. Electronic Bid Documents are available for downloading at www.wchaonline.com. Bidders are required to register online at the www.wchaonline.com to view bid documents. Plan holders proposing to bid shall also register their intent to submit a bid with Westmoreland County Housing Associates, Inc. via email to lindam@wchaonline.com and eriks@wchaonline.com in accordance with the bid requirements. Westmoreland County Housing Authority, Michael L. Washowich, CEO / Executive Director PITTSBURGH COMPREHENSIVE MUNICIPAL PENSION TRUST FUND NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF PROPOSAL FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES SEPTEMBER 15, 2026 The Pittsburgh Comprehensive Municipal Pension Trust Fund (the “CMPTF”) has issued a Request for Proposal (“RFP”) for a U.S. Small Cap Manager to advise the CMPTF on small cap equity investments. The specifications related to the services requested are set forth further in the RFP which is available at the City of Pittsburgh’s website at https://www.pittsburghpa.gov/ Ci t y- G overnment / Fi nances -Budget/Announcements. In order to successfully compete for the professional services, a proposer must complete all required attachments and disclosures set forth in the RFP. HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH INVITATION FOR BIDS (IFB) FOR IFB #250-31-26 COMMON AREA FLOORING INSTALLATION AUTHORITY-WIDE IFB # 250-31-26 The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP) hereby requests bids from qualified Firms or Individuals capable of providing the following service(s): IFB #250-31-26 COMMON AREA FLOORING INSTALLATION AUTHORITY-WIDE The documents will be available no later than September 14, 2026, signed and sealed bids will be accepted until 11:00 a.m. on October 15, 2026. The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh will only accept physical bids dropped off in person from 8:00 AM until the closing time of 11:00 a.m. on October 15, 2026, in the One Stop Shop at 412 Boulevard of the Allies. Pittsburgh, PA 15219. Bids may uploaded to the Authority’s online submission site, the link is accessible via the HACP website and within the IFB. Sealed bids 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 Brandon.brandon.havranek@hacp.org A pre-bid meeting will be held via Zoom meeting; on September 29, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. Please see the meeting information below: Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 838 2083 2190 Passcode: 157813 Dial in: +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C) 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.
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HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) FOR RFP #125-30-26 Third-Party Property Management Agent for Homewood House Apts., LLC (HHA) The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP) hereby request proposals from qualified Firms or Individuals capable of providing the following service(s):
EDGEWOOD BOROUGH, ALLEGHENY COUNTY MONONGAHELA WAY STAIRCASE AND BICYCLE RUNNEL Edgewood Borough, Allegheny County, is accepting sealed bids through Quest Construction Data Network (QuestCDN) at www.questcdn.com until 11AM prevailing time on October 14, 2026 for:
HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH INVITATION FOR BIDS (IFB) FOR FAMILY RECREATIONAL AREA AT NORTHVIEW HEIGHTS, AMP-09 IFB #600-11-26-G-E-P-H REBID THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH (“HACP”) will receive sealed bids for the Family Recreational Area at Northview Heights, AMP-09 project. The construction work is estimated to begin: February 2027 Bid Documents will be available on or about Monday, September 14, 2026, and may be obtained from HACP’s webpage, www.hacp.org. Bidders may register on the website and download the bid documents free of charge. A Pre-Bid Conference and Site Visit will be held on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. at: Northview Heights Gymnasium 525 Mount Pleasant Road Pittsburgh, PA 15214 Bidders shall come prepared to review all aspects of the construction site necessary to prepare a bid. Bids will be received at: HACP Procurement Department 412 Boulevard of the Allies, 6th Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Attn: Brandon Havranek, Associate Director of Procurement/ Contracting Officer until 11:00 a.m. October 14, 2026. HACP will also accept online submissions for this Invitation for Bid in addition to accepting submissions at our 412 Boulevard of the Allies office. For respondents wishing to submit online, please access the instructions provided in the project manual or on HACP’s website to submit the bid digitally. In addition to the electronic submittal above, HACP will only be accepting physical bids dropped off in person from 8:30 a.m. until the closing time of 11:00 am on October 14, 2026, in the lobby of 412 Boulevard of the Allies, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. Sealed bids may still be mailed via USPS at which time they will be Time and Date Stamped at 412 Boulevard of the Allies, 6th Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. All bids must be received at the above address no later than October 14, 2026, at 11:00 a.m., regardless of the selected delivery mechanism[ ] HACP reserves the right to waive any informality in or reject any and all bids. No bid shall be withdrawn for a period of sixty (60) days subsequent to the opening of bids without the consent of HACP. The Contractor will be required to comply with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity requirements for Federally Assisted Construction Contracts. The Contractor must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of race, color, religion, sexual preference, handicap or national origin. HACP has revised its website. As part of those revisions, vendors must now register and log-in, in order to view and download IFB/RFP documentation. THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH STRONGLY ENCOURAGES CERTIFIED MINORITY-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES AND WOMAN-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES TO RESPOND TO THE SOLICITATION. Additional information may be obtained by contacting Brandon Havranek, Associate Director of Procurement/ Contracting Officer at (412) 6432890. 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.
OFFICIAL ADVERTISEMENT OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PITTSBURGH ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Sealed proposals shall be deposited at the Administration Building, Bellefield Entrance Lobby, 341 South Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, until 2:00 P.M., local prevailing time, for: 2027-2028 Service and Maintenance Contracts at Various Schools, Facilities, and Properties 1. Districtwide Boiler, Burner, and Furnace Inspection, Maintenance, and Repair Services 2. Districtwide Concrete Maintenance and Repair Services 3. Districtwide Extraordinary Electrical Maintenance 4. Districtwide Vertical Transportation Systems Preventive Maintenance and Repair Services 5. Districtwide Extraordinary General Maintenance 6. Districtwide Extraordinary Masonry Maintenance 7. Districtwide Plumbing Systems Maintenance, Service, and Repair 8. Districtwide Central Chiller and Refrigeration Systems Maintenance and Repair 9. Districtwide Extraordinary Roofing Maintenance 10. Districtwide Security and Low Voltage Systems Maintenance and Service Project Manuals and Drawings will be available for purchase beginning Monday, September 21, 2026, at Modern Reproductions (412-488-7700), 127 McKean Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, between 9:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M. The cost of the Project Manual Documents is non-refundable. Project details and dates are described in each Project Manual.
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. 1153 – Security Camera System – Boyce Campus North Lot A mandatory pre-bid meeting and site visitation will be held on Thursday, October 1, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. Meet at the North Parking Lot. From 595 Beatty Road, Monroeville – pass the campus to Cooper Road, make a left onto Old Frankstown Road, then make the first left into the CCAC North Parking Lot. Bids will be received at the Purchasing Department until 2:00 P.M. Prevailing Time on Tuesday, October 13, 2026. Any bid or proposals received after this deadline will be considered as a “late bid” and will be returned unopened to the offerer. 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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Third-Party Property Management Agent for Homewood House Apts., LLC (HHA) The documents will be available no later than September 14, 2026, signed and sealed proposals will be accepted until 9:00 a.m. on October 15, 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 9:00 a.m. on October 15, 2026, in the 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 on 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 September 29, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. Please see the meeting information below: Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 828 6777 2482 Passcode: 282728 Dial In: +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C) 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
CONTRACT NO. 26-S1 MONONGAHELA WAY STAIRCASE AND BICYCLE RUNNEL CONTRACT A – UPPER STAIRCASE CONTRACT B – LOWER STAIRCASE Scope of work: removal of existing concrete stairs, installation of concrete stairs with a bicycle runnel, handrails, erosion and sedimentation control facilities, and all necessary appurtenances and restoration for said construction. There is an Add Alternate for additional concrete stair reconstruction. Project partially financed by a CFA Multimodal Transportation Fund grant. Contractor to comply with all applicable conditions set forth by the grant program. All bidders are required to buy the Bid Documents in PDF format for a non-refundable deposit of $175.00 from QuestCDN using project number 10183168 (Contract A) and 10373826 (Contract B). Bids opened and read aloud 11 AM, October 14, 2026 via video conference viewable at Edgewood Borough Building; 2 Race Street, PGH PA 15218. Interested parties may contact the Edgewood Borough for access information prior to opening. QuestCDN questions call 952-2331632 or info@questcdn.com. Direct project technical questions to LSSE. Proposals must be submitted on Borough supplied forms. 10% Bid Bond required with bid. Subject to Steel Products Procurement Act; Prevailing Wage Act; Public Works Employment Verification Act; Civil Rights Act (Title VI). No bid may be withdrawn for ninety (90) calendar days after the scheduled time for receipt of bids. Borough shall (a) award contract to the lowest responsible bidder, or (b) reject all bids received within ninety (90) days of the date of bid opening. At its discretion, Borough may delay award or rejection for up to one hundred twenty (120) days from the bid opening date until the Borough receives all required approvals. No bid bond shall be waived or returned because the Bidder has failed to or cannot comply with any requirements as set forth in the plans, specifications, or any applicable statutes of the State of Pennsylvania or any applicable municipal ordinances.
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OFFICIAL ADVERTISEMENT THE BOARD OF PUBLIC EDUCATION of the SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PITTSBURGH Sealed proposals shall be deposited at the Administration Building, Bellefield Entrance Lobby, 341 South Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15213, on October 20, 2026, until 2:00 P.M., local prevailing time for: Pgh Sterrett Classical Academy, Pgh Science & Technology Generator Replacement Abatement Prime Project Manual and Drawings will be available for purchase on September 18, 2026, at Modern Reproductions (412-488-7700), 127 McKean Street, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15219 between 9:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M. The cost of the Project Manual Documents is non-refundable. Project details and dates are described in each project manual. Pgh Public Schools Central Operation and Food Kitchen Building Commissioning of Switchgear Replacement Commissioning Authority Project manual for Commissioning of Switchgear Replacement will be available via the District website (www.pghschools.org ) or by email request to mcollinswood1@pghschools.org on September 18, 2026, Project details and dates are described in project manual.
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SENIOR ROBOTICS SOFTWARE ENGINEER Near Earth Autonomy seeks a Senior Robotics Software Engineer in Pittsburgh, PA to research, design, develop, refine, test, and deploy software systems for autonomous air vehicles to enable static obstacle detection and avoidance and safe landing on ground; research, design, develop, refine, test, and deploy software systems for autonomous air vehicles to enable mission planning, air traffic sensing and avoidance, flight without GPS, contingency management, and safe and precision landing on ground and on moving platforms; implement these capabilities on sensing and computing hardware and integrate them onto aerial platforms ranging from small quadcopters to helicopters; design and implement software stacks for autonomous vehicles; design and test autonomous aircraft systems using the Gazebo plugin within the Gazebo Sim simulation environment; research and implement techniques to increase algorithms’ real-time efficiency; perform calibration of multi-sensor systems; and deploy and test robotics software on physical mobile robots in field conditions. Occasional local telecommuting is permitted. Travel required within U.S. about 6 times per year, about 3 days per trip for flight tests and demonstrations. Apply online: https://nearearthautonomy.applytojob.com/apply/IpJPpfVzxO/ Senior-Robotics-Software-Engineer ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT – AFCS ($5,953.18 / MONTHLY) Pittsburgh Regional Transit is seeking a Accounting Assistant – AFCS to be responsible for maintaining all aspects of Automatic Fare Collection System billing for Port Authority of Allegheny County d/b/a Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT). Essential Functions: 1.) Responsible for distributing all of the media fare through Allegheny County and creating the corresponding invoices from the PeopleSoft Financials system. This includes being responsible for the fare media in the vault, maintaining and reconciling quantities on hand, as well as processing and verifying orders received. a) Scheidt & Bachman (S&B) Corporate Web Portal 1. Maintains customer database, includes initial set up for each customer, training of users, troubleshooting technology issues and keeping customers in formed of any changes and/or system alerts. 2. Reconciles PeopleSoft Financial billings with S&B web portal fare product orders. 3. Assists customer with lost and malfunction ConnectCards, including blocking, deactivating and replacing cards with fare product and/or stored value. Job requirements include: • High school diploma or GED. • Associate degree in Accounting or related field from an accredited school. • Minimum of one (1) years accounting experience within the past five (5) years. • Valid driver’s license. • Demonstrated ability to use Windows, Microsoft Word, and Excel. • Effective and professional communication skills. Preferred attributes: •Familiarity with account classification. •Experience using PeopleSoft Financials. • Familiarity with fare instruments and pricing.
We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. Interested candidates should forward a cover letter (with salary requirements) and resume to: Deborah Slocum Employment Department 345 Sixth Avenue, 3rd Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2527 DSlocum@RidePRT.org EOE Aurora Operations, Inc. seeks Staff Systems Eng - Vehicle Platform in Pittsburgh, PA. to work w/ autonomous control systems. Hybrid work schedule. Email CV to jobs@aurora.tech Ref# 00484. SMS Group seeks Senior Manager of Full Stack to work in Pittsburgh PA. Provides strategic technical leadership & bus. Dvlp. direction for full stack software engineering org. Degree & commensurate exp. req’d. Apply to job 3684 at sms-group.us/careers
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VEHICLE PROJECT COORDINATOR Pittsburgh Regional Transit is seeking a Vehicle Project Coordinator to create and complete projects required to procure revenue vehicles re q u i re d b y P o rt Authori ty of Allegheny County d/b/a Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) to provide service for current and future operational needs. Prepares specifications with general and special conditions, and technical and schedule requirements. Reviews and evaluates manufacturers’ requests for changes and prepares recommendations regarding approval or disapproval; prepares contract change orders as required; reviews and recommends invoice payments to manufacturers. Reviews and monitors work performed by suppliers at manufacturing facilities for compliance with specification requirements related to quality and schedule. Prepares scope of work documents for vehicle inspection consultant services and assists with negotiating consultant contracts for same. Participates in the bidding process for revenue vehicles. Essential Functions: • Develops and manages programs for the procurement of the number and types of vehicles needed by the Operations Division to meet service demands. This will include preparation of complete specifications with special and general conditions and technical and schedule requirement. Specification technical requirements are to be developed in conjunction with the Manager of Vehicle Projects and the Manager of Bus Maintenance and other departments, as required. • Reviews and evaluates manufacturers’ requests for changes. Prepares recommendations regarding approval or disapproval for review of executive management in accordance with established PRT and department administrative procedures. Prepares contract change orders as required. Reviews and recommends for payment, invoices received from the manufacturer. • Investigates maintenance incidents, such as accidents, fires, or other unforeseen failures to determine and report upon cause and corrective action needed. Job requirements include: • High school diploma. • Associate’s degree or two (2) years of college in mechanical, electrical, civil, automotive, or related engineering or technology fields from an accredited college or university. Related experience may be substituted for education on a year-for-year basis. • Minimum of three (3) years’ experience in manufacturing and maintenance of vehicle equipment, specifications development. No certifications or licenses required. • Demonstrated ability in the use of Windows, Microsoft Word, and Excel. • Professional and effective communication skills. • Ability to function as a team player and work harmoniously with other people. • Valid PA driver’s license.
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Preferred attributes: • Four (4) years supervisory/ management experience in bus and/or transit vehicle maintenance.
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