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Broadway Hits Ellwood City

Seth Stewart, a premier New York Dancer, Choreographer, will be presenting during a master class workshop on Friday, April 19, hosted by Diamond Dance Academy. He will be holding two sessions: 5:15p – 6:45 p.m. FUNKY JAZZ/HIP HOP JAM! (Ages 12 & Under) and a 7:00p – 8:30p.m. FUNKY JAZZ/HIP HOP JAM! (Ages 13 & Up). The price is $30 for your 1st class and a $25 fee for an additional class with a $5 observer fee. You do not need a Diamond Dance Academy registration and autographs will be signed. Seth is one of today’s most exciting and energetic…


Ellwood City Public Library Activities for the Week of April 2

Activities taking place at the Ellwood City Area Public Library include the following: Tuesday, April 3, at 10:00 a.m. — Family Laptime, a weekly program designed for babies, toddlers and preschoolers. The spring session, which will be held every Tuesday through April 24, features stories, songs, games and more. Registration is requested, so call the library at 724-758-6458 for more information. Wednesday, April 4, at 10:00 a.m. — “Coloring for Adults,” a weekly program that is free and open to the public. “Coloring for Adults” is a program designed to help reduce the stresses of everyday life. Everyone is welcome,…


Documentary “Project 22” Coming to BC3 at Lawrence Crossing

New Castle, PA – BC3 at Lawrence Crossing on Nov. 14 will offer a free public screening of “Project 22,” an April 2015 documentary created by two young combat veterans and one that heightens awareness about post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide among those who served in recent wars, the president of the college’s Student Veterans Association said. “Project 22” will be shown at 2849 W. State St., New Castle, from 12:45 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. “The paramount thing that comes to mind is that you are not alone in thinking about suicide and you are certainly not alone in having…


Derry Has Success in Run Game, Cruises Past Wolverines

The Wolverines have had issues with keeping players on the field throughout the year due to lingering injuries. The same occurred Friday night as three starters were injured during a conference game match-up against favorited Derry Trojans. Derry came into the evening with only loss to conference foe Elizabeth Forward. The Wolverines came into the game hoping to pick up their third win on the season in preparation of upcoming rival Riverside. Despite the Wolverines limiting the damage done in the passing game, the running game for the Trojans proved too much as 4 TDs were scored via the run…


Abrupt Endings For PIAA Championship Quests: Riverside, Ellwood Both Shutout In Quarterfinals

The South Park Eagles stunned the consecutive WPIAL Championship Ellwood City Wolverines by pounding out eleven hits en route to a 11-0 mercy-rule victory in the PIAA 3-A Softball Playoffs at North Allegheny High School Thursday afternoon. The Eagles bats were on fire right from the start as they pushed across a pair of runs in the home half of the first inning courtesy of two hits and a key error.  Jess Dean led off the game for the Eagles by doubling to right-center field.  With two outs, the Wolverines Brooklyn Magill misplayed the drive off of the bat of…


Baseball, Softball Teams Lose Weekend Matches

Ellwood City Wolverines Loses Lead Early in Defeat Ellwood City Wolverines watched the game slip away early and couldn’t recover in a 4-1 loss to West Allegheny on Saturday. West Allegheny scored on a single by Justin Usenicnik in the first inning and a double by Trey Zeroski in the second inning. West Allegheny took an early lead in the first inning. With two outs in the first inning Justin Usenicnik drove in one run when he singled. Conner Bartley earned the win for West Allegheny. He threw three innings, giving up zero runs, two hits, striking out one, and…


Ellwood City Pro Wrestling Fans Eagerly Anticipate WrestleMania

Welcome to WrestleMania week! It’s the biggest week in the wild, wacky and wonderful world of Pro Wrestling.  As the Super Bowl of wrestling approaches, fanatics worldwide dissect Sunday’s matchups, make their predictions and talk about every possible scenario they see playing out at the show of shows. Ellwood City resident Matt Boffo took time to put together the following information piece on the upcoming WrestleMania. Boffo has been a main organizer in Pro Wrestling viewing parties and other functions in the Ellwood City area for several years and notably was responsible for Royal Rumble party in 2015 that netted live wrestling matches…


Panthers & Wolverines victorious, setup for rivarly rematch Friday

The Ellwood City Wolverines used an early cushion to easily cruise to a 59-34 victory over New Brighton Tuesday night while the Riverside Panthers found their stroke from the free throw line to hold on and beat Aliquippa 61-59.  With victories for both squads, Ellwood City (8-7 overall) next travels to Riverside (10-6 overall) for their second meeting of the season – with playoff implications on the line. For the Wolverines, a early 16-3 first quarter cushion and 17 points from senior Jordan Recce was enough to oust the Lions.  Ellwood City junior Anthony Roth led all scorers with 18…


Ellwood City School Board August Meeting Brief

The following is a brief summary of the Ellwood City Area School Board meeting held on Aug. 11: Awards/Recognition The following teachers received EcoLab Visions of Learning Teacher Grants for the 2016-17 school year: Jill Folino- $1071 for 72 sets of headphones for classroom tablets Dana Stelitano- $500 online computer program for speech Seth Rosenberger- $2287 materials designated for learning through kinesthetics Chris Costa- $3000 designated for use of the Mark lab Facility at Perry Megan Berty- $2987 designated for PA Common Core Standards Materials Brittany Severn- $2586 for reading resource books Sheery Shearer- $2100 hands on learning for reading,…


The 3 Rivers Comicon and the Man Behind It

by Anthony Nocera and Jonathan Cortez 3 Rivers Comicon, a two day comic book convention, is coming to Pittsburgh this weekend. Todd McDevitt, the organizer and host, was once a teenager who got into collecting comics thanks to his friend, Matt Brady. While still in high school, Todd became intrigued by the business side of comic books. His business started without an actual location as he simply sold comic books in school and through mail. The first physical New Dimension Comics was in a small storefront by PeeWee’s Hot Dog Shop. Todd’s business would continually grow and eventually become the…