Check out all the local happenings for August.

Avid readers may know Marie Benedict as a bestselling author from Pittsburgh, but her newest success is a collaboration with another talented author, Victoria Christopher Murray. This partnership resulted in an incredible story of two very different women forming an alliance to take down a powerful and corrupt mob boss. It also captured the attention of a well-known celebrity-led book club.

Traveling across the United States and seeing its natural beauty is always exciting. Many tourists love visiting national parks, and each one offers something special to discover.

This is the time of the year where we feel summer winding down. The cicadas become a steady soundtrack, the Monarch butterflies stop by on their migration path, the light becomes softer in the evening as the sun sets a little earlier. It’s time to savor the small glittering mica of summer.

As this month's featured restaurant, I couldn't think of a better choice than Il Pizzaiolo in Warrendale—my favorite restaurant in the Cranberry/Wexford area for so many reasons. As an Italian, I'm especially particular about Italian restaurants. I appreciate authentic flavors, quality ingredients, and dishes that stay true to tradition. Il Pizzaiolo delivers every single time.

No matter what denomination you are, churchgoers know it’s not the brick and mortar that makes a church, but rather its people. This year, the congregation of Cross Roads Presbyterian Church on Wexford Road in Gibsonia is celebrating a major milestone. Two hundred years ago, Scotch-Irish Presbyterians bought land in Pine Township for just 20 cents an acre.

On a cold January evening in 1997, five friends and I packed ourselves into my friend’s Geo Metro, a vehicle most certainly not made to accommodate a group of that size. Most of us were still just 15, but our friend had the lucky October birthday and the brand new driver’s license to go with it.

The Little Sisters of the Poor are having a rummage sale of household items, clothing, furniture, jewelry, and assorted items. The sale runs 9:00 am-3 :00 pm, August 7 and 8

The USO, or United Service Organizations, helps support the well-being of active-duty U.S. military members and their families. For 85 years, it has brought entertainment to the troops through performances by celebrities

August is often called the “Dog Days of August,” a fitting description for a month with the fewest events. It is the last full month of summer. Schools will welcome kids back for the new school year.

Did you watch any of the FIFA World Cup coverage, specifically the visitors who extolled the American culture? Scads of posts from people from all over the world praising our food, scenery, vastness, abundance, kindness, generosity, and hospitality, appeared all over the various social media platforms.

Mars Area Middle School Seventh Grade Girls Volleyball Team ended the 2026 Season with a record of 13-0. In addition to being undefeated, the Lady Planets swept every match except one. Team members Annabelle Bombick, Carmia Erasmus, Makayla DaSilva, Rayleigh Edwards, Paige Graham, Ariana Grusca, Sienna Reilly, Kylie Rhea, Kate Sherwin, Bee Swanson, and Emily Weiner.

The Pennsylvania Emergency Health Service Council announced their annual recipient for the Emergency Medical Service (EMS) Agency of the Year for 2026. The McCandless-Franklin Park Ambulance Authority (MFPAA) of northern Allegheny County has been selected for this distinguished honor.

Most people have a reasonable mental model of what acupuncture does: needles, specific points on the body, something to do with energy and circulation. Fewer people have heard of low-level laser therapy (LLLT), also called cold laser therapy or photobiomodulation. That's starting to change, and for good reason.

Almost every summer, we go to Dewey Beach in Delaware with my husband’s side of the family in July. It’s a week full of traditions: riding the Jolly Trolly to the boardwalk, getting fresh hot donuts from Fractured Prune, trying to take sweaty stressful photos on the beach at the end of the week. Every day is pretty much the same, we pack up and meet at the beach, stay as long as the heat allows.

If you had grandparents growing up, do you remember any gift they bought you when you were a child? Until I was 12, I had two great-grandparents and three grandparents living, and I tried to remember the gifts they had given me. All I could come up with was a pink pillow shaped like a guitar one of my grandmas gave me for Christmas and a pair of tights another grandma gave me when I was about 11 that looked like support hose or something Ruth Buzzi would wear when she played