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ABOVE LEFT: Nate and Alex Swanson of Bethel Park try their hand at cake decorating by icing a chocolate chip cookie during Bethel Bakery’s 70th anniversary celebration. ABOVE RIGHT: Kathleen Emery and Eileen Rosleck of Brentwood cannot choose between all the sweet selections offered in the display cases at Bethel Bakery.
Bethel Bakery celebrates 70th anniversary By Eleanor Bailey Almanac Staff Writer ebailey@thealmanac.net
Sarah Knight of Upper St. Clair is the healthy living director at the Spencer YMCA in Bethel Park. So why was she eating an ice cream donut at 10 a.m. on Aug. 6 in front of Bethel Bakery with her daughter, Sylvia, and her client, Joan Horoho of Mt. Lebanon? “This is our training session,” she joked. “Kinda crazy,” she added, “but a good kind of crazy.” Knight was not alone. Hundreds of customers lined up for the confection, created specifically for Bethel Bakery’s 70th anniversary celebration. The glazed donut was split in half and filled with ice cream made at the Penn State Creamery. Peach, SEE BAKERY PAGE A2
Walsh carries on the family tradition By Eleanor Bailey Almanac Staff Writer ebailey@thealmanac.net
Stephen Walsh remembers his first paid day working at Bethel Bakery. It was Halloween 2009. He was a 14-year-old freshman at Bethel Park High School. He recalled not wanting to work at the bakery; after all, he had grown up in the business. “As soon as you could stand on a bucket, you started to work there,” he said. Walsh’s sisters, Patty, Cami and Maria, were already employed at Bethel Bakery. Plus, his father, John, owned the company started by Morris and Anna Walsh in three attached garages on South Park Road in 1955. Stephen Walsh holds his newborn, Eleanor, “All they ever did was talk about the bakery and is pictured with his wife, Kate. Walsh is the at home, and I just kind of didn’t want anything third-generation owner of Bethel Bakery, which SEE WALSH PAGE A2 recently celebrated 70 years in the business.
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The crowd inside Bethel Bakery is typical for a Saturday morning. On Aug. 6, the business celebrated its 70th anniversary with special treats, festivities and games.
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Giant Eagle, Cuban announce Coughlin’s Law eyes Peters new drug program partnership Township for new location By Karen Mansfield
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Giant Eagle has joined the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs network, a company co-founded in 2022 by the Mt. Lebanon native and businessman to make prescription drugs more affordable to American customers. Giant Eagle pharmacy customers who participate in the Cost Plus Drugs program can now pick up qualifying prescriptions at one of more than 200 Giant Eagle pharmacies throughout Pennsylvania and four other states. Cuban said at an Aug. 6 press conference in Robinson Township that his goal is to “dramatically reduce the cost of drugs.” “But we also think that it is just as important to introduce transparency to the pricing of drugs so patients know they are getting a fair price. PartCOURTESY OF GIANT EAGLE nerships with retailers like Giant Eagle Pharmacy Giant Eagle and Mt. Lebanon native Mark help us move our mission forward,” said Cuban, Cuban recently announced the supermarwho was joined by Giant Eagle CEO Bill Artman ket chain’s new partnership with Cuban’s to announce the partnership. prescription drug discount program at a SEE DRUG PAGE A2 Robinson Township press conference.
A Pittsburgh restaurant is preparing to open a new location in Peters Township. Representatives of Coughlin’s Law Kitchen & Ale House will appear for a public hearing on a liquor license transfer at council’s Aug. 25 meeting. Coughlin’s Law, a gastropub serving American food such as burgers and ribs, has two existing locations at Mount Washington in Pittsburgh and Ohio Township, Allegheny County. The new location would be at 615 E. McMurray Road, which is currently a vacant doctors office directly across the street from the Peters Township municipal building.
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The building at 615 E. McMurray in Peters Township may be torn down for the construction of Coughlin’s Law Kitchen & Ale House.
Co-owner Brian Vetere tors, such as approval for noted the plans are not set the liquor license transfer in stone, as they have not and financing. purchased the property while waiting for other facSEE LAW PAGE A2
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