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NWS confirms tornado hit Fayette

Monday's thunderstorms were accompanied by at least one tornado in Fayette County. Survey teams from the National Weather Service's Pittsburgh office confirmed an EF-1 tornado with maximum wind gusts of 90 mph occurred Monday south of Vanderbilt, the NWS announced Tuesday afternoon. Most of ...

Feasibility study to explore future of Penn State Fayette campus

Fayette County leaders and community partners have announced the launch of a comprehensive feasibility study to evaluate future opportunities for the Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus property and explore how the site can continue serving residents through education, workforce development, ...

German company opens new facility in Mon Valley

A division of a German manufacturing company is moving its domestic corporate headquarters to Fallowfield Township just west of Charleroi in the Monongahela Valley. Spaleck USA LLC, an American subsidiary of Spaleck GmbH & Co. KG debuted its new 15,000-square-foot facility in Alta Vista ...

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Waynesburg University soccer teams headed for Brazil

WAYNESBURG – The Waynesburg University men’s and women’s soccer teams will be playing in Brazil later this summer. Once every four years, the teams have been taking a week-long trip to other countries to play internationally through Missionary Athletes International, which is a ...

Family affair

When Shelley Bortz was inducted into the Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame in 2021 she became part of the first father-daughter duo to be enshrined into that organization. The 1992 Geibel Catholic graduate joined her father George Bortz, who was part of the Class of 2016. The two will ...

Local Calendar

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24 PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL Seattle at Pittsburgh, 6:40 p.m. DISTRICT BASEBALL FAYETTE COUNTY LEAGUE Carmichaels at Charleroi, 6 p.m. FAYETTE AMERICAN LEGION Uniontown at Brownsville, 6 p.m. Smithfield-Fairchance at Carmichaels, 6 p.m. Charleroi at Thomas ...

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OP-ED: Changing the direction of U.S. labor

Memorial Day, a day set aside to honor fallen veterans, is a red letter day for American labor - literally. On Memorial Day 1937, union blood was spilled in Chicago, when 10 were killed and nearly a hundred protesters were injured during a steelworkers' strike rally. It was a tragic, ...

Outdoors

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Anglers’ opinions differ on forward-facing sonar

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Ah, the serenity of fishing. Just an angler, a fishing pole and maybe thousands of dollars worth of sonar equipment offering an exact image of what that walleye or bass is doing in the watery depths below. It's called forward-facing sonar, and the hot-selling ...

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