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UPMC Washington receives national recognition for stroke care

By By Karen Mansfield

UPMC Washington has received the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus quality achievement award for providing evidence-based stroke care for the 17th consecutive year. Stroke is the fourth-leading cause of death in the U.S., claiming over 160,000 lives annually, and it remains a leading cause of long-term adult disability, with approximately 795,000 new or recurring strokes occurring each year, according to the American Heart Association. A stroke occurs when a blood vessel supplying the brain is blocked by a clot or ruptures, preventing blood and oxygen from reaching brain tissue and causing brain cells to die. Early detection and rapid treatment ...

Neighbors raise concern about road's condition in West Pike Run

Residents who live along a West Pike Run Township road are raising alarms over a deteriorating road that they say becomes impassable during rainstorms, and poses significant safety risks. Elm Road, which is about a mile-and-a-half long, is an unpaved, gravel road that is narrow and twisty, ...

Flenniken Library planning remodel, expansion

CARMICHAELS – The Flenniken Library plans to stay put — but in a renovated and expanded facility. After originally planning to construct a new building at Wana B Park, the Carmichaels library has shifted focus to a $6.6 million project to remodel the existing library, as well as ...

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Landmark win

Madison Wiltrout has had many high points in her javelin career. One of the most memorable was her heave of 185 feet, 8 inches on May 7, 2015, at Norwin, as a sophomore at Connellsville, which still stands as the girls national high school record. Wiltrout went on to become a four-time ...

Hopwood rallies past Charleroi to reach FCBL finals

Hopwood Village Plaza found itself in a familiar position Thursday in Game 2 of their Fayette County Baseball League first-round playoff game at Charleroi. The Magicians pushed across three runs in the first inning, but Hopwood rallied to tie it and pulled out a 5-4 win in eight innings to ...

Copperheads explode late, sweep Mill Run

Carmichaels' 4-1 lead seemed fairly safe as it headed into the seventh inning of its Fayette County Baseball League playoff game on Thursday at Mill Run. The Copperheads made completely sure they wound complete a sweep of their best-of-three first-round playoff series in their final ...

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OP-ED: Three strikes and a lifetime of splinters

At about 9 years old, I decided I wanted to build a treehouse. We had a sturdy black walnut tree in our backyard, and I had amassed a pile of old weathered fence slats with enough splinters to disable a battalion of enemy soldiers. I had a handful of nails I had painstakingly pulled from ...

Outdoors

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Spotty offspring

Yes, crop damage from overabundant deer is a big problem for agriculture in this region. And everyone agrees that deer on the highway are a hazard to motorists’ safety (not enough of a concern, though, to curb speed). Less obvious but serious for the future is the damage too many deer ...

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