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Bradford House symposium to honor former board member

An upcoming symposium hosted by Washington’s Bradford House Historical Association (BHHA) will honor a longtime board member and educator. “Symposium on 18th Century Living and Customs,” which will be in the Old Main Chapel at Washington & Jefferson College Friday, April 17, will have educational programming and tip the hat to Kathryn Teagarden. A member of the historical association’s board of directors from 2015 until shortly before her death in February 2023 at age 74, Teagarden taught in the Avella and Bethlehem-Center school districts and was the inaugural chair of the BHHA’s education committee. “The ‘Symposium on 18th Century Living and Customs’ is a fitting ...

$1.7 billion power project would cross Greene, Fayette counties

A proposed pathway of high-voltage electric lines would run through Greene, Fayette, and eight other counties in the state. The project would create a succession of 765-kilovolt lines running 220 miles from the Kammer substation in Marshall County, W.Va., to the Juniata substation in Perry ...

UPMC Washington Physicians Group earns award

UPMC Washington Physicians Group has been recognized among the nation’s top performers in patient experience, earning the 2025 Human Experience Guardian of Excellence Award from Press Ganey. The award honors organizations that rank in the top 5% nationally for patient experiences over a ...

America's story told through cookies

To borrow from Paul Revere, “The cookies are coming!” On Sunday, April 19, the Wedding Cookie Table Community will host its 11th annual Cookie Table University at the Hilton Garden Inn at Southpointe. And in honor of the United States’ 250th birthday, the theme is America 250. More ...

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Spring excursions

West Greene’s softball team kept what’s been an annual tradition going this spring. The Lady Pioneers, under head coach Bill Simms, trekked to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina to take part in The Ripken Experience to begin their season. It’s a trip that’s easier said than done but ...

Local calendar

Thursday, April 2 High school Baseball Brownsville at Laurel Highlands, 4 p.m. Connellsville at Franklin Regional, 4 p.m. Steel Valley at Albert Gallatin, at German-Masontown Park, 4 p.m. Apollo-Ridge at Beth-Center, 4:30 p.m. Carmichaels at Bentworth, 4:30 p.m. Softball West ...

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Cruz homers twice in Pirates’ win

CINCINNATI — Oneil Cruz homered twice and Ryan O’Hearn hit a three-run shot as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Cincinnati Reds 8-3 on Tuesday night. O’Hearn and Bryan Reynolds went back-to-back in the second inning. Cruz finished with three hits and three RBIs. He also scored three ...

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Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: We’re in the home stretch of the Herald-Standard’s annual Give-A-Christmas campaign to support the Salvation Army service centers in Fayette County. It’s not too late to contribute to help us meet our $10,000 goal. All donations remain in the local area to help fund the ...

Outdoors

The Great Appalachian Storm of 1950

Around here it was called “The Big One,” and the front page of the Evening-Standard described the quiet as local movie houses along with bars and restaurants were closing as our area was in the midst of a powerful storm that to this day remains the stuff of legend. The paper reported ...

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