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The food booths were still being set up and the midway was empty aside from the occasional staff cart Thursday morning, but Haddie Rechenberg had already achieved a personal first at the Fayette County Fair. Rechenberg, 8, of Connellsville competed for the first time with her horse, Justice, ...
Work is about to begin to rehabilitate two pre-Civil War arch tunnels on the National Pike Trail near Claysville, along with eventual upgrades to make the nearly two-mile path easier to navigate. The Washington County commissioners last week approved a $547,489 contract with Frank Gavlik & ...
The auctioneers will be doing the bidding. The Central Greene School District Board of Education voted Monday night to put out a request for proposals for an auctioneer to sell the former Margaret Bell Miller Middle School building. With the 97-year-old building showing its age and overall ...
CARMICHAELS – Potomac Valley hadn’t been shut out all year in rolling to a 16-2 regular season record and a pair of playoff wins. Carmichaels’ starting pitching has had the Mudcats number in the first two games of the Fayette County Baseball League finals, however. Matt Bamford ...
Dom Colarusso and Alex VanSickle played key roles in three of the four innings Carmichaels scored on Wednesday. Only the first was actually needed with Gavin Pratt on the mound. Pratt fired a two-hit shutout as the Copperheads rolled to an 8-0 victory over host Potomac Valley in Game 1 ...
The Fayette County Baseball League has had a wide range of teams from many different places during its existence. Some legendary franchises have come and gone but as the FCBL nears the end of its 50th season there are two stalwarts that remain in the league. Those two teams, Mill Run and ...
On a summer evening in Milwaukee, with his team mired near the bottom of the National League, Pirates' manager Bobby Bragan emerged from the dugout mid-game. Bragan headed toward the umpires. Strangely enough, he was sipping from a small drinking carton. Moments earlier, the brash Bucco ...
Hunting and furtaker licenses for Pennsylvania’s 2025-26 seasons go on sale Monday, June 23, but there will be plenty of time for hunters to get them without waiting. As in recent years, antlerless deer licenses will be available when general license sales open. But this year, all ...