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The quiet life

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is one in a monthlong series of profiles of the people who live and work in Washington, Greene and Fayette counties, in celebration of the nation's 250th anniversary. It’s not like Josh Haynes hadn’t known about Perryopolis. He’d been driving past it most of his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Pirates’ Griffin starts rehab at Double-A Altoona

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Pirates rookie shortstop Konnor Griffin was scheduled to begin a rehab assignment on Wednesday night with Double-A Altoona, the club said. Griffin has been sidelined since May 31 with a right forearm strain. He made his major league debut with the Pirates on ...

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NA grad Young’s homer lifts Mariners over Pirates

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Cole Young hit a two-run home run in the seventh inning in his first major league game in his hometown to lift the Seattle Mariners to a 3-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night. The 22-year-old second baseman’s drive into the right-field bleachers kept ...

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 ...

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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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