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Greene County hires Westmoreland elections worker to assist with local office

Greene County officials have hired a temporary employee with nearly a decade of experience helping run elections in Westmoreland County to bolster their own local office ahead of the Nov. 4 general election. The commissioners during their voting meeting last Thursday approved a contract with ...

Washington County district attorney clears McDonald chief in shooting

Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh announced Wednesday that he has determined the chief of McDonald’s police department was justified in shooting a man earlier this month. Walsh wrote in a press release that Chief Timothy Motte “was left with no choice than to discharge his ...

Small pest: Big problems

Before June 2024, Sandy Mansmann said she could multitask with ease and remember everything. Then she was bitten by a blacklegged tick. Now, the 84-year-old Nottingham Township woman said she lives with fatigue, achy joints and brain fog. Mansmann is one of thousands of Pennsylvanians who ...

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Rise of the Commodores

Tony Battaglini realized what he was up against when he stepped in as a first-year head football coach at his alma mater Frazier for the 2025 season. The Commodores record the past four years had been 0-9, 1-9, 1-9 and 2-8. “We all kind of knew it was going to be a learning curve for ...

AG shoots for undefeated season; California, J-M play for TCS title

Albert Gallatin had never had a winning football season since it was formed with the consolidation of AG, German and Fairchance-Georges in 1987. The hiring of head coach Drew Dindl in 2018 along with the move to become an independent the next year after an 0-10 record in the WPIAL Class 5A ...

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Hooray for Hershey

WHITE OAK — Running in what has become his traditional Kit Kat socks at the WPIAL cross country championship meet, Uniontown senior Ethan Syner earned an eighth-place finish in the Class 2A boys race on Thursday at White Oak Park. Syner crossed the finish line in 16:10 to clinch a ...

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OP-ED: A fact-based look at America’s violence problem

Every time a high-profile shooting makes headlines, America relives the same cycle: shock, outrage, and the inevitable chorus of demands to ban “assault weapons,” defund the police, blame political opponents, and spend more federal money in cities. But these slogans conceal more than they ...

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Bear aware

Outdoor excitement can arise as a surprise. Last week, I enjoyed an experience I’d wanted to undertake for a long time. I took a course at Touchstone Center for Crafts in the mountains near Farmington. The course was in botanical illustration, a blend of art and science in which ...

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