Washington Area Senior Center offers socialization, activities for older adults
A nonprofit that helps spay and neuter animals is holding a donation drive to provide food and toys for Washington Area Humane Society. Kids Excel with Pets is collecting money through December for its annual community outreach program. Rebecca Simpson, the group’s president, started Kids ...
Editor's note: This article is a part of Helping the Helpers, our annual series to raise awareness for nonprofits throughout the area. When she worked as a recruiter for a large company in Uniontown, the Rev. Marlella “Marrie” Thomas found that the young women she interviewed were ...
A woman playing a gambling machine at the Washington Food Mart on the city’s West End suffered multiple gunshot wounds Sunday night after she pulled out a concealed handgun to defend herself when three teenage assailants tried to rob the convenience store. Three males ranging in ages from ...
Name: Emma Larkin School: Geibel Catholic Class: Senior Sport: Basketball Larkin’s week: The Lady Gators’ point guard opened her season last Friday with a 30-point effort in helping her team to a 71-16 victory before putting in 27 against Beth-Center in a 72-24 triumph the next day in ...
An 8-0 run to end the first quarter and a 7-0 scoring spurt to close the second frame set the tone in Chartiers Valley’s 74-36 victory over Laurel Highlands in non-section boys basketball play on Tuesday at Harold “Horse” Taylor Memorial Gymnasium. The Mustangs (1-1) took an 11-10 lead ...
Emma Larkin never imagined she would be in this position. The Geibel Catholic senior is on the verge of surpassing Shelley Bortz as the Lady Gators girls basketball all-time scoring leader as well as the 2,000-point mark. Larkin entered the season with 1,909 points, just 68 short of Bortz' ...
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 ...
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 ...
