The pen is mightier than the storm
South Strabane Township’s planning commission again tabled a vote on an ordinance regulating data centers. The seven-person commission, which only votes on whether or not to make recommendations to the board of supervisors, will meet again March 19. Solicitor Dennis Makel indicated at their Thursday meeting that the commission members should finally take the vote then. “I think we need to move on this this month,” Makel said. According to Makel, the most recent version of the ordinance has some spelling errors. Planning commission members also wish to be able to more thoroughly review the document and consider community feedback. Supervisors had initially planned to hold a ...
Nearly 50 years after it was discovered that an estimated 4,500 barrels filled with toxic waste were dumped and buried on a 650-acre strip mine in northwestern Washington County, federal environmental regulators are beginning to clean up the messy legacy left behind. The U.S. Environmental ...
The estate of the Uniontown woman murdered by her husband in December 2023 is suing him for wrongful death in the hopes of getting a chunk of the more than $135,000 in cash he had in his possession when he fled to Las Vegas after shooting her in the head. Attorneys for the estate of Franyerlys ...
Redbank Valley 1,000-point scorer Braylon Wagner fittingly sank his team’s first basket in their PIAA Class 2A first-round boys basketball playoff game against Jefferson-Morgan on Saturday. The trouble was, by time the host Bulldogs got on the scoreboard, the Rockets had already rang up ...
CONNELLSVILLE TWP. — Geibel Catholic was able to hold up despite the loss of star center Mallory Clemmer for five quarters. After battling Serra Catholic down to the wire in a one-point loss in the WPIAL Class A championship game eight days ago, the Lady Gators fought hard to hang with St. ...
A coach taking a team with a senior-less starting lineup on a long road trip for its first PIAA playoff game would likely expect to see plenty of nerves from his players. Belle Vernon’s girls basketball team showed little if any jitters, though, in disposing of host Clearfield, 58-46, in ...
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 ...
ILULISSAT, Greenland (AP) — Fisherman Helgi Áargil no longer knows what to expect on Greenland's fjords, where he spends up to five days at a time on his boat with his dog, Molly, and the ever-changing northern lights in the sky as company. Last year, his boat got stuck in ice that broke ...
