Albert Gallatin to consider combining middle, high schools
Laurel Highlands School District residents will pay more in property tax next year. In a 5-4 vote, the district’s board of education approved a 0.5-mill increase at Monday’s meeting. Board President Marcus DiNunno said the rise to 21.6744 mills was proposed to stave off the need for ...
Multiple consecutive days with temperatures in the mid- to upper 90s and "feels like" temperatures around 100 degrees are forecast for Southwestern Pennsylvania this week, as residents prepare to celebrate America’s 250th birthday on July 4. According to the National Weather Service in ...
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. Whenever Jean Turcheck would travel — for work meetings in the United States, or her 17 trips for fun to ...
Belle Vernon has been at the top of the Fayette American Legion baseball standings all season with Uniontown and Thomas Jefferson battling for second and third place. There is another team that's been lurking as a fourth top threat to be one of the two teams out of Fayette's division that will ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cristopher Sánchez returned to form after a couple of shaky outings, allowing only three hits in seven innings as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 8-0 on Tuesday night. Sánchez (10-3) struck out nine and walked only two in becoming the first ...
Anthony Koziel hit a three-run homer and Sam Wade smacked a solo shot as Charleroi rolled to a five-ininng 13-3 victory over visiting Carmichaels in Fayette American Legion baseball action on Tuesday. Brock Henderson was 3 for 4 with a double and three RBIs and Jaxson Klinger tripled, singled ...
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, ...
(To request to have an item added to the Outdoors Calendar or to send a digital image of your harvested bear, deer or turkey photo for possible publication please email hssports@heraldstandard.com.) HUNTER-TRAPPER INDEPENDENT STUDY COURSE NOTE: Must be 11 years old to register. Students must ...
