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Monessen delays start of school year

The Monessen School District will delay the start of its school year until Sept. 8 as a "precautionary measure" after fungal growth was found on water-damaged building materials in several areas of the middle school/high school. In a post on the school district website, Superintendent Dr. Robert Motte said the district will "complete necessary building maintenance and ensure a safe, fully prepared environment for our students and staff." Classes were scheduled to start on Aug. 26. On Aug. 9, Motte informed parents and residents that several issues were found that could impact the start of the 2026-27 school year. Those included "an abornmality" in a wall near the gymnasium ...

The art of improvement

When the "Coke to Spokes" sculpture was unveiled at the intersection of First and Third streets, not much was located in that section of Connellsville, said Daniel Cocks, executive director of the Fayette County Cultural Trust. The metal sculpture near the Great Allegheny Passage showed ...

Fayette man charged with aggravated assault

Charges were filed Thursday against a Uniontown man accused of aggravated assault after an alleged attack on another man that police said left him unconscious for two days. Richard Saluga, Jr., 23, is charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person. John Gamble was not awake, cognitive or able to eat until Aug. 9, two days after he was brought to WVU Medicine Uniontown Hospital, a nurse told police. When initially taken to the hospital on the night of Aug. 7, the man was treated as a stroke patient due to his medical assessment, court documents said. The criminal complaint did not list an address for Gamble. Four days after he was ...

Report: Some Greene, Fayette streams test positive for E. coli

Local streams were among those found to exceed safe levels of E. coli in a new report published by a Pennsylvania environmental group. The report by Philadelphia-based PennEnvironment Research and Policy Center found potentially hazardous amounts of fecal contamination at least once in about ...

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Steelers break camp at Saint Vincent day early

LATROBE, Pa. (AP) — Mike McCarthy arrived at Saint Vincent College for his first training camp as coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers with a detailed plan designed to maximize the club's annual three-week trip to the western Pennsylvania hills. Mother Nature wreaked havoc with it, so much so ...

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Pirates wait out long rain delay before putting away Red Sox

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bryan Reynolds, Brandon Lowe, and Nick Yorke each had two RBIs to lift the Pittsburgh Pirates over the Boston Red Sox 8-3 after a 2 1/2-hour rain delay on Sunday. The tarp came out after the sixth inning at 3:35 p.m. local time, and play resumed at 6:05. The Pirates won ...

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OP-ED: Abraham Lincoln: ‘From these honored dead’

The Civil War brought tremendous suffering. The death of Robert J. Brownfield is illustrative. Cpl. Brownfield of Fayette County was shot in the arm near Spotsylvania Courthouse in Virginia. Forgotten or simply overlooked, he went unattended for a full day. Taken first to Fredericksburg, ...

Outdoors

Summer is flying by

Have you noticed that the sun is setting earlier and rising a few minutes later each morning? We have now lost some 75 minutes of daylight and our average temperatures have slipped a few degrees downward. In fact most of the 90 degree-plus weather may be over. So far this summer we have ...

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