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PennDOT to host open house on Route 21 improvements

Drivers heading from Waynesburg to Uniontown on Route 21 could see improvements to the roadway in the coming years. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is still in the early stages of the improvement plan designed to help provide a roadmap for future construction projects on the ...

Car crashes into BFS Foods in Uniontown

A car crashed into the front of BFS Foods store on Morgantown Street in Uniontown around 3 p.m. Friday. Two of the vehicle's occupants did not appear to have serious injuries but were taken to a local hospital as a precaution, according to Scott Conn, chief of Uniontown Fire ...

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Resilient Vikings

Jason Fazekas focused on the task at hand and nothing else last week going into Friday night’s battle against nearby rival Southmoreland. The veteran Mount Pleasant coach realized the only way his team had a chance of getting into the playoffs out of the Class 3A Interstate Conference was ...

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The culture McCarthy wants to create may be taking shape for 6-2 Steelers

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The safe play would have been to kick the field goal. Maybe the smart play, too. Only Aaron Rodgers didn't see it that way. Perhaps most importantly to the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback, neither did the guys in the huddle with him. So rather than try a chip shot with 5 ...

Local Calendar

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 4 DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS VOLLEYBALL WPIAL CLASS 3A CHAMPIONSHIPS SEMIFINALS Waynesburg Central vs. Avonworth, at North Allegheny High School, Wexford, 6 p.m.

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OP-ED: Listening to silence for personal development

People talking without speaking. People hearing without listening. And no one dared … Disturb the sound of silence. – “The Sound of Silence,” Paul Simon Sometimes an idea for an essay comes from unusual places and at unexpected times. Such was the case this week. After hearing a ...

Outdoors

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Dutch on deer

Everyone can cite times when conditions wrecked their outdoor plans. Thunderstorms have cut short countless hikes, and fishing for trout in muddy flood water is a low-percentage game. The big snowstorm of late-November 1974 kept thousands of area hunters from getting to the woods on opening ...

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