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CASA celebrates child advocates in Fayette

Throughout Pennsylvania, groups of volunteers are working to make sure foster children’s needs are being met as they go through the court system. Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) for Kids of Washington and Fayette Counties held a celebration in Connellsville Monday in advance of ...

Declaration of Independence read aloud

Ceremonies in Fayette and Greene counties commemorated the 250th anniversary last week of the first public readings of the Declaration of Independence. Reading sites included the steps of the Fayette County Courthouse in Uniontown and Veterans Park in Waynesburg. Community members took on ...

Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall heading to Fayette

Residents will have an opportunity to pay their respects to American service members when the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall returns to the area for the first time since 2024 this week. The wall will be displayed at the Fayette County Fairgrounds in Dunbar from July 15 to 20 alongside a ...

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State of the Legion

The Pennsylvania American Legion Baseball Region 6 tournament will include only four teams this year. That’s the lowest number of participants battling for a spot in the state playoffs in Ron Popovich’s 16 years as the Region 6 director. “Yes, this is the first time we’ve had a ...

Bamford, Obiecunas propel Copperheads past Hopwood

Matt Bamford fired a four-hitter and Dom Obiecunas hit a tie-breaking two-run homer in the seventh inning to propel visiting Carmichaels past Hopwood Village Plaza, 4-1, in a battle of the top two teams in the Fayette County Baseball League on Tuesday. Bamford struck out 10 and walked ...

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Stacks of wax packs, now obsolete, summon joy of baseball-card childhoods

NEW YORK (AP) — The anticipation. The chase. The powdery, sugar-coated board of gum! For generations of baseball card fans, there was nothing like scrounging up some change and sprinting to the store to buy a wax pack. Some tore the slightly tacky paper wrapper open and flipped through ...

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OP-ED: Three strikes and a lifetime of splinters

At about 9 years old, I decided I wanted to build a treehouse. We had a sturdy black walnut tree in our backyard, and I had amassed a pile of old weathered fence slats with enough splinters to disable a battalion of enemy soldiers. I had a handful of nails I had painstakingly pulled from ...

Outdoors

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Who says a vegetable garden needs full sun?

Conventional wisdom says vegetable gardens need full sun, but a productive garden doesn’t always require the recommended six to eight hours of direct sunlight. If fences, trees or your house cast shade on your soil, growing vegetables won’t be out of reach if you stick to plants that are ...

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