It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, in every store you go. Prelit and flocked trees, ornaments, 20-foot-tall inflatable snowmen and jingling bells made an appearance in both brick-and-mortar and online retail stores well before Halloween. To quote The Grinch, "Hate, hate, hate. ...
Cheers: Jayden Mickens of Connellsville saved his best performance of the football season for the Falcons' rivalry game against Uniontown for the “Old Coal Bucket” trophy that is given annually to the winner of the local showdown. Mickens rushed for 200 yards with touchdown runs of 1, 45 ...
For 12 years, during the week, I worked out of an apartment in Pittsburgh. When COVID hit, I moved back home full time. The problem is I did not move back alone. Somewhere between the packing and the movers, a few stowaways hitched a ride. When I opened my closet this summer, two tiny, beige, ...
Christopher Beers and his cohorts from Grandpa’s Joe’s were out and about before the quack of dawn a few weeks back to pull off a caper unlike any other in Canonsburg. Angling to ruffle a few feathers, the candy shop owner and his team, under the cover of darkness, secretly planted 2,000 ...
Cheers: We’d like to take this opportunity to give a shout-out to Dr. Mary Jo Podgurski, whose unflagging commitment to the youth in our region serves as an inspiration to all. Many know Mary Jo for her “Ask Mary Jo” column that appears weekly in this newspaper. She wears plenty of ...
Trust in American institutions has been dissipating for over a half a century. Long before we had the COVID-19 arguments over masks, we already had Watergate, Vietnam, and Iran-Contra. Each of those made us wonder if the folks in charge knew what they were doing or were lying to our faces. For ...
