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Holliday inducted into OSU Baseball Hall of Fame

Uniontown’s Tom Holliday returned to his roots when he was inducted into the Oklahoma State Cowboy Baseball Hall of Fame during the OSU First Pitch Banquet on Saturday.Holliday, who served as an assistant coach and head coach with the program for over 25 years, and outfielder Corey Brown, who ...

Winter’s barren woods conceal dynamic life force

It’s all around us every day and right now it looks as bleak and barren as the recent full moon. For those reasons it’s easy to overlook the amazing truths about deciduous forest, the dominant living feature across this part of the planet—Pennsylvania, the Laurel Highlands and Fayette ...

Science affirms rabbit lore from years gone by

Zoological science and rabbit hunting are not two subjects you would necessarily link. Zoology seems a stodgy discipline confined to laboratories, while rabbit hunting is something rural folk once did for fun and food (People still hunt rabbits, of course, but the number has plummeted, down ...

Dutch oven saves dud of a deer hunt

I’ve never read the novel, but last month’s weather brought to mind John Steinbeck’s “The Winter of Our Discontent.” If you had looked forward to skiing, ice-fishing, snowshoeing or hunting deer and grouse on fresh snow this early winter, you were discontented.But outdoors you can ...

Gabriel ran the show for Uniontown’s ’81 state championship team

Most great basketball teams have an outstanding point guard. Uniontown’s 1981 state championship team was no exception.The man who ran the show for the 1981 Red Raiders was point guard Greg Gabriel.Looking back years later, Gabriel feels the seeds for that Red Raider state championship squad ...

Elves can be devilish

Elves are mystical, diminutive humanlike creatures, who oftentimes have mystical powers.Elves have a prominent, mythical place in Scandinavian cultures, known for their impish, malicious, and playfully naughty activities.Of course, most folks associate elves as the hard-working, happy-go-lucky ...