James “Junior” Mays forged an outstanding athletic career at Uniontown, but looking back he wishes he had done things differently off the court and off the football field. Mays got an early start in athletics and benefited from Uniontown's great playground culture. “I was playing ...
In 1996, Linda Ellis wrote “The Dash,” a poem that looks at a person’s life, with the year they were born, what year they passed away, and the dash in between which represents the kind of life they lived. For longtime educator and football coach Jim Dumm, who passed away last Sunday, ...
The late Crystal Fields Gallagher was a tremendous athlete and mother who died unexpectedly in 2011, but her legacy and spirit live on through her three children. Fields Gallagher was a standout forward/guard at Albert Gallatin, then known as Tri Valley High School, in the late 1980s and ...
A group of area high school football coaches have weighed in on the outcome of Super Bowl LVIII and the majority has the San Francisco 49ers defeating the Kansas City Chiefs Sunday in Las Vegas. San Fran is a 2-point favorite and nine of 13 coaches who submitted predictions went with the 49ers ...
Before I get to my thoughts on Super Bowl LVIII, here’s what the next generations of Downey prognosticators think. Great-nephew Collin Downey, a middle-school student in the Hempfield Area School District, simply stated, “Kansas City Chiefs, 31-17.” Nephew Brian Lohr hit the prediction ...
The McLee family is a storied name in Fayette County athletics. Darrin McLee is another member of the clan who made his mark on the hardwood for the Uniontown Red Raiders. “I started playing sports at an early age,” McLee reported. “I went to Lafayette Junior High School and I'm from ...
