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Local culinary students work among the pros at Taste of the Draft

A night before some of the top college football players got picked to advance to the next level, local high school culinary students got the chance to work alongside some of the top local and national names in their fields. At WednesdayĢƵ Taste of the Draft event, kids from the Fayette ...

Chernobyl, 40 years later

Gas masks littered on a floor. Forests overgrowing empty villages. An abandoned hospital operating room. Those are some of the photographs that Brook Ward, president of UPMC Washington and Greene hospitals and a photographer, captured on a 2018 trip to Chernobyl, the site of the world's ...

Local cannabis industry applauds loosening federal regulation

Medical marijuana researchers and business owners across western Pennsylvania will see relief from some federal regulation thanks to a change in federal policy governing the popular plant. The decision to reclassify medical-use cannabis from the strictest Schedule I to a more permissive ...

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Well-deserved honor

Thursday night, Howard “Butch” Brunell was probably looking down at the Waynesburg Central High School track and saying “WhatĢƵ all the to-do about?,” said his wife, Janice Brunell. “He was a very humble person,” she said of her late husband, who died in October. “And he never ...

Area coaches opine on Steelers’ draft

The grades are out from the national media if you're a Steelers fan wondering what the rest of the football world thought of their 2026 draft. If wanted an overall feel for how Pittsburgh did with the actual selections in addition to the outstanding job it did hosting the event, well you ...

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Pirates hope to rebound after being shut down by Harrison

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Pirates were attempting to complete a sweep in Milwaukee for the first time since taking four against the Brewers in August 2016. Kyle Harrison made sure the brooms were put away. Harrison collected a career-high 12 strikeouts and allowed just one hit and one walk in ...

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Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: We’re in the home stretch of the ĢƵĢƵ annual Give-A-Christmas campaign to support the Salvation Army service centers in Fayette County. ItĢƵ not too late to contribute to help us meet our $10,000 goal. All donations remain in the local area to help fund the ...

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Outdoors Calendar

(To request to have an item added to the Outdoors Calendar or to send a digital image of your harvested bear, deer or turkey photo for possible publication please email hssports@heraldstandard.com.) HUNTER-TRAPPER INDEPENDENT STUDY COURSE NOTE: Must be 11 years old to register. Students must ...

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