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NWS confirms tornado hit Fayette

Monday's thunderstorms were accompanied by at least one tornado in Fayette County. Survey teams from the National Weather Service's Pittsburgh office confirmed an EF-1 tornado with maximum wind gusts of 90 mph occurred Monday south of Vanderbilt, the NWS announced Tuesday afternoon. Most of ...

The quiet life

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is one in a monthlong series of profiles of the people who live and work in Washington, Greene and Fayette counties, in celebration of the nation's 250th anniversary. ItĢƵ not like Josh Haynes hadn’t known about Perryopolis. He’d been driving past it most of his ...

Tamburitzans perform for Croatian national soccer team

Members of the St. George Jr. Tamburitzans of Croatian Fraternal Lodge 354 in Cokeburg are “thrilled” after performing for the Croatian national soccer team during a recent visit to Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia, in preparation for their 2026 FIFA World Cup campaign. Just ...

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Waynesburg University soccer teams headed for Brazil

WAYNESBURG – The Waynesburg University menĢƵ and womenĢƵ soccer teams will be playing in Brazil later this summer. Once every four years, the teams have been taking a week-long trip to other countries to play internationally through Missionary Athletes International, which is a ...

Family affair

When Shelley Bortz was inducted into the Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame in 2021 she became part of the first father-daughter duo to be enshrined into that organization. The 1992 Geibel Catholic graduate joined her father George Bortz, who was part of the Class of 2016. The two will ...

Local Calendar

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24 PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL Seattle at Pittsburgh, 6:40 p.m. DISTRICT BASEBALL FAYETTE COUNTY LEAGUE Carmichaels at Charleroi, 6 p.m. FAYETTE AMERICAN LEGION Uniontown at Brownsville, 6 p.m. Smithfield-Fairchance at Carmichaels, 6 p.m. Charleroi at Thomas ...

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OP-ED: Changing the direction of U.S. labor

Memorial Day, a day set aside to honor fallen veterans, is a red letter day for American labor - literally. On Memorial Day 1937, union blood was spilled in Chicago, when 10 were killed and nearly a hundred protesters were injured during a steelworkers' strike rally. It was a tragic, ...

Outdoors

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Anglers’ opinions differ on forward-facing sonar

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Ah, the serenity of fishing. Just an angler, a fishing pole and maybe thousands of dollars worth of sonar equipment offering an exact image of what that walleye or bass is doing in the watery depths below. It's called forward-facing sonar, and the hot-selling ...

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