In late May 1930, O’Neil Kennedy made his way from his office at the corner of Pittsburgh and Peter streets to a platform several blocks away, on Church Street, for a ceremony marking the start of construction on a new Bell Telephone building in Uniontown.(The building is still there, across ...
Longtime lawmaker John Murtha was an important foreign policy figure in Washington. The Johnstown congressman, who died 12 years ago at the age of 77, was a force to be reckoned with, even by presidents.A Democrat who at one time or another represented Fayette and portions of Washington County, ...
Yours truly poked his ear into a “telephone town hall” the other evening featuring UniontownĢƵ representative in the Pennsylvania House, Matthew Dowling, a Republican.Dowling, who was in a serious vehicle accident in October 2021, sounded in fine voice. How he felt he didn’t say. Even ...