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Farm grant 1 Courtesy of California Area School District California Area School District implemented a bee program with a Farm to School Grant from the state Department of Agriculture. Maker space 1 Karen Mansfield/Observer-Reporter A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Tuesday for ...

Here’s one memory that will not die

In my long life, I remember this day more or less precisely: Sept. 7, 1958. Exactly 67 years ago, I sat in the stands at Forbes Field on a sun-splashed Sunday afternoon with my dad and brother, an uncle and a cousin, and two companionable acquaintances. We witnessed a baseball doubleheader ...

EDITORIAL: Threats of violence have real impact

Last week, two children were killed when a gunman opened fire during a Mass at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis. Eighteen others were injured. The next day, police at the University of Pittsburgh sent out a campus-wide alert informing students, faculty and staff that there was an ...

Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: Waynesburg Central boys golf team has rolled to a perfect 8-0 record thus far this season and sits alone in first place at 7-0 in the Section 3-2A standings. In the Raiders' latest win, 178-208 over Bentworth at Rohanna's Golf Course, all five of their scorers shot under 40, led by ...

LETTER: Trump threatens democracy

So many are amazed to see our democracy being dismantled piece by piece by Donald Trump and his minions. He is not satisfied with destroying our government in Washington, D.C., he must now destroy it in the states too. He wants to send the National Guard to cities which are Democratic, and ...

LETTER: Glue traps inhumane

On Aug. 15, columnist Beth Dolinar wrote about trying to catch a mouse in her house. Even though she said she didn't like glue traps because they didn't put the mouse out of its misery immediately, she used one anyway. Fortunately she didn't catch it in the glue trap. Glue traps are ...