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LETTER: Penn State Fayette closing will devastate community

It is with great sadness to read in the May 14 edition of this newspaper about Penn State's plan to likely close our local Fayette Campus as well as six other campuses throughout the state. This plan will devastate each of these communities, but I can only comment on Fayette Campus, which I ...

EDITORIAL: Finding your path

As high schools across the area prepare for commencement, graduates are realizing a new chapter of their lives is about to begin. They will not be alone. As seniors walk across the stage, they’ll be cheered on by loved ones in the audience who have been supporting them along the way. They, ...

Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: Cheers to Uniontown graduate Greg Gabriel who has been just as successful as a teacher as he was as a basketball player for the Red Raiders. Gabriel scored 1,156 points in a career that wrapped up with Uniontown winning WPIAL and PIAA championships his senior season in 1981. Gabriel, a ...

LETTER: Stop the madness

Our ICE agents are fast becoming the terrorists they are supposed to be arresting. Now they are going after U.S. citizens within our borders, not only immigrants. They arrive en masse wearing bullet-proof vests and masks, carrying guns and arrest the mayor of a large New Jersey city and try ...

LETTER: Bigotry alive and well

Bigotry has been more firmly established as a bedrock principle of the Trump/Hegseth administration with the ousting of 1,000 transgender members of the military. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took a victory lap for purging the "wokeness and weakness" in kicking out those who have honorably ...

LETTER: Foundation of lies

The foundation of the Trump/Republican Party is “The Big Lie” that Trump won the 2020 election. In more than 60 court cases, where actual evidence is required rather than campaign blather, the Republicans lost because Trump was lying. The hearings concerning Jan. 6 detailed the ...