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Cheers & Jeers Cheers: For the past three years, Bridge to Home Animal Rescue in Eighty Four has rescued dozens of dogs on New YearĢƵ Eve. This year, the organization brought 38 dogs to be fostered here from an abandoned shelter in Kentucky. A team of volunteers left Washington at ...

Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: Most of the Salvation Army red kettles that people toss money into during the holiday season are filled with everyday coins or maybe $1 or $5 bills. But on Christmas Eve, someone dropped a rare gold coin worth $2,700 into the red kettle at the Giant Eagle store outside Washington. It ...

EDITORIAL: A trailblazer brought back into the spotlight

The fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York on March 25, 1911, still stands as one of the most devastating workplace tragedies in United States history. When the blaze broke out on the eighth floor of the factory late in the afternoon on that Saturday, scores of workers – ...

Cheers & Jeers

JEERS: In the same way that it doesn’t hurt to look before you leap or check the depth of the water before you jump in a lake, it also doesn’t hurt to check the provenance of information or images you post to social media. ThatĢƵ a lesson that state Sen. Doug Mastriano learned the hard ...