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From West Virginia to Arizona, public-school teachers are in revolt. They are demanding better pay, and they deserve it — so long as their salaries are tied to their performance.ItĢƵ not that U.S. teachers are underpaid; the median income for the countryĢƵ 1 million high-school teachers, ...

Greene County Cheers and Jeers

<strong>Cheers</strong> to the Waynesburg SportsmenĢƵ Association, which will offer the annual Youth Fishing Day at the associationĢƵ pond on April 14, the opening day of trout fishing season. The event is open free of charge to youngsters up to age 15. They ...

Fighting for better internet

A proposal from Gov. Tom Wolf on March 19 will make $35 million available in the hopes that telecommunications companies will extend high-speed internet service through the rural areas of the state that lack it.In a county like Greene, where adequate service is lacking, it could level the ...

Learn where your opinions lie

On Wednesday, March 14, one month after 17 students were killed in a school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, many of their peers across the country participated in a National School Walkout.Surely for some students it was a way to get a brief respite from schoolwork, ...

An open letter to students

Dear students,Since the Feb. 14 shooting that killed 17 of your contemporaries, some students have responded in the most disappointing way.While your peers in Florida lobbied lawmakers, trying to make a change, some students have chosen to capitalize on this tragedy by writing fake threats in ...

FBI culture must be addressed

Could the recent mass murder of 17 people, most of them children, at a Florida high school have been prevented?We will never know with certainty.What we do know is that someone in the FBI was tipped off months ago that someone named Nikolas Cruz had threatened to “be a professional school ...