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Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: Cheers to the area's three most-followed NCAA Division-I football programs. Penn State and Pitt both have started the season 5-0, and West Virginia is 3-2 with its only losses coming to the Nittany Lions and Panthers. This past Saturday, Penn State fought off UCLA, 27-11, at Beaver ...

When you see Ku Klux Klan literature from a century ago, with its exhortations that “the purity of the white blood must be maintained” and that “we must keep this a white manĢƵ country,” itĢƵ easy to feel a certain sense of moral superiority. We have, without question, traveled ...

Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: Cheers to Southmoreland quarterback Anthony Smith for throwing four touchdown passes in the Scotties' 31-14 Interstate Conference football victory over visiting Derry last Friday night. Smith, only a freshman, connected with Elliot Premus on TD tosses of 10 and 30 yards and also threw ...

History teachers simply want to teach history

Just about every adult in America who attended a public school has passed through a history class, and maybe they had an aptitude for the subject, had a teacher who inspired them to dig deeper, or were turned off completely by a clock-punching instructor who offered little more than a dry ...

Cheers and Jeers

Cheers: Cheers to Belle Vernon junior Jack Edwards for claiming victory at the Fayette County Coaches Association Golf Invitational on Sept. 20 at Duck Hollow Golf Club. Edwards shot a 1-under par 69 to finish one stroke ahead of Geibel CatholicĢƵ Mike Miller and FrazierĢƵ Dylan Keilbach, ...

More than two centuries ago, many Pennsylvanians feared their colony was in danger of being overrun by foreign hordes. In this case, Germans. Benjamin Franklin was at the front of this parade, proclaiming that German people were “boors” and asking, “Why should Pennsylvania, founded ...