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Even if you are at an age where you’ve already attended a couple of class reunions, itÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ still possible to feel a twinge of melancholy when you see back-to-school sales in stores, or when you see the blinking lights of a yellow school bus on a street early on a warm August morning.Who can ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> The 2022 Pennsylvania Bituminous Coal Show has returned after a two-year break necessitated by the pandemic. The show marks the 67th held by the King Coal Association in Carmichaels. Also returning was the popular coal queen pageant, won by ...

Money makes elections go around.ThatÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ nothing new. Political fundraisers are the only things more common in a campaign than stump speeches and kissing babies.Like it or not, they make the rest of a campaign possible. They provide the capital to pay for ads on television and online, the ...

ItÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ back-to-school time, and that means itÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ the season for news reports on how much teachers spend out of their own pockets on supplies for their classrooms.Inevitably, these stories shed light on the level of dedication teachers have, even when many of them are not adequately paid, and ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> A former Waynesburg woman is hoping to make a big impact on children in West Africa. Kathleen Nichols, who now lives in Ashburn, Va., is raising money to build a school in Niger. The three-classroom elementary school will benefit children ...

Thanks to the vaccine painstakingly developed by Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh, the majority of the 8 billion people alive on Earth today have never known a time when the possibly of contracting polio was a daily worry.Before the vaccine was first made available in 1954, it was not ...