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Serve on a school board? You deserve respect

In good times, serving on a school board is not exactly thankless work, but itÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ hardly glamorous.School board members typically sign off on textbook choices, hire everyone from cafeteria personnel to superintendents, read the fine print in budgets, and consider nuts-and-bolts questions like ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> Five years in the making, Brownsville is restoring a piece of its history with a Coca-Cola mural project in the heart of its downtown area overlooking the Monongahela River. The brainchild of Mayor Ross Swords, the mural at 25 Market Street ...

Impossible to put price on human suffering

Pennsylvania has an opportunity to extract a modicum of justice from drug companies that brought untold death and suffering to vulnerable people in what has been dubbed the opioid epidemic.The Pennsylvania Attorney GeneralÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ office is recommending state officials sign on to a $26 billion ...

For anyone who was alive and sentient on that day, itÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ hard to fathom that 20 years have gone by since Sept. 11, 2001.ThatÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ long enough for fashions and technologies to have passed through multiple evolutions, for five presidential elections to have happened, for children to have been ...

Americans’ strength found in united stand

<em>EditorÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ note: This is a reprint of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ editorial published on Sept. 12, 2001.</em>Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.Years from now American children will open U.S. history books and be forced to memorize this date.In the days, weeks and months to come, ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> BrownsvilleÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Jolena Quarzo and RinggoldÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Ryan Pajak recorded first-place finishes last Saturday in the Cal U/Marty Uher Invitational. Quarzo won the girls AA race in 18:48.9. Pajak crossed the finish line in 16:33.8. Cheers also to ...