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Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: Cheers to the Connellsville American Legion baseball team for finishing the regular season undefeated. The team is currently in the Fayette County League playoffs, and played Uniontown for the championship on Wednesday. Regardless of the result in the league playoffs, Connellsville will ...

EDITORIAL: The fight isn’t over

While talk of the opioid crisis has faded to a degree, it should remain front-of-mind locally. The alarming numbers provided by the Pennsylvania Office of Drug Surveillance and Misuse Prevention show a heightened potential for opioid dependence still exists in Fayette, Greene and Washington ...

This coming Friday, families, friends and neighbors across the country will gather together to celebrate the Fourth of July. Over that holiday weekend, Americans will spend an estimated $4 billion on beer and wine, and another $2.7 billion on fireworks, according to the finance site ...

Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: Cheers to Brownsville Area High School for choosing a solid candidate to lead their football program in Uniontown graduate Cody Castor, who was an excellent football player for the Red Raiders and played four years with the Penn State Nittany Lions. Castor helped out at Penn State ...

Neighbors helping neighbors

While last weekendÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ flash flooding and torrential rainfall exacted punishment on homeowners and motorists here, the storms proved deadly for our neighbors to the southwest, in nearby Ohio County, W.Va. And the stories coming out of the Wheeling area in the days after the disaster are ...

Picture this: An eager 18-year-old heads to a car lot in search of his first set of wheels. He sees a moderately priced used car that has low mileage and is in good condition. ItÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ a steal at $10,000. Heading into the dealershipÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ business office, heÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ practically giddy. With nothing to ...