CALIFORNIA — The showdown that was expected Thursday night in J. Budd Grebb Memorial Basketball League action was anything but as Union Cleaners downed Northwood Realty, 72-55.Union Cleaners (4-2) jumped out early and after holding a 34-19 lead at the half over the defending champions, it ...
<strong>Local editorials from 50 years ago are being reprinted every Monday and Tuesday in this column. This editorial appeared in the Valley Independent on July 12, 1967.</strong>The adoption of local air pollution control measures in the mid-Mon Valley has become a ...
Smithfield-Fairchance bounced back from an earlier setback in a big way with a 11-1 victory over Belle Vernon on Sunday evening at Smithfield Ball Field in a Fayette American Legion tournament consolation game.The game was called after the top of the fifth due to the 10-run Mercy ...
Greg “Twister” Crawford, who played three sports for Donora High School, is proud of his townĢƵ sports heritage but says that Monessen is also highly deserving of praise for the amount of great players they have turned out.He noted that at one time there were four players all at Monessen ...
Etty Hillesum kept a diary during the period from March 1941 to November 1943 while living in Amsterdam. Etty was a young Jewish woman living in Holland during the German occupation.After a short time in Westerbork, a transit camp for Jews, she was transported to Auschwitz and it was there on ...
The 2017 season was a remarkably successful one for area softball teams, producing two PIAA champions, three WPIAL champions and six section champions.West Greene swept all three of those categories in reigning supreme in Class A, while Mount Pleasant tied for the Section 1-AAAA title and, ...