The devastating snowstorm that enveloped southwestern Pennsylvania over the Thanksgiving holiday in 1950 was broad, long-lasting, intense in volume and crippling in its impact.It impacted not only the entire state of Pennsylvania, but spread from Ohio to the East Coast, stretching from South ...
My incident occurred over Thanksgiving weekend, 1950, in Uniontown. I was a 12-year-old, sixth-grade boy delivering the Morning Herald, a predecessor to the ĢƵ to 127 customers. A snowstorm started on that Thanksgiving evening, and when it finished on Saturday afternoon, 36 inches ...
Stephen R. Adams grew up in Uniontown, the third-youngest of nine children, which included only one sister. He graduated from South Union High School in 1956 and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland with a degree in architecture. He was employed at several architecture firms in ...
WASHINGTON, Pa. — A Uniontown man is being held at the Washington County Correctional Facility in lieu of $500,000 bond on charges of drug delivery resulting in death.Myron Moore, 31, of 902 Woodview Terrace, was arrested Wednesday in connection with the overdose death of Justin Halyak, 35, ...
President Obama is taking a break from the Trump transition to pardon two turkeys.Every one of us can exercise that presidential pardon power on Thanksgiving by giving thanks for health and happiness while skipping gratuitous violence.The 235 million turkeys killed in the U.S. this year have ...
Longtime Uniontown football coach John Fortugna officially stepped down Monday afternoon as head coach after 22 years during an assembly that was held in the high school auditorium.“This is probably one of the hardest things I have done in my life,” Fortugna said. “I want to thank Dr. ...