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Get ready for fun: Washington County Agricultural Fair begins

The first full day of the 227th Washington County Agricultural Fair was a sun-soaked Saturday, where everybody seemed to feel the same: They were having fun. “ItĢƵ always a good time,” said Heather Condeluci of Kennedy Township, who was at the fair with her husband Dante and sons Connor, ...

Apartment building, six homes damaged in Washington County fire

At least seven adults and 11 children are without a place to live after a fire Saturday afternoon in California totally destroyed an apartment building and three houses, and damaged others. Despite the number of buildings that were involved, California Volunteer Fire Department Chief Tom ...

‘The weight of the wait’

PHILIPSBURG – Liseth Carvajal knelt in a pew at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Philipsburg, Clearfield County, on Wednesday morning, fingers laced in prayer. Three miles away, her husband, Jesus Teran, sat in a visiting room at Moshannon Valley Processing Center, the largest ...

The immigrants deserve better

Albert Einstein said a picture is worth a thousand words. The photo of the sign at the Moshannon detention center in Philipsburg in todayĢƵ newspaper screams them. Irony, too. “Help shelter pets find their way home,” the billboard in the background reads. The signs’ ...

This is how a nation’s spirit is broken

By Richard Robbins A nation that lies to itself about itself is in its essentials untrustworthy; divorced from factual reality, it is a nation doomed to self-deceit and self-dealing, such as to render it inoperable. We are on the precipice of becoming such a nation. The significance of ...