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Letters to the Editor

Let college use parking garage

Another election: same old, same old

Being here not great 'privilege'

Salary-cap absence isn't the problem

Why language choice?

Use vouchers to get guns off streets

Sewer payments vanish into thin air

Rethink 'no cash, no lunch'

Bridgework slows

Health insurance is unaffordable

Respect gets boot

Avella had public water for a century

Suddenly, S. Strabane requires public input
It's been eight years since the South Strabane Township road department's garage was damaged by mine subsidence, and now supervisors have decided to hold a public hearing to gather input on where the new garage should be built. When the garage on Zediker Station Road was undermined by Consol Energy, the mining company reimbursed the township $250,000. That money was set aside to build a new garage. Consol also donated 71 acres to the township for a new park. Supervisors had discussed including the new maintenance garage there.
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Yanks (yawn) win again
The New York Yankees are baseball's world champions again - for the 27th time - after defeating the Philadelphia Phillies Wednesday night. After dominating professional baseball for so long, and ensuring they will do so long into the future with their excessive payroll, you would think that this Goliath would have few fans. Yet even in a country where rooting for the underdog - David, if you will - is such a tradition, the Yankees are, incredibly, loved by some.
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Different name, familiar activity
It was just a matter of time before trouble cropped up again at the former Cabaret West tavern on Chestnut Street in Washington, and that time was last weekend. The bar had been targeted for permanent shutdown earlier this year by Washington County District Attorney Steve Toprani after two people were shot to death there, but county Judge Paul Pozonsky instead allowed it to reopen with some restrictions, particularly on hours and days of operation. The owner of the business talked of transforming it into an Italian restaurant.
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