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Taking time to remember

Phillip Adams, who is landscaping supervisor for ground maintenance with Worrell Contracting, drops to one knee to adjust an American flag beside one of the grave markers at the National Cemetery of the Alleghenies in Cecil Township. Adams and his crew were working Friday to help beautify the ...

Whitewater Washington

Re-enactors portraying a young George Washington and his guide float down the Youghiogheny River from the Confluence outflow campgrounds Thursday in a makeshift log raft as they recreated his exploratory voyage that happened 272 years ago. Washington launched the expedition down the Yough on ...

What’s closed for Memorial Day

Federal, state, county and municipal offices will be closed Monday in observance of Memorial Day. There will be no mail delivery and financial markets will be closed. The Observer-Reporter will not publish a print edition.

Main entrance to Washington County Courthouse reopening to public

The majestic front doors of the Washington County Courthouse will swing open once again this week after being closed to the public for nearly seven years. County and courthouse officials plan to hold a special ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday to celebrate the grand reopening of ...

Memorial Day services to honor fallen military

Services will be held on Monday, unless otherwise noted. Bentleyville American Legion Post 165 9 a.m. Somerset Township, 615 Vanceville Road, Eighty Four 9:30 a.m. North Bethlehem / Scenery Hill, 2128 E. National Pike, Scenery Hill 10 a.m. Cokeburg, 41 Washington St., Cokeburg 10:30 a.m. ...

State police investigating electrocution in Fayette

State police said a man who appeared to have been attempting to take electrical wire was electrocuted in Fayette County Friday morning. The Fayette County coroner’s office was called to the scene near Laurel Hill Presbyterian Church on Laurel Hill Road in Dunbar Township shortly after 7 a.m. ...