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Water to be shut off in Brave next week

Southwestern Pennsylvania Water Authority will have the water shut off in the Greene County town of Brave between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday for the following areas to upgrade the system: Monday: Chestnut, Walnut, Locust and Freedom streets; Tuesday: All of Brave; Wednesday: Maple, Lantz and Elks alley, and Tom's Run from Maple Alley to State Line Campground; Thursday: Tom's Run, State Line Campground to Maple Alley and Woodland. Customers may experience low pressure or now water and are advised to keep containers of water to minimize the outage.

Local businessman, activist James ‘Cookie’ McDonald dies at 90

James “Cookie” McDonald, a Washington businessman and activist who worked diligently to promote racial equality and expand opportunities for Black residents, died Thursday. He was 90. McDonald died in the Canonsburg home of his daughter, Traci McDonald-Kemp, a judge on the Washington ...

WVU-led RETI Consortium to invest $321M for energy security projects

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The Resilient Energy Technology and Infrastructure (RETI) Consortium – led by WVU in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and more than 60 regional partners – will receive up to $160 million over the next decade from the National ...

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Pirates let doubleheader sweep slip away

CLEVELAND (AP) — Rookie All-Star Travis Bazzana hit a two-run homer to center field in the ninth inning for his first career walk-off hit and the Cleveland Guardians rallied for a 5-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates Saturday night to split in a doubleheader. The Pirates won the first ...

Wild Things rally to beat Boulders

POMONA, N.Y. – Andrew Czech hit a tiebreaking home run in the eighth inning and Max Folkman picked up his first save as a professional as the Wild Things rallied late to beat the East Division-leading New York Boulders 8-6 on Saturday night. Washington overcame a 5-1 deficit. The Wild ...

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Valdez and Gonzalez homer as Pirates roll to win in Game 1

CLEVELAND (AP) — Esmerlyn Valdez and Jacob Gonzalez hit two-run homers, Jared Jones struck out nine in five innings and the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Cleveland Guardians 7-1 on Saturday in the first game of a doubleheader. Nick Gonzales added a solo shot in the sixth inning as the ...

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Opinion

OP-ED: Pa. municipalities should consider merging

Pennsylvania is divided into 67 counties and features a remarkably high number of local governments. Each parcel of land within the commonwealth falls into a specific city (57), borough (956), incorporated town (1), or township (1,546). The large number of municipalities resulted from early ...

Living

Cold case solved but motive remains a mystery

A dilapidated bar at the crossroads of Routes 519 and 136 in Washington County is a somber reminder of a murder that rattled the Eighty Four community in 1985. March 11 started out like any other day for 46-year-old Robert Dickinson of Chartiers Township, a well-respected businessman who ...

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