Committee rejects four more opioid grants from Washington Co.
An upcoming symposium hosted by Washington’s Bradford House Historical Association (BHHA) will honor a longtime board member and educator. “Symposium on 18th Century Living and Customs,” which will be in the Old Main Chapel at Washington & Jefferson College Friday, April 17, will have educational programming and tip the hat to Kathryn Teagarden. A member of the historical association’s board of directors from 2015 until shortly before her death in February 2023 at age 74, Teagarden taught in the Avella and Bethlehem-Center school districts and was the inaugural chair of the BHHA’s education committee. “The ‘Symposium on 18th Century Living and Customs’ is a fitting ...
The Washington County coroner’s office is seeking information on two people who died recently at UPMC Washington Hospital. Kimberly Coppola, who was born June 26, 1969, died on March 23. Her permanent home address was in McDonald, although she originally is from Texas and has family there. Mark Peiffer, who was born April 10, 1961, died March 31. His permanent address was in Waynesburg. Information should be given to the coroner’s office by calling 724-228-6785.
After several months of work, South Strabane Township is one step closer to enacting an ordinance regulating data centers. Residents packed the South Strabane Fire Department station on Oak Spring Road for a public hearing on the ordinance that lasted about three hours. Township officials ...
Volunteers from the Washington Rotary Club will assist with recycling of empty bottles and jars this Saturday, April 4, from 9 a.m. until noon at the Log Cabin Drive entrance to the Washington Park recycling center. Only glass bottles and jars are accepted, but color does not matter and lids and labels are acceptable. No other types of glass, including mirrors, light bulbs, window glass or ceramics, are permitted. Rotary members assist with glass recycling on the first Saturday of each month through November, but glass may be recycled any Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. by entering the recycling area at the Wheeling Street entrance. Plastic caps and lids are no longer ...
Editor’s Note: This is the first of a series about the history of PONY Baseball and Softball Inc., leading up to the Pony League World Series in August. When the founders of Pony League Baseball squeezed into the offices at the Observer-Reporter in January of 1951, not in their wildest ...
The Wild Things signed another player who has experience in the Frontier League and said goodbye to their second baseman for the past two years as they prepare their roster for the 2026 season. Washington announced Thursday that it has signed utilityman Graham Brown, who spent last season in ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Honor Huff scored eight of his 21 points in overtime and West Virginia beat Stanford 82-77 on Thursday night in the College Basketball Crown quarterfinals. Huff shot 5 for 14 from the field and 11 of 13 from the free-throw line for the Mountaineers (19-14). Treysen ...
Periodically, a news story comes across my iPad that I just can’t stop thinking about. This story started like this: “On February 21 police officers were dispatched to a bar.” That opening line drew me in almost as fast as “A Florida man ..." “The caller was the bartender,” and ...
War is hell. That’s an idea that’s been hammered home in classic novels like “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “Slaughterhouse-Five,” and in movies like “Paths of Glory” and “Saving Private Ryan.” But the notion that war is not a romp packed with valor and glory but a ...
