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Commissioners vote to transfer Real Estate Expo to redevelopment authority

The Washington County commissioners are handing over responsibility of the annual Real Estate Expo to the county’s redevelopment authority to plan and organize future events. In a split vote during Thursday’s meeting, the commissioners approved a motion to have the Redevelopment Authority ...

Sen. Fetterman tours flood damage in Washington

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman visited Washington County to inspect lingering damage from recent flash flooding while offering his support for ongoing recovery efforts. Washington Mayor JoJo Burgess led Fetterman on a tour across three sites in Washington, East Washington Borough and Washington ...

Century-old barn rolls down Route 519 to new Ross Farm home

Inch by painstaking inch, the century-old Ritter barn weighing 110 tons crawled along Route 519 in Glyde on top of four motorized dollies Thursday as it crept to its new home at the Ross Farm. The half-mile journey took a little more than three hours before crews carefully wheeled it into ...

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Yellow Jackets win opener

WAYNESBURG - Jonah Biggers scored 17 points and led five Waynesburg University players in double figures as the Yellow Jackets opened the season with a 77-66 victory over Elmira on Friday in the first round of the tournament at Rudy Marisa Fieldhouse. Waynesburg took control of the game in ...

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W&J edges Transylvania in Staton Tipoff Classic

The Washington & Jefferson women's basketball team kicked off their season Friday night with a 62-58 victory over Transylvania in the second game of the Coach Vicki Staton Tipoff Classic on Friday night at Salvitti Family Gymnasium. Both teams made the NCAA Division III tournament last ...

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Sadler leads WVU over Stetson

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - At the going rate, Wwest Virginia men’s basketball coach Ross Hodge is going to run out of ways to describe Miles Sadler pretty soon. The freshman point guard put on a show Friday night. Hope Coliseum was his concert hall and Stetson was his victim. By the time the ...

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Opinion

OP-ED: The time to get AI right is now

As recently as early summer, artificial intelligence, or AI, was far from the center of public concern or worry. Now, it's at center stage, though to many it remains a mystery. During a recent class reunion, a friend confided that AI was a head-scratcher. "I don't know anything about it," he ...

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Fort Cherry, C-H receive funding for literacy programs

Two local school districts are among the first to receive funding from the initial round of awards through a newly created Pennsylvania Department of Education grant program designed to improve student literacy. Chartiers-Houston and Fort Cherry School Districts received six-figure packages ...

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