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The Washington County Coroner's Office is seeking information on Donald Jerome, who was born March 29, 1952, and died May 12 in Donnell House, Washington. He was from the Washington area. Information should be directed to the coroner's office at 724-228-6785.
A Greene County man was killed by falling rock in a mine accident Tuesday night. Zachary Wolfe, 34, of Rices Landing, died in the 10 p.m. accident at the Bailey Mine in Aleppo Township, the Greene County Coroner’s Office said in a statement Wednesday. An investigation by Pennsylvania State Police determined Wolfe was fatally injured after being crushed by 1,000 pounds of rock. The accident occurred about 700 feet underground, where a rib failure occurred on a sidewall while Wolfe was putting up roof supports, said Trooper Kalee Barnhart. Wolfe was pronounced dead at 11:39 p.m., the coroner’s office said. Greene County Emergency Management Agency Director Richard Policz said ...
Robin Moore’s fashion photography has appeared in some pretty impressive places – we’re talking magazines like Vogue, Marie Claire and GQ. But the Uniontown native’s work will perhaps gain its widest audience not through the newsstand, but on the movie screen. In the recently released ...
Election Day meals The Center Township VFD Auxiliary will have food for sale on Election Day from 8 a.m to 7 p.m. Breakfast will include sausage and biscuits. Lunch will be sloppy joe, hot dogs, ham, cabbage and sausage. Dinner will be lasagna, salad, garlic bread and desserts. Invasive plant walk Join Dr. Mark Mamros and Dean Rossini of the PA Forest Stewards Program to discover the many unwanted invasive plants growing in Washington County. The invasive plant walk will be May 19 at 7 p.m. The group will meet at Shelter 2 in Mingo Creek County Park. A limited number of handouts will be available. Dress for light hiking and the weather. Preregistration is preferred but not ...
The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) will conduct a solemn Memorial Day ceremony honoring John Ross Dunn, bugler of the 22nd Pennsylvania Cavalry, known as “The Ringgolds,” at Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery in Ruff Creek, Greene County. The ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 23, and is open to the public. Dunn served as a bugler in the first of Pennsylvania’s distinguished Civil War cavalry units. Buglers played a vital role on the battlefield, transmitting orders and signals that guided troop movements during combat. This ceremony seeks to recognize Dunn’s service and sacrifice, as well as to preserve the memory of all who served in the Union ...
Wild Things manager Tom Vaeth said he wanted to use a six-man pitching rotation this season. That plan has suddenly gone awry for multiple reasons. One of those reasons is a good one. Righthander Andrew Herbert had his contract purchased Tuesday by the Baltimore Orioles organization, pending a ...
By John Sacco Contributing writer A whole lot of shuffling is going on with local girls’ and boys’ basketball teams and a pair of two-county area wrestling programs in the WPIAL’s realignment over the next two-year cycle. Chartiers-Houston girls’ basketball team is moving from Class ...
Quiz time: How do you clear 3,211 school kids and teachers out of the seats in EQT Park in less than a minute? Answer: Try an unexpected rainstorm that leaves everybody scurrying and waterlogged within seconds. That’s what happened Tuesday morning during the fourth inning of the Wild ...
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 ...
Warm weather beckons people outdoors. Al fresco dining offers a chance to spend even more time outdoors, and many people will attest that no outdoor gathering is complete without the requisite grilled fare and complementary sides that are staples of spring and summer dining. Potato salad is ...
