Reaction mixed from regional lawmakers to budget
An 86-year-old man was killed Tuesday morning in Cecil Township while crossing the street to collect his mail. Robert Cohen was walking across Cecil Henderson Road near Progress Lane when he was struck by the vehicle traveling southeast shortly after 9:30 a.m., according to Washington County Coroner Timothy Warco. It was not immediately known if the vehicle stopped or if the driver was identified. Cecil Township police are investigating the crash, along with assistance from state police crash reconstructionist. Cecil Township police could not immediately be reached for comment Tuesday afternoon. Cecil Township firefighters and medics with SouthBridge Ambulance assistance police at ...
Cfsbank has invited California residents to attend a town hall event on Tuesday to discuss the future of banking in the borough. The tight-knit Mon Valley community was plunged into uncertainty after KeyBank - the only remaining full-service bank branch in town - announced the planned Aug. 1 closure of the company’s Third Street location earlier this year. Now, cfsbank is “exploring the possibility of establishing a full-service branch in the borough” to fill the void left by KeyBank, and is seeking community feedback on the potential move, according to a press release published Monday by cfsbank. The event will begin at 5 p.m. on July 14 at the Hollywood Pavilion at 313 ...
One person was killed early Tuesday morning following a wrong-way crash on the Mon-Fayette Expressway in Washington County. Jacob Matthew Huber was driving south on the toll road in Fallowfield Township just north of the interchange with Interstate 70 when a wrong-way driver crashed into his vehicle head-on shortly before 4:30 a.m., Washington County Coroner Timothy Warco said in a press release. Huber, 24, of Ruffs Dale, was wearing a seat belt, but was pronounced dead at the scene, the coroner said. The cause and manner of Huber’s death are pending an autopsy. State police closed the southbound lanes of Route 43 while investigating the crash, and it remained closed for several ...
The bid opening for Washington County’s new multimillion-dollar public safety building is being delayed by at least three weeks after one of the construction bidders protested the process when county officials put a heavy emphasis on using union labor to perform the work. The opening of the ...
Undergraduate students enrolled at universities in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) will have to pay a little more for tuition in the upcoming academic year unless more funding is included in the state budget. The PASSSHE’s board of governors voted Thursday to raise ...
In the immortal words of former Meadows track announcer and Hall of Famer Roger Huston: It’s O-fficial. Loua Dipa and the Burke Racing Stable, Fredericktown, are looking to make history. The 3-year-old pacing filly is going to battle the boys in the 60th Adios Pace for the Orchids. You go ...
CALIFORNIA — The Penn West California athletic department has announced its annual year-end athletics and academic awards. The yearly awards were introduced during the 2016-17 academic year and are presented following the conclusion of the athletic year. The following are the award ...
Canon-McMillan’s Bryce Collins went from being an unseeded wrestler to a national champion. Collins won the 190-pound title in 16U boys freestyle at the 2026 U.S. Marine Corps Junior Nationals Sunday night in Fargo, N.D. His win helped Pennsylvania claim the team title for 16U boys ...
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 ...
Janine Surmick’s favorite item in the Duncan & Miller Glass Museum isn’t one of the elegantly crafted pieces of tableware that is behind glass, or one of the swan-shaped dishes. Instead, it’s a vintage glass-making press that sits in the museum’s basement on Ridge Avenue. It came ...
