Washington School District weighs options for administration building
The Washington School District Board of Education tabled motions to award more than $550,000 in total maintenance contracts across two district buildings during a Monday meeting, citing a need to explore additional options. According to the meeting agenda, four bid awards totaling $348,000 of extensive repair and renovation projects on the three-story district administration office had been scheduled for a vote. The work included a full roof replacement; improved site drainage and related construction; masonry restoration construction; and masonry restoration and painting. The second slate of scheduled votes concerned the two-story Carriage House - located at the rear of the 311 ...
Greene County residents recovering from drug or alcohol addiction have a new program to assist them with legal issues. Summit Legal Aid is providing new free civil legal help through a $50,000 program launched earlier this month. The program, approved by the Greene County Board of Commissioners in December, is funded through money from a $26 million multi-state opioid settlement the county entered into in 2021. Those funds are distributed to each county for use in drug and alcohol recovery programs. It covers a variety of areas of civil law where people in recovery can experience obstacles, including family court, housing matters, debt and other financial issues, and barriers to ...
The former director of a youth football league in the Pittsburgh area who embezzled hundreds of thousands from the organization over the past several years pleaded guilty last week. William Spencer, 57, of Canton Township, appeared Wednesday at the Washington County Courthouse before President ...
A Fayette County woman charged with killing her young son more than two years ago is heading to trial next month. Counsel confirmed a starting trial date of Aug. 3 during a pretrial hearing for Brianna Bloyer in Fayette County Court of Common Pleas Monday morning. The trial is scheduled to ...
The man who died earlier this year after being taken into police custody in Donora had a lethal amount of fentanyl in his system, according to an autopsy performed by the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office. John F. Miller died at a Pittsburgh hospital five days after he ran from ...
The countdown is over. NFL training camp has arrived. Every team is 0-0 so there's hope in each city that this season ends with a championship parade. Bryce Young and the defending NFC South champion Carolina Panthers report on Wednesday. So do the Arizona Cardinals led by rookie head coach ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Yankees' game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night was postponed because of a forecast of rain and will be made up as part of New York's second doubleheader in a four-day span. New York announced the postponement about five hours before the scheduled start and ...
If the Lake Erie Crushers eventually climb into the thick of the Frontier League’s playoff race in the Midwest Conference, then it likely will have much to do with their performance against the Wild Things. Lake Erie, which is 14 games behind the first-place Wild Things in the Central ...
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 ...
Okra can be a polarizing vegetable due to its slimy seeds. But Southern chef and cookbook author Vivian Howard embraces okra and aims to change minds with her recipes. The okra fritters recipe in her cookbook "Deep Run Roots" uses the slime to bind the batter. These fritters are a cross between ...
