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Washington City Mission’s 11th annual Mission Possible 5K Run/1 Mile Walk, presented by AccuTrex Products Inc., will be held at North Strabane Park at the Quail Acres Pavilion on Saturday, Sept. 19, at 8 a.m. The event benefits City Mission’s Crabtree Kovacicek Veterans House, which provides shelter and comprehensive services to homeless veterans. The Mission Possible 5K was started 11 years ago by Jeff McCartney, a local Realtor and vice chairman of the City Mission Board of Directors, as a way to raise funds in support of the veterans house. The house opened in July 2018 and provides housing and supportive services for up to 22 homeless veterans, helping them rebuild their lives ...
Does Peters Township need more recreational fields? That was an issue that emerged in a joint workshop meeting Tuesday that pulled together members of the Peters Township School Board and Peters Township Council, along with administrators from the school and the township. While most of the ...
Members of Canonsburg Borough Council are weighing the endowment of a formal public safety drone program after severe flooding in August tested the limits of the borough’s current, ad hoc drone efforts. According to Borough Manager Jennifer Foster, Canonsburg staff and elected officials realized the need for an expanded drone program after they were unable to use its current drones during two severe floods that inundated the borough last month. Foster confirmed that the Canonsburg Police Department owns two drones and boasts three Federal Aviation Administration-licensed pilots among its ranks, with one set to leave the department in the near future. The two drones operated by the ...
On that Tuesday morning a quarter-century ago, Mitchell Stecker vividly recalls being herded out to the playground at Washington Park Elementary School. “I remember that clear blue sky,” said Stecker. It was shortly after the start of the school year, and Stecker was in the fourth grade ...
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) — Atlanta Falcons quarterback Tua Tagovailoa left practice Thursday with an oblique injury. Tagovailoa bent over in obvious discomfort after throwing a pass during a portion of practice open to the media and grabbed his right side. He dropped to the ground for a few ...
Burgettstown, Trinity proving themselves with strong starts By Jerin Steele jsteele@observer-reporter.com Trinity is one of the biggest schools in Washington County and Burgettstown is on the smaller side, but both have something in common. Their football teams are off to strong starts and ...
McMURRAY – The Peters Township girls volleyball team didn’t have the services of its Pitt recruit Alex Knox, but still looked like its dominant self on Thursday night. The defending WPIAL champion Indians swept Trinity, 3-0, in a Class 5A Section 4 match at AHN Arena. They won by set ...
For months, President Trump and his administration have been fixated on one issue. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with ending the war in Iran or with the affordability of groceries and gasoline. The president’s primary goal this spring and summer has been the passage of the Safeguard ...
Washington City Mission’s 11th annual Mission Possible 5K Run/1 Mile Walk, presented by AccuTrex Products Inc., will be held at North Strabane Park at the Quail Acres Pavilion on Saturday, Sept. 19, at 8 a.m. The event benefits City Mission’s Crabtree Kovacicek Veterans House, which ...
