close

Ongoing Coverage

Building collapse tops local stories for 2017

The deadly opioid epidemic remained a major local story in our area in 2017, but it was the collapse of a large apartment building in Washington that led the list of newsworthy events here during the past year, according to a poll of the <em>Observer-Reporter</em> ...

Chicco Baccello will continue to brew on South Main Street

The owners of Chicco Baccello are keeping the popular coffee shop and bakery on South Main in Washington at its original location, at least for now.Co-owners Nancy Ogburn and Lisa Aprea said last week that a previously planned move to 3 N. Main St. didn’t work out following the July 12 ...