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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 ...

State police: $91K in gambling funds seized from Washington club

More than $91,000 in cash was seized from an unlicensed, private gambling club in Washington, Pennsylvania State Police announced Monday, describing it as one of the largest seizures the liquor control enforcement unit has seen in years. According to PSP Liquor Control Enforcement Officer ...

OP-ED: A free society depends on a free press

Two hundred fifty years ago this summer, delegates met in Philadelphia and signed their names to a document that risked everything. The Declaration of Independence was a bet that ordinary people, given truthful information about those in power, could govern themselves. That promise is harder ...

National Road festival views

The National Road Pike Days Festival that was held Saturday and Sunday celebrated America's first national road, now known as Route 40, with 90 miles of events from Cumberland, Maryland to Wheeling, West Virginia. Many residents along the road hosted yard sales and other festivities for visitors.

The National Road connected a young nation

Editor’s Note: With new settlements being established in the Northwest Territory, leaders of the still young United States tackled another issue — how to link cities in the east with new opportunities in the west. This happened through an act of Congress creating what came to be known as ...