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Monessen woman waives animal neglect case

A Monessen woman waived her animal neglect charges to Washington County Court Wednesday in a case that led to the seizure of more than 200 animals, mostly cats, from her properties in October.Christie Dee Harr, 41, avoided a preliminary hearing in the June 2018 case involving one neglected cat ...

Ringgold senior hosting fundraiser for family of Donora COVID-19 victim

Tess Ann Salzman has been singing since she learned to talk and has turned her talents into a business as a self-employed musician.On Friday, Salzman will lend her vocal chords to a live, virtual concert to raise money for the family of a friend from Donora, whose father died last week from ...

Donora COVID-19 death was heartbreaking, borough’s mayor said

DONORA – Rebecca Taquino took her sick husband to Mon Valley Hospital and never saw him again because of the COVID-19 pandemic.Her husband, Devin Taquino, 47, died from the coronavirus three weeks later in a Pittsburgh hospital, becoming the first coronavirus victim Friday in Washington ...

COVID-19 claims life of Donora man

The health threat posed by COVID-19 seemed like a remote possibility for Devin Taquino of Donora and members of his family.“When this first came up, they thought: Definitely, we are not candidates for this. We stay home most of the time,” borough Mayor James McDonough II said.On April 10, ...

For local government, pandemic opens uncharted territory under Sunshine Act

It’s not something any municipal official said they expected even weeks ago.As the number of infections from COVID-19 keeps rising, municipal governments are taking different approaches to continuing their operations – including following state transparency laws – while they heed public ...

Southwest board shuts offices, area CareerLinks

By edict of Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, the Southwest Corner Workforce Development Board has closed its offices in Washington and CareerLink centers in Washington, Waynesburg, Donora and Monaca.The closures, issued Monday, will be in effect through March 31. For now, plans call for an April 1 ...