If you鈥檙e not a fan, you probably aren鈥檛 aware that this year鈥檚 girls basketball team at Laurel Highlands has been on the receiving end of quite a few lopsided defeats.There have been games - too many to count - in which the Fillies have scored in single digits.In what was the worst ...
The Middle East is on fire.It鈥檚 been on fire for a very long time.Our president, though, thought it might be of some value to perform an assassination.It backfired.First, a little background.Most Americans can鈥檛 even find Iran on a map.A recent Morning Consult and Politico poll indicates ...
It would be remiss of me, while on the topic of the Connellsville Coke Region, to fail to mention the centennial of the death of Henry Clay Frick.Frick, a native West Overton, was a little shy of 70 when he died at his palatial Fifth Avenue home in New York City.Having amassed one of the ...
In the land of coal and coke, the H.C. Frick Company reigned supreme, which is not to say the company had the entire Connellsville Coke Region, stretching from Latrobe to Fairchance, to itself.There was, for instance, the Oliver and Snyder Steel Company, which operated, early in the 20th ...
I suppose it takes a half generation or so for the collective memory to slip. I recently asked the person I was sitting with at a high school basketball game if she recalled the nickname formerly used by Connellsville sports teams.Today, it鈥檚 the Falcons. Before the Falcons, it was ... ...
Donald Trump sent a terse letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Last Tuesday.It was a six-page, 2,774-word diatribe that supposedly presented Trump鈥檚 defense against the impending impeachment proceedings that engulf his presidency.It was a doozy.There鈥檚 been some speculation that the letter ...