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Editorials

You may have seen the purple signs cropping up around the area announcing that October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, with a phone number that people can call if they are a victim or know someone who is.That there even is a Domestic Violence Awareness Month is a sign of progress. ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> Two deputies from the Greene County sheriff’s office who recently saved the life of a man who was overdosing after they arrested him are to be commended. Cpl. Nick Gustovich and Deputy Tom Jensen executed a felony arrest warrant for Joshua ...

Masks help keep kids safe, healthy

This is where we are: Nine months after not one, but three safe, effective COVID-19 vaccines became widely available to stop the pandemic that has killed more 600,000 Americans, little over half the people in this country and state are fully vaccinated.A highly contagious delta variant ...

Address ‘turnpike leakage’

Probably no one with any real understanding or logical suppositions surrounding the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s switch to all-electronic tolling subscribed to the shortsighted notion that the travel entity would not experience serious challenges in ensuring that a superior toll-collection record ...

West Virginia battle should remain a lesson

It’s been 100 years since miners in Logan County, West Virginia, took up arms against law enforcement, private security forces and strikebreakers in the Battle of Blair Mountain.What started as a protest march and an attempt at unionization ended in bloody conflict. It wasn’t the first time ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Jeers:</strong> A challenge encouraging students to vandalize school property has gone viral on the TikTok social media platform, and some kids in Fayette, Greene and Washington counties are participating. The trend involves students vandalizing or destroying ...