WAYNESBURG鈥擮ne cannot, or should not, speak of Rain Day without using the name John O鈥橦ara in the same sentence. Without his influence and hard work, the community鈥檚 unusual celebration would never have occurred.The late Mr. O鈥橦ara was a freelance newspaperman who brought Greene County ...
WAYNESBURG 鈥� Like John O鈥橦ara, the name of John Daily is always mentioned in any story about Rain Day.Daily was the official Rain Day prophet for 45 years before retiring and moving to Florida several years ago. During his more than four decades as the official Rain Day spokesman, Daily ...
<em>EDITOR鈥橲 NOTE: In 1996, Jim Moore, former editor of the Greene County Messenger, wrote these two feature articles about John Daily and John O鈥橦ara and the impact they made in putting Rain Day on the proverbial map for Greene County. Jim, who passed away in 1998, used to ...
news@greenecountymessenger.comSchool officials from five Southwestern Pennsylvania school districts gathered recently for an online press conference to discuss the impact of inflated charter and cyberschool tuition payments in their districts and to call for changes to the commonwealth鈥檚 ...
Phillip Prevost directs his miniature horses pulling a wagon in the Jacktown Fair parade Tuesday night through Wind Ridge. The Greene County event continues through Saturday.[gallery_header ids="758832"]
news@greenecountymessenger.comThree emergency services officials in Greene County are facing felony charges accusing them of withholding relevant documents to investigators who were looking into why a 911 operator refused to send an ambulance to a Sycamore woman who died hours later.Robert ...
