Q. How do you deal with becoming an adult? 鈥� 17-year-old Mary Jo鈥檚 Response: I鈥檝e been responding to teen questions since the 1980s and writing this column since 2005, and I believe this is one of the deepest questions I鈥檝e received. I admire your courage in raising a topic many ...
Today, I bought a new tablet, and even though that may not seem too significant to the rest of you, it was to me. No, it wasn't a computer tablet. It was just a little tablet made of white, unlined paper with a gray cardboard back. When I was a good little kid, my dad would stop at Murphy's ...
When I learned that she had died, I said to myself, "Imagine, a world without Dolly Parton." The singer and singular personality died last week in her native Tennessee at the age of 80. She had cancer. Dolly Parton was an American original. An exceedingly small club, it includes the likes of ...
Q. I鈥檝e been at college almost a week and I鈥檓 still anxious. I thought I鈥檇 feel better by now. There are so many new people and strange experiences. Getting used to a roommate is the easiest part, and that鈥檚 not easy. I鈥檓 happy with my college choice. I鈥檓 excited about my major, but ...
At one time Fayette County led Pennsylvania in the production of coal and coke. This occurred at a point when the state was the premier coal state in the nation and coal was the nation's primary source of energy. This made the county an important economic and political hub. Visiting Uniontown ...
I recently pulled my Sentinel yearbook off the shelf and lost an afternoon reminiscing. There were about 120 of us in the Dunbar Township High School Class of 1965. We came from the coal patches and railroad villages of Dunbar, Monarch, Leisenring 1 and 2, Dickerson Run, Liberty, Vanderbilt ...
