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Cheers: Cheers to Dustin Shoaf for beginning his high school football head coaching career by guiding Southmoreland to a perfect 4-0 start this season. It wasn't that long ago when Shoaf, one of the youngest coaches in the WPIAL at 24 years old, graced the cover of the Ãå±±½ûµØ Football ...

EDITORIAL: The burden rests with all of us

Renesmay Eutsey loved mermaids, unicorns and strawberry ice cream cones. She was a little girl with a radiant smile whose favorite colors were pink and purple. We don’t know much more about the 9-year-old with special needs whose tiny body – marred by suspected signs of abuse and frail ...

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Farm grant 1 Courtesy of California Area School District California Area School District implemented a bee program with a Farm to School Grant from the state Department of Agriculture. Maker space 1 Karen Mansfield/Observer-Reporter A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Tuesday for ...

Here’s one memory that will not die

In my long life, I remember this day more or less precisely: Sept. 7, 1958. Exactly 67 years ago, I sat in the stands at Forbes Field on a sun-splashed Sunday afternoon with my dad and brother, an uncle and a cousin, and two companionable acquaintances. We witnessed a baseball doubleheader ...

Last week, two children were killed when a gunman opened fire during a Mass at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis. Eighteen others were injured. The next day, police at the University of Pittsburgh sent out a campus-wide alert informing students, faculty and staff that there was an ...

Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: Waynesburg Central boys golf team has rolled to a perfect 8-0 record thus far this season and sits alone in first place at 7-0 in the Section 3-2A standings. In the Raiders' latest win, 178-208 over Bentworth at Rohanna's Golf Course, all five of their scorers shot under 40, led by ...