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Cheers: Kudos to the local students who began their golf season last Friday at Nemacolin Country Club in the TriCADA Golf Tournament. In a field loaded with Class 3A teams, two Class 2A golfers placed in the top 10, as Jefferson-Morgan junior Urijah Teasdale was fifth and Brownsville senior Ben ...

The immigrants deserve better

Albert Einstein said a picture is worth a thousand words. The photo of the sign at the Moshannon detention center in Philipsburg in today鈥檚 newspaper screams them. Irony, too. 鈥淗elp shelter pets find their way home,鈥 the billboard in the background reads. The signs鈥 ...

Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: A 9-year-old鈥檚 selfless act of charity moved many to open their wallets and chip in for a new small livestock barn for the Fayette County Fair. During the annual livestock sale last Friday night, Harper Diamond of Smithfield slipped a note to the announcer before taking to the ring to ...

OP-ED: The perils of secondhand smoke

Like about 55% of men at the time, my dad was a smoker. You know, there were commercials that claimed, 鈥淢ore doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette,鈥 and 鈥20,679 physicians say 鈥楲uckies are less irritating.鈥欌 Dad smoked Kent cigarettes that used asbestos in their Micronite ...

Public notices must remain accessible

Some state lawmakers seem to think they have come up with a way to modernize how local governing bodies get the word out about their meetings, pending actions, tax increases, new ordinances and other measures. But Senate Bill 194 鈥 which resurrects the idea of putting public notices on ...

Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: Cheers to the Carmichaels Copperheads for winning their 15th Fayette County Baseball League championship last Friday. Carmichaels, coached by Dickie Krause, swept top-seeded Potomac Valley with three complete-game pitching performances, winning by scores of 8-0, 2-0 and 7-2 behind Gavin ...