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Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: Cheers to Uniontown graduate Greg Gabriel who has been just as successful as a teacher as he was as a basketball player for the Red Raiders. Gabriel scored 1,156 points in a career that wrapped up with Uniontown winning WPIAL and PIAA championships his senior season in 1981. Gabriel, a ...

OP-ED: Funding critical upgrades necessary to keep our water safe

Funding critical upgrades necessary to keep our water safe By Justin Ladner Pennsylvania American Water newly released grades from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2025 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, a comprehensive assessment of the nation’s 18 major ...

LETTER: Stop the madness

Our ICE agents are fast becoming the terrorists they are supposed to be arresting. Now they are going after U.S. citizens within our borders, not only immigrants. They arrive en masse wearing bullet-proof vests and masks, carrying guns and arrest the mayor of a large New Jersey city and try ...

LETTER: Bigotry alive and well

Bigotry has been more firmly established as a bedrock principle of the Trump/Hegseth administration with the ousting of 1,000 transgender members of the military. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took a victory lap for purging the "wokeness and weakness" in kicking out those who have honorably ...

LETTER: Foundation of lies

The foundation of the Trump/Republican Party is “The Big Lie” that Trump won the 2020 election. In more than 60 court cases, where actual evidence is required rather than campaign blather, the Republicans lost because Trump was lying. The hearings concerning Jan. 6 detailed the ...

EDITORIAL: Let’s do business in the open

The three most beautiful words in the English language are “I don’t know.” “I was wrong” runs a close second. Over the past several months, reporters in the joint newsroom operated by the 山 and Observer-Reporter have found themselves objecting to the way meetings are ...