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A long hard look: Fayette County high school football update

In December 2018 I wrote an article detailing the depths that High School football in Fayette County had fallen. I followed that up with another article in January 2020. The numbers were depressing and I advocated that leaving the WPIAL and forming a Fayette County football conference might be ...

Mania, WWE cuts and more

There has been a lot of pro wrestling news over the last week, so let’s get to it.<strong>Mania thoughts</strong>For years, people wondered what WWE would do if a storm hit during WrestleMania at an outdoor venue.Pro wrestling fans found out last Saturday night as ...

Turkey concerns

If you’re a turkey hunter, you may have noticed something, or rather a scarcity of something, while traveling around the district this spring — wild turkeys.In our region we’ve grown accustomed to seeing big springtime flocks strewn across fields and pastures, gobblers fanned out in ...

Spring progress report

In warmer urban areas spring has made lots of progress with flowers, bushes and shrubs in bloom and blossoms on the tress budding with a colorful array of spring beauty.In our woods and along our roadsides the ugliness of our discarded trash is giving way to a camouflage of new spring green ...

The Women on the bench

I had seen her a few times before; always sitting on the same bench along the bike trail on the Great Allegheny Passage, near the little town of Ohiopyle. She always seemed to be enjoying herself seemingly content to be just watching the coming and going along the trail.Several years ago I ...