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Memory Lane: Remembering Lou ‘Bimbo’ Cecconi

Western Pennsylvania sports fans were saddened by the passing of a legend from a bygone era when Lou “Bimbo” Cecconi died on Feb. 24 at Paramount Senior Living Care in Bethel Park at the age of 95. In an era before 山Center and the internet Cecconi was a full-fledged star going back ...

Memory Lane: Mays excelled in basketball, football at Uniontown

James “Junior” Mays forged an outstanding athletic career at Uniontown, but looking back he wishes he had done things differently off the court and off the football field. Mays got an early start in athletics and benefited from Uniontown's great playground culture. “I was playing ...

Coach Dumm’s extra long ‘dash’

In 1996, Linda Ellis wrote “The Dash,” a poem that looks at a person’s life, with the year they were born, what year they passed away, and the dash in between which represents the kind of life they lived. For longtime educator and football coach Jim Dumm, who passed away last Sunday, ...

MEMORY LANE: Fields Gallagher legacy lives on

The late Crystal Fields Gallagher was a tremendous athlete and mother who died unexpectedly in 2011, but her legacy and spirit live on through her three children. Fields Gallagher was a standout forward/guard at Albert Gallatin, then known as Tri Valley High School, in the late 1980s and ...