Ernie Davis was born in Footedale and lived in Fayette County for the first 12 years of his life before moving onto greatness in Elmira, New York, and at Syracuse.His native land hasn鈥檛 forgotten himDavis, who died of leukemia in 1963, will be posthumously inducted into the Fayette County ...
The playgrounds of Fayette County have been credited as places that helped to develop outstanding basketball players over the years.They weren鈥檛 all boys basketball players, though.Jocelyn Chandler can attest to that.Chandler鈥檚 experiences on the playgrounds, playing against some of the ...
WASHINGTON 鈥� Uniontown got little respect from the WPIAL baseball pairings committee as was evident by the No. 16 seed it was saddled with for Class AAAA playoffs.The Red Raiders thus had to face top-seeded Montour, the defending PIAA champion, in their first-round game on Wednesday.Perhaps ...
Richie Giachetti grew up in a close-knit Italian family in Uniontown before becoming one of the most well-known names in the boxing world who trained a heavyweight champion.Giachetti, who died in 2016, was a 1958 North Union graduate who played football and baseball in high school but ...
As National Library Week came to an end last week, it reminded me of what public libraries have meant to me in the years before I ever even thought about working in a library.From my earliest school years, when I was taken to the Carnegie Free Library in Connellsville, all I could say when I ...
<em>Fayette County has a rich sports history and unfortunately the stories and exploits of many great players and coaches have been lost and forgotten by the sands of time. This is the fifth in a series of articles that will explore some of these hidden figures. This article ...
