Four municipalities recently voted on forming a regional police department, but only Mt. Pleasant Township and McDonald are currently moving ahead with the idea. Mt. Pleasant鈥檚 board of supervisors approved a charter for the Northern Washington County Regional Police Department at their Oct. ...
The lack of a state budget and the shutdown of the federal government continue to have wide-ranging local effects. Some agencies have had to alter services of lay off staff. Others have stepped up to try to fill the void and aid those in need. About 2 million Pennsylvanians are among the ...
By Richard Robbins Not often does a magazine edition come along that begs both reading and keeping. In the dusty archives of my home work room are several such numbers: A Life and a Look, both devoted to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; and, most conspicuously, the 40th ...
This is a prime time for business development in the area. That was a prevailing theme at Friday鈥檚 Mid-Mon Valley Economic Symposium. Rich Fitzgerald, executive director of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission and former county executive for Allegheny County, served as the keynote ...
A farm off Interstate 70, and the family who owns it, are savoring a sweet taste of success from their roles in the production of sweet treats. Twin Brook Dairy Co., a 400-acre farm in Somerset Township, is the source of milk used by Millie鈥檚 Homemade, an ice cream company with more than a ...
It鈥檚 been said that all politics is local, but Tuesday鈥檚 off-year general election will focus mostly on statewide judicial retentions and races, including a Washington County judge running for appellate court. The political battle lines have been drawn with three state Supreme Court ...
