Artisan blacksmiths from the tri-state area will be firing up the forges on Saturday for the 39th annual Hammer-In Festival at the W.A. Young & Sons Foundry and Machine Shop in Rices Landing. Sponsored by Rivers of Steel, this celebration of the industrial past is a chance to see and ...
Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court last week heard oral arguments in a Donegal Township case aimed at determining whether the terms of two township supervisors were unconstitutionally cut short after the township voted in the November 2020 general election to approve a referendum to reduce the board of supervisors from five to three members. On April 10, the high court heard arguments on whether a section of the Second Class Township code was incorrectly used to prematurely end the term of township supervisors Richard Martin Jr. and Richard Fidler. The court’s six justices were asked to consider if Section 402(e) of the Second Class Township Code was unconstitutional as applied to the ...
A Washington man pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of drug delivery resulting in death in connection with the deaths of two people to whom he helped supply a deadly batch of fentanyl in 2021. Lorenzo Brian Lloyd agreed to the negotiated plea deal that will come with a sentence of 2 to 4 ...
By Joe Tuscano For the Observer-Reporter newsroom@observer-reporter.com HOUSTON – Whenever Chartiers-Houston and Carmichaels meet in a softball game, some stranger things can happen. But nothing was more strange than Tuesday's game at Allison Elementary School. The two teams took ...
Layla Sherman hit two doubles and drove in three runs, powering Burgettstown to an 11-6 win over Washington Class 2A Section 3 on Tuesday. Winning pitcher Brooklyn Robinson doubled and drove in two runs and Andi Midler also doubled. Burgettstown (2-3, 3-6) did most of its damage early, ...
The number of undefeated teams in Class A Section 1 has been reduced to one after Avella scored six runs in the top of the seventh inning to win at Fort Cherry, 14-8, Tuesday. The teams split the key two-game series with each winning on the opponent’s home field. Carmichaels is the lone ...
Sure, we’ve had our days of unseasonable warmth lately, but remember that stretch back in January when it was so cold we could have ducked into a meat locker to warm up? Football fans in Kansas City surely do. On its way to winning its second Super Bowl in a row and its third since 2020, the ...
It takes quite a bit of work to get a single family’s backyard garden ready for planting. At Corner Cupboard Food Bank, there are eight raised beds and several more along the fence that need tending, so the nonprofit’s executive director was glad to receive some recent help with that task ...