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Election Day meals The Center Township VFD Auxiliary will have food for sale on Election Day from 8 a.m to 7 p.m. Breakfast will include sausage and biscuits. Lunch will be sloppy joe, hot dogs, ham, cabbage and sausage. Dinner will be lasagna, salad, garlic bread and desserts. Invasive plant walk Join Dr. Mark Mamros and Dean Rossini of the PA Forest Stewards Program to discover the many unwanted invasive plants growing in Washington County. The invasive plant walk will be May 19 at 7 p.m. The group will meet at Shelter 2 in Mingo Creek County Park. A limited number of handouts will be available. Dress for light hiking and the weather. Preregistration is preferred but not ...

Sons of Union veterans to honor bugler in Greene ceremony

The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) will conduct a solemn Memorial Day ceremony honoring John Ross Dunn, bugler of the 22nd Pennsylvania Cavalry, known as “The Ringgolds,” at Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery in Ruff Creek, Greene County. The ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 23, and is open to the public. Dunn served as a bugler in the first of Pennsylvania’s distinguished Civil War cavalry units. Buglers played a vital role on the battlefield, transmitting orders and signals that guided troop movements during combat. This ceremony seeks to recognize Dunn’s service and sacrifice, as well as to preserve the memory of all who served in the Union ...

State Senate races highlight Tuesday’s primary election

Elections officials are hoping for better than average turnout for Tuesday’s primary despite few competitive races on the ballot. The polls open at 7 a.m., and all mail-in ballots must be received at a voter’s county elections office before the polls close at 8 p.m. The biggest races this ...

Buffalo Bill’s House a 'Silence' location that’s open for visitors

Chris Rowan is a prop stylist and set decorator by trade – one of those folks who makes sure the environment actors move around in on the set of a film or television production is just right, and that props don’t migrate from one spot to another and mess up a scene’s continuity. So, ...

The National Road connected a young nation

Editor’s Note: With new settlements being established in the Northwest Territory, leaders of the still young United States tackled another issue — how to link cities in the east with new opportunities in the west. This happened through an act of Congress creating what came to be known as ...

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Sports

Playoff rematches aplenty for local baseball and softball teams

One out separated California from a win over Fort Cherry in the second game of their section series in April. The Trojans led 7-6, but a two-out solo homer by Ben Demascal tied the game in the top of the seventh inning and Fort Cherry went on to score five runs in the top of the eighth to win ...

Wild Things beat Schaumburg for fifth straight win

Credit the Wild Things and Schaumburg Boomers for showing the variety of games the Frontier League can produce during their three-game weekend series at EQT Park. The first two nights saw fast-paced, well-pitched games that were won by Washington, including a two-hit shutout Saturday ...

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Hamlin tames Dover to win NASCAR’s All-Star Race

DOVER, Del. – In the debut of the All-Star Race at Dover Motor Speedway, the Monster Mile lived up to its billing as one of NASCAR's most treacherous tracks. Even for winner Denny Hamlin, surviving Dover was a high-wire test for the $1 million prize. Rebounding from a qualifying spin to ...

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Opinion

A second chance for Blue Skies

Periodically, a news story comes across my iPad that I just can’t stop thinking about. This story started like this: “On February 21 police officers were dispatched to a bar.” That opening line drew me in almost as fast as “A Florida man ..." “The caller was the bartender,” and ...

Living

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35 years later, ‘Silence of Lambs’ shoot recalled

BELLAIRE, Ohio – In 1991 — now 35 years ago — movie makers set out to make a psychological thriller involving murder and cannibalism in what was then the city of Bellaire. Today, Bellaire is a village, and "The Silence of the Lambs" went on to win five major Oscars and become the ...

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