Rain or shine, it’s time for Rain Day
Local residents are encouraged to attend the “Washington Goes To Work” job fair hosted by city Mayor JoJo Burgess on today. More than 10 regional employers including Lighthouse Electric and UPMC Washington will attend the event being held at the Alpine Club at 735 Jefferson Ave. in Washington from 10 a.m. till 3 p.m. today. “Everyone is welcome to come to try for an opportunity to better their lives,” Burgess said. This is the fourth such job fair Burgess has hosted for city residents in recent years, with public attendance growing steadily at each installment. “If you want to have a community, you need jobs so people can afford to live there,” he said. According to ...
The North Strabane Board of Supervisors are taking the first steps toward enacting comprehensive data center regulations. The motion during Tuesday's meeting authorizes Pittsburgh-based consultants Strategic Solutions LLC to prepare an amendment to the township’s code adding rules and regulations related to data centers at a cost not to exceed $5,000. Township Manager Andrew Walz emphasized that this measure is being taken “proactively,” and that the township has not received any applications for data center projects. Neighboring municipalities have rushed to enact their own ordinances regarding data centers since late 2025, after a property in South Strabane Township was put ...
The Center For Coalfield Justice will host a program, Shale Gas Fracking and Public Health 101 - The People's Cancer Incidence Screening Tool, on Wednesday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the center's office at 69 E. Beau St. in Washington. The program will feature guest speaker Dr. Lauren Minsky, creator of the People's Cancer Incidence Screening Tool, which calculates average annual cancer incidence rates for Pennsylvania's cities, towns and boroughs from 2002 to 2021. The presentation will include an overview of fracking operations in southwestern Pennsylvania, knowledge of commonly seen health effects around fracking operations, an overview of resources such as the cancer screening ...
Rain was everywhere but the skies. As of early Wednesday afternoon, not a drop had fallen in Waynesburg. But that didn’t stop the crowd that filled the parks downtown for a day of food, games, contests, music, entertainment and other excitement for the annual Rain Day celebration. Sparked ...
Marlee Solomon will wrestle for a world championship gold medal Friday. Solomon, who will be a senior at Canon-McMillan, advanced through the U17 girls wrestling World Championship bracket to earn a spot in the finals in Baku, Azerbaijan. Solomon faces Akshara of India in the 53 kilogram gold ...
Editor’s note: This is part of a series celebrating the 75th anniversary of PONY Baseball and Softball, leading up to the Pony League World Series that begins Aug. 7. An editor at the Observer-Reporter newspaper once said the following about Roy Gillespie: “Roy was involved in every good ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — Elly De La Cruz scored on fielder's choice in the ninth inning to lift the Cincinnati Reds to a 3-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday night in the opening game of a four-game series. Cincinnati loaded the bases against Gregory Soto (5-3) with one out. Lowe ...
Pennsylvania is divided into 67 counties and features a remarkably high number of local governments. Each parcel of land within the commonwealth falls into a specific city (57), borough (956), incorporated town (1), or township (1,546). The large number of municipalities resulted from early ...
A dedicated core of volunteers from Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church - St. Oscar Romero Parish has served a growing number of local families through the church’s food pantry since it began in 2016, bringing a tight-knit community even closer together. According to Toni Vallone, who ...
