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Heat wave nearing end

The latest heat wave is expected to last just one day longer before significantly cooler temperatures return to the region. Meteorologist Andrew Kienzle of the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh said the temperature was expected to creep up from its high of 94 degrees Tuesday to 95 on ...

Plenty of people drop in for Rain Day

Not long after this year’s Rain Day kicked off in Waynesburg Commons, they found out this year’s festival would live up to the name. After a rainless Rain Day last year, the first drop fell this year at 11:21 a.m., according to the Rain Day Facebook page. It was welcome news to the crowd ...

20 years ago, the Hat Bet was Trump’s

Long before Donald Trump became synonymous with the red “Make America Great Again” hat, people in Waynesburg came to associate him with a different cap entirely. In the borough office window, flanked by Kent Tekulve’s Pirates cap and actor William Sanderson’s cowboy hat, sits a white ...

Family escapes from Lower Tyrone Township house fire

A family of four and their three animals escaped a weekend house fire uninjured in Lower Tyrone Township. Firefighters were called to the house on Hickory Square Road shortly before 8:45 a.m. Saturday after a caller told emergency dispatchers that the structure was filling with smoke, Fayette ...