Drone academy opens world of aviation to female high school students
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 ...
Special needs children and adults got a day-long look at the experiences of law enforcement and other first responders at the first Sunny Day Camp in Greene County Thursday. About 30 people attended the day-long camp, put on by the Pennsylvania State Police. The program is celebrating its 10th anniversary statewide. It鈥檚 based on Camp Cadet, a week-long summer youth program that gives children a look inside law enforcement and the criminal justice system. 鈥淪pecial needs is usually kind of a forgotten community, so we want to make sure they get the experience of Camp Cadet, what we do,鈥� said Trooper Melinda Bondarenka of Troop B鈥檚 Office of Community Engagement. Officers ...
The Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run, an international torch relay, will be coming to Washington on Saturday. Along the route, an estimated 50,000 children in over 1,000 cities and towns are expected to participate when the Peace Run visits schools, youth organizations and local events to ...
Rain was everywhere but the skies. As of early Wednesday afternoon, not a drop had fallen in Waynesburg. But that didn鈥檛 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 ...
A sales representative distributing Little Debbie snack foods to area retailers is accused of issuing more than $13,000 in fraudulent invoices to several Washington County grocers in order to boost his commission. James Daniel Powell, 39, of Valley Grove, W.Va., was charged last week with multiple felony counts of forgery and theft after City of Washington police accused him of forging the signatures of grocery store employees and never delivering the snack products listed in the invoices. The local investigation began when sheriff鈥檚 deputies in Jefferson County, Ohio, began looking into the alleged fraudulent business dealings and contacted Washington police about possible similar ...
There will be one change for the 37th year of the C. Harper Fayette Open which gets underway Friday morning. The opening round for this year's tournament will take place at Pleasant Valley Golf Club. "We changed the order this year where Pleasant Valley hosts the first round and Duck ...
CARMICHAELS 鈥� Dickie Krause wasn鈥檛 sure during his younger days as manager of the Carmichaels Copperheads if he鈥檇 still be as enthusiastic for the game of baseball and the Fayette County Baseball League at this point in his career. 鈥淚 was just telling a couple of my players, I'll be ...
LATROBE, Pa. (AP) 鈥� Mason Rudolph knows the drill. At this point, maybe a little too well. The Pittsburgh Steelers begin training camp each summer and Rudolph sits down in a quarterback room that always seems to include a new face or two (or sometimes three) and gamely try to tune out the ...
At about 9 years old, I decided I wanted to build a treehouse. We had a sturdy black walnut tree in our backyard, and I had amassed a pile of old weathered fence slats with enough splinters to disable a battalion of enemy soldiers. I had a handful of nails I had painstakingly pulled from ...
For some it has been a beautiful summer with lots of sunny days and just about the right amount of rain. The corn fields are happy with recent rains and folks with pools and golf outings have been able to enjoy being outside. We did have two visits from intense heat domes that brought some ...
