For 12 years, during the week, I worked out of an apartment in Pittsburgh. When COVID hit, I moved back home full time. The problem is I did not move back alone. Somewhere between the packing and the movers, a few stowaways hitched a ride. When I opened my closet this summer, two tiny, beige, ...
Christopher Beers and his cohorts from Grandpa鈥檚 Joe鈥檚 were out and about before the quack of dawn a few weeks back to pull off a caper unlike any other in Canonsburg. Angling to ruffle a few feathers, the candy shop owner and his team, under the cover of darkness, secretly planted 2,000 ...
Cheers: We鈥檇 like to take this opportunity to give a shout-out to Dr. Mary Jo Podgurski, whose unflagging commitment to the youth in our region serves as an inspiration to all. Many know Mary Jo for her 鈥淎sk Mary Jo鈥� column that appears weekly in this newspaper. She wears plenty of ...
Trust in American institutions has been dissipating for over a half a century. Long before we had the COVID-19 arguments over masks, we already had Watergate, Vietnam, and Iran-Contra. Each of those made us wonder if the folks in charge knew what they were doing or were lying to our faces. For ...
The fights next door are loud. Sometimes they happen often; other times there are weeks or months between them. No matter the frequency, the pattern remains the same: An argument. A scream. A thump. Tears. The neighbors hear it all, but don鈥檛 help. Instead, they raise their eyebrows, shake ...
Cheers: Kudos to Connor Basinger and the Connellsville hockey team. Basinger, a freshman, sparkled in his first varsity game by recording a hat trick in the Falcons' 4-2 victory over Central Valley at CFS Bank Arena in Rostraver Township last Thursday. Basinger's first goal was unassisted ...
