Tennis shoes, it seems, have always been essential wearing apparel for boys and girls.I found an ad in the May 23, 1930 edition of a local newspaper that said that the Nelson鈥檚 store on Pittsburgh Street in Connellsville was selling boys and girls tennis shoes for a mere 69 cents.By contrast, ...
I feel bad for Mitt Romney. He had hoped to go on a whirlwind foreign policy photo-op, take a few bows on the world stage, and sell it all to potential voters back home. He failed miserably.He鈥檇 an easy enough task. All he had to do was slip into a well-pressed Giorgio Armani, stand next to a ...
In recent weeks, we鈥檝e 鈥渓earned鈥� that dark forces are taking over the U.S. government from within.Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) says so. So it must be true.Or, Bachmann is at it again 鈥� finding bloodthirsty anti-American ghouls where there are none.I suspect the latter.The three-term ...
It鈥檚 always a good time to honor excellence, even if that excellence is a little late in being honored.That was the case on July 18, 1955, when the Uniontown Evening Standard carried the front-page story about the championship trophy finally being given to the band of Uniontown鈥檚 VFW Post ...
Mitt Romney doesn鈥檛 know what hit him. He鈥檇 sucker punched his way through the Republican primaries, flush with cash, and eager to take on the sitting president. But something got in the way. It鈥檚 called Team Obama.Unlike the skeleton campaign staffs of Bachmann, Gingrich and Santorum, ...
When the Games of the XXX Olympiad open later this week, it鈥檚 a great time to reflect on Fayette County鈥檚 own Olympians.Of course the most notable was Connellsville鈥檚 John Woodruff, who won a gold medal in the 800 meter run at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin.But one Fayette County ...