Memories in the Makin’: Caring for others through equine therapy
The Washington County Sheriff Fugitive Warrant Unit, with the assistance of several area law enforcement agencies, conducted a warrant sweep early Friday morning. About 40 bench or probation warrants were attempted for several crimes, resulting in 11 arrests. The bench warrants for those arrested ranged from firearms to drugs and probation violations, as well as an individual who was wanted by Federal Parole for a federal firearms violation. Assisting the sheriff’s department were the Washington, South Strabane Township and Pennsylvania State police, Washington County Drug Task Force, Washington County Adult Probation, State Parole and United States Marshal Fugitive Task ...
Staff members of Chief Deputy Whip Guy Reschenthaler are holding mobile office hours in Fayette and Greene counties throughout May. Constituents can receive help with Social Security and Medicare issues, federal grant funding, passports and visas, immigration and naturalization services, veterans’ benefits and the IRS. Each session runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Locations are: n Greene County Office Building, 93 East High Street, Waynesburg, on Thursday, May 2 n Fayette County Courthouse, 61 East Main Street, Uniontown, on Friday, May 3 n Connellsville Municipal Building, 110 North Arch Street, Connellsville, on Tuesday, May 21.
Homeschooled students from throughout the region were given an up-close look at 18th-century living during the first ever Homeschoolers’ Day at the Bradford House in downtown Washington. More than 270 people attended Tuesday’s event, hosted by the Bradford House Historical Association. The Bradford House garden and parking lot were filled with outdoor 18th-century games and chores simulations. Hearth cooking was demonstrated in the kitchen cabin. And each room of the Bradford House had a docent available to highlight artifacts and to answer questions. The Meeting House was lined with demonstrators and hands-on activities, such as quill pen and slate writing, weaving, and ...
Since the former Mon Valley Hospital affiliated with Penn Highlands Healthcare in October 2021, services have been expanded and new specialties introduced. “When the affiliation happened, we identified many opportunities to help the hospital provide more services to the community,” ...
A Greene County man is facing what could be a life sentence after being convicted of attacking a woman inside his Jackson Township mobile home and making her perform sex acts in February 2022 just two days after he was released from prison for a similar assault six years earlier. Ian Jared ...
By Dave Bates For the Observer-Reporter “Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear,” as I truly date myself. Like most families in our rural area, we maintained a family garbage dump. We burned most of our paper waste and anything else that could be set on fire. I ...
If Trinity keeps playing softball games like Friday’s Class 5A Section 4 contest, Hillers coach Shawn Gray may have more gray (no pun intended) hairs than he would like. Trinity earned a 7-6 victory over Thomas Jefferson in a game where the ebbs and flows had Gray and his staff on edge from ...
Jake Corrin hit a two-run single to center field with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning to give Charleroi a 10-9 come-from-behind win over Brownsville in a non-section game Friday. Charleroi (9-4) trailed 9-5 entering the bottom of the seventh. A bases-loaded walk and Kaden ...
Sure, we’ve had our days of unseasonable warmth lately, but remember that stretch back in January when it was so cold we could have ducked into a meat locker to warm up? Football fans in Kansas City surely do. On its way to winning its second Super Bowl in a row and its third since 2020, the ...
A trip to the Laurel Highlands is always a beautiful one, especially as the weather warms. The winding roads, tidy farms and sun-dappled woodlands are a wonderful reminder of the beauty of our state. Nestled within 150 acres of woodland about 60 miles south of Pittsburgh, is a place that has ...
