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By JEFF STITT [email protected] Memories of time spent as a child hanging out with all of the other neighborhood kids on the local playground often invoke smiles remembering great days gone by. For generations, neighborhood […]

By John Rectenwald [email protected] A Forward Township farm is making flower children out of thousands this week. The third annual Schwirian Farm Sunflower Festival kicked off Friday and will run through next weekend. Dogs are welcome […]

By TAYLOR BROWN [email protected] Rostraver/West Newton EMS is looking for a permanent facility in Charleroi. Last month, Charleroi Council unanimously agreed to switch service providers after concerns about response times and staffing problems with their former […]

By JEFF STITT [email protected] For the second year in a row, two nonprofit organizations in McKeesport have partnered to give history buffs a chance to take a summer stroll through the park and “meet” some […]

By TAYLOR BROWN [email protected] With 1,000 tickets gone, a sold-out event this weekend in Charleroi will have more to offer than just cash. To read the rest of the story, please see a copy of […]

Demi Edwards, 8, of Charleroi looks at bees from the Fine Family Apiary in Forward Township during an Independence Day celebration this week in Monongahela. 

Steve Haberman performs a magic show at Donora Public Library’s “Oceans of Possibilities” summer reading program. Assisting him are Brandon Bellamy, Spencer Ebbitt and Robert Trubiani, all of Donora. 

By John Rectenwald [email protected] Jen Smith, secretary of the state Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs, visited Monessen Thursday to lead a roundtable discussion on substance abuse. To read the rest of the story, please […]

By JEFF STITT [email protected] The City of McKeesport is looking for funding to reconstruct the Versailles Avenue Bridge. The viaduct has been closed since Feb. 11, when Mayor Michael Cherepko ordered the McKeesport Public Works Department […]

By Max Robinette [email protected] Donora council discussed bringing on new administrative staff, appointing alternates to the new civil service commission, new memorial benches at a local park, progress regarding recently hired exterminators, filling the vacant […]