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Tornado’s lessons not lost on Alle-Kiski Valley schools
Pennsylvania law does not require schools to have safe rooms to protect students during severe storms, but it does require at least one disaster drill annually, officials ...
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Connellsville set for 9th annual Geranium Festival
Connellsville is preparing for the 9th annual Geranium Festival on Saturday. The warmer weather allowed for planting around town to dress up the area. Michael Edwards (shown), executive director of Fayette County Cultural Trust, along with Daniel Cocks for the Downtown Connellsville initiative, Casey Sirochman and Sheryl Craven of the Carnegie Free Library of Connellsville planted a variety of ...
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Frazier residents get details on school project
Residents of the Frazier School District in Perryopolis got their first chance to look at the district's upcoming construction project and to review its costs during a public hearing Wednesday in the high school ...
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Vets Remember reason behind holiday
Michele Margittai, director of development and community relations for the Veterans Leadership Program of Western Pennsylvania, agrees that people can do more to better understand the sacrifices made by veterans. "Even though as a community we have become much more sensitive to veterans and may even know someone who served, too many people still see Memorial Day as a holiday instead of ...
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Tentative budget hires 17 hikes tax
Greensburg Salem school directors have approved a tentative budget that calls for hiring staff to ease classroom overcrowding and increasing property taxes to the highest level allowed by the ...
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Movie Review
Love and Other Drugs
Love and Other Drugs is set against the backdrop of pharmaceutical sales in the late 1990s, just before the release of Sildenafil citrate, an enzyme inhibitor known to the general public as Viagra. The film is based loosely on a book titled Hard Sell: The Evoluti ... ...
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Fireworks to honor Greensburg Community Days organizer Koval
Shea Archer of Coshocton, Ohio, hangs a banner on a game tent at Lynch Field in preparation for the opening of Greensburg Community Days on May 23, 2013. Archer works for Oren Concessions of Parker City, ...
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Westmoreland County Community College passes tentative budget
A copy of the preliminary budget is available for public review in Ron Eberhardt's office in Founders Hall on Westmoreland County Community College's Youngwood campus. Eberhardt is vice president of administrative ...
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Former Speaker DeWeese expected to remain in prison
HARRISBURG -- Former House Speaker Bill DeWeese likely will serve out the remainder of his prison term, because his appeals could drag on well beyond the end of his sentence, legal experts ...
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Board Former IU 4 chief in Pennsylvania authorized $110K of her charges provided few receipts
Former Midwestern Intermediate Unit 4 Executive Director Cecelia Yauger personally authorized the IU to pay nearly $110,000 in charges to her IU credit card while providing few itemized receipts, according to documents the Tribune-Review ...
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Hearings set for North Huntingdon woman in alleged stalking
A 49-year-old North Huntingdon woman is accused of repeatedly stalking a man who had repaired her car when police found her behind his home, dressed in black and carrying binoculars and a roll of ...
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We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.
Barack Obama
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Hotel Review
Venetian Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas
In the middle of the Strip, and opposite the Mirage and Treasure Island is the Venetian, adjacent to its sister ...
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