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Connellsville’s Memorial Day features wreath toss recitation of Gettysburg Address on 150th anniversary
Connellsville will observe Memorial Day with a parade and programs, including the recitation of the Gettysburg Address to mark the 150th anniversary of the ...
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Budget steady on taxes
The motion passed by a 7-1 vote, with School Director Catherine Fike voting against it. School Director Ken Alt was not in attendance when the vote on the proposed budget was ...
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Dunbar Vanderbilt plan Monday services
The Dunbar American Legion Hughes Post 146 will host the annual Memorial Day Parade Monday. The parade will start at 10 a.m. with the lineup starting at the Old Borough School at 9:45 a.m. The parade marshal this year will be Diana Homer and master of ceremonies will be Nick Bell ...
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Newest Dunbar Community Festival ornament is now available
Members of the Dunbar Community Festival planning committee have gotten the newest community ornament made and ready for sale. Showing off the ornament of the B&O Railroad are, from left, Cindy Moag, Dennis Morrison and Linda ...
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Fay-West communities to observe Memorial Day
Scottdale's Memorial Day Parade starts at 10 a.m. at the Rite- Aid parking area. The parade will proceed to the Scottdale Cemetery where there will be a short program at 11 a.m. then will proceed to the St. John Cemetery for another short ...
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Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story [DVD]
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story is much funnier than any movie about dodgeball has a right to be. Dodgeball is, after all, perhaps the most juvenile of games, if calling it a game isnt giving it too much credit. Its the fall-back for lazy gym coaches everywhere--Here, line up on oppos ... ...
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Mt. Pleasant to dedicate new digital wall
Mt. Pleasant officials and a project developer surround the borough's newly installed digital veterans' memorial wall at Veterans Park in the borough. They include (from left) borough Manager Jeff Landy; borough Councilman Larry Tate, chairman of the Veterans Park committee; Shannon Roberts, production manager of ITS Enclosures Inc.; borough Councilman Fred McCloy; and borough Mayor ...
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Clairton board OKs dek hockey concept
School directors unanimously approved the club, pending approval by the Clairton Education Association. District officials said the sponsor position would have to be added to the contract in a memorandum of ...
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NK-Arnold OKs proposed tax hike
The preliminary budget calls for the full tax increase allowed by the state, 3.4325 mills. That would increase the property tax rate to 78.1325 mills next ...
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School taxes down in Elizabeth Forward
That's 4.4 mills lower than the current year's rate, but school officials said the move will be revenue neutral because of the 2013 Allegheny County ...
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Acting Emerson principal named to permanent post
An acting elementary school principal in West Mifflin Area School District will hold his post in an official capacity next school year due, in part, to parents who spoke up on his ...
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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.
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In the middle of the Strip, and opposite the Mirage and Treasure Island is the Venetian, adjacent to its sister ...
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