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Washington Council takes steps to refinance bond debt

Washington City Council held the first reading Monday of an ordinance to refinance the city’s pension bond debt. Councilman Ken Westcott, who chairs the finance department, explained that the city will embark on an action he referred to as “debt smoothing” for the city’s pension bond debt, which stands at about $1.7 million. The move will spread the debt over three years, providing debt service relief, and freeing up about an additional $425,000 a year for the next two years. “Our pension debt is huge,” Westcott said. “If we don’t do these things it will go up another $200,000 to $300,000. Without raising taxes, we don’t have the money to cover that right now. ...

Park Avenue in North Franklin reopens to traffic as police activity concludes

Park Avenue in North Franklin Township was closed for nearly four hours Tuesday due to police activity near Armour Street. North Franklin fire Chief Dave Bane said his department was called at 10:30 a.m. to close the 900 block of Park Avenue and divert traffic between McJay Drive and Williams ...

Police: Driver in fatal I-70 crash was driving 118 mph

State police say a Fayette City man was driving 118 mph moments before he crashed into the rear of an Allenport woman’s car on Interstate 70 in Westmoreland County earlier this year, killing her after her car burst into flames. Jacob M. Posey, 22, was charged Friday with felony homicide by ...

Avella School Board president drowns while vacationing in Florida

Corey McConn, president of the Avella School Board, died Friday as a result of a drowning accident while vacationing in Bradenton, Fla. According to the school district website, the Cross Creek Township resident had served the board for 22 years. Emanuel A. Paris IV, the board’s vice ...

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Bart hits grand slam, 1 of 5 Pirates homers in rout of Brewers

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Joey Bart hit a grand slam and the Pittsburgh Pirates scored six runs in the sixth inning to storm past the Milwaukee Brewers 12-2 on Tuesday night. All-Star Bryan Reynolds, Rowdy Tellez, Jack Suwinski and Joshua Palacios also homered for the Pirates, who won in Milwaukee ...

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Peters Township golfers place 25th in national invitational

Peters Township placed 25th in the nation at the 2024 PGA Boys High School Golf Invitational held July 1-3 at the PGA Frisco campus and Home of the PGA of America. The invite-only tournament field was made up of the top high school golfers across the country competing at the “Modern Home of ...

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Amulet rehab center for horses to close after 5 years

Some of the richest racehorses in the world walked through the entrance to Amulet Equine Rehabilitation and Conditioning Center in Belle Vernon in the past five years. The healing there is about to end, however. Owners Tom Svrcek and Janet Collins confirmed over the weekend that the ...

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Skill games fill the financial gaps for small businesses

Small businesses are struggling in Pennsylvania. Just ask any restaurant or retail business owner, and they will rattle off the financial challenges they face every day. Labor, food and energy costs, as well as operational expenses, never decrease; instead, they keep going up. In many ...

Living

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A small comfort

A group of Greene County residents are working together to ease the transition for children who are put into foster care. The child advocacy group Growing Up Greene, Embroid’em in Waynesburg and other volunteers are making pillowcases so that foster children have a sense of comfort when ...

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