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Julianna Fiori threw on some layers and hit the Montour Trail Friday morning for a peaceful run along the snow-covered trail. Fiori, a 2021 Upper Saint Clair graduate who runs for The College of Wooster in Ohio, said she got new shoes Thursday and wanted to try them out – and no amount of snow was going to stop her from breaking in the new kicks.

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Svetlana Verbovataya, of McMurray, tosses a flying disk for Cooper, who, unlike his humans, paid no mind to below-freezing temperatures Friday morning. The energetic Cooper was excited to be out, enjoying the powdery first snowfall this winter at the Montour Trail in Hendersonville.

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Cecil Township reminds drivers to Drive Safely on the community’s billboard Friday, after more than an inch of snow fell overnight and made morning commutes dicey just before the weekend. The township’s salt trucks and plows treated roads from the first signs of snowfall Thursday evening through Friday afternoon.

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Wipe out! Carli Paulhamus tips over at the end of a sled ride down the hill at Town Park Friday afternoon. Paulhamus and a couple friends had a blast sledding and snow ball fighting in the first snow this winter season.

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Edwin Drewett, 7, of Canonsburg picks up speed sledding downhill at Town Park Friday afternoon. Drewett spent the afternoon outdoors with his grandfather, Rob Haberman.

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Tom Northcraft, a grounds worker at Washington & Jefferson College, shovels the sidewalk Friday morning in front of Clark Family Library on the college’s campus in Washington.

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A red barn stands out against the snowy backdrop along Chartiers Run Road. The stretch of roadway leading from Cecil Township into Canonsburg made for a pretty, peaceful drive Friday, after the region received its first snowfall this season.