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Good things come in small batches at Saxonburg eateryVideo
Two best friends are cooking up success together — one batch at a time. That’s how Batch, a fresh food eatery and retail store in Saxonburg began five years ago — with buddies and business partners Meghan Pohl and Jessica Brewster making their specialty homemade jams and jellies in small...
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of July 1
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of July 1....
Pine-Richland paraeducator retires after 27 years of service
Pine-Richland paraeducator Barbara Sullivan is retiring after 27 years of service, but there’s no chance she’ll soon be forgotten. Close to 15 years after Sullivan began assisting her daughter, a former special-needs student, Keri Heaton said she and her family and Sullivan still keep in touch. “She just always took...
Etna Carnival delivers old-fashioned fun
Crowds of all ages filled Daugherty Veteran’s Field on June 24 through 29 for the annual Etna Carnival. The fair featured a carousel, swings, child’s rollercoaster and ball pit. The “round up” and “tornado,” commonly known as a “tilt-a-whirl,” had the longest lines. Etna Manager Mary Ellen Ramage said that...
Hampton business owner remains connected to Beattie Career Center
Hampton business owner and A.W. Beattie Career Center alumnus Jason Boyd is paying it forward. Boyd, 39, hires mostly Beattie graduates for Hampton Mechanical, a commercial HVAC and sheet metal contractor his family founded in 1989. Boyd said graduates of the center in McCandless, which offers programs to students in...
Pirates farm report for June 30, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 41-39) lost to Gwinnett (Braves), 5-3. RF Trayvon Robinson had three hits to raise his batting average to .320. 2B Jake Elmore (.354) was 2 for 5 with two runs. RHP Eduardo Vera (4-6, 5.60) started and took the loss, giving up three earned runs on five hits...
G. Terry Madonna & Michael Young: The Democrats’ debate marathon
A Debate Marathon Who will win the 2020 presidential election seems endlessly debatable—and the Democrats are preparing to demonstrate just how endless that debate will be. Overall there will be 12 sanctioned Democratic presidential debates during the party’s nomination battle, six of them in 2019 with six more in 2020....
Trump says U.S. ‘winning’ trade war after reviving China talks
WASHINGTON — President Trump declared the U.S. was “winning” the trade war a day after reaching a temporary truce with Chinese President Xi Jinping. On a visit to South Korea following the Group of 20 summit in Japan, Trump said at a news conference the Federal Reserve “has not been...
Brewers edge Pirates on Eric Thames’ 8th-inning HR
MILWAUKEE — Eric Thames is figuring out how to excel as a part-time player. Much to the dismay of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Thames homered leading off the eighth inning to lead the Milwaukee Brewers past the Pirates, 2-1, on Sunday. The Pirates dropped two of three in the series against...
Why many older adults feel good about their health
A common myth about aging is that older adults are burdened by illness and feel lousy much of the time. In fact, the opposite is usually true. Most seniors report feeling distinctly positive about their health. Consider data from the 2017 National Health Interview Survey (the most recent available), administered...
Editorial: Gerrymandering doesn’t represent us
Whether you are in a casino or a courtroom or state house, stacking the deck is wrong. You don’t get to load up your hand with aces. You don’t get to put your best friends on your jury. And you aren’t supposed to carefully, surgically carve out a constituency that...
Letter to the editor: Trump is the president we need
Some dislike President Trump’s abrasive style and long for the days of Mitt Romney and the Bushes, when Republican candidates respectfully faced unfair and relentless attacks from Democrats without fighting back. Over the past 60 years, Democrats have befuddled Republicans with aggressive tactics invented by Chicago activist Saul Alinsky in...
Letter to the editor: Knitters support Trump
Did you know that if you are a member of the Ravelry knitting community and support President Trump and his administration, you are a white supremacist, a bigot and a racist? Ravelry is a popular worldwide community; did those in charge not realize that they are calling millions of conservatives...
Letter to the editor: Trump is the disgrace
Donald Trump says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a evil and a disgrace. A true pot calling the kettle black. Trump says he hates the word impeachment and calls it a “dirty, filthy word.” How does he think I, and many Americans, feel? We think Trump is the most evil,...
California mom arrested, sons found unresponsive in a ditch
PORTERVILLE, Calif. — A Central California woman has been arrested on suspicion of killing her 12-year-old son and critically injuring her 7-year-old son who were found unresponsive in a ditch. The Tulare County Sheriff’s office said someone called 911 Saturday to report that 45-year-old Sherri Telnas was acting strangely and...
Trump says he’s looking forward to Kim Jong Un meeting
SEOUL, South Korea — President Trump said he’s looking forward to meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un at the Korean Demilitarized Zone later Sunday. Trump told reporters at a joint news conference with South Korean President Moon Jae-in that he and Kim will “just shake hands quickly and say...
Judge bars Trump from using $2.5B to build border wall
OAKLAND, Calif. — A federal judge on Friday prohibited President Trump from tapping $2.5 billion in military funding to build high-priority segments of his prized border wall in California, Arizona and New Mexico. Judge Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. in Oakland acted in two lawsuits filed by California and by activists...
Tens of thousands join gay pride parades around the world
MEXICO CITY — Tens of thousands of people turned out for gay pride celebrations around the world on Saturday, including a boisterous party in Mexico and the first pride march in North Macedonia’s capital. Rainbow flags and umbrellas swayed and music pounded as the march along Mexico City’s Paseo de...
Trump administration agrees to delay ‘conscience’ rule for health care workers
SAN FRANCISCO — The Trump administration has agreed to postpone implementing a rule allowing medical workers to decline performing abortions or other treatments on moral or religious grounds while the so-called “conscience” rule is challenged in a California court. The rule was supposed to take effect July 22, but the...
Key to a crisp chopped salad is salting ahead of time
A chopped salad, where every ingredient is cut into pieces of about the same size, offers the perfect mixture of flavors and textures in every bite. However, some vegetables get watery and soggy when you chop and dress them, and require extra attention. In this summery salad, we first salted...
Carnegie police chief says surveys of officers beneficial
Carnegie police want to ensure they’re doing the best job they can. So they’re asking the people they serve to weigh in on how they did after a call. In June, Carnegie police Chief Jeffrey Kennedy began sending surveys each week to four people whom officers had assisted in an...
To kick up your chicken salad, turn to your spice rack
To apply some modern tricks to old-school chicken salad, we turned to our spice rack. Most spices boast an impressive portfolio of phytonutrients—often the very same compounds that give them such potent flavor. Mild, creamy chicken salad was an ideal canvas. First, we found we could replace two-thirds of the...
Living with Children: Biological vs. adopted
Question: We have two married daughters, one of whom is adopted. The biological daughter has two children who, we recently discovered, have been told that it is wrong to call our adopted daughter “aunt so-and-so” because she is not really family. Nor, according to our biological daughter and son-in-law, is...
‘Don’t panic’ is first rule when you lose your passport overseas
Passport problems can elicit very real physical responses in travelers. On a blazing afternoon in Jakarta a few years ago, I realized I didn’t have enough pages in my passport to get to my next destination beyond Indonesia. I had one of those skin-crawling, heart-racing moments of terror. Reason went...
North Allegheny’s Martindale named Trib HSSN Girls Athlete of the Year
In her senior year at North Allegheny, all Rachel Martindale did was average nearly 14 points per game on the hardwood and hit nearly .480 on the softball diamond while helping the Tigers to the district title games in both sports. Not bad for two seasons that at one point...
