Washington attorney Gary Sweat has been selected to serve as Washington County’s next solicitor for the Board of Commissioners. Commissioner Nick Sherman and commissioner-elect Electra Janis announced Sweat’s appointment Thursday in a joint press release as the two Republicans prepare to take control of the board next week alongside Democratic Commissioner Larry Maggi. Sweat will […]
Bill West was about to deliver a prayer to open the Washington County Board of Commissioners’ meeting Thursday when he stopped himself in order to tell a story about how longtime Commissioner Diana Irey Vaughan helped facilitate a healing moment following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. “The whole country was in turmoil,” West […]
Washington County, Peters Township and North Strabane Township avoided another day in a court by reaching a settlement concerning the planned overhaul of the county’s emergency responders radio system.
A judge in Washington County will have to decide whether to temporarily halt the plan to overhaul the county’s emergency responders radio system after two municipalities sued claiming the “most