Dennis Conway sifted through a box holding dozens of vintage salt-and-pepper shakers and selected three pairs to purchase from Greensburg antiques dealer John Mickinak. One of 30 vendors set up in Ligonier Borough at Saturday’s semi-annual Antiques on the Diamond Antique, Vintage & Retro Faire, Mickinak displayed some of the
The following Memorial Day services are scheduled. Hempfield Greensburg Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 33 will conduct a program at 11 a.m. Monday at Westmoreland County Memorial Park. State Rep. Eric Nelson (R-Hempfield), a Marine Corps veteran, will be the guest speaker. A roll call will honor veterans recently interred
A Norwin High School alumna will take over the National Archives and Records Administration at at time when the agency is embroiled in a controversy with former President Donald Trump. Colleen Shogan, a 1993 graduate of Norwin, was confirmed as archivist Thursday in a 52-45 vote by the Senate. Only
After 21 years as children’s librarian at Norwin Public Library, Barbara McKee is moving on. “It’s been a wonderful career here. This is the beginning of a new chapter,” said McKee, a Norwin High School graduate. She’s leaving May 15 to become the assistant librarian at the Penn State Fayette
The importance of school-based training for a career in the trades was hammered home to state education officials Friday during a tour of the Central Westmoreland Career and Technology Center in New Stanton, where they saw students of today preparing for jobs in the workforce a few years from now.