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Washington County bids farewell to longtime Commissioner Irey Vaughan

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 […] ....

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Pandemic exposes weakness in Pa. counties without health departments, like Westmoreland


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When Kim Ward was sworn in as a Westmoreland County commissioner in 2008, one of her first questions was: Who oversees the county’s health department?
The former respiratory therapist was stunned to learn there wasn’t one.
Westmoreland, like 61 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties, leaves the issue of public health to the state to handle. Only four cities statewide have their own health departments. That reality of the state’s public health infrastructure would come back to haunt and frustrate local officials 12 years after Ward asked her question, when the corona­virus pandemic arrived in early 2020. ....

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