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Cheers: Cheers to West Greene wrestler Colin Whyte, who claimed the gold medal at the Chartiers-Houston Invitational on Saturday. Whyte, a junior in Class AA, defeated Class AAA Mt. Lebanon senior Ben Lloyd, 1-0, in the championship bout at 285 pounds. Lloyd was a state qualifier last season. ...

Before Thanksgiving, the Pennsylvania Department of Education announced the results of three statewide student assessment tests, and the results were not so bad. Proficiency rates crept up from or stayed near the results from the year before. Math proficiency moved up to 40% from 38%, and ...

Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: The 39th Give-A-Christmas campaign to support local branches of The Salvation Army is underway. Sponsored by the ÎÞëÊÓÆµ-Standard, the annual fundraiser is particularly important this year. ÎÞëÊÓÆµœIÎÞëÊÓÆµ™d have to say a majority of the families we serve are working families that just canÎÞëÊÓÆµ™t ...

Dissatisfaction with two major parties is an American tradition Since the demise of the Whigs and the rise of the Republican Party in the 1850s, American politics has largely been a slugfest between the GOP and the Democratic Party. And, for probably much of that 170-year span, Americans have ...

Cheers & Jeers

Jeers: The arrival of Thanksgiving on Thursday marked the start of the holiday season, and it also marked an all-too-likely surge in cases of COVID-19 and the flu across the country. While nowhere near as widespread or severe as it was in 2020 and 2021, COVID-19 can still take lives and send ...

As divided and as stressed as we are, we do have much to be thankful for ItÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s one of historyÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s greatest ironies that a holiday that weÎÞëÊÓÆµ™ve come to associate with belt-loosening and piling the plate high with victuals was kicked into gear by grim ascetics who didnÎÞëÊÓÆµ™t like Christmas. The ...