There were two major changes with the Connellsville football team during the offseason. The Falcons have opted to reenter the WPIAL after two years as an independent and their trio of head coaches who worked together for the past four years has been reduced to one. Jace McClean enters his ...
The high school boys golf season tees up for the start of section play Monday with 13 of 14 local boys teams in action. A pair of sections feature five area teams. Section 2-3A includes Albert Gallatin, Belle Vernon, Connellsville, Laurel Highlands and Uniontown returning from 2025 with ...
When the "Coke to Spokes" sculpture was unveiled at the intersection of First and Third streets, not much was located in that section of Connellsville, said Daniel Cocks, executive director of the Fayette County Cultural Trust. The metal sculpture near the Great Allegheny Passage showed ...
When Josh Fremd retires as a professional fighter, the 2012 graduate of Connellsville Area High School may want to invest in being a soothsayer. Fremd returned to the cage Friday night in the Professional Fighters League (PFL) event at Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, N.C., and delivered a ...
Not many people have a 40th birthday as memorable as Kevin Leonard's. There were food trucks, community groups, bands on two stages and crowds spilling out across Yough River Park in Connellsville for hours Saturday afternoon. Oh, and a world record. In the centerpiece of the inaugural ...
Madison Wiltrout has had many high points in her javelin career. One of the most memorable was her heave of 185 feet, 8 inches on May 7, 2015, at Norwin, as a sophomore at Connellsville, which still stands as the girls national high school record. Wiltrout went on to become a four-time ...
