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Eighty Four couple arrested in drug manufacturing operation

Detectives with the Washington County District Attorney’s Drug Task Force arrested a couple suspected of producing large amounts marijuana and hallucinogenic drugs at their home in Eighty Four. Drew Divelbliss, 36, and Lauren Divelbliss, 40, each face nearly a dozen felony charges for possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and endangering the welfare of children. According to the criminal complaint, detectives served a search warrant Monday at their home in the 300 block of Hickory Nut Drive, where the couple live with their two juvenile daughters. Charging documents state investigators found an “intricate laboratory type room” in the garage and more than ...

Washington Kiwanis chapter to close at end of September

The Kiwanis Club of Washington, which was chartered more than 100 years ago, will be folding at the end of September. Membership in the club has dwindled to just a handful of people, according to Joe Tuscano, the club’s president. The last Kiwanis event will be a picnic for players ...

Washington County to purchase office warehouse in city for records storage

Washington County is planning to spend nearly $1 million to purchase the former Tri State Supply building in the city to store the county’s voluminous amount of records. The commissioners unanimously voted during Thursday night’s meeting to spend $925,000 to buy the office warehouse at 371 ...

Firefighter hospitalized following Brownsville fire

A firefighter was hospitalized with heat exhaustion Sunday as a result of a fire at a former church in Brownsville. Brownsville Fire Company Chief Richard Black said firefighters were dispatched shortly after 5:30 p.m. to the old First Baptist Church at 128 Market St. “It has been abandoned ...

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Lake Erie’s bullpen haunts Wild Things again

There remains plenty of baseball to be played in the Frontier League this season, but if the year is to end the way the Wild Things desire, then one troubling trend has to change. Washington has to find a way to score against, and beat, Lake Erie’s bullpen, especially because eight games ...

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NASCAR’s restart rules questioned after unusual finish

By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS — Ryan Blaney thought he was perfectly positioned to win the Brickyard 400 Sunday. He drove down Indianapolis Motor Speedway's front straightaway leading the outside lane of cars to the second-to-last restart, fully expecting to inherit the ...

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Skill games fill the financial gaps for small businesses

Small businesses are struggling in Pennsylvania. Just ask any restaurant or retail business owner, and they will rattle off the financial challenges they face every day. Labor, food and energy costs, as well as operational expenses, never decrease; instead, they keep going up. In many ...

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Chainsaw artist returns to Greene County Fair

Nate Howard has always enjoyed creating art, but it wasn’t until he worked as an apprentice to a chainsaw carver nearly 15 years ago, that he fell in love. “It’s kind of like a therapy for me. It’s calming and I don’t have to be concentrating the entire time,” Howard said. “When ...

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