Dunbar News

A member of a church choir reads her music during a practice, preparing for the Christmas holiday.

Dunbar Borough Council has passed a balanced 2010 budget without a tax increase.

A domestic deer inside a fenced pen in Fayette County was shot to death earlier this month, and state police are investigating the cruelty to animals case.

Three area food pantries were given a boost this holiday season with a $1,500 contribution from the Connellsville Wal-Mart in Dunbar Township through the Wal-Mart Foundation Community Grant program.

Thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as the federal stimulus, Head Start/Early Head Start of Fayette County will serve more than 100 additional children beginning next year.

Connellsville Area School District directors Thursday took action to help improve reading and math scores on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment tests.

Dunbar Boy Scout Troop and Pak 180 are having a Christmas tree sale from now until December 19th.

Newly elected school board members Gary Wandel, Tom Dolde, P.J. Carte and Paul Means were sworn in at the Connellsville Area School Board reorganization meeting Monday night.

A convicted murderer from Fayette County contends prosecutors used the same black purse as evidence in his 1997 trial as they did in the 1995 trial of another man convicted of homicide in an unrelated case.

Dunbar Township Supervisors adopted a 2010 budget with no tax increase. The $1.4 million budget has revenues including $605,145 from taxes; $282,000 from intergovernmental revenue; $21,000 from fines and forfeits.

A Florida woman Friday filed a civil lawsuit against PennDOT, alleging its negligence resulted in the Christmas Day death of her 87-year-old mother in a car accident in Fayette County last year.

Westminster College's Civic Engagement Council will host a "Santa's Workshop" gift wrapping event Thursday, Dec.

An unidentified male armed with a hunting rifle threatened the cashier at Reddy's Mart on Memorial Boulevard and fled with an undetermined amount of money.

Share + Nov 24, 2009 6:52 pm US/Eastern For most people the legend of Bigfoot is a joke, but two local men take it much more seriously.

A former office manager for the Joseph A. Hardy-Connellsville Airport in Dunbar Township has filed complaints with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging she was discriminated against by the Fayette County Airport Authority.

Residents of the small Dunbar Township community of Monarch gathered at the local fire hall this week to hear some disappointing news -- the volunteer fire department is having financial woes.

The father of a 14-year-old boy killed March 31 in an ATV accident in Dunbar said Thursday he would continue to fight for justice for his son.

Hundreds of tires burned for hours at a former junk yard in Dunbar Township in Fayette County.

A new season of Bluegrass Jams at Greenwood Methodist Church will begin 6 p.m. Saturday.

Many incumbents were defeated in yesterday's general election while others were able to hang on to their seats for whatever their term allows.