Fredericktown News

Jarrett Smorado may have the mental capacity of a third-grader, but he knows enough about justice to want some.

You might expect a ferryboat in coastal New England, on Staten Island, in Puget Sound near Seattle, at Ocracoke on the Outer Banks or in some old Western when a train of covered wagons has to get across a big river.

Jeff Pikulsky can be reached via e-mail or at 724-684-2635. For the last 31 years Cora Ducoeur has run the more than century-old Orange's Gift Department Store in downtown Charleroi, she has specialized in selling specialty items.

An Elrama man died yesterday from injuries he suffered in a motorcycle accident in Fredericktown on Sunday.

For more than 200 years, ferrying people across the Monongahela River here has been a necessity.

Lance: To Westmoreland commissioners' contract conundrum. County leaders who demonize anyone challenging their fiscal prowess should have employed a tad more oversight themselves in a contract awarded to a Monroeville firm.

A Monongahela River ferry service that has survived for two centuries is expected to be scrapped when a new bridge opens around the bend in three years.