Getting any first-year program off the ground can be a challenge, but Franklin Regional is handling the move rather seamlessly.

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Residents of the Holiday Hills mobile home park in Murrysville are cautiously optimistic after property managers say regular water service was restored.

Delmont Council is looking at borough properties it can add to Shields Farm in order to mitigate a minor lease that doesn’t comply with federal covenants governing the land’s use.

Seven innings were not enough to decide a winner between neighboring rivals Plum and Franklin Regional in a Class 5A nonsection softball game Wednesday afternoon at a chilly and windy Franklin Regional High School.

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Jerry Deible of Murrysville can remember standing on the ground at a Vietnam firebase in the early 1970s, staring up at a massive C-130 airplane passing overhead.

Franklin Regional swimming coach Dan Taylor talked before the season about a bright future.

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Standouts Toryn Fulton and Ciara Camacho are finally seniors — it seems like they have been in the Panthers lineup for much longer than four years — so that means one more season of bashing softballs to the gaps and over fences.