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The Hometown Holiday Parade was the first large-scale event Ashley LaPier had ever organized.

Neshannock Creek Brewing and Union Station Craft Distillery both had grand opening celebrations on Sept. 23.

The public is invited to a free health and wellness fair Thursday at the Hempfield office of nonprofit Disability Options Network. No registration is required for the event, set for 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Eastgate Plaza shopping center on Route 30 east of Greensburg. Those who attend

Christopher Lloyd passed away in Hermitage, Pennsylvania. This is the full obituary story where you can express condolences and share memories. Services by None.

Disability Options Network, a Center for Independent Living, will host a demonstration session featuring durable medical equipment and new mobility devices at 9 a.m. Wednesday at its 831 Harrison St.

Residents can donate gently-used items at North Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday.

The University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg and the Westmoreland Diversity Coalition are presenting a virtual speaker series to shed light on the ways different people have been marginalized and subjected to biases and hate crimes. The third annual Growth Through Knowledge and Understanding series begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday with

The event is sponsored by UPMC and Allegheny County Parks Department.

Mandy McCoy wants you to listen. She knows that you will look. That you will see her wheelchair and how her fist steers the stick that makes it stop or go. That you might notice that her head wobbles a tad to the right, but maybe not because her smile is big and blushed with joy when her blue-green eyes meet yours. Mandy wants people to look into her eyes. “That tells me that you respect me,” she said. For that, she is grateful because respect she knows is earned, more so when your body can...