By Lois Thomson

If you check out the website for the PONY League World Series, you'll see a time clock clicking down the number of days, hours, minutes, and even seconds until the start of the 2021 Series. Oh yeah, they're looking forward to it.

The Belle Vernon Area Mon Valley football dynasty began with coach Jeff Petrucci’s 1978 and 1979 Big 10 conference championship teams. 

The YCC Women’s 9-Hole Golf membership is a part of the the Ladies Golf Association of Youghiogheny Country Club (YCC), and consists of beginning golfers and ladies who prefer to play only nine holes of organized golf.  Ladies Golf Day is Thursday, but some special events are played on other days of the week. There are also Saturday tournaments and holiday events to accommodate working women golfers.

Two prominent Major League Baseball scouts with combined tenures of over 100 years passed away in 2020. Both Fred Uhlman and George Zuraw were Charleroi High School graduates within a year of each other in the late 1940s. In 2002, Uhlman was recognized as the Scout of the Year by Major League Baseball while seven years earlier in 1995 Charleroi High baseball teammate Zuraw won the same scouting distinction. Both epitomized the importance of baseball in Charleroi especially in the 1940s.