Here’s a look at lunch menus for local centers for next week: (All menus may be subject to change.)

With autumn in the air and Halloween looming, bring some spookiness to your vacation with a haunted itinerary. These chilling destinations offer spine-tingling histories, unexplained phenomena and the...

• International Day of the Girl (all women’s and girl’s clothing 50% off) Care & Share thrift store, 227 Third St., California, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. • Snowy’s chocolates (Granny Smith apples with chocolat...

The Belle Vernon Moose, 1026 Broad Ave., North Belle Vernon, will host a dance from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday with DJ Dennis providing the music. From 5 to 6 p.m., free line dancing instruction will be held...

The Mon Valley has produced a number of Hollywood film stars such as Shirley Jones and Frances McDormand, but perhaps no star from the region shined as bright as Olive Thomas. Thomas’s short but tragi...

Catholic Daughters of the Americas Monessen Court 776 met Sept. 17 in the Epiphany of Our Lord church hall. A courtroom installation was conducted by District Deputy Laraine McGinnis. Installed were t...

The Monongahela Veterans Council will meet 7 p.m. Friday at VFW Post 1409, 793 E. Main St., Monongahela. Discussion will be held on upcoming events and activities scheduled for the remainder of this y...

Valley Garden Club held its monthly meeting Sept. 12 at Lynnwood Lutheran Church in Washington Township. Eighteen members were in attendance. In the absence of President Roxanne Huss, Secretary/Treasu...

• Charleroi Knights of Columbus Father William D. Fries Council 956, including former Monongahela Knights of Columbus Council 2600, meeting in the council hall in St. Andrew the Apostle Parish School,...

Halloween, like many holidays, has evolved. And with it, some of the traditions that once defined the celebration have quietly faded away. While modern festivities still capture the spirit of the holi...

Metro Creative Services Drive through a suburban neighborhood in October and it’s likely you will find yards filled with inflatable witches, animatronic grim reapers and makeshift graveyards bearing w...

• “The Waldorf Effect” program by Laurissa Rex, producer, author and psychic who will share tales of the “intense hauntings” at the 180-year-old Waldorf Estate, Monessen Public Library, 326 Donner Ave...

Charleroi Knights of Columbus Father William D. Fries Council 956, including former Monongahela Knights of Columbus Council 2600 members, are reminded of the monthly council meeting Thursday in the co...

The North Belle Vernon Historical Society held its monthly meeting Oct. 1 at the North Belle Vernon Volunteer Fire Department. Discussion centered around progress made and goals to be achieved. The so...

The Elizabeth Township Seniors will meet at 11 a.m. today at Butler’s Rock Run Inn. Vice President Ed Ference will welcome members, and Debbie Gilbert will give the table blessing before lunch, which ...

By the Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A flotilla of hot air balloons ascended into a clear desert sky on Saturday to kick off a colorful mass ascension at the 52nd annual Albuquerque Intern...

DEAR ABBY: My wife and I are both in our mid-50s. Due to a medical issue she has, we rarely have sex. I don’t really think about it very often anymore. Meanwhile, I have a friend, “Edie.” We have been...

• Epiphany Ladies meeting, church hall, Monessen, 6 p.m. • South Hills Coin Club meeting, Bethel Park municipal building, 5100 West Library Ave., 7:30 p.m. • Final Footprints, genealogy program, free ...