Denny House: If only the walls could talk
If a house could tell stories, the one that sits at 145 West High Street in Waynesburg would have enough to fill novels. The Denny House was named for the three sisters who lived there, and lived well.
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Catnip Acres: Controlling growing feral cat population
A feral cat will find a way to survive. Its life might not be particularly healthy or
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The little company that does
When the federal government funds bright new ideas in science and technology, local students ready to take on the world of research and discovery have reason to cheer.
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Lock house escapes foreclosure
The lock house at the former Lock and Dam 7 on the Monongahela River at Greensboro still contains the original mechanical equipment that powered the lock during its 68 years in operation.
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Have you met Kyle Hallam?
Some of the art that Kyle Hallam of Jefferson makes is breathtakingly colorful, textured, big and bold. Clay is his medium of choice and it works its way into compositions, along with recycled bits of wire, rope, cardboard and metal, fastened and fashioned into eye-popping visual romps.
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It's all custom-made
It’s an unassuming building, constructed mostly from cinder block. There are few windows and even fewer doors. No signs are visible that would tell a passerby traveling on Golden Oaks Road what business is carried on inside the warehouse-looking structure near the intersection of Routes 18 and 21 just outside of Rogersville.
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Where recipes transcend time
“This was on my bucket list,” Terry Cole admitted, opening the bag that contained the original cookbook and gingerly drawing it forth.
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One man's mission to identify graves
Several years ago, Bill Davison of Waynesburg was taking a walk through Green Mount Cemetery. He had long been dismayed about the condition of stones that were unseated from their bases.
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Tin production drove industry
It’s hard to imagine west Waynesburg was once a manufacturing hub, producing and shipping products all over the United States, but from the early to mid-1900s it was just that.
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Bucktown was boom town
Bucktown has become somewhat of a slur to describe the cluster of working-class homes and mostly industrial businesses just west of Waynesburg.
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