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Pennsylvania American Water is completing upgrades costing more than $11 million at its E.H. Aldrich Water Treatment Plant in the Washington County community of Elrama. The company says the upgrades will strengthen “drinking water reliability, efficiency, and safety,” and will affect about 527,000 customers in Washington and Allegheny counties, according to a news release. About $8 million is being allocated for upgrades of the treatment plant’s raw water intake and pump station. These upgrades became necessary, according to Pennsylvania American Water, as a result of water levels in the Monongahela River dropping by three to five feet when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...
Monongahela police charged a former Greene Washington Regional Police officer Wednesday for evading police nearly a month ago. Nathanael Charles Ferree, 43, of McKeesport, faces a felony charge of fleeing or attempting to elude an officer, and summary traffic violations of failure to yield to an emergency vehicle, reckless driving and driving at a safe speed. According to the criminal complaint, the charges stem from an incident that occurred at 11:42 a.m. March 22 when police saw Ferree driving north on State Route 837 in New Eagle at a high rate of speed. Charging documents state that Ferree was driving in excess of 84 mph in zones where the speed limit is 35 mph and 45 mph. ...
That guy in the Dos Equis beer ads might be the Most Interesting Man in the World, but Michael Zagaris could well be a close second. He was at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on the night in 1968 when Robert Kennedy was assassinated and slipped on Kennedy’s blood. He lived with Peter ...
The Greene County Board is looking ahead to days of anglers and hikers at the Wisecarver Reservoir & Recreation Area. Thursday, the board approved a bid for work on the second phase of work at the reservoir, as well as a grant request for the third phase. Work will begin early this summer ...
The Washington County commissioners are poised to move their federal- and state-allocated funding back to the locally-based food bank more than five years after county officials began directing that money to the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank to help fight food insecurity here. The ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Cedric Mullins led off the 13th inning with a two-run home run and the Tampa Bay Rays outlasted the Pittsburgh Pirates 8-7 on a rainy Saturday night. Mullins' blast to right field off Yohan Ramirez scored automatic runner Jonny DeLuca. Mullins entered the day hitting just ...
Back in the late 1980s, in my ski bum days, I had the opportunity to ski some of the coolest places in America: Keystone, Breckenridge, Copper Mountain, Arapahoe Basin, Vail, Winter Park, Wolf Creek, just to name a few. It was 130-plus days per season. Some of the best days included tree skiing ...
PITTSBURGH — Travis Sanheim scored the go-ahead goal midway through the third period and the Philadelphia Flyers announced their return to the playoffs with a 3-2 win over Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night. Philadelphia pulled off a stunner in the opener when ...
Periodically, a news story comes across my iPad that I just can’t stop thinking about. This story started like this: “On February 21 police officers were dispatched to a bar.” That opening line drew me in almost as fast as “A Florida man ..." “The caller was the bartender,” and ...
You've seen them — those odd planters that look like buildings with windows and balconies on their sides. Maybe you've planted strawberries in them. Or maybe you've just never understood them. Typically made of terracotta, the pots are usually tall and urn-shaped, but shorter, wider ...
