<strong>Editor’s note:</strong> <em>This is a weekly series focusing on the importance of buying local.</em>Since re-opening with limited days and hours in June, Dave Zilka, director of Monessen Public Library, has been happy with the ...
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Community Bank is consolidating six branch offices.CB Financial Services Inc., parent of the bank, announced the moves late Tuesday afternoon. June 30 is the target for the branch closures.Two Washington County locations are scheduled to be shuttered. Monongahela is to be consolidated into ...
Tom Wolf, Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor, is in favor of joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a carbon-reduction program. State Rep. Pam Snyder is opposed.Snyder, D-Jefferson, is concerned that joining RGGI would have a negative effect on her district, which encompasses all of ...
<strong>Editor’s note:</strong> <em>This is a weekly series focusing on the importance of buying local.</em>Unlike other years, many of the local and regional hospitals have put the annual events surrounding American Heart Month this ...
Emily Persico can only guesstimate how many abandoned oil and natural gas wells there are in the United States. And she has a high level of expertise.“Estimates range pretty wildly because we don’t know,” said Persico, a policy analyst for PennFuture, a Harrisburg-based nonprofit that ...
Three-quarters of a century ago, the Pittsburgh area’s air quality was such that the city was derisively referred to as “Hell with the Lid Off.” For decades afterward, steel mills were rampant and so was pollution.Most of those mills disappeared by the late 1980s and the region’s skies ...