Re-enactors portraying a young George Washington and his guide float down the Youghiogheny River from the Confluence outflow campgrounds Thursday in a makeshift log raft as they recreated his exploratory voyage that happened 272 years ago. Washington launched the expedition down the Yough on ...
After sewer system issues at the Greene County Historical Society and Museum threatened a lengthy delay, it will reopen next month thanks to an influx of community support. Just before its opening weekend at the start of May, the museum in Franklin Township announced an indefinite closure ...
A Washington-based real estate agent, the house she sold locally and the North Carolina transplants who bought it will be featured on national TV next week. “House Hunters,” a long-running reality series on HGTV, will stop in Southwestern Pennsylvania on Wednesday night for a show that ...
Federal, state, county and municipal offices will be closed Monday in observance of Memorial Day. There will be no mail delivery and financial markets will be closed. The Herald-Standard will not publish a print edition.
On May 21, 1976, students and staff at Claysville Elementary School buried a time capsule during America's bicentennial celebration, with instructions for the capsule to be unearthed 50 years later. On Thursday, a different group of Claysville students, along with some former teachers, ...
