Wild Things debut sensory room at EQT Park
Science teacher Eric Selva is hopeful that the $5,000 Environmental Education grant he received from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in late April will help catalyze a transformation of the outdoor learning area at Charleroi Area High School, giving his students new ways to learn about agriculture. The grant awarded to Charleroi Area is among the $1,019,523 in funding disbursed to 46 environmental education-focused projects across the commonwealth in the latest round of DEP grant funding. “Environmental education is lifelong learning, and whether you are a kid or a kid at heart, these projects will help connect you to the ways we can protect the air we ...
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.
The rainy weekend weather didn't dampen the spirits of festival-goers who visited the Greater Pittsburgh Food Truck Festival at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows, which kicked off its 10th year on Friday. The festival featured more than 50 of Southwestern Pennsylvania's best food trucks, ...
Rich Bierbower impressively was a varsity starter as an underclassmen in both baseball and football at South Union High School but it was his career as a coach and teacher in the Uniontown school district that is his claim to fame. Bierbower was a head coach and assistant coach in football ...
WEDNESDAY, MAY 27 PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 6:40 p.m. HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL WPIAL Playoffs West Greene vs. Jefferson-Morgan at Pleasant Valley Elementary School, 4 p.m.
TORONTO (AP) — Esmerlyn Valdez homered for his first career hit, Spencer Horwitz and Oneil Cruz also connected and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-1 on Sunday to avoid a three-game sweep. Valdez was promoted from Triple-A Indianapolis on Friday and had gone 0 for 7 ...
Memorial Day, a day set aside to honor fallen veterans, is a red letter day for American labor - literally. On Memorial Day 1937, union blood was spilled in Chicago, when 10 were killed and nearly a hundred protesters were injured during a steelworkers' strike rally. It was a tragic, ...
An adolescent owl that was found stuck in a concrete mixer in southwestern Utah is finally on the mend, flying free and maybe a bit wiser from the ordeal. The great horned owl somehow made his way into the truck-mounted mixer in late October and was discovered by workers pouring concrete at ...
