Rain wet the wool, but it couldn’t dampen the spirits for the second annual Running of the Wools in Washington. Crowds of people flocked to the city’s downtown business district Saturday for the festival to celebrate Washington County’s agricultural history, with the featured attraction of sheep racing down South Main Street. The heat race winners […]
In her 1970 classic “Big Yellow Taxi,” Joni Mitchell laments the use of insecticides and asks of farmers, “Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.” In 2019, researchers affiliated with Cornell University issued a study finding that the population of birds in the United States and Canada […]
As of 8:10 a.m. Thursday, a number of roads remain closed in Fayette and Washington counties due to flooding and landslides. The state Department of Transportation is urging motorists to never drive through flooded roadways, as it takes just two feet of fast-moving water to float a car. Fayette County Route 201 (both directions) […]
Flood watches are in effect throughout Southwestern Pennsylvania through Thursday morning, with as much as four inches of rain predicted to fall today in lower portions of the region – including Fayette and Greene counties – as a result of severe storms. Flooding has been reported in several areas, with one motorist in East Bethlehem […]