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Courtesy of Dave Brooke | Audubon Society of Western PA Buffalo Creek in Armstrong and Butler counties came in third place for the 2021 Pennsylvania River of the Year.   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Although the 82-mile-long Shenango River in Northwestern Pennsylvania earned recognition as Pennsylvania’s 2021 River of the Year, promoters of Southwestern Pennsylvania’s Buffalo and Loyalhanna creeks said they were happy to see their waterways finish in the Top 5. Sponsored by the state Department of ...

Courtesy of Lower Burrell Volunteer Fire Company No. 3 Firefighters from Lower Burrell Volunteer Fire Company No. 3 showed off their newly refurbished fire engine last September.   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. It’s food trucks galore with Lower Burrell Volunteer Fire Company No. 3 scheduling three themed roundups with up to 16 food trucks and craft beer. The events are set for May 1, July 24 and Oct. 9. Although the pandemic caused Lower Burrell No. 3 and Kinloch (fire company No. 1), to cancel thei...

Registration opens Monday for the fourth annual Officer Brian Shaw Memorial Scholarship Ride set for Aug. 21. The ride through the Alle- Kiski Valley benefits a scholarship fund that reimburses graduates from the Allegheny County Police Training Academy. Shaw, a New Kensington police officer, was shot and killed after a traffic stop and foot chase in 2017. The motorcycle ride topped out with more than 760 motorcycles in 2019, but was capped last year at 500 bikes, with a post-ride celebration pared down, because of pandemic restrictions. “Although we had our bump in the road last year, we w...

Courtesy of Mike Sinowski   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. The Armstrong County Commissioners are donating $15,000 of the $100,000-plus needed to pay to open five locks on the Allegheny River in Armstrong County for recreational boaters on summer weekends. The Allegheny River Development Corp., a nonprofit group of boaters and river supporters, contracts with the U.S. Army Corps to open five locks in Armstrong County for recreational boating on weekends in the summer. In the last decade, the Corps cut h...

USDA Wildlife Services USDA Wildlife Services technician Thomas Wilson holding a short-eared owl ready for relocation after it was captured at the Pittsburgh International Airport. USDA Wildlife Services Pittsburgh International Airport Wildlife Administrator Ben Shertzer assisting USDA Wildlife Services biologist Nathan Swigart with banding a captured peregrine falcon.   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Catching the fastest bird alive, the peregrine falcon, is another day at office for bird control exper...