Ohiopyle News

With gas trapped deep underground in the Marcellus Shale, surveying companies have been eyeing the 20,000-acre Ohiopyle State Park as a possible gold mine for exploration.

The state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and Ohiopyle Borough are considering a land swap that could benefit both the borough and Ohiopyle State Park.

Bill Wade's "Rick Miller and Abe Lincoln" The screening series offers a program of locally produced short documentaries, including several produced for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Web site by P-G photographers.

Noteworthy: Tavares was appointed by Gov. Ed Rendell to the state Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council.

Raymond H. Bubb makes birdhouses. Unfortunately for the birds, the structures hardly ever make it outside.

The recent snowstorms caused an array of problems throughout Western Pennsylvania as roads were impassable with heavy snow and ice.

The Youghiogheny River flows over the falls in Ohiopyle. Upstream, the Youghiogheny Reservoir is being drawn down to prepare for the anticipated deluge that melting snow and rain will bring.

Handmade in PA, a blog supporting arts 'n' crafts in the Keystone State, has posted a fun feature on artsy stops along Route 40 in southwestern Pennsylvania.

As one of six Trail Towns on the Great Allegheny Passage, Connellsville is part of a Preserve America program to protect and retain its rich architectural resources.

The parents of eight children allegedly given a toxic substance last year while they were enrolled in the former YMCA Child Development Center in South Connellsville have sued the center's operators and several former staff members.

Fayette County commissioners renewed their contract with a Mechanisburg company to seek grants on its behalf.

The bridge carrying the Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail over the Pennsylvania Turnpike will be torn down.

Two local authors have new releases in 2009 that are both local and beyond the living world.

Mountain Watershed Association members and other friends of the Youghiogheny River pulled together recently to raise money for legal defense fees as the association continues its fight to keep Amerikohl Mining from creating a proposed 480-acre strip mine on the banks of the Youghiogheny River, near Camp Carmel.

Saltlick Township supervisors held a public hearing concerning the Fayette County Mountain Area Multi-Municipal Comprehensive Plan, which they plan to adopt next year.

Firefighters from five Fayette County departments worked for more than three hours Saturday to extinguish a fire that destroyed a barn near Ohiopyle, a fire company officer said.

Ohiopyle Stewart Community Center will hold Breakfast with Santa at 10 a.m. Dec.

The father of a 14-year-old boy killed March 31 in an ATV accident in Dunbar said Thursday he would continue to fight for justice for his son.

Paranormal investigator Don Wagner of Finleyville with Marci McGuinness of Ohiopyle have written "Hauntings of Pittsburgh and the Laurel Highlands," outlining 28 investigations of supernatural activities.

Dominion, one of the nation's largest producers and transporters of energy, has given a $5,000 grant to the Friends of Ohiopyle in Fayette County, which works to improve and preserve the ecological and geological features of Ohiopyle State Park and watershed.