Perryopolis News

This article has been read 139 times. A Canton Township church was preparing Christmas presents last month for a unit serving in Afghanistan when the mission suddenly faced tragic consequences.

The Fayette County Zoning Hearing Board delayed ruling Wednesday on a Washington County-based company's request for a special exception for a substance-abuse treatment facility in Perry Township.

Dawson Volunteer Fire Co. will hold a Halloween dance from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday at its fire hall.

Ghosts and ghouls and other surprises will haunt Sampey Park on Halloween night.

Area trick-or-treat events are set as follows: * Bullskin: Oct. 31, trick-or-treat from 3 to 6 p.m. * Connellsville: Sunday, trick-or-treat from 4 to 5 p.m.; Oct.

The Dawson/Perryopolis Area Salvation Army Service Unit will hold signup for Christmas baskets and toys from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at the Dawson Volunteer Fire Department on Galley Street in Dawson.

Pioneer Days officially begins today in Perryopolis with something new being offered this year.

Community support: We encourage the community to travel to the Fayette County borough of Perryopolis this weekend where the annual Pioneer Days is being celebrated.

The annual Perryopolis Pioneer Days will return Saturday and Sunday with two full days of food, entertainment and Civil War re-enactment battles.

Long-time customers like Dolores Logodya attest to the freshness and quality of products that have been a mainstay at The Big Barn Country Store & Deli in Perryopolis for more than half a century.

Hundreds of spectators are expected to crowd the streets of Perryopolis next weekend as the Perryopolis Area Heritage Society prepares for its 23rd annual Pioneer Days festival.

A group of men originally from the Lower Tyrone area gather occasionally at The Dump for breakfast and memories of a lost era.

A Fayette County woman is accused of robbing a man of $500 at an automated banking machine then stashing the cash in a body cavity to hide it from police.

All that remains of the black, baby grand piano that Jean Livingstone played for the congregation at Grace Baptist Church in Redstone, Fayette County, is a small pile of charred piano strings.

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission released the name of a 47-year-old man who was thrown overboard yesterday afternoon during a boat accident on the Youghiogheny Dam Reservoir in Somerset County.

The body of a Perryopolis man believed to have drowned Monday afternoon was recovered at Youghiogheny Dam Reservoir in Somerset County.

A Fayette County man has been identified as the drowning victim divers are searching for at Yough Dam Reservoir in Somerset County, authorities said today.

Mark Hofmann can be reached via e-mail or at 724-626-3539. A Civil War reenactment troupe has recently finished building a new section behind Sampey Park in Perryopolis and plan on using it to reveal the lives of the past.

Bob Frye covers the outdoors for the Tribune-Review. He can be reached via e-mail . Anglers fishing the Conemaugh River this past week reported catching bass and northern pike on shiners and creek chubs.

The Fayette County Zoning Hearing Board has postponed a hearing on a proposed methadone clinic in Perry Township.