Avella News

" As layer after layer of debris is removed from the abandoned Lincoln National Bank, rich architectural details that once made it an Avella showpiece are being revealed.

An Avella, Pennsylvania landowner is suing an energy company for polluting his soil and water in an attempt to link a natural gas drilling technique with environmental contamination.

The Independence Township Supervisors accepted bids for two contracts for the construction of an estimated $550,000 municipal building.

This article has been read 120 times. Trinity Area School District will not give perfect attendance awards this year.

This article has been read 105 times. When Sabrina Mangin of Avella brought her newborn son home from the hospital 11 months ago, she feared she was just going to have to accept her weariness from sleepless nights and difficulty calming her son.

Westminster College awarded undergraduate degrees to 10 students at the completion of the summer term.

WELLSBURG a ' Tami Briggs of Wellsburg and Homer Briggs of Avella announce the engagement of their daughter, Patricia, to William Poling, son of Steve and Barbara Poling of Wellsburg.

President Barack Obama gave a nonpartisan back-to-school video message to students Tuesday, urging them to stay in school and make responsible choices.

Washington and Greene county starting teacher salaries this year range from $27,500 at Fort Cherry to $42,625 at Trinity, while maximum salaries range from $57,175 in West Greene to $94,084 in Peters Township.

Some children in Washington and Greene counties will watch President Barack Obama speak to public school students at noon Tuesday, but others will not.

A rural museum's new replication of an Indian village is surrounded by a palisade with pointed fence posts singed black at their tops by fire.

The Avella Area School board heard a proposal from Lori Lochran, Classrooms of the Future teacher, to create a hybrid cyber school during its regularly scheduled meeting Aug.

" President Barack Obama's economic stimulus bill couldn't have come at a better time for a costly rural sewerage project in Washington County.

The exhaust from the tractor pull. The nachos, popcorn and pizza that can be consumed between rides.

"It's something no one else has," said Rice, Avella resident and owner of Alice's Rolling Restaurant, who operates a food stand at the Washington County Fair.

Karl Gorman Taylor Jr. was only a lad of five years old when his father U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt.

A Medal of Honor flag ceremony is planned Saturday at Independence Cemetery for the family of Marine Staff Sgt.

While the course was different, the Debbie Green 5K Run and Walk had the same result as in previous years - another success and another close race.

Though it has its roots in 14th-century England, apple pie is American through and through.

A dairy farmer in Avella survived Vietnam, bringing home a Silver Star and three Purple Harts, but the challenges he has faced on his farm have been a different kind of struggle.