Ohiopyle News

Fayette County commissioners took no action following a hearing to make revisions to an ordinance that permits commercial and residential windmills and wind turbines as a permitted use, rather than by special exception, in areas zoned agricultural, light industrial or heavy industrial.

Playwright Mark Hofmann is hoping to lure individuals away from the haunted houses and cornstalk mazes and into the theaters for two different performances of his ghost story "The Mystic's Mistake" this Halloween season.

Junior Williams was busy with cooking 5,000 pounds of potatoes that Susie Marietta, at left, was slicing into home fries the day before the start of the famous Ohiopyle Buckwheat pancake breakfast that began Friday.

Retired friends Charles "Chuck" Beabout and Warren Leeder have decided not to let their age stop them.

The music of Ohiopyle falls provided a perfect backdrop to the bluegrass that resounded throughout Ohiopyle during the 21st annual Music in the Mountains festival last weekend.

A Stahlstown mining company has appealed a zoning decision that denied it permission to operate a strip mine near Ohiopyle State Park in Fayette County.

A western Pennsylvania town that is home to a popular state park is getting $1.3 million in federal stimulus funds to build a "green" stormwater system and brick parking areas.

Brick-paved parking areas that filter stormwater to rain gardens will be coming soon to Ohiopyle Borough, which will be improved with $1.3 million in federal stimulus funds.

Paddlers shoot over Ohiopyle Falls during the annual Over the Falls festival, the one time a year whitewater enthusiasts are allowed to run those rapids.

There's nothing quite like completing an hours-long bike ride and having your pick of some or all the following creature comforts: A variety of fruit, snacks and cold energy drinks.

In good weather, I like to ride my bike on rail trails. The occasional dust, mud or mine drainage is still better than the potholes and Alpine hills of the public streets.

Five years ago, after a sharp decline in overnight stays and plagued by a poorly chosen location, the hostel in Pittsburgh's Allentown neighborhood permanently shut its doors.

While it's not exactly Pittsburgh's antipode -- that would be somewhere in the Indian Ocean, between the tips of Australia and South Africa -- you can't get much further from here than New Zealand.

Rachel R. Basinger can be reached at rbasinger@tribweb.com or 724-626-3536. Car GPS systems are causing problems for tourists as well as locals in Springfield Township.

When Lois Leonard of Ohiopyle received a tax reassessment notice earlier this month on a two-story frame house and 30-acre farm she owns in Wharton Township, she said she "felt sick" after learning the property assessment was to increase five-fold - from $69,330 to $351,080. On Thursday, Leonard and her husband, Lawrence, left the Fayette County ...

Last month, I wrote that although the Great Allegheny Passage is well known as a cycling trail, I view it in a different light.

When Lois Leonard of Ohiopyle received a tax reassessment notice earlier this month on a two-story frame house and 30-acre farm she owns in Wharton Township, she said she "felt sick" after learning the property assessment was to increase five-fold - from $69,330 to $351,080. On Thursday, Leonard and her husband, Lawrence, left the Fayette County ...

The Connellsville Area School District's summer food service program is offered at no cost to the district or participants.

Judy Kroeger can be reached via e-mail . Fayette County commissioners will hold a public hearing regarding a proposed Historic Resources Overlay of the county zoning ordinance.

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy has acquired an agricultural easement for a farm in Ligonier Township owned and operated by brothers Ray, Jack and Larry Kinsey.