DCNR official takes tour of Connellsville
From The Uniontown Herald-Standard
By PATTY YAUGER, Herald Standard
CONNELLSVILLE - As a former third-class city mayor and a main street manager, state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources acting Secretary John Quigley understands the plight of Connellsville as the city struggles to revitalize the community.
Rutledge soaks up garden
By BARBARA ORMSBY Times Correspondent
It was a "green" letter day recently when the long-awaited rain gardens at Triangle Park were dedicated with a ribbon-cutting
ceremony.
The rain gardens are designed to help control stormwater and filter and trap pollutants before they can reach Stoney Creek, a tributary of Darby Creek.
When rain water enters the gardens, native plants and soils act as filters to help cleanse water before it flows into the creek.
PEC seeks bids for Ohiopyle Green Infrastructure Project
PEC received funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for the Ohiopyle Borough Green Infrastructure Project.
Bids will accepted now through October 6, 2009 for:
Digging into summer fun
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WILKES-BARRE - Mix tons of mulched soil, about 400 plants, and 10 and 1/2 kids and what do you get? Dirty fingers, a few worms, corny lyrics to an ad-libbed song, and a community garden outside an urban elementary center intended to become an "edible schoolyard."
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Community Garden Planting at Kistler School Rescheduled
The Pennsylvania Environmental Council is partnering with the City of Wilkes-Barre Health Department, the Wilkes-Barre Area School District, The Lands at Hillside Farms, King's College and the Penn State Cooperative Extension/4-H to create a community garden at Kistler Elementary in Wilkes-Barre. The purposed of this collaborative community garden is to educate students not only how to grown their own food but also the health, environmental and economic benefits of locally grown food.
Janelle Stelson, WGAL News Anchor, Program Emcee
2009 Governor's Awards for Environmental Excellence Winners
Construction to Start on Riverfront Greenway
By Jennifer Lin, Inquirer Staff Writer
Bob Borski heads down a long lane off State Road and stops his car at a city park on the Delaware River in Northeast Philadelphia.
The former congressman scans the broad shoulders of the muddy river.
"It's spectacular," Borski said.
"And no one ever gets over here to see it."
