Volunteers turned out to plant trees in New Kensington on Tuesday, and they’ll be needed to plant more on Saturday. Students from Valley High School; members of the Pucketos Garden Club; and volunteers from Sunnyside, a medical marijuana dispensary, were among those who joined staff from the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy
Harrison resident Sharon Ellis spent much of Tuesday morning weeding and mulching around the trees that dot the grass outside the Highlands High School football stadium along California Avenue. “Trees are good for the health of the community and it’s important that you take care of them properly,” Ellis said,
Jim Mazur grew up in the 1950s along Center Street in Natrona, just a block away from the former Penn Salt Manufacturing Co. and an accompanying row of Federal Street homes where his grandfather, the local justice of the peace, lived. The houses, about 20 of them, are long gone,