Come Sunday, Allegheny Township residents won’t have to leave town to have their pick of fresh produce, flowers, breads and more with the arrival of the season’s first Allegheny Township Farmers Market. Sunday’s market — from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. — will be the first of five throughout the
An Allegheny Township Boy Scout troop is selling Mother’s Day flowers to raise money for their summer camp trip. Boy Scout Troop 551/6551 of Allegheny Township was at Leo’s Tire Service in Vandergrift selling the flowers. The troop will be back next Saturday to from noon to 5 p.m. The
A popular year-‘round garden center in Allegheny Township is under new ownership. Dave Vargo, former owner of Kiski Garden Center, sold his business Friday for $200,000 to Pat D’Amico of Buffalo Township. Vargo removed a large banner outside his former business that same afternoon as D’Amico looked on and later,
Backyard gardeners and nursery workers are watering like crazy, an area nursery halted tree installations and crop experts are on alert — all because of this summer’s unusually hot, dry weather. “We’re praying for rain,” said Justin Brackenrich, a Penn State Extension agronomist based in Butler County. He reports some
From 8 inches of snow and wind chills in the single digits to 60-degree temperatures in a matter of days, that’s the hairpin turn into spring the weather is making this week. By Wednesday, temperatures will be flirting with 70. “We can thank something called warm advection,” said Jenna Lake,