The annual Johnny Appleseed Festival kicked off Friday in Sheffield with a sizeable turnout for a Friday afternoon. Opening ceremonies were at 1 p.m. The annual cornhole competition kicked off at 5 p.m. and children’s activities opened then as well. But the real highlight of the event ...

Fall creeps south like a devouring beast, rampaging over the hills and valleys and sending animals fleeing from its path. Tiny birds escape to the south in September, when the first hint of the fall beast’s arrival shows in the changing color of a few leaves here and there. Warblers and ...

Nature is noisy. Tweeting birds, chirping frogs, crunchy leaves, dripping water, and wind, the list goes on. For nature lovers, these sounds are a form of music. Like music, they can convey emotions and meanings as the music changes with the time of day, seasons, or weather. Everyone has ...

The average age of the American service personnel who were killed in Vietnam was just over 23 years old. Many were younger. But many were also older. Paul Harold Abraham, a Pittsfield native, was 38 when he was killed in Bien Hoa province on April 2, 1969 as a member of D Co., 2nd ...

MARIENVILLE — The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service is accepting public comments on a proposal to stabilize the stream bank along Gilfoyle Run by felling or uprooting six trees (spruce and red pine) to create a large wood structure to stabilize the bank and the Penoke ATV Trail. ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service is offering a free, public program guided by its Jess Scutella, its fall artist-in-residence, on Saturday at noon on the Timberdoodle Flats Interpretive Trail in the Allegheny National Forest. The public is invited to join Scutella on a ...