Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Snow and rain is predicted.
The National Weather Service has issued a flood advisory for the Ohio River in Pittsburgh. The river at The Point is forecast to rise above 18 feet by Thursday evening, which will flood the Monongahela River Parking Wharf. The weather service forecasts the Ohio to crest at around 18.5 feet by early Friday morning and then fall below 18 feet by Friday evening. Here's a look at, roughly, the Baldwin-Whitehall forecast through Sunday night from the National Weather Service: This forecast, of course, is subject to change. Should you take any weather-related photos, contribute to Patch by adding them to this article. Just click on one of the green "Upload Photos and Videos" buttons above! And please tell us about troubled spots in the comments …
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Volunteers raise funds for area development by jumping into the Mon' River as part of the annual Pittsburgh Polar Plunge.
Hundreds of Pittsburghers successively broke the world's 3-meter doggypaddle record on New Year's Day after braving 36-degree temperatures to jump into the Monongahela River. And nearly 30 of those record-breakers were community leaders and volunteers from Brentwood, Baldwin and Whitehall boroughs. The Brentwood-Baldwin-Whitehall folks, headed by John F. Slater—owner of the John F. Slater Funeral Home in Brentwood and the board chair of Economic Development South—accepted sponsorships of varying amounts to make good on their promise of arctic swimming. All told, over $4,000 were raised to be split between Economic Development South (EDS), the Brentwood-Baldwin-Whitehall Chamber of Commerce, the Brentwood Business Owners Association and the…
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Take part in a great cause on New Year's Day.
If you can think of a better way to support development projects in Brentwood, Baldwin and Whitehall boroughs, please let us know. But for now, we're jumping into the Mon'. Baldwin-Whitehall Patch Editor Bob Healy—that's me—will join the crazy folks from the Brentwood-Baldwin-Whitehall Chamber of Commerce, the Brentwood Business Owners Association, Economic Development South and the Brentwood Park Initiative in a New Year's Day Polar Plunge into the Monongahela River. Participants—open to all people—will try to raise funds by obtaining sponsors for their 9:30 a.m. plunges that day. The participants will meet at their launching pad—the Monongahela River Parking Wharf, or "Mon Wharf"—to bask in the warmth of their community before basking in…
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Robert Edward Healy, III
4:01 pm on Thursday, January 3, 2013
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