Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Whether they are in the city or country, there are places near home where you can find fresh produce—or get seedlings to grow your own.
To every thing there is a season—and we are in the season of planting. Despite the frost warnings this week, May is the time when many plants take root. And not far behind are the early harvests. There are a number of local farms that provide a variety of seedlings and sprouts, produce, and other products as the growing season progresses. Some are out in the country, while others are urban farms. (Check out the video in this article's media gallery of Garden Dreams Urban Farm & Nursery in Wilkinsburg.) According to the LocalHarvest.org website, most produce in the United States is picked 4-7 days before being placed on supermarket shelves and is shipped for an average of 1,500 miles before being sold. Fortunately for Baldwin-Whitehall …
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170 Simmons Rd, Canonsburg, PA
Simmons Farm
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315 Coleman Rd, Mc Donald, PA
Bedner's Farm and Greenhouse
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3897 Churchview Avenue Ext, Pittsburgh, PA
Churchview Farm
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41 Prestley Rd, Bridgeville, PA
Christoff's Farm and Greenhouses
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1179 Burgettstown Rd, Hickory, PA
Bedillion Honey Farm & Farm Market
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116 Matthews Spur Rd, Eighty Four, PA
Matthews Family Farm and Greenhouse
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Sunday, November 25, 2012
These cases from the Pittsburgh area did not have a happy ending, but finding those missing persons might have brought closure to families.
As early as this July, people in the law enforcement community knew that the remains of Amanda Sue Myers of Pittsburgh had been identified through DNA comparison. However, it was only about a week ago when Pittsburgh police finally released the news. In July, two separate sources told Patch that Myers had been identified but that police wanted to hold off on releasing information until some interviews had been conducted. Amanda, who was 22 years old at the time of her death, was last seen alive in Pittsburgh at the end of 1999 but may have been in Florida and Tennessee as late as April 2000. She was not reported missing until 2007, according to the Pennsylvania Missing Persons website. Known unofficially as Homestead Jane Doe, Amanda was …
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
The decision does not come lightly, as things got heated on Tuesday night. More funds should be coming for the borough's road program, as well.
Chalk one up for the underdogs. Actually, chalk two up. John Conley played the role of swing voter at a special Baldwin Council meeting on Tuesday night, joining fellow Councilmen Bob Collet, Larry Brown and Ed Moeller in support of adding a full-time patrol officer to the Baldwin Borough Police Department roster. The foursome made up an unofficial majority during the meeting—which was scheduled as part of a continued discussion regarding the borough's 2013 budget—when council members couldn't agree on whether or not to add the police officer. Although the borough's 2013 budget hasn't been passed yet—it will have to be before 2012 is over—the trio of council President David Depretis, council Vice President Michael Stelmasczyk and council …
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Baldwin Borough Municipal Complex
3344 Churchview Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
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Sunday, October 14, 2012
A woman's body was discovered in the river near Fox Chapel in 2003, but she has never been identified.
The Allegheny River is pretty in the fall. The colors of the leaves reflect off of the water, and when the sky is blue, it can look like a picture postcard. But sometimes, all that's pretty from a distance isn't as beautiful up close and under the surface. Sometimes, the Allegheny River carries litter, tree limbs and other debris from far upstream. On Oct. 23, 2003, a worker saw something in the middle of the river channel off of Old Freeport Road near the Fox Chapel Yacht Club in O'Hara Township that, at night, looked like garbage. The next day, at approximately 10 a.m., the (debris) came closer to shore. At that point, a worker suspected that it might be a body and called 911. A woman's body, wrapped in a blue blanket and bound with duct…
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1366 Old Freeport Rd, Pittsburgh, PA
Fox Chapel Yacht Club
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Monday, September 24, 2012
A federal judge sentenced Oliver Wynn Herndon on Monday morning to more than 11 years.
A McMurray doctor who was accused of illegally prescribing narcotics and who pleaded guilty in May to health care fraud and all related charges, was sentenced on Monday morning to more than 11 years in prison. Dr. Oliver W. Herndon was sentenced in federal court to 135 months—11 years and 3 months—which is to be followed by three years of supervised release, on his convictions for health care fraud and violating federal narcotics laws, U.S. Attorney David J. Hickton announced on Monday through a news release. U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab imposed the sentence on Herndon, 40, of 311 Braeburn Dr. in Peters Township. Herndon had a medical office in Peters that was searched by federal agents on Feb. 14, 2012, according to the news …
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Do you know where any of these endangered runaways are today?
In this day of Facebook and Twitter, it's almost inconceivable that missing people cannot eventually be found. But just this year, four young women from the greater Pittsburgh area have gone missing and are listed as endangered runaways. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is featuring their cases in hopes of bringing them home. Maybe you know them or where they are. Please share this story on Facebook and Twitter, too, so that more people are watching for them. China Aaliyah Brown Brown, 15, has been missing since July 11 from Pittsburgh. She might be in the company of an adult male and traveling to South Carolina. Brown is described as black, 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing 132 pounds and having black hair and brown eyes…
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
And another for public drunkenness.
The following results are from recent hearings held in the Wallace Building office of Magistrate John N. Bova of District Court 05-2-18: --- Follow the Baldwin-Whitehall Patch on Facebook and Twitter. Sign up for the daily Baldwin-Whitehall newsletter.
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437 Grant St, Pittsburgh, PA
Allegheny County Courthouse
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Wallace Building
41 Macek Dr, Pittsburgh, PA
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Monday, September 10, 2012
Dr. Herndon pleaded guilty to health care fraud.
A McMurray doctor has agreed to pay two insurers a total of $700,000 as part of his sentence for health care fraud and improper drug distribution, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has reported. Oliver Wynn Herndon, 40, of Peters Township, must pay $490,000 to UPMC for You and $210,000 to Gateway Health Plan, according to a stipulation filed in advance of his sentencing, scheduled for Sept. 24, according to the newspaper. Before the court in May, Herndon, who has offices in Pleasant Hills Borough and Peters, pleaded guilty to fraudulently prescribing 10,800 tablets of 30-milligram oxycodone and 3,600 tablets of 30-milligram oxymorphone, resulting in a cost to insurance companies of between $400,000 and $1 million. U.S. District Judge Arthur J. …
Friday, August 3, 2012
Dozens of cases of the West Nile Virus have been found in mosquitoes around western Pennsylvania over the past two months.
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Friday, August 3, 2012
Dozens of cases of the West Nile Virus have been found in mosquitoes around western Pennsylvania over the past two months, but no humans have been infected yet. Allegheny, Washington, Beaver and Fayette counties are currently considered "high risk" areas in Pennsylvania, according to state regulators. A sample of mosquitoes in Baldwin Borough tested postive on July 26. Other areas that have been impacted are the City of Pittsburgh, with dozens of reports, and Wilkinsburg Borough, with nine cases since July 3. Other areas that have had sporadic positive tests are Bridgeville Borough, Collier Township, Emsworth Borough, Sewickley Borough and Leetsdale Borough (July 19), Ross Township (July 17), Peters Township (July 25 and 26) and Bethel …
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Judge Bova presides at the Wallace Building.
The following results are from recent hearings held in the Wallace Building office of Magistrate John N. Bova of District Court 05-2-18: --- Follow the Baldwin-Whitehall Patch on Facebook and Twitter. Sign up for the daily Baldwin-Whitehall newsletter.
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437 Grant St, Pittsburgh, PA
Allegheny County Courthouse
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40.356599
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Wallace Building
41 Macek Dr, Pittsburgh, PA
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3:12 pm on Friday, December 7, 2012
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