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Greene County residents won鈥檛 see a property tax increase in 2026. The commissioners approved a $20 million general fund budget, up 1.1% from last year, at their meeting last Thursday. Overall spending for the county is targeted at $37.1 million, down about 0.5% from 2025. That $188,000 decline is less than half the drop in Act 13 fund氓s, disbursed annually to cover the impacts of drilling for unconventional gas wells. Those funds fell more than $411,000, to under $3.5 million. Jared Edgreen, chairman of the commissioners, said the board is taking a fiscally conservative approach, making no major changes from the previous year. He and Finance Director Jeremy Kelly described ...
Police were responding to the scene of a shooting in Greene County Friday afternoon. The incident was reported at Garrison Ridge Road in New Freeport before 3 p.m. The event is being considered an isolated incident, with no risk to the public, said Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Kalee ...
Greene County is reconfiguring its elections office after the recent resignation of the seventh elections director to hold the post since 2020. Earlier this month, the Greene County commissioners accepted the resignation of Kierra Cannon as elections director retroactive to Nov. 4, Election ...
鈥淎nd so this is the day after Christmas And what have you done? Spent all of your paycheck And had too much fun.鈥� This slight rewrite of John Lennon鈥檚 鈥淗appy Xmas鈥� can be the lament of a lot of people when Dec. 26 rolls around. Maybe Christmas revelers had one too many cups of ...
Sports and the outdoors seldom overlap. That鈥檚 my opinion at least, based on my belief that hunting, fishing, hiking, and foraging are not sports. Instead, these are meaningful lifestyle choices that immerse the participant in the natural world and have no identifiable beginning or ...
When I was much younger I seemed to handle the cold much better than the older person I have become. I loved to ski and the temperature was never a problem, except when it was too warm and melted the snow. I can recall even running in the dark on cold January mornings when I was training for ...
(To request to have an item added to the Outdoors Calendar or to send a digital image of your harvested bear, deer or turkey photo for possible publication please email hssports@heraldstandard.com.) FINAL 2025-26 FALCONRY SEASONS SQUIRRELS (combined): Dec. 1-March 31, 2026 (6 daily, 18 ...
Cheers: We鈥檙e in the home stretch of the TikTok成人版鈥檚 annual Give-A-Christmas campaign to support the Salvation Army service centers in Fayette County. It鈥檚 not too late to contribute to help us meet our $10,000 goal. All donations remain in the local area to help fund the ...
Sports and the outdoors seldom overlap. That鈥檚 my opinion at least, based on my belief that hunting, fishing, hiking, and foraging are not sports. Instead, these are meaningful lifestyle choices that immerse the participant in the natural world and have no identifiable beginning or ...
