Posts by Kris Mamula
A jarring ride: county applies for grant to replace Casselman River Bridge
Biked the wooden bridge across the Casselman River in Confluence lately? Yeah, so have we. Pretty bumpy. Teeth rattling, maybe, depending on your speed. Most of the boards on the…
Read MoreBig development planned for Somerset business park
An Ohio-based commercial real estate investment company plans to develop a one-million-square-foot building in the Laurel Highlands Business Park in Somerset, creating jobs and spurring economic development, county commissioners announced…
Read MoreRoth Family Farms eyes expanded farm market in Lower Turkeyfoot
A few years back, Kelly and Tim Roth came to a realization: they needed fewer farm animals or more land. They chose more land. The couple, both in their 40s…
Read MoreCountywide ATV trail debated in Somerset: ‘Let’s make some money.’
Somerset County Commissioner Brian Fochtman lives in Brothersvalley Township, where all-terrain vehicles are prohibited on public streets. But ATVs using township roads in Brothersvalley and elsewhere – “riding dirty” in…
Read MoreFlash flooding recovery efforts underway: ‘We’ll make it’
United Community Church of God in Ursina has become the command center for recovery operations from Tuesday’s storm and flash flooding. Hundreds of five-gallon buckets full of clean up supplies…
Read MoreATV hearing Thursday in Somerset
Creating an interconnected trail for ATV buggies in Somerset County will be the topic of a public meeting Thursday Aug. 13 in Somerset. Civil & Environmental Consultants Inc. will conduct…
Read MoreOpinions Matter
News & Views is a jazzed up version of a newsletter that longtime journalist Larry Walsh put together for years for people who live in Confluence. That’s not going to…
Read MoreRace winner praises Mount Davis Challenge: ‘It’s a tough course
Michael Reidenbach took first place in the men’s CAT 1/2 of the Mount Davis Challenge bicycle race Sunday, with a total time of 2:50:44.67 and a pace time of 21.1…
Read MoreStop already! Berlin drugstore files lawsuit to stop junk faxes
Berlin Pharmacy has had it up to here with junk faxes. Jonico Inc., which does business as Somerset County’s Berlin Pharmacy, filed a one-count civil lawsuit July 9 in the…
Read MoreIran war pressures home heating oil prices
On my kitchen wall is a picture looking down a snowy Sterner Street sidewalk at a path cut by my antique snowblower, a reminder of last winter’s bitter cold. The…
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