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Pennsylvania Freeze Relief Grants for Fruit Growers Close September 21
PA's $10 million Fruit Grower Freeze Disaster Assistance Recovery Grant covers apple, pear, peach, cherry, grape, and berry losses from the April freeze.
A $13 Billion Power Plant Is Coming to Fayette County
NextEra's $13 billion East Riverside Energy Center would rise on old coal ground along the Monongahela in Fayette County, with an estimated 30 million gallons a day drawn from the river. Here's what's confirmed, what isn't, and how to weigh in.
Closed Confluence Foodmart goes up for sale – with nearby home
The owners of the former Confluence Foodmart are looking for someone to take over the closed grocery – with a nearby three-bedroom house on Williams Street also on the market.…
Big 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…
Roth 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…
Shapiro Sets Strict New Rules for Data Centers
Gov. Josh Shapiro signed an executive order requiring data center developers to win local approval, cover their own power costs and meet strict standards.
Countywide 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…
Amazon Eyes Homer City Energy Campus for a Data Center
Amazon has confirmed it is in talks with Homer City Redevelopment about a data center campus beside the 4.5-gigawatt gas plant rising in Indiana County.