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1 week ago | 
alleghenyfront.org | Glynis Board
This story comes from our partner, 90.5 WESA. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has begun its annual Black Fly Suppression Program. Black flies are gnat-sized — much smaller than house flies. They like to swarm human heads and aren’t dismayed or dispersed by swatting. They get in your ears and eyes, and sometimes bite.
The suppression program’s goal is to make adult black fly populations tolerable during the spring and summer recreational season.
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1 week ago | 
wesa.fm | Glynis Board
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has begun its annual Black Fly Suppression Program. Black flies are gnat-sized — much smaller than house flies. They like to swarm human heads and aren’t dismayed or dispersed by swatting. They get in your ears and eyes, and sometimes bite. The suppression program’s goal is to make adult black fly populations tolerable during the spring and summer recreational season.
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1 week ago | 
wesa.fm | Glynis Board
For Lisa Freeman, every step toward opening the Freeman Family Farm Store has been a leap of faith, and not all landings have been smooth. Since she came to Manchester in 2009, she’s learned how to cultivate everything from kale and potatoes to permaculture gardens and greenhouses. Now with the opening of her new store, she faces another uphill battle: the free marketplace. That’s because Freeman isn’t doing things the way most small, corner grocery stores do.
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1 month ago | 
wesa.fm | Glynis Board
The Communications Workers of America union announced Thursday that striking production and advertising workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have accepted a buyout offer. The buyouts come after the Post-Gazette outsourced production of its print edition to the Butler Eagle.
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1 month ago | 
alleghenyfront.org | Glynis Board
This story is part of our series, Wild Pennsylvania. Check out all of our stories here. Pennsylvania’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources wants forest owners to help fight spongy moths — formerly known as gypsy moths. Spongy moths pose a serious threat to oaks, as well as witch hazel, aspen, willows and a slew of other species across the commonwealth.
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1 month ago | 
wesa.fm | Glynis Board
Pennsylvania’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources wants forest owners to help fight spongy moths — formerly known as gypsy moths. Spongy moths pose a serious threat to oaks, as well as witch hazel, aspen, willows and a slew of other species across the commonwealth. The nonnative forest pest was accidentally introduced to North America in the 1860s, has been plaguing Pennsylvania forests since the 1970s, and is responsible for killing millions of oak.
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2 months ago | 
wesa.fm | Glynis Board
The iconic dinosaur exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History will undergo renovations over the next several years. The museum announced Wednesday a $25 million gift from Daniel and Carole Kamin will not only revamp that space, but also sustain the museum’s research. It’s the largest individual gift the natural history museum has received since Andrew Carnegie founded Carnegie Museums in 1895.
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2 months ago | 
wesa.fm | Glynis Board
Director of the McKeesport Community Newsroom Martha Rial has been a working photo journalist for nearly 40 years. “20 of those years were at daily newspapers,” Rial said. She said she wanted to serve community, so when an opportunity came up to manage this community newsroom in McKeesport in 2018, she jumped at it. “We help adults and teens tell their story. It's really that simple. Our goal is to share untold stories of the McKeesport area.
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2 months ago | 
americanpressinstitute.org | Glynis Board |Lilly Chapa
When I came to WESA in June 2023, I immediately faced a staff-wide request to help assess the cultural health of the organization by answering a third-party survey. While I had no complaints and was happy to see WESA unionizing, it was difficult to avoid being candid about the fact that most of my colleagues are as white as I am and seemingly from higher socioeconomic brackets — in stark contrast to much of the Pittsburgh community we serve.
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2 months ago | 
wvia.org | Glynis Board
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture confirmed the state’s first positive case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) Monday. The department the farm in eastern Pennsylvania and all surrounding commercial poultry facilities are quarantined — restricting the movement of poultry products within a roughly 6-mile radius of the infected flock. The virus was found in a 50,000-bird flock on a commercial poultry farm in Lehigh County.
