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Demolition of old Fort Pitt Brewery buildings underway
After years of complaints, Westmoreland County officially started tearing down the former Fort Pitt Brewery buildings. Laken Cope lives just across the street from the old Fort Pitt Brewery. She said over the last few years, animals — like rabbits and mice — living in the old building started making their way out into neighbor’s yards. “I had to get cats because of the animals,” Cope told Channel 11′s Andrew Havranek. “Now that they’re ripping it down, there will be a lot more, but then it’ll be all gone.”
Home food preservation topic of webinar
Those interested in the fundamentals of home food preservation are invited to a Penn State Extension webinar. “Living on a Few Acres: Food Preservation” will be held online from 6 to 8 p.m. July 25. The session is designed for the novice producer or homesteader and for those looking...
Brick by brick, old Fort Pitt Brewery begins to fall in West Jeannette
Mildred Warren is hoping to get a memento — a brick — from the old Fort Pitt Brewery site in her West Jeannette neighborhood. Her father-in-law worked there in the 1970s when it housed Papercraft Corp., a gift wrap manufacturer. But she will otherwise be happy to put the crumbling complex into her memories.
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