I Love This Place: Greene Arc, Inc
What’s not to love about a recycling center? As pandemic lockdowns continue to relax, something like normal is returning to...
Read moreDetailsColleen has been a freelance artist longer than she’s been a journalist but her inner child who read every word on cereal boxes and went on to devour school libraries and tap out stories on her old underwood portable was not completely happy until she became a VISTA outreach worker for Community Action Southwest in 1990. Her job – find out from those who live here what they need so that social services can help fill the gaps.
“I went in to the Greene County Messenger and told Jim Moore I’d write for free about what was going on in the community and shazam! I was a journalist!”
Soon she was filing stories about rural living with the Observer-Reporter, the Post-Gazette and the GreeneSaver (now GreeneScene).
Colleen has been out and about in rural West Greene since 1972. It was neighbors who helped her patch fences and haul hay and it would be neighbors who told her the stories of their greats and great-greats and what it was like back in the day.
She and neighbor Wendy Saul began the Greene Country Calendar in 1979, a labor of love that is ongoing.
You guessed it – she loves this place!
What’s not to love about a recycling center? As pandemic lockdowns continue to relax, something like normal is returning to...
Read moreDetailsThis undated snapshot of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church on the corner of Franklin Street and Fruit Alley shows it...
Read moreDetailsIt was a finger numbing 20 degrees on January 18 when people began gathering at the corner of Franklin Street...
Read moreDetailsThe pump in the Denny House side yard is still there – a celebrated throwback, not only to another age...
Read moreDetailsA new street in Waynesburg made its debut this year, right next to the Greene County courthouse. Officially, it is known...
Read moreDetailsThe church that once stood on 32 Church Street in Waynesburg is long gone, but this postcard remains to remind...
Read moreDetailsThis month, Shining the Light takes to the streets. “Be a sermon in your shoes,” is what Mary Jane...
Read moreDetailsThe towering evergreen that appears as if by magic on the Greene County Courthouse steps the Friday after Black Friday...
Read moreDetailsThe cutline on this undated photograph from the Observer-Reporter tells us “members of the Waynesburg Moose erected the community tree...
Read moreDetailsThis year it’s been fun to look back half a century and give a shout out to fifty years of...
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