Shining the Light: Crosspoint
There’s a new church in Waynesburg that has taken on the mission of the 21st century with a cheerful nod...
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!
There’s a new church in Waynesburg that has taken on the mission of the 21st century with a cheerful nod...
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Read moreDetailsPhoto: Santa and Mrs. Claus waved at photographer Steve Barrett when they made it safely to the Christmas Parade in...
Read moreDetailsSometimes the light shines a little late. I had finally tracked down a contact number for St. George’s Episcopal Church,...
Read moreDetailsW hat’s not to love about the State Game Lands of Greene County? They are wild and wonderful, a refuge...
Read moreDetailsI first saw this old family photograph in the 1990s when visiting Terry and Jane Cole at their log cabin home...
Read moreDetailsThe moss green Edwardian house with the high turret at 720 E. Greene Street, Waynesburg has a sign in the...
Read moreDetailsMethodists were ready to be good disciples in colonial America – there were souls to be served as religious freedom...
Read moreDetailsThe house was right over there,” Eugene Lemley leans out the car window, pointing to the middle of Lake Wilma....
Read moreDetailsComing south into Blacksville on State Route 218 is a sharp right curve into history that once had no line...
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