Allegheny Almanac

New Homes, Businesses in the city of Warren

A two-woman, five-man crew Saturday finishes the framing on a new house built by Habitat for Humanity on Walnut Street on Warren's West Side. See article at this link.

You can either move to a new location or change the way your old home looks. Either way it will be a new home. People, businesses,and organizations appear to be moving back into Warren, if only in a methodical manner. Non-profit organizations are helping to make this happen, following the construction boom of Impact Warren, which saw the creation of a waterfront district on the Allegheny River a few years ago.

Pennsylvania Hunting and Fishing Museum May Come to Warren

The Hunting and Fishing Museum of Pennsylvania, Tionesta, PA

Hunting and Fishing Museum May Come To Warren

about the Hunting and Fishing Museum of Pennsylvania

The Times Observer reports that County Commissioners are interested in moving the Pennsylvania Hunting and Fishing Museum to Glade Township, next door to the Warren County Conservation District building at the corner of Hatch Run Road and Conewango Avenue Extension.

The possible move represents the second proposed nature museum currently planned for the Warren area, by two different groups.

See related stories:

$100 Million Museum and Aquarium Planned for 2012

and

Allegheny Musarium Update: Not Just Another Roadside Attraction

photo by Chris Lareau

Home Recipe for keeping bugs away from your plants

by Denise Grant, copyright 2008

By keeping my plants healthy, watered and weed free I can usually control pests. But once in a while I have a pest problem or my neighbors ask for a pest control that is more organic than the store bought chemical products.

The recipe below is close to being organic and works well. I originally saw this in Organic Gardening and tried it. It works well.