Bill Wade/Post-Gazette
Mindy Joy Schwartz is growing 95 varieties of tomatoes this spring at her urban farm and nursery in Wilkinsburg.
Lenore Schwartz is sitting at a picnic table under a towering Norway maple tree, smoothing printed labels onto plastic plant sticks: Sungold, Chianti Rose, Mortgage Lifter, Indian Moon, Red ... (05/17/2008)
A judge has ruled that a Rankin man he'd ordered to complete a 1991 drug sentence after nine years of liberty did not have to return to prison after all. ... (05/17/2008)
Plans to restrict Parkway East traffic in both directions for construction between Edgewood-Swissvale and Business Route 22 have been canceled because of a rainy forecast. ... (05/17/2008)
Doug Oster/Post-Gazette
Aimi Long, director of volunteers and activity at Vincentian de Marillac, in Stanton Heights, holds a painted lady butterfly just before it was released. In the background are some unidentified residents of the retirement home. Residents raised the butterflies from caterpillars and released them a few weeks later as part of a butterfly garden project created by Ms. Long.
There are butterflies in the basement of Vincentian de Marillac, a nursing home in Stanton Heights. But no one is worried. ... (05/15/2008)