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It’s almost lunchtime on a recent Friday morning, and the front door of George’s Song Shop is open, letting in a warm breeze.
A $22 million loan will enable Greater Water Authority to add a new spillway and other updates at North Fork Reservoir to mitigate the risk of major flooding. And separately, more than $8 million in ...
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WTAJ) — The Johnstown Flood National Memorial is having a “rare” showing for its first “Evening on the Lakes” presentation of the season.
“The Johnstown Flood Tax, as it's still known, somewhat misleadingly, was instituted in the aftermath of the 1936 flood by the state legislature. And the intent of the tax was to raise money to ...
The City of Johnstown and the Fraternal Order of Police, Flood City Lodge No. 86 have finalized and accepted their first post-Act 47 contract. From August 1992 until April 2023, the city was in ...
The Johnstown flood of July 20, 1977, killed 85 people, 39 of them in Tanneryville, where the Laurel Run Dam broke. The storm began about 9 p.m. July 19, 1977, and ”just got stuck over the ...
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 335 Locust St., Johnstown, will host a special Community Common Prayer Service commemorating the 130th anniversary of the 1889 Johnstown Flood and the role that St ...
From this sheltered spot, a half mile as the crow flies from Johnstown Flood National Memorial, you could hear the rushing water of the South Fork of the Little Conemaugh River but not see it. Kitner, ...
Yamila Audisio is an immigrant from Argentina who has developed a deep appreciation for Johnstown’s history. She has studied the Great Flood of 1889 that took the lives of more than 2,200 people. Her ...
It was the club’s earthen dam that broke May 31, 1889, the day of the Johnstown Flood. History shows club members did not replace draining pipes that had been removed, and screens they installed ...