-GAINS & GLEANINGS- By J. Hogan When we were in the midst of our major building refurbishment last summer, my friend Mark Duffy called...

-HARRISBURG UPDATES- By Rep. Anita Kulik The start of a new year is the start of many new programs from the state, so I want to share...

-EDITORIAL- By Editorial Board Four years ago, when we decided to take the plunge into the world of newspapers – a world which has long...

Photo by Matt Weed Stock at Crafton's Blue Snail Gift Shop changes throughout the year. -CAUGHT IN THE WEEDS- By Matt Weed I was asked to...

-GAINS & GLEANINGS - By James Hogan I was recently in Detroit visiting my wife’s family and my brother-in-law, Eric, came up from...

-HARRISBURG UPDATES- By Rep. Anita Kulik Welcome to 2022! It is my greatest hope that this year brings us normalcy and peace. The...

-EDITORIAL- By Editorial Board Without a doubt, Allegheny County’s unpredictable patchwork of municipalities and ZIP codes is hard to get...

Photo by Matt Weed It’s the little things in life that bring great joy to columnist Matt Weed. This Dec. 2 sunset view from his Crafton...

-HARRISBURG UPDATES- By Rep. Anita Kulik On Christmas Day in 1864, at the height of the Civil War, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote a...

-GAINS & GLEANINGS- By J. Hogan One of the things we believe in at Faithbridge, that’s quite different from the Roman Catholic Church of...

Local news is on the verge of extinction and it’s time to take action. Many who remember print media not just as a dominant factor in...

-CAUGHT IN THE WEEDS- By Matt Weed It is funny how as we age and become adults, things we once loved fall away. There are things I once...

-GAINS & GLEANINGS- By J. Hogan Nearly 2,500 years ago, Plato devised his great lament about the philosopher’s frustrating plight of...

-HARRISBURG UPDATES- By Rep. Anita Kulik For months now I have stood against PennDOT and the proposed tolling of the I-79 bridge in...

-EDITORIAL- By Editorial Board Voter turnout statistics for the recent municipal elections suggest our communities are engulfed by...

“How do you do it?” my friend Marty Griffin asked. “I mean you get after it every day with kids dying, folks overdosing, and people...

-CAUGHT IN THE WEEDS- By Matt Weed In my younger years I was a cook. I spent almost 10 years cooking at various places, mostly mom and...

-HARRISBURG UPDATES- Our most recent session week for the Pennsylvania House started with concentrating on issues relating to our...

-EDITORIAL- By Editorial Board When we relaunched this paper four years ago, we made an editorial decision early on to avoid reporting on...

Faithbridge has been growing. That’s a blessing. I remember lean years when a handful of us met in the great room at the Myers Ridge...