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Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: Cheers to Brownsville Area High School for choosing a solid candidate to lead their football program in Uniontown graduate Cody Castor, who was an excellent football player for the Red Raiders and played four years with the Penn State Nittany Lions. Castor helped out at Penn State ...

Owners get tax boost on oil, gas royalties

Tax time is ahead, and Pennsylvania landowners with oil and gas rights can look forward to a new deduction. State Senate Bill 654, enacted last July, makes a depletion allowance available to more than 250,000 of these landowners when they report income from their 2024 oil and gas royalties on ...

Natural gas poised to be long-term energizer

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the last in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Renz No. 1 was enshrouded in doubt 20 years ago, when Range Resources was attempting to unleash natural gas from the well through hydraulic fracturing. Workers had ...

20 years on, frackingĢƵ potential health impacts eyed

EditorĢƵ note: This is the fourth in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Twenty years after the first gas well was fracked on the Renz farm in Mount Pleasant Township, Washington County, a body of evidence points to the possible ...

Marcellus has wealth of natural gas and more

UPDATE: This story was updated Oct. 10 to correct an error regarding the administration of royalties to landowners for natural gas drilling. EditorĢƵ note: This is the third in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Oil and natural gas ...