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Bridgeville urging that federal funding for flood control be reinstated

Officials in Bridgeville are hoping that a $5.3 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for flood control will be reinstated after it was announced the program dispersing the funds had been axed. The grant was awarded through FEMA’s Building Resilient ...

‘We came back:’ Carnegie marks 20th anniversary of historic flood

When a crowd gathered on the floral-painted bridge near Carnegie’s historic Husler Building on the evening of Sept. 17, the crowd was dry and the bridge, safely many yards above the creek. But 20 years ago to the date, many of those gathered had been soaked to the bone, and the bridge itself ...