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A fast-moving fire gutted a state-owned marina store in Middle River early Saturday morning, causing $500,000 in damage, fire ...
Apr. 11—STERLING — The Franklin Creek Conservation Association will host its first big event of the year, "A Day at the Mill," from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at the Franklin Creek ...
The circumstances that led to the man's drowning are not known at this time. Search crews located his body at roughly 6:30 ...
FRANKLIN — Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn Wednesday joined a celebration at Big Elk Creek State Park in Chester County, one of three new state parks ...
A few years ago, the state purchased the nearly 1,800 acres of land in the area and opened it to the public in 2021 as the Big Elk Creek State Park. Its official groundbreaking ceremony took place ...
A view of Big Elk Creek State Park. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) But she’s concerned the serenity might be in jeopardy. Three years ago, the state purchased more than 1,700 acres of land in the area, and ...
Franklin Point State Park Columbia Beach, Maryland Directions: From Edgewater, head east on Central Avenue, then turn south onto Muddy Creek Road, which becomes West Shady Side Road.
A Pennsylvania park ranger is missing after his kayak capsized in Bucks County, state police announced on Friday, May 23. The 38-year-old Delaware County man was boating in the Neshaminy Creek at ...
Beachgoers at Portage Lakes State Park remember a time when the area was staffed with lifeguards. That's no longer the case, with officials citing cost concerns.
Chester County's Big Elk Creek State Park, a 1,700-acre area near the Maryland border in Elk and Franklin townships, is one of three new state parks announced by the Pennsylvania Department of ...
NORTH LIBERTY, Ind. (WNDU) - The last time Indiana built a new inn at one of its state parks, Franklin Roosevelt was in the White House, and Somewhere Over the Rainbow was playing on the radio.
Franklin Park Manager Rege Ebner admits that the borough’s 200-year history as a sleepy outcropping of Pittsburgh doesn’t include many claims to fame. “The only thing we do know is it was ...