Oyler: Operation Pastorius

For its first program meeting of the New Year, the Bridgeville Area Historical Society welcomed back an old friend, Dr. Todd DePastino, for an entertaining and informative talk on the 1942 German plot to sabotage key defense facilities in the

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Oyler: New Year’s Day In 1922

On New Year’s Day I got to wondering what life was like in Bridgeville one hundred years ago. Thanks to old maps, photographs, and newspaper clippings we can piece together a reasonable picture of those days. These were prosperous times,

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Oyler: My Christmas Letter

My attitude toward standardized Christmas letters has changed during the passing years. When we were first married, my wife reveled in writing long-hand Christmas letters to everyone on her Christmas card list. She came from a long line of letter-writing

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Borough Stabilizes Chartiers Creek Streambank

The borough recently completed extensive repairs to a stretch of Chartiers Creek’s streambank and a section nearby roadway. he $192,000 project used 600 tons of large stone to stabilize the streambank and restore the section of roadway that was affected

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