Tag archive for ‘farm’
Historian Dennis to address dinner (0)
1/19/11 •
Denise Dennis, a nationally renowned historian, author and descendant of free African American Prince Perkins, who died in the historic Battle of Wyoming and is buried in Susquehanna County, will be honored at the 20th Annual Diversity Institute Dinner at Misericordia University on Feb. 9. Dennis is president of The Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust [...]
Pennsylvania farmland tax program altered (0)
11/23/10 •
BY ROBERT SWIFT Times-Shamrock Writer HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania’s program to preserve private farmland and forests through tax breaks is being altered to accommodate development of natural gas deposits and wind and solar power. The “Clean and Green” program, which dates to 1974, allows farmland, woodland and open land to be assessed at its use value [...]
Forest City picked as pilot farm site (0)
9/22/10 •
BY CAITLIN HEANEY Times-Shamrock Writer Farms will have a stronger presence in some of Forest City Regional School District’s classrooms this year with the help of a state grant. The district is one of seven pilot sites in the state participating in the Farm to School grant program, part of Penn State University’s Project PA [...]