Jun 22, 2013 3 min read

A look at some of the headlines from the pages of the Observer-Reporter and Waynesburg Republican this week in Greene County history:

Defense contractor closing Cumberland plant

KDH Defense Systems will close its plant in Greene County by the end of the week.

Dave Herbener, KDH president, said Tuesday that the company has been committed to operating in Greene County, but with the situation involving contracts for the body armor it produces, that was no longer possible.

“It’s a shame for everyone,” Herbener said. “We have some very good people down there, and we hate to lose them,” he said. The closing of the Greene County plant is expected to be permanent.

10 years ago

$480,000 earmarked for armory plans

A $480,000 military construction appropriation has been secured to design plans for a new armory to replace the 89-year-old Capt. Robert C. Wiley Armory on Washington Street in Waynesburg.

U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D-Johns-town, said Tuesday that the federal money was included in the 2004 appropriations bill that passed the House Appropriations Committee. “The current armory is undersized and has no room for expansion,” Murtha said.

The Wiley armory, a large brick building on North Washington Street, was constructed in 1914 and now serves as home to Pennsylvania National Guard Company C, First Battalion, Mechanized 110th Infantry that is joining a peace-keeping mission in Kosovo this summer.

Crowd turns out to protest sale of Curry Home

WAYNESBURG – They came armed with placards and petitions bearing the names of more than 2,600 county residents, and they made it clear they oppose any move to sell the Curry Memorial Home.

They were an audience of some 200 people who attended a forum to discuss the nursing home and its present and future role as a part of the county government.

They included family members of nursing home patients, former residents of the home and employees, as well as a scattering of other people, and they came to express their concern.

West Greene area hit hard by tornado

A Greene County-spawned tornado left a path of extensive destruction early Tuesday evening in the Holbrook and Golden Oaks area, but miraculously no one was killed or even seriously injured.

The small twister hit shortly after 6 p.m. and skipped across hilltops and small valleys while uprooting huge trees and tearing off roofs and siding from several houses and barns.