For many who play, it took only one game of pickleball to get them hooked.“It’s one of the fastest-growing sports right now,” said Tom Hincy, 74, of South Strabane Township.The tennis-like sport has been taking over local parks in the past two years, including South Strabane’s Community ...

While biking or walking along the <a href="http://%20http//montourtrail.org/" target="_blank">Montour Trail</a> that curls around the southwestern suburbs of Pittsburgh, one would barely notice crossing from one municipality into another.Besides mile-markers and the ...

Jeff Rhodes grew up near Cumberland, Md., a picturesque Potomac River town nestled in a valley and encircled and dwarfed by the Allegheny Mountains. Peaks and valleys would be a geographic designation for the region, but also would serve as a metaphor for the place traditionally known as the ...