Dirk Kaufman stories

(Editor’s note: To mark Westmoreland County’s 250th birthday this year, we’ve come up with a list of 250 things — 10 things in 25 communities — that we consider to be important to the makeup of our area. This series will appear each week through December. If you have a...

A chat between friends about the hero banners on display in Greensburg sparked a months-long community project in Scottdale that came to fruition this spring. Memorial Day found 81 banners placed on light poles on the main thoroughfares bringing traffic through the community. Ruffsdale native and Greensburg resident Shelley Hoyle...

A decade after opening South Broadway Manor in Scottdale as a bed and breakfast, Pat Hill has begun transforming a second iconic home a few blocks away. Abandoned and gap-toothed, with two missing porch pillars, the three-story, 115-year-old limestone mansion called Greystone Manor by its former owner, Richard Campbell, has...