Until a little over a week ago, there was a large and stately maple tree on Buena Vista Avenue near Walnut Street. Unfortunately, whoever planted the maple—sometime in the 1920s or earlier, based on ...

A 12-year-old boy from East Hempfield Township died Sunday when the backyard zip line he was using caused a tree to break near its base and fall on top of the child, according to East Hempfield ...