Is your Christmas tree dropping its needles or looking a little tired? Drop it off to be turned into mulch at a county park. The closest locations to Bridgeville, Collier, Heidelberg and Scott are Settler's Cabin and South Park.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Cindi Lash
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Thursday, January 3
It's time to take down those Christmas trees. Allegheny County's fifth annual Christmas tree recycling program runs through Saturday, Jan. 19, at all nine regional parks—including Boyce Park in Plum Borough. To participate in the county's program, residents can drop off trees from dawn to dusk daily. All lights, decorations, tinsel and stands must be removed from trees. The trees will be turned into mulch for use in Allegheny County’s nine regional parks. Trees may be dropped at these locations in the parks: Also, check out this holiday recycling blog by Sue Kerr.
Find out where in Collier Township you can pick out a tree and cut it down for Christmas.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Mike Jones
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Nutbrown’s Christmas Tree Farm in Collier Township, one of the only places around where you can choose and chop down your own tree, is open again for the holiday season. The tree farm is drawing a crowd with unseasonably warm weather over the weekend. Henry Nutbrown, who owns the 12-acre farm along McMichael Road with his wife, Sue, said he’ll take this warmer weather even though most of the customers are pining for the white stuff. “Everybody comes out and says they wish we had a little snow. Not me,” Nutbrown told Chartiers Valley Patch. “I’ll take some snow on the 24th of December. It can snow as much as it wants then.” The farm, which Nutbrown’s parents purchased in 1939, has been selling Christmas trees since the late 1960s. It has …
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rose altvater
9:39 am on Thursday, January 3, 2013
Love doing this with my tree !! more ›