Our picks for the next 10 days. Saturday is packed, and sunny.

01  Trick or Treat on the Trail and Fireworks
Sat, Oct 24. Trail 3 to 5 PM (ages 10 and under), fireworks about 7 PM. Murrysville Community Park. Free

02  Gearhard Farms Corn Maze, Hayrides and Pumpkins
Daily through Nov 1. Maze $10, hayride $7, combo $15. 5909 Saltsburg Rd

03  Howl-o-ween Party and Fall Pet Photos
Sat, Oct 24. Photos 4:30, party 5:30 PM. Walkers Pet HoTail. Free

04  Trick or Trot 5K and Tot Trot
Sat, Oct 31. 5K 9 AM ($35), Tot Trot 10:15 ($15). 3091 Carson Ave

05  Storybook Trunk or Treat
Thu, Oct 29, 6 to 8 PM. Delmont Public Library

06  Monroeville Halloween Trail of Treats
Sat, Oct 24, 4 to 6 PM. Community Park West. Free

07  Campfire Ghost Stories at Boyce Park
Sat, Oct 24, 7 to 8 PM. Free, bring chairs

08  Hobgoblin Hike at Twin Lakes
Sat, Oct 24, 7 to 9 PM. Free, ages 8 and up

09  Palace Pumpkin Carving
Thu, Oct 29, 5 to 7 PM, Greensburg. Free, supplies provided

10  Ghostbusters at the Palace
Sat, Oct 31, 3 PM (evening show canceled). $10, $5 kids

Sat, Oct 31, 6 to 8 PM: Murrysville, Export, Delmont, Monroeville, Plum, Washington Township and Pitcairn.
Penn and Salem townships haven't posted hours yet. Call Penn at 724-744-2171 or Salem at 724-668-7500.

A crisp start near 40, then mostly sunny with a high near 64 and a low around 36 tonight. Saturday is sunny and 66, perfect for the Halloween events, but bring layers for the evening. Upper 60s Sunday through Wednesday, with rain chances near zero all week.

Full Murrysville Forecast (National Weather Service)

Franklin Regional's boys shut out fifth-ranked Penn-Trafford 5-0 on Tuesday in front of more than 400 fans to clinch a second straight Section 1-3A title, TribLive reports. The Panthers are 14-1-2, unbeaten in 16 with six straight shutouts, and outscored section foes 56-1 for their eighth section crown in 10 years. Seeded No. 2 in WPIAL Class 3A behind Plum, FR hosts No. 15 Shaler at 1 PM Saturday. The WPIAL finals are Nov. 5 to 7 at F.N.B. Stadium.

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JKLM Energy has applied to the state DEP for a natural gas well pad on a Forbes Road farm near Totteridge Golf Course in Salem Township, tapping leases from about 64 owners on roughly 1,057 acres, TribLive reports. About 25 residents raised concerns about emissions, runoff, noise, traffic and old mine subsidence at this week's supervisors meeting. Supervisors said the state, not the township, regulates drilling, noting Salem has no zoning and that a state Supreme Court ruling struck down its earlier attempt about 20 years ago. They plan to ask DEP, which is still reviewing the permit, for a meeting.

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American Legion Post 711 is looking for volunteers for its Flags Over Murrysville program, TribLive reports. Nine times a year, for holidays and observances, the group puts up about 340 flags along the Route 22 corridor. Putting them up takes about 90 minutes and taking them down about an hour, and volunteers get a sign-up chart a week before each flag day. To add your name, call 412-334-4496.

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William Penn's heirs kept some prime frontier land for themselves, and in 1769 they set aside the Manor of Denmark, surveyed as 5,000 acres but really about 5,771, with its edge reaching into today's Murrysville. It was one of 92 Penn manors in the state and one of two in Westmoreland County. The Divesting Act of 1779 took the family's unclaimed land but let them keep their manors, paid them £130,000 and ended their quitrents, sometimes a single peppercorn a year. Split into 18 lots in 1784, the manor was sold off, and Philip Keister bought Lot 18, 481 acres, on March 18, 1806.

Part of Keister's lot is now the Westmoreland Conservancy's Flinn Reserve. The Flinns bought 62 acres in 1960 and later donated 20, and the conservancy added 84 acres along Lyons Run in 2018. Red maples, tulip poplars and sassafras make it one of the conservancy's most colorful spots in fall. Park on the west side of Boxcartown Road, about a quarter mile from School Road South, and try the 3/8-mile trail from the kiosk. Wear blaze orange, it's hunting season.

Learn more: Westmoreland Conservancy, Flinn Reserve

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