The stories of ghostly encounters and spirits that haunt historic Nemacolin Castle in Brownsville once home to Native Americans and settled by European immigrants will be retold this Halloween season during the Ghost Tours at the famed house on Front Street, overlooking the Monongahela River.

We've been doing it for the past 10 years and the tours are very popular, said Colleen Rawson, a member of the Brownsville Historical Society, which operates the castle.

Rawson said there is nothing scary or spooky about the tours. Tour guides dressed in period costume will lead visitors through the castle and spin stories about ghosts residing between those walls.

Legend has it that the house, built in stages starting in 1879 by Jacob Bowman and later expanded by his son, Nelson, has 10 ghosts. A team of a dozen people involved with the Ghost Research Society from Chicago, which investigates reports of ghosts and hauntings, investigated Nemacolin Castle in May 2010. They found indications of a woman in the maid's room whispering die, die or people don't die, a voice heard in the master bedroom, a barking dog in the attic and the voice of a ghost talking in the Victorian Room.

Everything that is said about it is true. I have personally have experienced things there that can't be explained, including the jingling of bells on a trading post door that had been closed, Rawson said.

The Halloween Ghost Tours take place from 6 to 10 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays during October. The cost is $9 for adults and $4 for children 12 and younger.

The Ghost Tours are being held in conjunction with the Fall History Tours, which will be conducted from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays through Oct. 26. The history tours are $8 for adults and $4 for children 12 and younger.

During the ghost tours this season, Nemacolin Castle also will feature an encampment of Civil War re-enactors on the castle grounds, Rawson said.

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Clairton resident and business owner Miriam Maletta wants to stop a potential rat problem before it gets out of hand again.

Maletta, who lives above Miriam's Beauty Salon in the 500 block of St. Clair Avenue, has had a rat-free home and business for two years.

I've been plagued with rat problems, she told council Tuesday, describing the rodent battle she and her neighbors fought for 15 years. The (Allegheny County) Health Department has been out to help me, and I've done my own baiting over the years. I've had them everywhere.

Maletta described scenarios that made residents and council members cringe grazing her foot along a rodent that she assumed was a fuzzy slipper or finding more than 40 carcasses in a crawl space below her basement closet after an expensive remodeling job.

Those memories returned when she saw a rat scurry past her yard earlier this month.

What can the city do? she asked. It's fall and these rats are looking for a place to go for the winter.

Clairton officials said the city is no longer permitted to bait for rodents and advised Maletta to contact the health department as soon as possible. In the meantime, code enforcement officer George Glagola will inspect the neighborhood for bird feeders, animal feces and garbage that may be attracting a new population of rats.

Rats only show up where there's food. They're not sociable, city manager Howard Bednar said. We're going to have to look at the whole neighborhood. If you clean up your little area, they'll just move on.

Mayor Rich Lattanzi said he experienced a similar problem in recent years because neighbors were putting their dog's feces in a trash can without a lid.

Maletta said she wanted city officials to be aware of the problem before it worsens. She said she plans to contact the health department and reapply peppermint oil as a natural repellent around her home.

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Ten years ago, it was the workshop. The new-new house came with an old garage in the backyard, and I enlarged, resided and electrified it that very first summer. The biggest challenge of the job turned out to be that I didnt have a shop to work in where I could fabricate the parts I needed to build the shop.

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Jeff Radle was finishing up his first day at his new job when he got the call that his Chippewa Falls house was on fire.

His pregnant wife, Amanda, was out with the couple's 14-month-old child to pick up her son from school.

A neighbor saw smoke coming out of the roof of the home and reported the fire at about 2:30 p.m. Thursday.

When firefighters arrived, they broke windows and took axes to the foundation of the home to ventilate it.

Some construction and landscape equipment speckled the back of the house, where Radle was remodeling.

He said the family moved into the Chippewa Falls home two years ago after their trailer house in Cadott caught fire.

"We've been kind of flip-flopping back and forth, trying to live here," he said.

Fourteen firefighters from the Chippewa Falls Fire Department responded to the scene and called for backup from the Chippewa Fire District for an additional engine and personnel. No responders were injured.

Fire Chief Mike Hepfler said no pets were in the home at the time of the fire; the family dog was already outside.

Amanda Radle declined to comment, but tearfully thanked the fire department for grabbing her laptop that had family pictures on it.

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Every year I take on one major expense for the betterment of the HouseWorks Project House.

Ten years ago, it was the workshop. The new-new house came with an old garage in the backyard, and I enlarged, re-sided and electrified it the very first summer. The biggest challenge of the job turned out to be that I didnt have a shop to work in where I could fabricate the parts I needed to build the shop.

If you follow my drift.

Another summer saw the arrival of the hot tub and the little deck I added because the tub suddenly occupied valuable patio territory and I needed space for my Adirondack chairs.

That was followed a couple of years later by the front deck that gives me something like the porch I had at the 100-year-old new-old house. Im awfully fond of 50s ranches, but a house needs a porch, not a silly little concrete pad.

Year before last, the gift of a pool table led to the remodeling of half the basement, a project that included my second venture into floating floor installation and the first time Id soloed.

Last year, it was replacement windows. No actual labor on my part was involved, but it took a big gulp out of the family finances.

Next year, I think it will have to be air conditioning.

I dont know how old that unit huffing and puffing behind the house must be, but I fear the mighty galloping hamsters that kept it cooling in its early years have been replaced by sickly cockroaches.

Its on its last legs, gang.

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