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  • Pa Local Heroes: The Veterinarian Behind A Growing Farm Animal Rescue

    Colin Deppen, Spotlight PA|Dec 5, 2024

    The first farm animal that Karen Phillips rescued was a stray piglet named Isaac. “Years and years ago,” she recalled, Phillips was a veterinarian working at a Pittsburgh shelter when she came across Isaac in a kennel that neighbored a rottweiler’s. “He was obviously scared to death,” Phillips said of the pig. “So I ended up taking him home.” The experience showed her that farm animals were just as sensitive, personable, and intelligent as pets. “He was just as smart and learned better manners than my French bulldogs had,” she said with a l...

  • How To Know If Your House Is Haunted: Tips From A Pennsylvania Ghost Hunter

    Colin Deppen, Spotlight PA|Oct 31, 2024

    I think my new house might be haunted. I’ve not experienced anything particularly unnerving there, to be clear. No apparitions. No voices. No sudden chills or shut doors. (There was a night light in the bathroom that violently strobed every time I walked by, but I’m pretty sure that was just a faulty sensor. Pretty sure.) My suspicions have to do with the age of the place — it’s almost as old as the Civil War — and its location: It directly abuts a former lumber mill that a neighbor, while struggling against the pull of his formidabl...