Since 1947, Penn-Franklin News Has Been a Pittsburgh Down-home Guide
Posted: 5/2/2012 | By: Maria Sciullo | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
From an early age, Georgia Boring and her sister, Charlene, learned
"the one thing you absolutely did not do in our house was make plans for
Thursday."
So much has changed since the days when the family scrambled to get a newspaper out on Thursdays, but just about every weekday remains pretty booked for the former Cooper girls. Today, Mrs. Boring, 80, and Charlene Word, 68, co-publishers, continue to breathe life into the small-town newspaper started by their father in the basement of his house in Level Green.
So much has changed since the days when the family scrambled to get a newspaper out on Thursdays, but just about every weekday remains pretty booked for the former Cooper girls. Today, Mrs. Boring, 80, and Charlene Word, 68, co-publishers, continue to breathe life into the small-town newspaper started by their father in the basement of his house in Level Green.