New Smart Phone? Get the Patch App

This free app allows you to stay in touch with Robinson-Moon Patch on the go.

  Is Santa a tech whiz? If so, you and your new smart phones need some new apps. And if you're reading this, you're already in touch with Robinson and Moon townships—so download the Patch App—www.patch.com/mobile. Patch for iPhone keeps readers connected to the latest news, weather, local business listings and current events happening in their neighborhood. Patch’s app will keep them engaged and mobile by delivering 24/7 local community coverage.   Patch’s useful features include: Plus, they can save anything from favorite stories to business listings direct to the iPhone for easy offline access. Customer opinions are extremely valued, so send app feedback to the Patch team is encouraged. Patch can be the number one resource for all …

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Take a Guess: How Much in Gift Cards Will Go Unspent This Year?

Do you give or get gift cards? Do you remember to use them?

  Many Robinson and Moon residents will undoubtedly give or receive gift cards this holiday season. So how much of that money will go unspent? According to Business News Daily, just 75-percent of consumers will spend all the money on their gift cards this year.  85-percent of the U.S. population will give gift cards, with sales projected to pass the $110 billion mark, according to a survey by the advisory company CEB TowerGroup. So what's the grand total of unspent gift card money? Leave your best guess in the comments section below. The answer can be found on our Facebook Page.

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PHOTOS: Community Comes Together for Woodland Ridge Light Up Night

Residents perused the Moon Township neighborhood, where more than 100 homes were decorated for the holiday season. The event is now in its 24th year.

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Enter Patch's 'Deck the House' Contest For a Chance to Win $100,000

Did you decorate your house for the holidays this year? Enter our "Deck the House" contest and you could win $100,000 for your local school district and $500 to pay your electric bills!

Does your house boast the best Christmas light show in Robinson and Moon? We want you to show off your holiday display.  We’re launching our annual Deck the House Contest to find the most over-the-top holiday decorations in America—the best “decked” house in the country—the one home so spectacularly decorated that everyone in town jokes your holiday decorations could rival Rockefeller Center’s. If this sounds like your house, upload a photo or video of your home to our contest page from Nov. 26 to Dec. 16. Go to this link to enter and find out more info: deckthehouse.patch.com/contest/moon. One important note: Only residents of Patch towns—in this case Robinson and Moon Township residents—are eligible.  We’ll select 24 regional finalists, …

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PHOTOS: Hyeholde Restaurant Decorates for the Season

The historic Coraopolis Heights Road restaurant, which recently celebrated its 75th year in business, opens its doors to show its holiday season decorating.

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Impact Christian Church Hosts 'Operation Hope' Dinner

A Moon Township church hopes to make the Christmas season brighter for local families in need.

Moon Township's Impact Christian Church will bring Christmas a few weeks early to members of the community in need at its first "Operation Hope" dinner on Saturday. "We'll have turkey, ham, stuffing, pie, sort of everything you would have for a Thanksgiving dinner," said student ministry coordinator Zach Shidemantle.  Church volunteers have spent recent weeks reaching out to area food pantries, clinics and other organizations to spread the word of the event.  Shidemantle said last Christmas season, the church worked with the nonprofit Light of Life, sponsoring a clinic for the homeless in downtown Pittsburgh. This year, the church wanted to make it's mark closer to home, he said. "There are people in Moon struggling to put a meal together…

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Map: Where Robinson and Moon Residents Can Cut Down Their Own Christmas Tree

Robinson-Moon Patch has assembled a list of local tree farms where you can find the perfect tree for your home this holiday season.

Click on the link for more information about each tree farm.  Click on "view larger map" for location and directions. Allison's Christmas Tree Farm, 121 Allison Lane, Aliquippa, PA 15001 Saws Available, Free Shaking and Baling of trees for ease in Transport, Stand-Straight Tree Drilling and Stands. Choose-and-Cut, Precut, and Dug trees. Grupp's Christmas Trees, 147 Grupp Lane, Harmony, PA  Offers six varities of trees that you can cut yourself. They are Scotch Pine, White Pine, Blue Spruce, Douglas Fir, Canaan Fir and Concolor Fir. We also have a large selection of pre cut Fraser Fir trees.  Bertovich Evergreen Christmas Tree Farm, 1031 Willowbrook Drive, Industry, PA 15052 Christmas trees-you choose and we cut, wagon Rides, free tree …

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Nearby: Nutbrown’s Christmas Tree Farm Tradition Continues in Collier Township

Find out where you can cut down a Christmas tree in the area.

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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Tis the Season: Yuletide Hunting in Robinson Township

Growing up in Robinson Township has caused columnist Gab Bonesso to associate gunshots with the holiday season.

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Bing Crosby crooning in the distance, and jingle bells are all sounds that evoke the Christmas holiday. But if you are a resident of Western Pennsylvania, you need to add the sound of a shotgun to that list. BOOM! Ho, ho, ho … I hear hunters so it must mean that Christmas is around the corner! For as long as I can remember hunting season joins forces with the holiday season here in Robinson Township. I remember as a kid I would ask my mom why we always had the Monday after Thanksgiving off from school and she would simply answer, “it’s hunting season.” I’m not a total hunting novice. I’ve done my Warner Brothers research. I knew that hunting season generally involved a spastic duck named Daffy and a …

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