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Fed by Pine Creek, Deer Lake was built as a recreational site by the Pottsville Construction Company in 1925. Among the construction engineers were John Aregood, William Pugh, Clinton Schaefer and ...

A chunk of hooked shad intended to surprise a nibbling channel catfish one night last month in Deer Lake instead landed an astonished fisherman in the Ohio record book. What took the bait initially ...