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East Palestine: Still Here
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East Palestine: Still Here

Hilary Flint’s cancer diagnosis took her on a journey to become an environmental and public health advocate. She lives right over the East Palestine border in Enon Valley, Pennsylvania. Although her health was a concern before the February 3, 2023 train derailment, the aftermath heightened her already weakened immunity. Hilary was diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma, a type of kidney cancer, in her late 20s.   “When you get stage three cancer when you’re in your 20s, it’s very shocking,” Hila

Daniel Rossi-Keen

Feb. 28, 2026

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Health Study in East Palestine Launches

Health Study in East Palestine Launches

Three years after the derailment, residents are still left with questions about their long-term health and safety for themselves and their loved ones. But now, a major health study involving the collaboration of multiple universities has now launched in East Palestine, Ohio. (see video below) Three years after the derailment, residents are still left with questions about their long-term health and safety for themselves and their loved ones. But now, a major health study involving the collaborat

Christopher Padgett

Mar. 5, 2026

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East Palestine: Still Here

East Palestine: Still Here

Hilary Flint’s cancer diagnosis took her on a journey to become an environmental and public health advocate. She lives right over the East Palestine border in Enon Valley, Pennsylvania. Although her health was a concern before the February 3, 2023 train derailment, the aftermath heightened her already weakened immunity. Hilary was diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma, a type of kidney cancer, in her late 20s.   “When you get stage three cancer when you’re in your 20s, it’s very shocking,” Hila

Daniel Rossi-Keen

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Feb. 28, 2026

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11 min

The Bridge Gets a New Home

The Bridge Gets a New Home

There are moments in the life of an organization when everything that has been quietly building beneath the surface finally breaks through into something visible. A publication finds its voice. A website becomes more than a digital brochure. A newsletter stops being a newsletter and starts being a conversation. For RiverWise — the Aliquippa, Pennsylvania-based nonprofit organizing community voice and power along the rivers of Beaver County — that moment is now. RiverWise has launched a new webs

Owen Rossi-Keen

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Feb. 27, 2026

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14 min

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Community Matters: Energy innovation as tool for growing agency over Beaver County

Those of you who follow along with the work of RiverWise, the nonprofit organization I have the privilege of leading, may have heard that we recently received a second round of funding from the US Department of Energy. The award, provided by the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, is part of a program known as the Energizing Rural Communities Prize. Last July, in Phase One of the program, DOE announced 67 awardees, of which RiverWise was one. Utilizing funds from our initial Phase One award

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For longer than I care to admit, my basement was overwhelmingly disorganized. The disorganization in my basement began when we first moved into our home a little more than a decade ago. The area wasn’t large enough for everything I was trying to store in it. I didn’t have the right shelving, containers, or patience to create a good system to manage all the stuff I was trying to shove into such a small space. And, since I didn’t regularly need most of the things I was storing, it made it easy to

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Hindsight is 2020

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As we near the end of 2025, we are quickly approaching six years since the world was turned upside down by a global pandemic that eventually killed more than 7 million people and caused devastation that's still being felt economically, socially, emotionally and spiritually. COVID-19 affected everybody — there were early retirements from folks who would still be clocking in each day if the pandemic hadn't hit; rehab and nursing facilities were maxed out and fought tirelessly to keep the virus fr

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