Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Why we chose to highlight this story: About 1 in 5 children in Southwestern Pennsylvania are food insecure, per new estimates from Feeding America, according to an article in Axios by Chrissy Suttles.
In Beaver County, approximately 19.2% of children live in food-insecure households, according to 2023 data.
Read the article in Axios here to learn more about how food banks will be impacted if the Senate passes the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which last week narrowly passed the House.
Gateway Rehab, a leading provider of behavioral health services for over 50 years, recently opened its 12-bed, all-gender, adolescent residential treatment program on its main campus in Center Township.
This new youth program, backed by Beaver County Behavioral Health and the Board of Commissioners of Beaver County, is in the recently renovated Tom Rutter House and serves ages 13-18.
The facility has been tailored to the unique needs of teens struggling with substance misuse and dependency. These renovations, according to Gateway, have created a welcoming, age-appropriate space that promotes healing, personal growth and substance use disorder education.
“The opening of our adolescent program is a significant milestone in our mission to expand access to compassionate, life-changing care," said James Troup, president and CEO of Gateway Rehab, in a press release. "We are deeply grateful to Beaver County Behavioral Health, the Beaver County Board of Commissioners, and the incredible team who will be leading this effort. Thanks to their support and dedication, we are poised to make a lasting impact on the lives of young people in our community.”
Why we chose to highlight this story: Last week marked five years since George Floyd was murdered by a police officer. In this article, Dr. Danielle Brown, professor of journalism at Michigan State University, looks at how media coverage changed in the days and weeks following Floyd's murder.
Read the article published in The Conversation here. Photo published with Creative Commons license.
Memorial Day parades took place in Baden, Beaver, Beaver Falls, Conway, Ellwood City, Freedom, Hookstown, Hopewell, Monaca, and New Brighton over the weekend.
Check out local coverage of the Beaver parade by WBVP-WMBA via Facebook live:
Why we chose to highlight this story: The Shell ethane cracker plant in Potter Township reported a malfunction on April 25 and turned the sky red with its flaring.
Learn more about what flaring means, why this flaring incident occurred, and how residents are feeling about it in this Inside Climate News article by Kiley Bense here.
Why we chose to highlight this story: It's been 100 years of running the PIAA state track meet, which was once known as the "Grand State Championships." In 1925, there were only 10 events and 85 boys who participated, according to an article in the York Daily Record.
This year, there were 18 events and 3,068 athletes who competed during the two-day meet at Shippensburg University. Several of those athletes were Beaver County students.
Read this article in The Times for some of the top performances in Beaver County.
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A young boy watches soldiers march in a Decoration Day parade in Beaver on May 28, 1919. Did you know Memorial Day was first called Decoration Day? Learn more about the name change in an article by the American Battle Monuments Commission here. Follow the Little Beaver Historical Society's Facebook page here.
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