After a 46-year career, the only professional job she’s ever had, Beaver resident Diane Wakefield will retire this spring as librarian of the Beaver Area Memorial Library. She leaves a stellar legacy of the library as growing, relevant and influential in serving a...
Beaver resident Robert Allen Rice, an economic development expert, historic preservationist, political aficionado, news junkie and all-around renaissance gentleman, was taken away far too soon with his untimely passing on Jan. 15, 2023. Bob originally was from...
Submitted by 2002 Bicentennial Streetscape Committee members Chuck Copeland and Mark Peluso, in grateful memory of the energetic commitment given to this initiative by Bob Smith, Dick Shaw, Dave Williams, and Jim Foster. PROJECT OVERVIEW For nearly two decades, Beaver...
The Beaver County Special Unit was formed by a group of veterans from Monaca Legion and Baden Legion in 1975. We are a Non-Profit NOT affiliated with the Beaver County government. In the beginning, there were two units of approximately twenty-five personnel. Today, we...
One of the fixtures of Beaver’s Third Street business district over the past nearly 50 years has been the two-story, yellow-brick Hostess Gift Shoppe at the corner of College Avenue in the center of town. Owned and operated today by the husband-and-wife team of...
With a fascinating pedigree in the Beaver Area, going back many generations, octogenarian Sarah “Sally” (McCleery) Foster has shaped her own brand of local history and is passing a sense of community on to her offspring. Sally is widely known for helping to found the...