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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) Twenty-eight Beaver County municipalities and/or organizations recently received a total of $100,000 to plan activities and events that will make the celebration of America’s 250th anniversary in 2026 something to remember. Beaver County Recreation and Tourism partnered with the America250 Beaver County Committee and the Beaver County Commissioners to award mini-grant funding to projects that “highlight community pride, creativity, heritage and civic engagement,” and the approved projects include community festivals, public art installations, educational programming, historical interpretation and placemaking enhancements, according to the awards announcement posted at the Beaver County America250 website.

These municipalities and organizations were also awarded America250 Beaver County mini-grants: Air Heritage Aviation Museum, Beaver County Library System, Beaver County Rehabilitation Center Inc., Beaver Valley Choral Society, Big Brothers Big Sisters Beaver County, Borough of Baden, Brighton Township Parks and Recreation Department, Carnegie Free Library of Beaver Falls; Chippewa Township, Community College of Beaver County, Conway Borough, Experiencing the ’40s at Hopewell Park, Freedom Borough, Gen. Anthony Wayne Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, Harmony Township, Laughlin Memorial Library, Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center, Monaca Community Development Corp., Monaca Public Library, Neighborhood North Museum of Play, New Brighton Historical Society, North Sewickley Township, Old Economy Village – Friends of Old Economy, Penn State University Extension (Beaver County), South Heights Borough, South Side Historical Village Association, the Beaver Cemetery and Mausoleum and the Larry Bruno Foundation.