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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(McKees Rocks, PA) School board members from the Sto-Rox School District have recently approved fencing that is new around the playground outside Sto-Rox Primary Center in McKees Rocks. One reason this approval was made is because on September 2nd, 2025, a non-verbal five-year-old boy with autism walked away from recess outside Sto-Rox Primary Center in their playground area, which caused a big search before he was found later that day. Within the next month is when the new fencing will be installed and just more than $16,500 is what it will cost to install that new fencing. Sto-Rox School District officials confirm that the five-year-old boy who escaped from recess outside the Sto-Rox Primary Center on September 2nd, 2025 is doing well and is back in school. Two people are also going to be watching the kids during recess at Sto-Rox Primary Center instead of one.