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Steve Harper from Hammer Saw Builders of Bristolville prepares the opening for a new window at the front of a refurbished 119-year-old barn structure in Champion. In the background is the farmhouse.
CHAMPION Tracey A. Laslo, an Alliance attorney, had wanted to do something special to honor her family’s homestead off state Route 305 just west of Champion Center.
She has commissioned a local construction company to refurbish the 2,440-square-foot barn that was built in 1901 on her family’s nine-acre farmland.
“The farm has been in my family for about 50 years,” Laslo said, “It was a fixer-upper before it was popular. My parents bought it so I could go to kindergarten in Champion.”