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Officials tout solar as viable use for strip-mined land

A tract of 98,000 solar panels stretched over 300 acres on a hillside near Hookstown in Beaver County is proving to be a viable and innovative use of abandoned strip-mined

Aliquippa welcomes first downtown laundromat in decades

A pair of Beaver County entrepreneurs with a devotion to Aliquippa have opened the city’s first downtown laundromat in at least 30 years.

Church keeps Aliquippa building in settled conservatorship case

Group seeks conservatorship of Aliquippa church

ALIQUIPPA  For more than half of his life, Zabriawn Smith has waited for a promised community center in Plan 11.  The 28-year-old Aliquippa native was still a teenager when crews first broke ground on the towering, L-shaped structure at the corner of Washington Street and Sixth Avenue in 2005.  “I rode the bus past it,” he said. “I remember when it started, and I remember when it stopped. It just sits there, mostly empty. Pastors at a local church, Sound the Alarm Ministries, purchased the former Jones Elementary School site 20 years ago alongside more than 100 other properties in Aliquippa with a desire to expand affordable housing and revitalize the local economy. Many of the lots were sold for just several hundred dollars at tax sales.