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April 13, 2022

Wampum American Legion Offering Another All-You-Can-Eat Breakfast

The Wampum American Legion if offering another all-you-can-eat Breakfast, this one schedule for on Saturday, April 23 from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. The event is scheduled to take place at the Legion club located at 436 Beaver Street, Wampum, PA 16157. The menu features scrambled eggs, home fries, french toast, sausage, biscuits & gravy, bacon, toast, coffee, tea and orange juice. Costs for the breakfast are $10.00 for adults and $6.00 for children five years and younger. “The first breakfast was a great success. We appreciate your support,” says Wampum Auxilary Post 749 President, Marsha Moore.

March 10, 2022

Wampum American Legion Offering Its All-You-Can-Eat Breakfast

The Wampum American Legion is starting it’s all-you-can-eat Breakfast event again on Saturday, March 19 from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. The event is scheduled to take place at the Legion club located at 436 Beaver Street, Wampum, PA 16157. The menu features scrambled eggs, home fries, french toast, sausage, biscuits & gravy, bacon, toast, coffee, tea and orange juice. Costs for the breakfast are $10.00 for adults and $6.00 for children five years and younger. “It’s been two long years since the last Breakfast, and we are looking forward to working to support our Veterans again,” says Wampum Auxilary…

December 5, 2021

PHOTOS: 2021 Wampum Christmas Parade

Wampum held its 49th Annual Christmas Parade on Saturday. Over 50 units, including cars, floats, bands and marching groups participated in the parade. which is billed as the biggest Christmas parade in Lawrence County. This year the parade was dedicated to Frank Yoho of Wayne Township, who had portrayed Santa Claus in the parade for 28 years. Yoho passed away on June 26 at the age of 81 and is greatly missed by the Wampum community.  In addition to portraying Santa, Frank lent his considerable handyman skills to the Wampum Christmas Parade Committee on projects including creating the display which…

November 12, 2021

Sign Ups Being Accepted for Upcoming Wampum Christmas Parade

Sign your kids up for treats! The Wampum Area 49th Annual Christmas Parade is Saturday, December 4, 2021, beginning at 1:00 p.m. Wampum Area Christmas Parade Committee is still accepting sign-ups for treat bags. Following the Parade on December 4th, Santa Claus will distribute treat bags to children in the Wampum gymnasium. COVID-19 protocol will be followed. Treat bags are free to Wampum area children. Non-area families can pre-purchase treat bags for $8.00 each. Advanced sign-ups are required. Please reserve your child’s treat bag by signing up at the Wampum Borough Building during the following times: Friday November 12th from…

June 9, 2021

“Friends Of The Park” Help Fix Up Wampum Community Park

Wampum Park is a local park that over the years had began to get run down and was in need of repairs and updates and when Karen Goebel saw this, she knew someone needed to do something. So she did it. Goebel. a local of the area, talked with the borough in the fall of 2020 and asked if there was anything they could do to help. The borough did offer some help and with that Karen began to get to work. In April of 2021 “Friends of the Park” was created. The group, put together by Goebel, is made…

September 28, 2020

Wampum Announces Cancellation of Christmas Parade

In a post on social media Sunday, the Wampum Area Christmas Parade Committee (WACP) announced the cancellation of their annual Christmas Parade. “After much consideration. The Wampum Area Christmas Parade Committee regrets that we made the very difficult decision to cancel the 2020 Christmas Parade.” The message was announced by Donna Kuiken, long-standing WACP President. “No one is more disappointed than we are to cancel this event. We believe it was necessary to keep our community safe and protected from the spread of the Covid-19 virus,” Kuiken added. “This would have been our 44th Parade and although we tried we…

April 1, 2020

Cambridge Falls to Offer Retirement Living Care at New Wampum Facility

Cambridge Falls, a personal care and memory care facility, located at 599 Norwood Drive in Wampum, the 26-acre facility is accepting resident applications. Following an 18-month, $1 million renovation project, the team is ready to open the doors. Rebekah Stratton, director of sales and marketing for Cambridge Retirement Living, said the anticipation of unveiling the new facility is overwhelming. “We are so excited to open the doors to show what our facility has to offer,” Stratton said. She added that the layout and design of the facility lends to the mission of Cambridge in that it offers person-focused care and…

November 8, 2019

Wampum Announces Annual “Light Up The Town” Date

The Wampum Area Business Association announced its annual “Light Up The Town” scheduled for Wednesday, December 4, 2019. The event takes place on Main Street in Wampum and features the lighting of luminaries and fireworks as well as free cookies, hot chocolate, and coffee for those in attendance.  Light up night begins at 6:00 p.m. with fireworks scheduled for 6:30 p.m. In addition, the event will feature Christmas carolers, dancers, lighted baton twirling, crafts, handmade jewelry, watercolor paintings, chain saw carver, unique Christmas ornaments and gifts, young living oils, caricature artist, face painter, and a storyteller. There will be “I…

October 3, 2019

Route 288 Bridge Replacement Project Progress

With many focused on the pending status and re-opening of the Koppel Bridge, another local bridge replacement is taking place in Wayne Township and will have forthcoming lane restrictions and brief detour later this month. According to PennDOT Press Officer Steve Cowan, the ongoing replacement project will tentatively have single-lane alternating traffic controlled by a temporary signal that will occur from October 14 through October 25.  Full closure for paving work will result in a detour that will occur from Friday, October 25 through Monday morning, October 28. “Once the weekend closure is over, eastbound traffic from Wampum to Ellwood…

September 18, 2019

Bernstine Says $682,923 in State Grants Approved for Beaver, Lawrence Counties

HARRISBURG – Rep. Aaron Bernstine (R-Beaver/Butler/Lawrence) announced today that the Commonwealth Financing Authority (CFA) awarded a total of $682,923 for regional development projects in Beaver and Lawrence counties. In Beaver County, Mycelia Development, LLC was awarded a $448,953 grant to construct a 16,670-square-foot cultural life and arts center within the downtown core of Beaver Falls. The three-story building will include a ceramic studio, handmade market, café, art gallery, community room, theatre, and event space and will achieve energy savings through the Green Globes Certification system under the Green Building Initiative (GBI). Ellwood City Borough in Lawrence County received a $190,000…