Midland in Beaver County has transformed itself in 10 years from a struggling steel town into an educational mecca.
It is home to PA Cyber, the largest cyber charter school in the state, and the spinoff Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School, which attracts several hundred students from across the region. Lincoln Park’s performing arts center plays host to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra several times a year.
But some residents recently were outraged to learn that a stone bandstand built by the Works Progress Administration 70 years ago in Lincoln Park — in the heart of Midland — soon will be razed for a $6 million, two-story building featuring a new bandstand, dining hall and practice room for the performing arts school.
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