PORT ALLEGANY: Skate park to honor boy’s memory
Wesley “Jesse” Welch of Port Allegany loved skateboarding. Following his death by suicide in January at 12 years old, Wesley’s loved ones have established the Wesley A. Welch Memorial Skate Park Fund and are working to build a Port Allegany skate park in his memory.   
Photo courtesy of Brandon Welch 
Local News
April 17, 2026

PORT ALLEGANY: Skate park to honor boy’s memory

PORT ALLEGANY — The thing about skate parks, Brandon Welch has come to understand, is that whereve...
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