Editor's note: This space is being used this week to recall our favorite PA Local subjects of 2023. A Pa Local Wrapped, if you will. Send us ideas for 2024 here.
» Canceled by beavers: In January, we told you about the finale of one of Pa.'s best wildlife shows — a webcam on a log that produced incredible animal sightings before beavers did what beavers do.
» Symbolic struggles: In March, we took a rule-of-three look at efforts to reimagine Pennsylvania's official state song, flag, and license plate design. We even had a lawmaker sing to us over the phone.
» Crying town: In April, we wrote about Easton's very slow-going search for a town crier and tracked the last one down for pointers. We also covered Erie's big plans for 2024's total eclipse.
» Rat queen: In May, Spotlight PA's Danielle Ohl interviewed podcast icon Sarah Marshall about Marshall's Philadelphia rat awakening and how roads so often lead back to Pennsylvania.
» Mushroom MacGyver: In June, we introduced you to William Padilla-Brown — a renaissance woodsman who says the cure for what ails us might just be living on the floor of your nearest Pennsylvania forest.
» Small drinks: In July, we went to Pittsburgh and inside the self-proclaimed smallest bar in Pennsylvania. We found that what it lacks in raw square footage, it makes up for in religious history.
» Club renaissance: In August, we watched Beyoncé fans in Pittsburgh console themselves over her canceled concert with a lively dance party where everyone was the star of the show.
» Cats and cannons: In September, Sara Stewart wrote about a most unusual Gettysburg museum where Civil War history is told via handmade, clay cat figurines — 8,000 of them and counting.
» The firewomen: In October, we told you about a century-old Centre County fire department's first all-female attack line and how women are becoming more and more common in the field.
» Making waves: And in November, we went to one of the last-remaining waterbed stores as it rode the wave of a viral TikTok introducing a whole new demographic to the concept of sleeping on liquid. | 
