(File Photo of the Beaver County Courthouse)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Beaver, PA) Several topics were discussed at the Beaver County Commissioners’ work session this morning in Beaver. Among them were that the Beaver County Commissioners praised the response that came from the incident in which a bus that crashed in Economy Borough on Saturday. That bus carried the Aliquippa Junior High School football team. Meetings are going to be held within the next month to see how this incident could have been handled better. Twenty-two people were taken to the hospital as a result of this incident, but no lives were lost. In other business, Beaver County Recration and Tourism Director Tony Caltury also mentioned that this Saturday and Sunday, August 30th and August 31st of 2025, Project Mayhem Racing will be hosted at Brady’s Run Park in Beaver County. This event is an obstacle course through the trails at Brady’s Run Park. Beaver County Commissioner Jack Manning also encouraged Beaver County residents to go to the 2025 Big Knob Fair going on in Rochester this week. Manning also encouraged State Representative Roman Kozak, who he saw at the Big Knob Fair to pass the state budget for Pennsylvania, because that budget went past the deadline on June 30th, 2025 to pass it. Manning also talked about an event that happened on Saturday at the Ready Yourself Youth Ranch in North Sewickley which is part of a ten-week course from them and Children’s Youth Services there where juveniles are teamed up with a horse while they went through other educational processes and the changes of behavior were seen as a different prospect on their lives.