(File Photo of the Beaver County Courthouse)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Beaver, PA) Several topics were discussed at today’s County Commissioners’ work session.
County Solicitor Garen Fedeles brought up some things to mention during the solicitors’ report of the session.
Fedeles noted that as of yesterday, the county has received 6,447 returned ballots.
This is at a return percentage rate of 48%, which Fedeles stated is “the highest percentage return rate in Southwestern Pennsylvania at this time.”
Fedeles also confirmed that the Board of Commissioners are still receiving assessment appeals, with “53 cases still being appealed to the court for this year.”
Once the Board of Commissioners hears the appeals and hears the decisions that are made, there is window of thirty days to file an appeal to the court.
However, Fedeles mentioned that one of the things the County Law Department is working on is a public, private partnership to have a joint effort to renovate the baseball fields at Brady’s Run Park.
This includes putting turf on some of the fields so they can be used for youth tournaments.
A lease agreement is in the works to hopefully have this in place as early as 2027, which is when the construction would begin.
County Commissioner Tony Amadio reminded the audience of the session that in house voting at the County Courthouse at its Bureau of Elections starts tomorrow and goes through October 27th.
County Commisioner Jack Manning also praised the work that was done to put on the second edition of Beaver County Edfest at the CCBC Golden Dome in Monaca, which occurred on Monday.
Teachers across the county were celebrated for their work, had some coffee, and got some advice from guest speaker Michael Bonner, who is a teacher at Ron Clark Elementary in Atlanta that has been featured on shows like “The Ellen Show.”
Manning also gave thanks to Dr. Jordan from Youngstown, Ohio publicly because Dr. Jordan had ground-penetrating radar that scanned all of Legionville a couple of weeks ago to look for disruptions of soil that may be the location of the sixteen unknown gravesites of the troops of Legionville from back in the year 1792.
The Commissioners are trying to get a memorial and marker that is suitable to capture where those troops were at that time.
Beaver County’s William Penn Peace Tree has also arrived, which is an eastern pine tree.
This tree will be placed in all 67 counties in Pennsylvania.
The county will also be getting a plaque to symbolize the history that Pennsylvania has with William Penn.
More details are to come about a ceremony for planting that tree outside of the County Courthouse.
Beaver County Recreation and Tourism Director Tony Caltury also mentioned the Brady’s Run Ice Arena will be closed from tomorrow through Sunday. because it is hosting the American Kennel Club Dog Show.
That show, which has 650 dogs registered, will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Friday and Saturday and will begin at 8 a.m. on Sunday.
