The Girls Scouts will be out selling cookies in the county starting this upcoming weekend. The following list contains locations and starting dates to get your cookie fix!

Foodland, New Brighton, PA 15066
Saturday, Mar. 4th
Sunday, Mar. 5th

Giant Eagle
Rochester and Chippewa, PA 15074
Saturday, Mar. 4th

Rochester Area School
Rochester, PA 15074
Sunday, Mar. 5th

Hostess Gift Shoppe
Beaver, PA 15009
Saturday, Mar. 4th

Sts Peter & Paul Church
Beaver, PA 15009
Sunday, Mar. 12th

Neely Dental
Monday, Mar. 13th
4.1 Miles

Beaver Valley Mall – Boscovs, and JC Penney
Monaca, PA 15061
Friday, Mar. 3rd

Lowes-Monaca
Monaca, PA 15061
Saturday, Mar. 4th

Rural King
Monaca, PA 15061
Saturday, Mar. 4th

Photo of the planets Saturday night from Beaver County (Frank Sparks – Beaver County Radio General Manager
Story by Curtis Walsh – Beaver County Radio News Director. Published February 27, 2023 10:55 A.M.

You may have noticed some bright stars aligning with the moon in the night sky recently. Well, those stars are actually planets! The National Weather Service says “Those “stars” are actually the planets Jupiter and Venus, and they will gradually appear closer through mid next week. We should have enough clearing here and there where you can see this, if you are able.”

The image above shows a garage door covered in plastic and boarded up at the scene Friday. It was unclear if this door was involved in the accident. (Curtis Walsh – Beaver County Radio News Director)
Story by Sandy Giordano – Beaver County Radio. Published February 27, 2023 10:45 A.M.  

(Chippewa Township, PA) The coroner was called to the Bowser Hyundai dealership in Chippewa Township Friday morning. Bernard Hruska, 66, Munhall, PA was pronounced dead due to traumatic asphyxiation.  The death was ruled accidental. The man was not an employee, and an attempt is being made to locate his next of kin.

HARRISBURG, PA –   Last week, the Shapiro Administration announced that the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will be conducting independent water sampling to closely monitor water contamination risks related to the East Palestine train derailment. On Tuesday, February 21, DEP began proactive outreach to residents and testing of wells within the two-mile radius and in only four days, DEP has successfully collected samples from nearly every private drinking water well within one mile of the Norfolk Southern derailment site.

As of the end of this week, DEP has completed collecting samples from 13 of the 16 known residential wells within a mile radius of the derailment site and is working to schedule testing of wells between one mile and two miles next week. Results from the first round of testing are expected next week.

“The Department of Environmental Protection has been on the scene since the first hours after the Norfolk Southern train derailment, and we will stay in communities like Darlington Township as long as it takes to assure Pennsylvanians their air, water, and environment are safe,” said Acting DEP Secretary Rich Negrin, who visited communities in Beaver County twice this week. “DEP staff is on the ground right now, professionally and efficiently taking independent samples of drinking water near the derailment site so that Pennsylvanians can have the information they need to keep themselves and their families safe.”

DEP is proactively contacting residents within a two-mile radius of the train derailment site to initiate water testing. Concerned residents who are beyond the two-mile radius are encouraged to reach out to DEP to request testing by calling 412-442-4000.

DEP is using its own laboratories to test for volatile organic compounds that were on some of the train cars, including vinyl chloride, ethylene glycol, butyl acrylates, ethylhexyl acrylate, benzene, and ethanol.

FILE – A black plume rises over East Palestine, Ohio, as a result of a controlled detonation of a portion of the derailed Norfolk Southern trains, Feb. 6, 2023. West Virginia’s water utility says it’s taking precautionary steps following the derailment of a train hauling chemicals that later sent up a toxic plume in Ohio. The utility said in a statement on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2023 that it has enhanced its treatment processes even though there hasn’t been a change in raw water at its Ohio River intake. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, file)
Story by Sandy Giordano – Beaver County Radio. Published February 27, 2023 10:38 A.M.

(East Palestine, Ohio) East Palestine, Ohio is just across the border of Pennsylvania, and the one entry  point located off Route 51, Taggart Road in Chippewa Township is closed to trucks as of Friday afternoon, according to a police official. The February 3, 2023 Norfolk and Southern train derailment  and the explosion  that followed brought great concerns to the public. Evacuation  was ordered and some hesitated, but eventually the evacuation order was abided by all residences.