Several more Beaver County school districts have announced their free lunch distribution plans for students during the coronavirus outbreak. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has details. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
The State Attorney General’s office is dismissing charges against a former Aliquippa Assistant Police Chief. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has details. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
The Freedom Area School District is offering free meals to students during the health crisis. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has more…
Members of the Riverdale Presbyterian Church in Moon Township are opening a community food pantry today. The church’s Give-and-Take Pantry will have open access to shelves seven days a week and 24 hours a day. Those shelves will be located under a portico near their parking lot. They are accepting donations of non-perishable food items and paper supplies sealed in their original packaging.
An Enon Valley man faces charges of theft from his employer. State Police said 42 year old Albert Farinelli allegedly wrote checks to himself over a seventh month period from Keister Kustom Kabinetry in Wampum totaling around 56 hundred dollars. Police said the investigation is ongoing.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s prisons are working to set up video conferences between inmates and family members now that visits have been suspended in an effort to keep the coronavirus out of the institutions. Corrections Secretary John Wetzel said the service should be available soon to family members in their homes. It had been available previously between prisons, if, say, a family member went to a prison to connect with a relative incarcerated somewhere farther away in a Pennsylvania state prison. But now, families will be able to sign up for 45-minute time slots and use devices in their homes to video chat.
State leaders are walking back a plan to close all rest stops along Pennsylvania highways. Following a plea from the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, PennDOT officials decided to reopen 13 of the state’s 30 rest areas for truck drivers carrying cargo through the commonwealth. Each of the locations will have its parking lots open at night to allow drivers to get some sleep. Indoor facilities will remain closed and a bank of five portable toilets will be positioned there, with each cleaned daily.
Bars and restaurants not only in Beaver County but in all of western Pennsylvania are no longer serving dine-in customers to prevent the spread of coronavirus. State officials are ordering establishments that serve food to shift to carryout and delivery only. The order was handed down yesterday after the health department confirmed the state’s first COVID-19 death in Northampton County.
Construction of the Shell cracker plant in Monaca is on hold because of COVID-19 worries. Project managers agreed to close the site yesterday after workers and Beaver County officials raised concerns about cleanliness. The company was under fire for holding large group meetings and not providing clean restrooms for workers as the coronavirus outbreak spread across Pennsylvania.
Beaver County officials confirmed yesterday a second case of COVID-19 in as many days. The second patient is not connected to Beaver County’s first case, an Aliquippa School District employee who’s currently hospitalized. The second case prompted Beaver County officials to close public access to the courthouse and county offices through at least the end of March.