(Zelienople, Pa.) A local longtime businessman known by many as the “Ice Cream Man”, Paul Young has died after a short battle with COVID-19.  The Announcement was made Saturday via the Young’s Custard Stand Facebook Page. Paul passed away last Thursday at UPMC Passavant in McCandless Twp.. Paul and his family own Young’s Custard Stand on Route 68. For many summers over the last for 52 years Paul would be at the window spinning out that yummy Young’s Custard greeting his customers with a smile and a pleasant hello, how can I help you. Young was 79 years-old.

Trump appeals rejection of effort to block Pennsylvania vote
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump is appealing a federal judge’s dismissal of his campaign’s effort to block the certification of votes in Pennsylvania. The president and other plaintiffs filed notice of appeal Sunday, a day after the judge issued a scathing order shooting down claims of widespread irregularities with mail-in ballots. U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Brann wrote in his order that Trump had asked the court to disenfranchise almost 7 million voters. In seeking such a “startling outcome,” he said, a plaintiff could be expected to provide compelling legal arguments and “factual proof of rampant corruption” — but “That has not happened.”

$11B budget package passes Pennsylvania Legislature
By MARC LEVY Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — An $11 billion no-new-taxes spending package won passage in a lame-duck session in Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled Legislature, as lawmakers sought to plug a multibillion-dollar deficit brought on by the pandemic. A coronavirus outbreak in the House of Representatives caused hours of delay Friday before the spending bill passed both chambers. Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, will sign it, his office said. Most Democrats opposed it, reflecting unhappiness with using federal coronavirus relief aid to underwrite state government costs, rather than provide hazard pay to frontline workers and to aid universities, schools, hospitals, restaurants and businesses and institutions. Public schools, universities and many programs will have to get by without an increase in funding.

It was a very successful day for the Beaver Valley Choral Society as the organization, teaming up with Rome Monument and Beaver County Radio, gathered hundreds of non-perishable food items for Families Matter Food Pantry in Monaca.

Beaver County Radio broadcast from the main drop-off site at Grace Lutheran in Monaca, while others donated their food items to New Brighton United Methodist Church and Chippewa United Methodist Church. Overall, the goal towards helping eradicate hunger for the holidays in Beaver County took a grand step forward during the “Sharing The Bounty” food drive!