One Beaver County municipality has made the list of the top 50 safest cities in Pennsylvania. Brighton Township placed eighth on a recent Security Baron report ranking the state’s safest cities. The report looked at violent crime, property crime and other factors and Brighton Township was #8 in the report. Some of the other notable finds…Findlay Township was 39th…in second place was O’Hara Township in Allegheny County…and the safest city in Pennsylvania is Upper Yoder Township in Cambria County.

The Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors has named a local secretary to its Hall of Fame. 65-year-old Marilyn Zona – who has served as Marion Township’s secretary/ treasurer for 40 years – was named to the group’s secretary wing of its Hall of Fame. She joins Sandy Wright of Greene Township, who was enshrined in 2013, as the only other honoree from Beaver County. There are no secretaries included from Lawrence or Allegheny Counties.

In their first post-election work session, the Board of Commissioners got the latest update on the 2019 budget…an update that indicates a move in the right direction. Matt Drzik has more from the courthouse:

A $500,000 state grant from the Commonwealth Financing Authority will fund streetscape renovations to a portion of Pennsylvania Avenue in Monaca. State Rep. Rob Matzie, D-Beaver/Allegheny made the announcement. Matzie said the renovations are needed because overhead utilities are being relocated to underground as part of the Monaca Gateway Initiative project – a major infrastructure overhaul designed to enhance traffic flow to and from the new Shell cracker plant under construction…

Matzie says the grant from the CFA Multimodal Transportation Fund will finance the following:

– the construction of 29-hundred linear feet of sidewalks.
– 12 crosswalks.
– 26 ADA-complaint curb ramps.
– the restoration of 14-hundred linear feet of roadway.
– stormwater management.
– installation of 18 streetlights.
– and streetscape amenities such as plantings, trash receptables and bike racks.

Monaca Borough is requesting a waiver to the local match requirement. The total project cost is approximately $2.3 million.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The FBI is investigating how Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration came to issue permits for construction on a multibillion-dollar pipeline to carry natural gas liquids across Pennsylvania, The Associated Press has learned. FBI agents have interviewed current or former state employees in recent weeks about the Mariner East pipelines, according to three people who spoke on condition of anonymity. Wolf’s administration has said in the past that the permits contained strong environmental protections.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A jury has convicted a man of first-degree murder in the shooting death of a New Kensington police officer almost two years ago. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against 31-year-old Rahmael Sal Holt in the November 2017 slaying of officer Brian Shaw. Prosecutors contend Holt was an armed drug dealer who had planned to rob the driver of the SUV that Shaw attempted to stop in New Kensington on the night of the shooting. Holt has maintained that he wasn’t the person who fired.

BREAKING NEWS: Crews are working to repair a water line break in Aliquippa this afternoon. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has more. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

WEATHER FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13TH, 2019

 

TODAY – MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGH – 32.

TONIGHT – CLOUDY SKIES. LOW – 25.

THURSDAY – CLOUDY IN THE MORNING. BECOMING
MOSTLY SUNNY IN THE AFTERNOON.
HIGH – 43.