Kennywood Park’s annual Holiday Lights event has returned and is full swing. This is the first season Holiday Lights will mix in with the new Thomas Town attractions. This is Kennywood spokesperson Nick Paradise…
Paradise says the Thomas Town train ride is still open to all ages…
The season begins tonight and continues every Friday, Saturday and Sunday night through December 23rd. The park will then be open every night between December 26th and the 30th.
Authorities say an Ellwood City man strangled a newborn child delivered by a teenage girl he had sexually assaulted on numerous occasions and hid the baby’s body in a safe. Lawrence County authorities say 38-year-old Christopher Kennedy, who has no known address, faces numerous counts. Authorities say the girl was 15 when she gave birth in October 2017. After he allegedly killed the child, authorities say Kennedy put the baby in a plastic bag and then sealed it with concrete inside the safe. The body was found several weeks later after the teen was admitted to the hospital for serious complications related to the birth. Authorities say she initially claimed to have killed the baby, but later told them Kennedy had done it.
WEATHER FORECAST FOR BLACK FRIDAY, NOV. 23RD, 2018
TODAY – MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH – 44.
TONIGHT – CLOUDY WITH OCCASIONAL RAIN OVERNIGHT.
LOW – 33.
SATURDAY – RAIN SHOWERS THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
HIGH – 47.
SUNDAY – OVERCAST. HIGH NEAR 50.
This year commemorates the 70th anniversary of when Beaver County’s first radio station, WBVP, was heard over the airwaves for the the first time on May 25, 1948. To mark the historical event, each week, another “70th Anniversary Moment” will be showcased on the airwaves and published on the station’s online feeds.
One of the popular options for young people graduating from high school in the 1970’s and 1980’s, who didn’t want to go away to college, was to enroll in one of many local broadcasting schools. Broadcasting was an exciting, popular field and these programs offered the opportunity to learn the skills necessary to get a job at a radio station in a relatively short period of time.
Ambridge native, Dan Dunlap, was a graduate of one of the local broadcasting schools, Columbia School Of Broadcasting in Pittsburgh. Dunlap had just finished his coursework at Columbia and showed up at the Duss Avenue studio of WMBA with a tape in his hand around 1985. Travis Green, also known as Jim Green on the airwaves at WMBA, served as the Program Director at back then and remembered meeting Dunlap. Green said: “Dan was nervous and timid, but he sounded great. His audition tape sounded real good. I told him even back then on that very first day of meeting him, that he would do very good in the business. So, I asked Dan if he could start that day, and he about dropped his drawers”.
Travis Green was right about the sound of the talent on the cassette tape that Dan Dunlap brought with him to WMBA that day. Dunlap has a beautiful, velvet toned, smooth, low pitched baritone voice that doesn’t seem to go with his smaller physical stature. If Dan didn’t make it in the broadcasting business, he could easily have found work as a base singer in a barbershop quartet. Listeners loved the sound too. Not too long after starting at WMBA, Dan Dunlap starting doing part time fill in work at WWKS, Kiss 106.7 F.M. in Beaver Falls. Dunlap was so smooth, so professional in the way he could say even mundane things like the call letters of the radio station, that young part timers at WBVP and WWKS during 1986 and 1987 would reportedly gather at the studio window just to watch Dan work his craft. While it’s never been researched, Dunlap is thought to be the only announcer ever to achieve such fame among fellow employees at the Beaver Falls radio headquarters. Dunlap could read the lottery numbers and make them sound like a romance novel. His tone and delivery style would mesmerize people. He was, and is, that good.
Other radio operators began to fall in love with what they were hearing as well. Dan Dunlap also started working part time at WSHH, Wish 99.7 F.M. in Pittsburgh in 1986 and Eventually was hired on full time as the afternoon host. WSHH was often referred to as “Beaver Falls South”, because many WBVP and WWKS employees ended up working at that radio station as well. Dunlap teamed up again later on in Pittsburgh with other people familiar to WBVP , WWKS and WMBA listeners, including Steve Granato, Chris Shovlin and Current WBVP newsman, Pat Septak, who also worked at the Greentree based station in the 1990’s. Judy Marcella and Mark Peterson were sales staffers in Beaver Falls who also worked with Dunlap at WSHH and it’s sister A.M. counterpart radio station, WJAS.
For a couple years, around 2008, Dan Dunlap, along with his wife Sue Dunlap, hosted a Saturday Morning variety talk show on WBVP and WMBA appropriately called “The Dan and Sue Show” . Dan loved radio so much, that even on his day off at his full time gig in Pittsburgh, he elected to spend his free time on the airwaves.
Dan Dunlap continued to talk to listeners on Wish 99.7 F.M. until 2014. Since then he has become a very highly sought after voice over artist, working with many major businesses like Netflix, Charter Communications, Bristol Motor Speedway, Dietz & Watson, Edward Jones Financial, Cox Media, Field & Stream and Tin Cup Whiskey along with many others. Locally, Dan Dunlap continues to do the voice over work for the annual Medic Rescue membership drive commercials which are on the air now on WBVP and WMBA.
70th Anniversary Moments” is presented by Abbey Carpet and Floor, Albert’s Heating, Cooling and Plumbing, Aliquippa Giant Eagle, The Beaver Falls Municipal Authority, Beaver Valley Auto Mall, Beaver Valley Sheet Metal, Castlebrook Development, The Community College Of Beaver County, Farmers Building and Savings Bank, Freedom United Federal Credit Union, Hank’s Frozen Custard and Mexican food, The Health Huts, Kitchen City, Laughlin Insurance Agency, Rochester Manor and Villa and Young’s Jewelry and Coins.
Crosby scores in return, Penguins pound Stars 5-1
By WILL GRAVES, AP Sports Writer
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sidney Crosby’s been around long enough to realize the issues currently plaguing the Pittsburgh Penguins can’t be solved in one shift, one period or even one game.
That sure didn’t stop the Pittsburgh captain from trying. Crosby scored a spectacular goal and set up two others during a 5-1 victory over Dallas on Wednesday night in his return to the lineup after missing three games with an upper-body injury.
“I think our team gets a foot taller when he’s in our lineup because of the inspiration that he is for our group,” Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said.
For a night, it looked like it.
The Penguins began the day at the bottom of the Eastern Conference thanks to a 1-7-2 slide, unfamiliar territory for a team less than 18 months removed from back to back championships. The defense has been shaky at best and the goaltending not much better. Sullivan preached patience and on Tuesday stressed the team had no plans to abandon the frenetic style of play that has become its trademark during his hugely successful three-year tenure.
It’s a style that hardly looks out of place when Crosby’s familiar No. 87 is on the ice.
Desperately needing a spark two days removed from a nightmarish loss to Buffalo in which the Penguins gave away a three-goal lead over the final 30 minutes, Crosby provided one. He set up Jake Guentzel for a goal less than 4 minutes into the game and provided a highlight-reel marker later in the opening period when he raced down the right side, held off Dallas defenseman Esa Lindell and flicked a rebound past Anton Khudobin to give Pittsburgh a 3-0 advantage just 10:04 into the game.
“I had some room to take it to the net,” Crosby said. “Sometimes they go in. Sometimes you get a save sometimes you draw a penalty. It was good to see it go in.”
Evgeni Malkin, Patric Hornqvist and Tanner Pearson also scored for the Penguins. Creating offense, however, is rarely an issue for Pittsburgh. The biggest development against Dallas may have been the play in front of Casey DeSmith. Pittsburgh surrendered three shots in the first period, a season-low 19 in all and didn’t get sloppy after staking him to a massive lead. DeSmith finished with 18 saves, his shutout attempt ending 7:55 into the third period when Mattias Janmark scored.
It was the lone highlight for the Stars. Khudobin, starting in place of injured Ben Bishop, stopped just 11 of 16 shots and was removed when Pearson beat him with a slap shot on a breakaway to make it 5-0. Rookie Landon Bow played well in his NHL debut, stopping all 14 shots he faced.
“Pretty embarrassing tonight,” Dallas forward Jamie Benn said. “I think we let our goalie down, and we let each other down. Tough night.”
It tends to happen when Crosby is at the top of his game. He slid a backhand pass across the ice to Guentzel for a one-timer that slipped between Khudobin’s pads to give the Penguins the lead 3:58 into the first period. Malkin’s wrist shot on the power play just over 2 minutes later doubled Pittsburgh’s advantage, the Russian star flexing as the red goal light came on.
Crosby’s ninth of the season wrapped a frantic three-goal first-period outburst by Pittsburgh against a team that had allowed just 10 goals in the first period all season.
“I don’t think I prepared our team well enough,” Dallas coach Jim Montgomery said. “We weren’t ready to dig in. We weren’t ready to win faceoffs. Ultimately that preparation falls on the head coach.”
It would get no better for Dallas in the second. DeSmith denied Tyler Seguin on a breakaway and moments later Hornqvist flipped in a rebound to push it to 4-0. The sequence repeated itself when DeSmith got a pad on a shot by Janmark, leading to a breakout that ended with Pearson — acquired in a trade with Los Angeles last week — ripping a slap shot for his second goal in as many games.
“It’s a heck of a shot, the goal he scores tonight,” Sullivan said. “My hope is he’s going to gain a whole lot of confidence from scoring a couple games in a row. That was our hope when we acquired him, that he could help us in that area.”
NOTES: The Penguins went 1 for 3 on the power play. The Stars were 0 for 2 with the man advantage. … Dallas scratched Bishop (lower-body injury), D Julius Honka and F Gemel Smith. … Pittsburgh scratched D Chad Ruhwedel and F Daniel Sprong. … Pittsburgh is 6-0-1 against the Western Conference.
Josh Getzoff has the recap on the Penguins Radio Network . Press the play button below…
UP NEXT
Stars: Host Ottawa on Friday night.
Penguins: Visit Boston on Friday night.
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Final Score
Penguins- 5
Stars – 1
3rd Period Scoring
Dallas- Hintz
2nd Period
Penguins – 5
Dallas – 0
2nd Period Scoring
Pens- Hornquivst,Pearson
BREAKING NEWS: THE BEAVER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS DISCUSSED THE BUDGET AND OTHER ISSUES DURING THIS MORNING’S WORK SESSION AT THE COURTHOUSE. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO WAS THERE. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
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BREAKING NEWS: THERE WAS A TWO-CAR ACCIDENT IN HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP THIS AFTERNOON. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS MORE. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
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A Rochester man is facing charges after a fire that destroyed a Reno Street home this summer. An ankle monitoring bracelet put Leander Maybin at the scene of the fire in the 200-block of Reno Street August 14th. Neighbors tell the Beaver County Times the 21-year-old had lived at the home. Maybin is in the Beaver County Jail on 50-thousand-dollars bond.
