Author: Beaver County Radio

High Winds Cause Power Outages Throughout Beaver County

There are still about 15-hundred Duquesne Light customers without power across Beaver County this morning after high winds moved through the region last night. Some of the hardest hit areas are Bridgewater in Beaver County and Bell Acres in Allegheny County. Most of the Duquesne Light outages are in Sewickley (1,157). Spokeswoman Jessica Rock tells Beaver County Radio newsman Pat Septak that they expect power will be totally restored to the region by 6:00 tonight.

Monaca Names Piuri Police Chief

Monaca’s acting police chief Dave Piuri was promoted to chief at council’s meeting earlier this week, according to Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano. Piuri was named acting chief  following Bill Petures’s retirement . Petures is now working at the Beaver County Emergency Services Center as deputy director of the EMA. Chief Piuri  and borough manager Mario Leone were unavailable for comment.

Hopewell Area School Board Member Resigns

Hopewell School Board accepted the resignation of board member Daria Minton at Monday night’s meeting, according to Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano.  Ms. Minton moved out of the district.   Ms. Minton was appointed to the board and her term would expire at the end of 2017.Martin Byrnes, high school soccer coach resigned effective yesterday.  Spelling bees  for fourth graders were held at the district’s 3 elementary schools and  the winners will compete in the Scripps Howard Spelling Bee  at Robert Morris University on Saturday, March 11. Hopewell Elementary winner is Jenna Willy, Independence Elementary, Kristen Albertini, Margaret Ross Elementary, Emily Peroni.

New Plants To Be Built In Midland To Supply Concrete For Shell Cracker Plant

TWO PLANTS WILL BE BUILT IN MIDLAND TO SUPPLY THE CONCRETE NEEDED TO BUILD SHELL CHEMICALS’ ETHANE CRACKER PLANT IN POTTER TOWNSHIP. THE FACILITIES WILL BE LOCATED OFF 12TH STREET IN AN INDUSTRIAL PARK NEAR THE OHIO RIVER…AND WILL EMPLOY ABOUT 45 PEOPLE. TRUCKS FROM THE PLANT WILL TRAVEL ALONG ROUTE 68 AND INTERSTATE 376 BEFORE EXITING ON ROUTE 18 TO REACH THE CRACKER PLANT. SHELL OFFICIALS EXPECT ABOUT 300 TRUCK TRIPS DAILY FROM THE PLANT TO THE CRACKER SITE DURING PEAK CONSTRUCTION.

Penguins Add Defensmen, Lose To Chicago

The Pittsburgh Penguins were active at the trade deadline, adding Frank Corrado and Mark Streit to the defensive depth while dealing Eric Fehr and Steve Oleksy to Toronto.

Unfortunately the Penguins were not active in the win column, dropping their second consecutive game in as many nights, losing to Chicago 4-1. Scott Wilson scored the lone Pittsburgh goal, while Richard Panik scored the game winner and Patrick Kane added a hat trick for the Blackhawks.

The Penguins stay tied for second place in the Metropolitan with Columbus, and return to action Friday night against Tampa Bay at home. Tampa Bay defeated Carolina in the only other NHL game last night, winning 4-3 in overtime.

Tonight’s NHL games:

Minnesota at Columbus
New Jersey at Washington
NY Rangers at Boston
Arizona at Buffalo
Florida at Philadelphia
Nashville at Montreal
Colorado at Ottawa
NY Islanders at Dallas
Vancouver at San Jose
Toronto at Los Angeles

Lincoln Park Seeks 2nd WPIAL Championship Tonight

The Lincoln Park Leopards will play for the 3A Boys’ championship against Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic tonight at the Petersen Events Center on the Pitt campus, at 9:00 on Beaver County Radio.

The Leopards are seeking their third WPIAL Championship in school history (2012 & 2014), and 11th overall championship for the Midland area. The Trojans are looking for back-to-back titles (winning in 1A last season), and their fourth WPIAL title since 2009.

Pre-game is at 8:30 on WBVP & WMBA.

New Castle 61, Central Valley 33

The New Castle Red Hurricane used a lopsided second-quarter to propel themselves to the WPIAL Finals, as they cruised to a 61-33 victory over the Central Valley Warriors in the 4A Boys’ semifinal at Ambridge HS on 1460 WMBA.
Central Valley ran out to a 7-0 lead early, and took a 11-10 lead into the second. But New Castle would make a run of their own, outscoring the Warriors 25-4 in the frame.

The #1 Red Hurricane will play #2 Quaker Valley in the WPIAL Finals on Saturday, while the #4 Warriors will rest for the PIAA Playoffs that begin next week.

Geno Stone (NC) and Michael Simmons (CV) were named the CCBC Players of The Game.

Tom Hays has the recap for beavercountyradio.com.

Quaker Valley 68, Beaver Falls 50

 

The Quaker Valley Quakers showed the pedigree of dominance they had shown all season, beating the Beaver Falls Tigers 68-50 in the 4A Boys’ semifinal at Moon Area HS on 1230 WBVP. Quaker Valley, despite allowing the deficit to be cut to as low as one, never trailed during the course of the game.

The #2 Quakers earn their first spot in the WPIAL Championship since 1997 and will face #1 New Castle, while the #3 Tigers wait for the state playoffs to begin next week.

The Quakers’ Wolf Moser and The Tigers’ Josh Creach were selected as the CCBC Players of The Game.

Bob Barrickman has the scoring recap for beavercountyradio.com.

Beaver County Commissioners’ Work Session Cancelled

The Beaver County Board of Commissioners’ regularly scheduled Wednesday work session was cancelled for today. No reason for the cancellation was given. The commissioners are expected to appear during our “Ask the Commissioners” segment during Teleforum on Beaver County Radio during the 9:00 hour Thursday morning. Guest host Frank Sparks will ask questions of the commissioners and will also take questions from listeners who call in to the show during this time.