Shelda E. Rudich (1949-2025)

Shelda E. Rudich, 75, of Economy Borough, passed away on March 5th, 2025.  She was born in Rochester on May 20th, 1949, a daughter of the late Earl and Joyce (Wilson) Lint.

She is survived by her loving husband, Charles Rudich, Sr., her children, Chaz, Christopher, Eric and Sarah Rudich, her daughter-in-law, Liz Rudich, her beloved grandchildren, Isaiah Rudich and Hannah Bella Yohe, her siblings: Linda Spratley, Earl Lint Jr., Cindy Tetrick, Ed Lint and Jeff Lint, their spouses, as well as many nieces and nephews.

Shelda was a caring, kind and loving woman who was deeply devoted to her family and to her faith.

In accordance with Shelda’s wishes, no services are being held. A Celebration of Life will be announced at a later date. Arrangements have been entrusted to the John Syka Funeral Home Inc., 833 Kennedy Drive, Ambridge.

In lieu of flowers, donations in Shelda’s name may be made to Concord Presbyterian Church at www.concordpreschurch.org

Wan Chun Shek (1944-2025)

Wan Chun Shek, 80, passed away on March 7th, 2025 at her home in Pittsburgh. She was born in Jakarta, Indonesia on December 13th, 1944.

She is survived by her two daughters, Renee Tai Hsu (Albert) of Moon Township & Tammy Tai Lau (Joseph), Australia and three grandchildren, Jaiden Lau, Joshua Lau & Ashley Hsu.

Friends will be received on Friday March 14th from 2-4 P.M. & 6-8 P.M. in the Huntsman Funeral Home & Cremation Services of Moon Township, 1522 Coraopolis Heights Road. Private interment will take place at a later date.

Ambridge Area School District student gets accepted to the 2025 US Naval Academy Summer seminar

(Photo Courtesy of John and Michelle Carpenter)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) A junior-year student from Ambridge Area School District celebrated an accomplishment that gets her closer to serving in one of the United States Service Academies. Lily Anna Renate Carpenter has been accepted to the US Naval Academy Summer seminar that will occur in June of 2025 for her first application. Lily is part of the Beaver County Civil Air Patrol Squadron 704. She is their Flight Commander and is currently ranked as Cadet Chief Master Sergeant.  

Edna Emma Davis (1930-2025)

Edna Emma (Primo) Davis, 94, formerly of Monaca, Pennsylvania passed away peacefully on March 5, 2025, at the Arbors of St. Barnabas in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania.

Edna was born on May 8, 1930 in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, the daughter of the late Frank and Rosina (Castrone) Primo. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, John, her two brothers, Anthony (Clara) Primo and Robert (Anna) Primo, and infant brother John, and her five sisters: Mary (Vincent) DeBacco, Avelia (Matthew) Fronko, Julia (Eugene) Zigerelli, Evelyn (Allen) Swain and infant sister Elisa, as well as her in-laws Robert and Fannie Davis.

Edna is survived by her three sons, Mark Davis, Michael (Bianca Russo) Davis, and Jeffrey (Renee Grandchamp) Davis. She was a proud and loving grandmother to five grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, two step-grandchildren, and four step-great-granddaughters.

The Primo family eventually settled in Monaca, where Edna graduated from Monaca High School as a member of the class of 1948. She then attended the Providence Hospital School of Nursing in Beaver Falls, where she graduated in 1951 and became a Registered Nurse.

Not long after her graduation, Edna, her sister Evelyn, and their good friend Theresa Susa, moved to Chicago, Illinois, where she embarked on her nursing career at St. Luke’s Hospital. It was there that Edna met a young man named John Davis, who soon became the love of her life. John and Edna were married on February 19th, 1955, at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Monaca, and began their more than 60 years of life together in an apartment on the southwest side of Chicago. One by one, they welcomed three sons into the family, Mark, Michael, and Jeffrey, and soon they had outgrown their small two-bedroom apartment. The family moved to Woodridge, Illinois, to a new home that John and Edna shared for almost 50 years. They raised their three children together and Edna dedicated herself to her home and family, as well as continuing to work part-time as a nurse at Edward Hospital in Naperville, Illinois. She was a parishioner of St. Scholastica Church, where she was an active member of the Joliet Diocese Council of Catholic Women, serving a term as President of that organization. She was named “Parish Woman of the Year” by the Council, an honor for which she was very proud. In addition, she was a founding member of the Woodridge Garden Club, where she also served a term as President.

Soon after they retired, Edna and John began to spend their winters in Clearwater, Florida, sharing a condominium at Imperial Cove with Edna’s sister Evelyn and her brother-in-law, Allen Swain. They eventually chose to live there year-round, and while there, they traveled, enjoyed many social activities, and welcomed visits from their children and new grandchildren, with whom they swam in the pool and took to the many attractions in the area. They remained in Clearwater until John passed away in 2016. During her time in Clearwater, Edna was a parishioner of St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church.

Following John’s passing, Edna returned to western Pennsylvania, residing at the Village of St. Barnabas in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, where she was a member of the St. Barnabas Red Hat Society and enjoyed many social activities with new friends and enjoyed frequent visits from her children and grandchildren.

The family will receive friends on Thursday, March 13th from 2-4 pm and 6-8 pm at Simpson Funeral & Cremation Services, 1119 Washington Avenue, Monaca where parting prayers will be offered on Friday, March 14th at 9:30 a.m., followed by a mass of Christian burial at 10 a.m. at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church of Monaca. Interment will follow in the parish cemetery.

The family has suggested rather than flowers that memorial gifs be given in Edna’s memory to the American Cancer Society.

To share online condolences, view Edna’s video tribute, get directions, please visit www.simpsonfuneralhome.

Rev. Arthur I. Peters, Sr. (1939-2025)

Rev. Arthur I. Peters, Sr., 85, of Rochester, passed away on March 8th, 2025 in Heritage Valley Beaver. He was born in East Liverpool, Ohio on November 26th, 1939, a son of the late Caesar A. Sr. and Dorothy Wright Peters. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by one daughter, Victoria E. Peters, a sister, Millicent Russell, two brothers, Caesar A. Peters Jr. and Richard Peters. He is survived by his wife of thirty-one years, Beverlee D. (Law) Peters, three daughters and one son-in-law, LeTecia D. and James Worsley of New Jersey, Anita L. Peters, of Mississippi and Sarah L. Jacobs of Ohio, three sons and a daughter-in-law, Arthur I. Peter II of California, Jason A. and Nia S. Peters, of Lexington, North Carolina, Jacob M. Peters of Ohio, twenty-one grandchildren, seventeen great-grandchildren, one great-great grandson, as well as several nieces and nephews.

Reverend Arthur was a retired service technician and customer service director with Xerox Corporation of Youngstown, Ohio. He was a former member of the Second Baptist Church of East Liverpool, Ohio and the former pastor and former member of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church of Weirton, West Virginia. He was a member of Christian United Association where he was a chaplain, having served in that capacity, with the former Friendship Ridge. He was a Peacetime Navy Veteran, a member and former president of the East Liverpool NAACP, a member of the Urban League of Youngstown, Ohio. Reverend Arthur was a former police patrol officer in Canton, Ohio, and a technician of animation with Walt Disney Inc. He was a retired school bus driver with Hopewell School District, a former DART bus driver, as well as a volunteer program director with the Society for the Blind, providing a radio program for the visually impaired. His passion was being a motorcycle enthusiast, as a member of the Gold Wing Road Rider Association. He loved traveling with his wife Beverlee by motorcycle and motorhome.  Friends will be received on Friday, March 14th, from 10 a.m. until the time of service at 11 a.m., at William Murphy Funeral Home, 349 Adams Street Rochester. Officiating will be Pastor Richard Jackson. Interment will follow in Spring Grove Cemetery of East Liverpool, Ohio. The Vietnam Veterans of America will provide full military honors for their fallen comrade Friday, March 14th at 11:45 a.m. at the funeral home.

Congressman Chris Deluzio publishes opinion piece in the New York Times opposing absolutism of anti-tariffs from Democrats

(File Photo of Congressman Chris Deluzio)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Carnegie, PA) According to a release from Congressman Chris Deluzio’s office, Deluzio published an opinion piece in the New York Times on Friday called “Hey Democrats: It’s Time to Rethink Our Stance on Tariffs” to oppose absolutism of anti-tariffs from Democrats. Deluzio believes that people that make policies discover how tariffs help in the industrial field. Deluzio provided examples of tariffs defending the rights of workers, water and air, tariffs assisting wages and production in America and tariffs protecting both security and economic industries. 

Ambridge man pleads guilty for possessing material involving the sexual exploitation of a minor

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Acting U.S. Attorney Troy Revetti announced Friday that a resident of Ambridge pleaded guilty to a charge of having material that involved the sexual exploitation of a minor. Forty-two-year-old Bradley J. Schrott had a video of a minor being sexually exploited on February 17th, 2023. Schrott was serving a term of supervised release during the time the offense happened for the same offense, which gave him a sentence of thirty months in prison. According to Revetti, Schrott could face up to no less than ten years and up to twenty years in jail, an up to a $250,000 fine or both provided by the law. Schrott will be sentenced on June 3rd, 2025.

The word is getting spread out to Pennsylvania voters about voter registration

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – Chester County, Pa., election workers process mail-in and absentee ballots at West Chester University in West Chester, Pa., Nov. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

(Reported by Danielle Smith of Keystone News Service)

(Harrisburg, PA) With Pennsylvania’s primary election set for May 20th, a nonpartisan group is working to raise awareness about voter registration. Over 8.7 million Pennsylvanians are eligible to vote in the municipal election. Amy Widestrom from the League of Women Voters is concerned about low turnout in local races, noting Montgomery County’s forty-one-point-nine percent turnout in 2023. She says one precinct saw less than one percent – only 379 voters. She emphasizes the importance of voting for key positions. She adds Pennsylvanians must register to vote by May 5th to cast a ballot in the primary and the last day to apply for a mail-in-ballot is May 13.

 

Woman with warrants for alleged previous retail thefts apprehended by Aliquippa police

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(Reported by Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano)

(Beaver County, PA) A woman that had warrants for previous retail thefts was arrested by Aliquippa Police on Saturday. Police stopped a car for an equipment violation and found thirty-six-year-old Diana Disilvestro in the passenger’s seat. Disilvestro was accused of allegedly stealing items on both February 13th, 2025 and February 15th, 2025 from the Dollar General in Aliquippa. Disilvestro faces multiple charges for retail theft. Disilvestro was taken to the Beaver County Jail without incident.

Man from Nazareth, Pennsylvania arrested for driving under the influence in Aliquippa

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that a man from Nazareth, Pennsylvania was arrested for driving under the influence in Aliquippa on Sunday at 1:19 a.m. According to police, an unidentified forty-year-old man was on the 20th Street Block of Aliquippa when he was deemed impaired by police upon further investigation. Police are continuing to investigate this incident.