The Penguins will hold their annual Fanfest August 27-28 at the Consol Energy Center. The event will be divided into four session. It will have youth games , interactive displays, and autograph sessions with current players. The only thing missing will be the Stanley Cup. It has a previous engagement. The cost is ten dollars. Tickets go on sale Wednesday at 10 AM via Ticketmaster.
Authorities say a convicted felon was arrested over the weekend after he carried a semi-automatic handgun and a box of ammunition into a Center Township movie theater. According to Center Township Police Chief Barry Kramer , officers saw a man walking around the Cinemark Center Township Marketplace lobby wearing long-sleeved Army gear with a large backpack in 94-degree weather. Chief Kramer told Mike Romigh on Teleforum this morning that the man initially gave a false I-D but was eventually identified as 21-year-old William Gossett. He was found with a .25-caliber semiautomatic handgun that was found to be stolen from Ohio and a box of ammunition. He was taken to jail. Gossett told police that he was there to watch “The Purge”. “The Purge: Election Year” is the third installment in a series of films about a day on which all crime is legal for a 12-hour period once per year.
The Democratic National Convention got underway in Philadelphia this morning. Former Beaver County State Representative and Minority Whip Mike Veon is at the convention and will be phoning in daily live reports from the convention through Friday to Mike Romigh during Teleforum. The reports will air immediately following the 11:30 newscast each morning.
(Chippewa Township, PA) Legendary Pittsburgh Penguins player and now broadcaster, Phil Bourque was part of the festivities as WBVP-WMBA did a live broadcast at Chippewa Township’s 200th anniversary celebration on Saturday July 23, 2016. The event was held at the newly dedicated and opened Chippewa Veterans Park and was am opportunity to showcase the new athletic facility s well as mark the township’s bicentennial anniversary. The massive athletic park has lots to offer and that fact wasn’t lost on Bourque who commented about how impressed he was with the new development. Frank Sparks and Greg Benedetti, hosts of the “Saturday Morning Sports Slam” , anchored the live broadcast on WBVP and WMBA.
Beaver County has received a payment from Shell Chemicals. Shell paid the county $356,000 in lieu of taxes as part of an agreement that was made in 2012. The payment was for years 2014 thru 2016 and was received July 1. The money was not part of the county budget according to budget director Ricardo Luckow and will help the county’s cash crunch.
Yesterday, Governor Tom Wolf hosted a roundtable discussion on how to maximize Shell’s influence in Western Pennsylvania at Penn State Beaver. Wolf met with county government, educational and business leaders focusing on how the county is preparing for the plant and what support Harrisburg could offer. Shell officially announced it will build a cracker plant in Potter Township on June 9th.
Governor Tom Wolf announced yesterday that Amazon plans to expand in the state and eventually create five thousand new jobs. Wolf says the online retailer will put fulfillment and distribution centers at new locations throughout Pennsylvania with the first in Northampton County.
Former state treasurer Barbara Hafer is charged with lying to federal agents about seven hundred thousand dollars in consulting fees. Hafer, who was also an Allegheny County Commissioner, is accused of concealing from investigators the consulting fees.
Donald Trump made his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention last night. Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, has promised Republican convention delegates that her father will fight for equal pay for women and affordable childcare for parents.
Those are two issues that Trump has rarely if ever addressed during the campaign.
After a slow start, big money is flowing into efforts to help Trump. Republican officials say that super PAC side meetings during the convention have yielded millions of dollars in financial commitments.
The Beaver County Commissioners and Sheriff Tony Guy continue to haggle over the sheriff’s budget. At the commissioner’s work session yesterday, the sheriff returned for a second straight week and asked the commissioners for a budget increase to promote four part time deputies to full time and hire and additional five part- timers.
The sheriff says he needs the additional manpower to conduct the functions of the sheriff’s department. Commissioners told budget director Ricardo Luckow to compile a financial workup to determine the additional cost. Last week, Luckow said the sheriff was about 100 thousand dollars short of balancing his department’s 3.1 million dollar budget. Tony Guy’s request for more manpower would sharply increase that deficit.