(File Photo of the Beaver County Courthouse)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Beaver, PA) Several topics were discussed at the Beaver County Commissioners’ work session this morning at 10 a.m. at the Beaver County Courthouse in Beaver. The Department Head Report of the session started with Beaver County Recreation and Tourism Director Tony Caltury letting the audience of the session know about some upcoming events in Beaver County. The biggest one was for America250PA, which celebrates the 250th birthday of the founding of the United States of America in Pennsylvania. Caltury stated that the rally kickoff for America250PA is from 4:15 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the public meeting room of the Beaver County Courthouse on Sunday, January 25th with light refreshments. Caltury also noted that the painted Liberty Bell for Beaver County for this event is in the possession of its artist will be delivered and completed by the end of this month. That program is something that the state of Pennsylvania is doing to visit all its counties starting on Friday, January 16th. Another event that Caltury mentioned that is coming up that is being held in Beaver County was The January Ice Jam, which is a free event that will be at the Ramada by Wyndham Hotel in Beaver Falls to support the Bluegrass Relief Fund. The performances from 29 different bluegrass bands start on Friday, January 16th at 7 p.m., with the music continuing that night until 10 p.m. and on Saturday, January 17th the music begins again at noon and continues until 10 p.m. Caltury also stated that options are being looked at for the pool in Old Economy Park and he expressed that “at the end of last year, we received a contract for 2026 with the YMCA, but before we move on,” he considered options like a bid for a new liner for the pool because the liner of that pool is “no longer viable,” Caltury will present the Commissioners with other options for the pool as well. In other business, during the Solicitors’ report of the session, Beaver County Solicitor Garen Fedeles also stated that the Commissioners and the heads of their departments are currently working to try to get some boxes over to St. Barnabas. Beaver County Commissioner Jack Manning also noted that Beaver County was a fairly major contributor of some projects like the Frontier Group’s $3.2 billion gas fire plant, which was “the restart of Bruce Mansfield,” as well as the advance switch gear plant of Mitsubishi that is going up, which is an investment of $86 million. Manning also praised the deal that Vistra recently made with Meta so they can purchasing 433 megawatts of incremental nuclear energy and capacity from equipment upgrades to increase uprates (also known as generation output) at the Beaver Valley Power Station in Shippingport and described it as “huge” for Beaver County.
