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Snow Watch Cancellations and Delays for January 29th, 2026

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January 29th, 2026

                         School or Organization       Cancellation or Delay  ( If blank no cancellation or delay reported)
  Adelphoi Education/Beaver (Rochester)         Closed Flexible Instruction Day Thursday Morning
  Aliquippa Area School District               
Closed Thursday, Teachers Report
  Ambridge Area School District Remote Instruction, No Transportation Thursday Morning, All Activities are Cancelled
  Avonworth School District 2 Hour Delay Thursday Morning
  Baden Academy Charter School In classes canceled, Activate Remote Learning Thursday Morning
  Beaver Area School District            Closed Flexible Instruction Day Thursday, Activities will Run as Scheduled
  Beaver County Courthouse
  Beaver County Rehabilitation Center
  Beaver Falls Crime Watch
  Bethel Christian School (Raccoon Township) 2 Hour Delay Thursday
  Big Beaver Falls Area School District Closed Flexible Instruction Day Thursday
  Beaver County CTC           Remote Learning Day Thursday
  Beaver County Transit Authority         
  Beaver Valley Montessori School
  Blackhawk Area School District            Remote Learning Day Thursday
  Blackhawk Meals on Wheels      
  Butler County Community College (All Locations, Including Cranberry Township)
  CCBC            Remote Learning Day Thursday
  CCBC Aviation Sciences Center            Remote Learning Day Thursday
  Center at the Mall (Beaver Valley Mall in Monaca)     
  Central Valley School District            Closed Flexible Instruction Day Thursday
  Chippewa Alliance Church Cancelled Youth Group and AWANA
  Cornell School District 2 Hour Delay Thursday Morning
  Cranberry Community United Presbyterian Church (Cranberry Township)
  Divine Grace Parish (Cranberry, All Locations)
  Education Center at Watson (Sewickley) 2 Hour Delay Thursday
  Ellwood City Area School District Closed Flexible Instruction Day Thursday
  Ellwood City Area Public Library
  Ellwood City Meals on Wheels
  Evangel Heights Child Care (Beaver)
  Families Matter Food Pantry
  Footprints in the Sand Daycare (Aliquippa)
  Freedom Area School District Remote Instruction, No Transportation Thursday
  H.A.P. Community Outings (Aliquippa)
  Head Start of Beaver County – Aliquippa Closed Thursday
  Head Start of Beaver County -Ambridge Closed Thursday
  Head Start of Beaver County – Beaver Falls Closed Thursday
  Head Start of Beaver County – Beaver Falls 7th Ave. Closed Thursday
  Head Start of Beaver County – Beaver Falls 6th Ave. Closed Thursday
  Head Start of Beaver County – Central Closed Thursday
  Head Start of Beaver County – Blackhawk Closed Thursday
  Head Start of Beaver County – CCBC Closed Thursday
  Head Start/ Early Head Start of Beaver County Closed Thursday
  Head Start of Beaver County – Rochester Closed Thursday
  Head Start of Beaver County – Southside Closed Thursday
  Head Start of Beaver County – New Brighton Middle School Closed Thursday
  Head Start of Beaver County – New Brighton High School Closed Thursday
  Head Start of Beaver County – Riverside Closed Thursday
  Heart Prints Center for Early Education (Cranberry Township)
  Hope Academy- Conway
  Hopewell School District Remote Learning Day Thursday
 Kiddie Korner (Beaver)
 Life Family Pre-School Closed Thursday
 Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School Remote Instruction, No Transportation Thursday
  Mc Guire Memorial EOC   
  Mc Guire Memorial School Closed Flexible Instruction Day Thursday
  Midland Borough school District Closed Thursday
  Montour Area School District 2 Hour Delay Thursday Morning
  Monaca Senior Center
  Monaca VFD #1
  Moon Area School District 2 Hour Delay Thursday Morning
  Mother’s Morning Out/Noah’s Ark Preschool/Sewickley Opening at 10:30 A.M. Thursday Morning
  Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Pre-school (Moon Twp.) 1 Hour Delay Thursday Morning
  New Brighton Area School District Virtual Learning Day Thursday
  New Horizons (Beaver) Closed Thursday
  North Catholic School District Closed Flexible Instruction Day Thursday
  Our Lady of Fatima/ Hopewell Closed Thursday
  Our Lady of the Sacred Heart High School (Coraopolis)
  PA Career Link (Beaver County)
  Pawmazing Bakery (Beaver)
  Penn State Beaver (Monaca)
  Provident Charter School West (Baden) Remote Learning Day Thursday
  Quaker Valley School District 2 Hour Delay Thursday Morning
  Riverside Beaver County Area School District Closed Flexible Instruction Day Thursday
  Road to Emmaus Baptist Church (Beaver)
  Rochester Area School District Closed Flexible Instruction Day Thursday
  Robert Morris University (Moon Township)
  Seneca Valley Area School District Remote Instruction, No Transportation Thursday
  Sewickley Academy
  Slippery Rock Area School District
  Slippery Rock Program Center Closed Thursday
  Slippery Rock University
  St. Andrews Day School (Moon Township) Closed Thursday
  St. James-Sewickley 2 Hour Delay Schedule Thursday
  St. Monica Catholic Academy Closed Thursday
  St. Monica Parish (Beaver Falls) Bingo Cancelled for Thursday Night
  St. Killian’s Catholic School (Cranberry) Closed Thursday Morning/All Activities Cancelled
  St. Peter & Paul School/Beaver Closed Thursday Flexible Instruction Day
  St. Stephens Lutheran Academy/Zelienople Closed Thursday Morning
  South Side Area School District Remote Learning Day Thursday
  Sto Rox Remote Instruction, No Transportation Thursday
  The Baden American Legion Fish Fry for Friday (January 30th, 2026) Cancelled
  The Lindsay Theater (Sewickley)
  The Phoenix Center (Rochester)
  The Prevention Network and Class Academy (Beaver County)
  Vanport VFD
  Western Beaver Area School District 2 Hour Delay Thursday Morning
  West Allegheny School District 2 Hour Delay Thursday Morning
  Zelienople Meals on Wheels

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo and Pittsburgh districts to conduct second five-year review at SLDA

(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to a release today from The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo and Pittsburgh districts are conducting a second five-year review of the selected remedy for the Shallow Land Disposal Area (SLDA) Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) site. The selected remedy that was identified in the Record of Decision, as amended, will involve the excavation, treatment, and off-site disposal of contaminated waste and soil. The purpose of this five-year review is to evaluate the effectiveness of this selected remedy.

Former Highmark Health employee charged with contaminating a female co-worker’s mug with bodily fluid

(File Photo of a Gavel)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A former employee of Highmark Health is now facing multiple charges after being accused of tampering a female co-worker’s mug with bodily fluid.  According to a criminal complaint that was filed in December of 2025, this investigation began when a Highmark employee reported someone stalking and harassing her anonymously. She then reportedly found bodily fluid in her mug on multiple occasions. The criminal complaint also states that police were permitted to set up a hidden camera in her office and allegedly caught Timothy Haver taking the mug from the desk of the victim, then returning it later. Every time he took the mug, the victim told police that it had been tampered with when it was returned. Haver was due in court this week and is now charged with stalking, six counts of indecent assault and harassment. Highmark Health also confirmed that Haver is no longer an employee that works for them.

Three Pittsburgh restaurants featured among the most romantic restaurants by OpenTable for 2026

(Credit for Photo: Courtesy of KDKA-TV Pittsburgh, Posted on Facebook on January 27th, 2026)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) OpenTable released its “2026’s Top 100 Romantic Restaurants” list yesterday that highlights the most romantic restaurants for the new year, which has ninety-nine restaurants in the United States and one from Puerto Rico. Alla Famiglia, Altius and Monterrey Bay Fish Grotto (Mt. Washington), all in Pittsburgh, made the list with ratings of 4.8. According to OpenTable, it curated this list after looking at more than nine million reviews from verified users and “dining metrics” from December 1st, 2024, to November 30th, 2025.

Mike McCarthy introduced as the next Steelers head coach

(File Photo: Source for Photo: Mike McCarthy, center, poses for a photo, after being introduced as the new head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers by team owner Art Rooney II, left, and general manager Omar Khan, right, in Pittsburgh Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The tears started early for Mike McCarthy. Really early.

Considering the setting, it was hard to blame him.

There the kid who grew up rooting for the Pittsburgh Steelers from his family’s home in the city’s Greenfield neighborhood was on Tuesday, sitting on dais wearing a black suit with a gold tie, a Steelers pin affixed to his lapel.

The job McCarthy always wanted, but never let himself imagine he would get, his at last.

“I thought I’d at least be able to get started,” the new Steelers head coach said, trying unsuccessfully to choke back his emotions while looking at a wide swath of the McCarthy family spread across the first few rows of a posh club inside Acrisure Stadium.

Nope.

McCarthy collected himself then gamely soldiered on. Yes, the feel-good vibes of his homecoming are undeniable to a man who admits “Pittsburgh is my world.”

Yet the 62-year-old is only too aware of why the Steelers hired him to replace Mike Tomlin, who stepped down earlier this month after 19 seasons.

The “obvious” choice

The trophy case inside the team’s facility just a couple of miles away from where McCarthy grew up at 1137 Greenfield Avenue has remained frozen in time for nearly two decades and counting. McCarthy’s handiwork is part of that drought after he led the Green Bay Packers over the Steelers in the Super Bowl 15 years ago.

Neither McCarthy nor his hometown team have been back since. The clock is ticking.

“It’s time to bring another championship back to this great city,” McCarthy said.

One that grew increasingly antsy during the final years of Tomlin’s tenure as solid if unremarkable regular seasons were followed by largely noncompetitive playoff losses, the last a 30-6 blowout at home to Houston two weeks ago that set the stage for Tomlin’s abrupt exit.

The Steelers, conducting a head coaching search for just the third time since hiring Chuck Noll in 1969, interviewed a wide swath of candidates, many of them the kind young assistants in the vein of Noll, Tomlin and Bill Cowher, all of whom arrived in Pittsburgh as relative unknowns and left with Super Bowl rings and Hall of Fame-worthy resumes.

Ultimately Pittsburgh turned to the one candidate who understands better than most how the team is hard-wired into the city’s DNA, one who also happens to have a Super Bowl ring of his own and a long track record of churning out teams capable of competing for a title.

“It wasn’t an easy decision, but it was an obvious decision for us,” said Steelers president Art Rooney II, who noted McCarthy’s hiring became official on the 125th birthday of franchise patriarch Art Rooney Sr.

Rooney II admitted his grandfather would have loved bringing McCarthy home, though he stressed McCarthy’s deep roots “had little to do” with making him just the club’s fourth head coach in 57 years.

“We had an open mind about it I think and really just said, ‘We found the best coach,’” Rooney II added.

Not ready to walk away

A coach who thinks he still has plenty left.

McCarthy went 185-113-2 (.608) across 18 seasons (playoffs included) with Green Bay and Dallas. His tenure in Dallas ended after an injury-marred 7-10 finish in 2024 led to a parting of ways. He took 2025 off to reconnect with his family, though the urge to coach never left.

The circadian rhythms of an NFL season are difficult to shake. He could feel time start to speed up when teams reported for training camp last summer, and even as he leaned into his somewhat unexpected break, he knew he wasn’t finished.

“I’m not ready to walk away from this,” McCarthy said. “To have this opportunity, it just seemed like it was meant to be on so many different levels.”

He called the 72 hours after reaching a verbal agreement with the Steelers “a whirlwind” that tugged at both the heartstrings and the daunting task ahead as he tries to assemble a coaching staff.

McCarthy figures he’s received twice as many texts of support as he did when he led the Packers to a title, though he knows the honeymoon will be short if he can’t find a way to return the Steelers to legitimate contention in the AFC.

While Pittsburgh’s current run of 22 seasons of finishing .500 or better are an NFL record, the club also hasn’t won a playoff game since beating Kansas City in the divisional round in the 2016 season, tied with Atlanta for the sixth-longest active streak in the league.

A Rodgers reunion?

McCarthy is inheriting a team with a talented — if expensive — defense and an offense filled with question marks, most notably at quarterback. Rookie Will Howard and veteran backup Mason Rudolph are currently the only two players at the game’s most important position under contract for next season.

Aaron Rodgers, who spent 13 seasons alongside McCarthy in Green Bay, will become a free agent in March after helping the Steelers win the AFC North at age 42. McCarthy certainly seems open to a reunion.

“Definitely,” McCarthy said. “I don’t see why you wouldn’t.”

Rodgers said near the end of his 21st season that he would take some time to decompress and meet with his inner circle before deciding whether to try and return in 2026. The four-time MVP believes he’ll have options if he wants and pointed out it would be easier to play in an offense he already knows. McCarthy’s hire assures that would be the case in Pittsburgh.

McCarthy plans to call the plays as he has throughout his coaching career and wants to keep the same 3-4 defensive scheme the Steelers have been using for decades, noting he’s just had one defense ranked in the top five during his head coaching career. It also happened to be the same season the Packers won the Super Bowl.

There’s a long way to go before that happens in Pittsburgh. There are plenty of questions that need to be answered in the coming weeks and months, including whether this offseason is the one the Steelers try to find the franchise quarterback they’ve lacked since Ben Roethlisberger’s prime in the 2010s.

The work has already started, though McCarthy did take a brief moment on the first official day of what could be his final head coaching stop to take it all in. He posed for pictures surrounded by the family that still calls him “Michael,” the one dutifully moved their NFL allegiances in lock-step with his career, the one that will be there for him in Greenfield no matter how this goes.

“We can finally, hopefully, wear our Steelers swag, so let’s get it,” McCarthy said. “My heart is full.”

2026 Beaver County Maple Syrup and Music Festival cancellation among topics discussed at recent Commissioners’ work session

(File Photo of the Beaver County Courthouse)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver, PA) Beaver County Recreation and Tourism Director Tony Caltury responded to an audience member during the audience participation segment of the Beaver County Commissioners’ work session this morning at the Beaver County Courthouse regarding the status of this year’s Beaver County Maple Syrup and Music Festival. Becky Gallagher of Baden asked the Commissioners for an update on that event, because she told them at their work session last week that there were rumors that it was being canceled. After Commissioner Jack Manning addressed Caltury if he had a response to Gallagher’s question, he said: “PUSH Beaver County and the organizers of the event; I haven’t seen an official public statement or press release, but this year’s event is being cancelled due to some structure and leadership of the event. It’s a very, very big loss for us, but I think PUSH is committed to reimagining the event and making it a continuous one, but they felt at this time that it was not doable to do an event in this short time frame from when they were notified about the leadership change to put on an event that’s worthy of a historical event that’s happened over the last 48 years in the county, so our office is committed to working with PUSH and bring in additional volunteers and organizations to make sure that this is just a one-year hiatus and we’ve already reached out to some organizations that may be interested in partnering as well.” One of the other topics that was discussed during this work session was the improvement of the credit rating of Beaver County because during the Solicitors’ report of the work session, Beaver County Solicitor Garen Fedeles mentioned that rating went from an “A” to an “A+” after receiving a recent update from the S&P global ratings at the beginning of this year. This happened after results came in yesterday because of financial flexibility and improvements that were sustained in budgetary performance.

Allegheny Health Network’s “Alcohol Bridge Clinic” Transforms Treatment of Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease

(File Photo of the Allegheny Health Network Logo)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to a release in Pittsburgh today from Allegheny Health Network, their innovative “Alcohol Bridge Clinic” has demonstrated remarkable success since launching last fall, improving sobriety for patients with liver disease and alcohol use disorder (AUD), and significantly reducing related hospitalizations. This clinic integrates transplant hepatology and addiction medicine which is designed to improve outcomes for patients suffering from Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease (ALD). 

TikTok faces app deletions, censorship claims and glitches in days after its ownership change

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – The icon for the TikTok video sharing app is seen on a smartphone in Marple Township, Pa., Feb. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

(AP) Censorship claims, technical problems and a report of a surge in app deletions are just some of the challenges TikTok is facing as it adjusts to a new ownership structure in the United States that was finalized last week.

The company said Monday it was experiencing a “major infrastructure issue triggered by a power outage” at one of its U.S. data center partner sites. The outage led to bugs such as creators temporarily seeing zero views on their videos even if people had looked at them, as well as slow load times and timeout requests when posting videos.

On Tuesday, TikTok said it had made significant progress restoring services though users could still see glitches while using the popular video sharing app.

At the same time, users were raising concerns that the company is “censoring” videos, including ones critical of President Donald Trump, ICE or mentions of Jeffrey Epstein. The complaints were enough for California Gov. Gavin Newsom to announce on X Monday that he is launching a review into whether TikTok is violating state law by censoring Trump-critical content.

Jamie Favazza, a spokesperson for TikTok’s new U.S. joint venture, said it is inaccurate to say that the problems users have been encountering are “anything but the technical issues we’ve transparently confirmed.”

Still, the technical problems combined with the ties that some of the new owners have to Trump bristled some U.S. users just enough to delete the app. Market intelligence firm Sensor Tower said Tuesday that daily average app uninstalls grew 130% from Jan. 22 to Jan. 26 compared with the previous 30 days. However, daily average users still increased by 2% in the same period, which Sensor Tower says suggests the uninstalls had little effect on overall usage. And while TikTok lagged YouTube and Instagram in U.S. user growth, people spent more time on the platform than its rivals.

Minda Smiley, a social media analyst at research firm Emarketer, noted that ownership change did just happen and that TikTok is going through a lot of infrastructure-related shifts, which can lead to technical issues. But if there are still problems with certain videos not uploading, or the censorship claims persist, TikTok could see bigger issues down the line.

“Optics and perceptions are really important in situations like this, so I would stay like regardless of what’s actually happening, if people do feel as if content is being suppressed or content is difficult to upload or is being moderated or whatever it might be, that’s enough reason for a lot of users to flee or to stop using TikTok or to say they’re going to stop using TikTok,” she said.

That being said, “what users say and do is often different,” she added. After all, it was only a year ago that TikTok users were flocking to RedNote, a Chinese social media app, to protest a potential TikTok ban. The protest didn’t last and RedNote doesn’t see much discussion in the U.S. these days.

“Still, I think my point still stands that if this continues and people do feel as if the algorithm is changing, the content is changing, it certainly presents a challenge for TikTok,” Smiley added.

Bridgeville man dies after motor vehicle crash in Scott Township from natural causes; no charges filed

(File Photo: Caption for Photo: police car lights at night in city with selective focus and bokeh background blur, Credit for Photo: Courtesy of Getty Images/iStockphoto/z1b)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Scott Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Pittsburgh reported via release yesterday that an unidentified sixty-year-old man from Bridgeville died after a motor vehicle crash occurred in Scott Township on the evening of July 24th, 2025. This happened at 8:55 p.m. on I-79 South and EMS personnel transported the victim from the scene to Allegheny General Hospital, which was where he was later pronounced dead. No charges were filed in the investigation into this incident and an autopsy that was performed by the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office revealed that the victim passed away from natural causes. 

Pennsylvania State Police in Pittsburgh investigating a sex assault report in McKeesport

(File Photo of a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Badge)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(McKeesport, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Pittsburgh reported via release yesterday that they are investigating a sex assault report that occurred in McKeesport on January 21st, 2026. It allegedly happened at a residence along the 2900 block of Freeland Street. The victim was an unidentified thirty-nine-year-old man from Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.