MIDLAND — With a Broadway star and alum handling choreography, Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center presents “All Hands On Deck,” a rousing USO-style tribute.

The musical, presented in the Midland center’s MainStage Theater, takes place March 19-22.

With 2026 marking the 250th anniversary of the United States of America, “All Hands On Deck” offers a great way to celebrate her birthday.

Patterned after the beloved USO Big Band road shows that once traveled the country lifting spirits during uncertain times, this musical and dance spectacular features more than 40 American classics, including “Chattanooga Choo-Choo,” “Pennsylvania Polka,” “Deep in the Heart of Texas,” “America the Beautiful,” “Don’t Fence Me In” and “Thanks for the Memory.”

This high-energy, family-friendly production is directed by Sharon Schaller, resident artist at Lincoln Park.

Schaller appeared on the Beaver County Radio Morning Show on Tuesday and said this:

“All Hands On Deck” features choreography from Broadway star and Lincoln Park alum Amber Ardolino, a North Sewickley Township native.

Some of Ardolino’s Broadway credits include “Moulin Rouge! The Musical,” “Hamilton,” “Back to the Future: The Musical” and most recently, “A Beautiful
Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical,” bringing world-class theatrical storytelling and dynamic movement to this nostalgic, patriotic celebration.

Together, this accomplished creative team offers a fresh take on a classic
American art form.

“This production is a celebration of the music, movement, and shared experiences that helped carry our country through some of its most uneasy moments,” Justin Fortunato, producing artistic director of Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center, said. “We are incredibly excited to collaborate with this creative team and to present a show that honors America’s 250th birthday. As we reflect on what it means to be patriotic and to be an American, the ‘All Hands On Deck’ show reminds us of an art form that once brought us together — and still has the power to do so today.”

Tickets are available by visiting LincolnParkArts.org or calling 724.576.4644.

Tickets start at just $18 and are going fast.

“All Hands On Deck” continues Lincoln Park’s 2025–2026 Clearview Federal Credit Union Subscription Series, “Find Your Way!”

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Columbiana County, OH) Forty-three-year-old Michael Bess, a Pittsburgh paramedic, is on administrative leave and is facing a misdemeanor charge of child endangerment for giving his sixteen-year-old son steroid shots last spring. Court documents in Columbiana County, Ohio confirm this and Bess was trying to rehabilitate a shoulder injury that his son suffered when he was working part-time as a weightlifting coach for his son’s high school football team in Wellsville, Ohio last April. Bess was arraigned yesterday and he pleaded not guilty and madebond.

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(Ambridge, PA) The owner of Maple Restaurant in Ambridge is asking for the help of its community in identifying the person who smashed through the front door and stole from the cash register at 1:28 a.m. yesterday. Surveillance video that was shared by the business shows a brick smashing through the front door. A man in a red hoodie then jumps through the window and shatters the rest of the glass before getting up and cleaning out the cash register before leaving. People who live nearby are asked to check their doorbell cameras for anything that could be helpful toward the investigation. According to the manager of Maple Restaurant, Nicole Thompson, the suspect got away with less than $1,000.

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(Pittsburgh, PA) Parishioners filled the pews at Madonna del Castello Church in Pittsburgh for one final Mass yesterday as church consolidation starts within St. Joseph the Worker Parish. The Rev. Michael Stumpf, the pastor of that Parish, announced on October 23rd, 2025 that Saint Maurice Church in Forest Hills will take on all parishioners. The Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh cited declining attendance for Mass and financial strains in its decision to close these seven churches. Madonna del Castello Church was one of seven churches that will be closing permanently in the Diocese of Pittsburgh, and here are the other six churches that will be closing and the times and dates they will be closing:

Tonight, (March 3rd) at 7 p.m. – Sacred Heart Church

Tomorrow (March 4th) at 7 p.m. – Good Shepherd Church

Thursday, March 5th at 7 p.m. – St. Jude the Apostle Church

Monday, March 9th at 7 p.m. – St. John Fisher Church

Tuesday, March 10th at 7 p.m. – St. Anselm Church

Wednesday, March 11th at 7 p.m. – St. Colman Church

The new weekend schedule starts on Saturday, March 14, which is when all Masses will be celebrated at St. Maurice Church.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to the most recent star rating report from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), AHN Allegheny General Hospital, Allegheny Health Network’s flagship quaternary medical facility, has been recognized among the nation’s top adult cardiac surgery programs. The hospital in Pittsburgh has received the highest rating in five out of six evaluated categories for its outcomes of surgical care and quality metrics for aortic valve replacement, coronary artery bypass graft surgery, mitral valve replacement and repair, and multivalve procedures, as well as surgical valve replacement that is combined with coronary artery bypass graft surgery. A release in Pittsburgh today from Allegheny Health Network states that STS has also rated AHN Forbes Hospital in Monroeville and AHN Jefferson Hospital in Jefferson Hills with 3-star designations in isolated coronary artery bypass graft surgery and aortic valve replacement with coronary artery bypass graft surgery, respectively. ll three AHN surgical programs received a 3-star designation in the new STS “multiprocedural” category. This comprehensive evaluation assesses the morbidity and mortality rates for patients across all analyzed procedures, as well as making an adjustment for patient risk factors. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Washington, D.C.) According to a release in Washington D.C. today from Congressman Chris Deluzio’s office, Deluzio (PA-17) joined fellow U.S. House members Congressmen Nick LaLota (R-NY-01), Michael Rulli (R-OH-06), and John Garamendi (D-CA-08) to introduce the Railway Safety Act of 2026. This bill would make freight rail safer by strengthening hazardous materials oversight, emergency response support, and rail safety standards overall following the disastrous Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine. On February 26th, 2026, Senators John Fetterman (D-PA), Jon Husted (R-OH), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), and others introduced a Senate version of this measure.

SCOTT TADY

PITTSBURGH — Parting is such sweet sorrow, but it also brought sweet sounds Monday from Journey.

In night No. 2 of a farewell tour, the classic rockers treated Pittsburgh faithful to a night of hits played well and with enthusiasm.

There’d be a few surprises, maybe a few missed marks, but an overall highly pleasing performance for a close-to-full PPG Paints Arena crowd decisively old enough to recall Journey vinyl spinning at basement parties or proms.

Neil Schon starred as the guitarist, unleashing clean, robust riffs from the set-opening “Any Way You Want It” through a two-hour-10-minute performance culminating with “Don’t Stop Believin’.”

Lead singer Arnel Pineda frequently flashed smiles and did a few mid-air splits, ensuring audience engagement amid hitting the soaring vocal heights of Steve Perry-era Journey.

Those vintage Perry-era tunes can be a mighty climb, so Journey also enlisted a hired gun (voice?) in Nashville singer Jason Derlatka who quite capably handled lead on “Suzanne” and “I’ll Be Alright Without You,” that latter tune introduced by keyboardist Jonathan Cain as a number reflecting Journey’s Motown and R&B influences.

Many of Monday’s song selections featured multiple backing harmonies. That reached a level of distracting on early pick “Stone in Love,” where Pineda’s lead vocals were overpowered by his bandmates’ crooning.

There was a moment in “Escape” where Deen Castronovo added a drum fill that seemed  a smidge out of place. Blame exuberance, perhaps, or the band still locking in its timing early on the tour.

Castronovo and Cain each carried themselves well taking turns on lead vocals, the former — most notably — on “Lights,” which prompted fans to wave aloft illuminated cellphones as the stage’s huge video screened showed San Francisco Bay scenery.

Cain began his introduction of 1983’s “Faithfully” explaining it was written about striving to hold a family together as the band headed off on the road. But in this modern context, amid America’s 250th anniversary, he dedicated it to U.S. veterans, dating back to Colonial shop owners taking up arms against the British, noting the lyrics also can convey the notion of troops leaving behind spouses and children to embark on freedom-preserving military missions. The song’s swelling, heart-tugging power ballad chords absolutely worked in that lyrical manner for an audience on its feet.

Another highlight, and surprise, was “Wheel in The Sky” taking an unexpected heavy metal turn. Pineada even did a metal horns salute with his right hand as Schon shredded guitar notes and Castronovo bashed away on his drums with a heaviness befitting fellow Bay Area rockers Metallica.

Schon’s fretwork earlier had achieved the requisite screams and bluster to make “Who’s Crying Now” another standout.

Several dozen white T-shirts emblazoned with Journey’s logo were hurled from backstage as far as 16 or so rows into the crowd for a raucous “Lovin,’ Touchin’ Squeezin.'”

A little after 10 p.m., this “Evening With Journey” ended, giving local fans one last memory of a top-notch Journey concert.

How soon till they play the Sphere in Las Vegas?

Meanwhile, for anyone reading this review from a city further on in Journey’s swan song tour, still pondering if you should buy a ticket… my answer, is yes.

(Scott Tady is the mid-day deejay at 97.7 The Rock Station in Butler, Pa., and hosts the morning show at WBVP-WMBA in Beaver County.)

 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver reported via release today that twenty-six-year-old Shelby Capan of Clinton was charged after a two-vehicle crash in Beaver County on the afternoon of February 24th, 2026. At 12:47 p.m., Capan was driving on the intersection of State Route 18 and State Route 30 in Hanover Township and hit the vehicle of fifty-seven-year-old Duane Helman of Salem, Ohio. Helman stopped his vehicle and stayed at the intersection when it remained clear and Capan traveled forward after the traffic light turned green and hit the vehicle of Helman. Capan was transported by Medic Rescue because of a suspected minor injury as a result of this crash.

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(Pittsburgh, PA) United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced today that a former resident of Youngstown, Ohio, pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to a charge of cocaine and methamphetamine trafficking. Fifty-one-year-old Wade Shaw pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute quantities of cocaine and methamphetamine in September of 2023. Senior United States District Judge Nora Barry Fischer scheduled the sentencing for Shaw on May 28th, 2026. According to Revetti, Shaw could face a maximum total sentence of up to 30 years in prison, a fine of up to $2 million, or both, provided by the law.