(Story by Sandy Giordano, Beaver County Radio News Correspondent)

Ambridge Borough Council met last night and approved the fire department’s application for a FEMA SCBC grant in the amount of $135,000. The cost share is estimated to be between $6,500-$8,500, plus a 1.5% grant writer fee of $2,038.50.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is on the verge of becoming the first president to be impeached twice, as lawmakers move quickly to punish him over last week’s deadly Capitol attack. Trump’s fiery speech at a rally just before the Jan. 6 riot is at the center of the impeachment charge against him, even as the falsehoods he spread for months about election fraud are still being championed by some Republicans.

The Democratic-controlled House will move to impeach Trump Wednesday for the second time in 13 months — this time with just days left in the defeated president’s term.

The wall of Republican support that has enabled President Donald Trump to weather a seemingly endless series of crises is beginning to erode. Trump’s weakened standing among his own party will come into sharper focus on Wednesday when the House is expected to impeach the president for inciting a riot at the U.S. Capitol last week.

A handful of Republicans have already said they’ll join the effort, a number that could grow as the vote nears. The choice facing Republicans isn’t just about the immediate fate of Trump but whether the party’s elected leaders are ready to move on.

Jim Brewster will be sworn in as a state senator today, ending a dispute over counting ballots in Allegheny County. The U-S District Court for Western Pennsylvania ruled on Tuesday that disputed votes in the state’s 45th senatorial district should be counted. Republicans lost challenges in state and federal courts to Democrat Brewster’s narrow victory in November. But on January 5th, Senate Republicans blocked Brewster from taking the oath of office, insisting on another federal court ruling.

The G-O-P wanted to toss out 23-hundred mail-in ballots that lacked a written date on the outer envelope, but had been received on time. Marc Stier, who heads the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, says the court ruled the federal claims of Brewster’s opponent, Nicole Ziccarelli, failed on their merits. But the state Supreme Court had ruled those ballots could be counted. Stier believes Ziccarelli might have had a stronger case had she gone to court to demand that those similar ballots in Westmoreland County also be counted. About 15 years ago, Republicans joined with Democrats to extend and expand the Voting Rights Act. But Stier points out that the access to ballots – and even the voters’ right to choose electors in a presidential election – have become partisan issues.

Facing difficulty due to the novel coronavirus, Girl Scouts have found a way to create the first national delivery service collaboration in the organization’s history, using Grubhub Inc. to help the Girl Scouts ensure 2021 cookie sales are safe and socially distant.

We’re proud of the resourceful ways Girl Scouts are running their cookie businesses safely and using their earnings to make the world a better place,” interim GSUSA CEO Judith Batty stated in a news release. “This season, our girls will continue to exemplify what the cookie program taught them: how to think like entrepreneurs, use innovative sales tactics, and pivot to new ways of doing business when things don’t go according to plan.”

(Beaver Falls, Pa.) “Good News from the Mountain” with host Pastor Rod Smith will be broadcast at the special time of 4:30 p.m. today, January 13, 2021 on Beaver County Radio due to Pittsburgh Penguins Hockey on Beaver County Radio 1230 WBVP, 1460 WMBA, 99.3 FM and beavercountyradio.com .  The Penguins have their season opener on Beaver County Radio with pre-game at 5 p.m. and puck drop at 5:30 p.m.

The show will return to its normal time  of 6:30 p.m. next Wednesday January 20, 2021.

Representative Conor Lamb gave warning yesterday that there is an ‘ongoing threat’ to the Capitol, stating that thousands of ‘armed patriots’ are ready to descend on Washington D.C. to prevent Democrats from impeaching Trump and said they have stated that they will use their weapons against members of Congress.

In a closed-door briefing on Monday, law enforcement informed lawmakers, according to Lamb, that an ‘organized group’ of 4,000 people will try to prevent Democrats from entering the Capitol.

He said this group of people considers themselves patriots and that they are following an already set ‘rules of engagement’ on when to shoot and take more serious action.

Lamb says these threats are serious, and they are not just something they are imagining could happen.