(File Photo of Road Construction Ahead Sign)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Rochester, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that beginning Tuesday, May 27th, weather permitting, Route 68 in Rochester will be closed for a project for roadwork improvement. Starting at 8 a.m. on Tuesday and going continuously through the middle of October, a part of Virginia Avenue will close to traffic that is long-term between Jefferson Street and Sunflower Road. According to a release from PennDOT District 11, here are the detours for drivers during this work:

Posted Car Detours

South of the Closure

• From Adams Street, turn left onto New York Avenue
• Bear right onto Harmony Avenue
• Harmony Avenue becomes Pennsylvania Avenue
• Turn right onto Grant Street
• Turn left onto Virginia Avenue
• Turn right onto Marion Hill Road
• Follow Marion Hill Road back to Route 68 (Sunflower Road)
• End detour

North of the Closure

• Same detour in the opposite direction

Posted Truck Detours

South of the Closure

• From the Rochester Roundabout, take Brighton Avenue toward North 18/65
• From Brighton Avenue bear left onto West Madison Street
• Turn right onto Delaware Avenue (Route 18)
• From northbound Route 18, turn right onto 13^th Street
• 13^th Street becomes Marion Hill Road
• Follow Marion Hill Road back to Route 68 (Sunflower Road)
• End detour

North of the Closure

• From Route 68 (Sunflower Road), turn onto Marion Hill Road
• Marion Hill Road becomes 13^th Street
• Turn left onto southbound Route 18 (3^rd Avenue)
• Take the left-hand ramp to Route 68 toward (Beaver/Rochester)
• From southbound Route 18 (Delaware Avenue), turn left onto West Madison Street
• Bear right onto Brighton Avenue
• Follow Brighton Avenue to the Rochester Roundabout
• From the roundabout, take Adams Street toward East 68
• End detour

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Pittsburgh, PA – PennDOT District 11 is announcing slide remediation work on Big Sewickley Creek Road (Route 4036) in Economy Borough, Beaver County will begin Tuesday, May 27 weather permitting.

Beginning at approximately 7 a.m. on Tuesday, Big Sewickley Creek Road will close to traffic between Maude Davis Lane and Zassick Drive continuously through mid-June. Crews will conduct slide repair, drainage improvements, and shoulder reconstruction. Traffic will be detoured.

Posted Detour

East of the Closure

• From Big Sewickley Creek Road, turn onto Conway Wallrose Road
• Turn left onto southbound Route 989
• Turn right onto Hemmerle Road
• Hemmerle Road becomes Legionville Road
• Turn left onto Duss Avenue
• Turn right onto 8^th Street
• Turn left onto Route 65
• Turn left onto Cross Street
• Cross Street becomes Main Street
• Bear right onto Ambridge Avenue
• Ambridge Avenue becomes Big Sewickley Creek Road
• End detour

West of the Closure

• Same detour in the opposite direction

PennDOT crews will conduct the work.

Motorists can check conditions on major roadways by visiting www.511PA.com. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information and access to more than 1,000 traffic cameras. 511PA is also available through a smartphone application for iPhone and Android devices, by calling 5-1-1, or by following regional X alerts.

Subscribe to PennDOT news and traffic alerts in Allegheny, Beaver, Lawrence counties at www.penndot.pa.gov/District11.

Information about infrastructure in District 11, including completed work and significant projects, is available at www.penndot.pa.gov/D11Results. Find PennDOT’s planned and active construction projects at www.projects.penndot.gov.

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(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of the Community College of Beaver County)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Monaca, PA) According to a release from the Community College of Beaver County, CCBC has been named a recipient of the prestigious 2025 Pathfinder Award. This award was given at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center on May 8th by the Green Building Alliance after CCBC teamed up with Mascaro Construction Company. The award was received because CCBC has used the Mascaro Construction Institute to prepare future designers, green builders and managers.

(File Photo: Caption for Photo: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) N95 face mask)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) According to an announcement from the Allegheny County Health Department on Thursday, an Allegheny County resident has been linked to a multistate salmonella outbreak. The Allegheny County Health Department confirms that backyard poultry is how most people that have associations with this outbreak have contact that was reported from it. More information is being gathered by public officials about the potential exposures that these individuals received. 

(File Photo of the Steel Curtain roller coaster at Kennywood)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(West Mifflin, PA) People have been hard at work at Kennywood to open the Steel Curtain roller coaster, which will be open to riders officially on Saturday, May 24th at 11:30 a.m. Some riders also got a sneak peek of the black and gold roller coaster on Thursday. One person who rode it came from the American Coaster Enthusiasts of Western Pennsylvania, and he commented that there is no other roller coaster like the Steel Curtain.

 

(File Photo of the National Weather Service logo)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to the National Weather Service, three tornadoes touched down in the Pittsburgh area on Wednesday with two of them from the same storm but with discontinuous paths. There was also a third one in Washington County that was confirmed by the National Weather Service. These confirmations were after the National Weather Service investigated the damage to a Butler County salt barn on Thursday that had its roof torn off by the Wednesday storms.  

(File Photo: Source for Photo: Christopher Lynch, music historian with the Center for American Music at the University of Pittsburgh, holds a piece of sheet music written by Charles Henry Pace, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, at the University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh. Lynch and the university are coordinating a project to recognize the pivotal role Pace played in gospel music as an early pioneer of the genre. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release from Senator Elder Vogel Jr.’s office, music therapists in Pennsylvania could be professionally licensed by the state.Legislation that was introduced by Vogel and state Senator Carolyn Comitta that is new helped this to be possible, and it is called Senate Bill 579. This bill would make an exam for board certification to continue requirements of education and make an ethics code for therapists of music that are trained to get licensed professionally

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – Algae floats in the water at the Maumee Bay State Park marina in Lake Erie in Oregon, Ohio, Sept. 15, 2017. Ohio’s environmental regulators will have until the end of June to finish a plan to aimed at combating toxic algae blooms that have flourished in Lake Erie since the late 1990s. The deadline is part of settlement agreement approved by a federal judge on Thursday, May 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Ambrdige, PA) According to a release from State Representative Rob Matzie’s office, almost $80,000 in grant funding will support environmental education for Beaver County students and composting. This money will help residents of the area and willalso help education at PFAS workshops. $19,180 went to the Summer Sustainability Institute program for RiverWise, $28,424 went to a project for Pennsylvania Resources Council, Inc., and $30,000 went to Penn State University. 

(File Photo of Senator Elder Vogel, Jr.)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Cranberry Township, PA) According to a release from Senator Elder Vogel, Jr.’s office, three community projects in Beaver and Lawrence Counties got awarded over $53,000. This money was from the Pennsylvania state Environmental Education Grants Program. The Summer Sustainability Institiute program from RiverWise in Beaver County got $19,180. The Ellwood City Area School District and the Lawrence County Conservation District also received separate funds, and according to that same release from Senator Elder Vogel, Jr.’s office, here are some more details about the money earned and the projects that they help:

Beaver County

RiverWise was awarded $19,180 to host a “Summer Sustainability Institute” for middle and high school students, who will be engaged in hands-on learning, create video interviews, and write sustainability-themed articles.

Lawrence County

Ellwood City Area School District was awarded $29,250 to launch a comprehensive aquaponics program that fosters environmental literacy and stewardship. Students will be engaged in hands-on PA STEELS standards aligned experiences focusing on water and wastewater runoff.

Lawrence County Conservation District was awarded $4.905 to host Summer Nature Camp for ages 8-11 and Advanced Nature Camp for ages 12-17, featuring a variety age-appropriate hands-on activities that address the relationship between water quality issues and climate change.