We have an update now on that fire in Koppel that left one man dead this morning. Beaver County Radio Newsman Pat Septak spoke with the Chief William Madden of the Koppel Volunteer Fire Department by telephone on where the investigation stands at this point…
The identity of the person killed has still not been released…but an autopsy is scheduled on the body this evening.
On Thursday morning at the Beaver County Courthouse, the County Commissioners approved a settlement that ends a longstanding battle within the financial insides of Beaver County. Beaver County Radio’s Matt Drzik has more on the announcement in this story:
The $380,791 settlement ends the saga with the former Friendship Ridge; a battle that has spanned multiple administrations of the County Commissioners.
THE RENOVATION OF THE HOPEWELL FIRE STATION # 1 IS FINALLY COMPLETE. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS DETAILS. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
BREAKING NEWS: At least one person has died as a result of a fire in Koppel. According to emergency dispatchers, the fire broke out in a garage in the 44-hundred block of Fourth Avenue in Koppel this morning. The victim’s identity has not been released, but officials have confirmed that the victim is that of an elderly male. The cause of the fire is unknown. Stay With Beaver County Radio News for more details. This breaking news report is being brought to you by…
THE COMMUNICYCLE BUILDING IN ALIQUIPPA IS FINALLY COMPLETED…WHERE KIDS AND COME TO REPAIR, EARN AND LEARN. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS MORE. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
AN ALIQUIPPA MAN IS IN JAIL FOR THREE BURGLARIES IN THE AREA. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS THE STORY. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
WEATHER FORECAST FOR THURSDAY, FEB. 8TH, 2018
TODAY – A FEW FLURRIES POSSIBLE THIS MORNING.
CLOUDY SKIES. HIGH – 24.
TONIGHT – OCCASIONAL SNOW SHOWERS OVERNIGHT.
ACCUMULATIONS LESS THAN ONE INCH.
LOW – 12.
FRIDAY – CLOUDY WITH SNOW SHOWERS MAINLY DURING
THE MORNING. HIGH – 41.
SATURDAY – OVERCAST WITH RAIN SHOWERS AT TIMES.
HIGH – 41.
SUNDAY – CONSIDERABLE CLOUDINESS WITH OCCASIONAL
RAIN SHOWERS. HIGH – 41.
This year commemorates the 70th anniversary of when Beaver County’s first radio station, WBVP, was heard over the airwaves for the the first time on May 25, 1948. To mark the historical event, each week, another “70th Anniversary Moment” will be showcased on the airwaves and published on the station’s online feeds.
They say that one of the most important time slots to be on the air in the radio business is the early morning, or as it has become to be known, “Morning Drive”. Important because this was the time when many people are in their cars and on their way to work and thus the ability for a radio station to reach a large audience is probably at it’s highest point of the day. Couple that with being the first ever “Morning Man” when a station first started broadcasting, and one can see how important it was for the founders of WBVP in 1948, to make sure that they had the right guy for the job. Arnold Felsher was just that person and very much up to task. The following segment about Arnold was taken from the forthcoming book, “Behind The Microphone – The History Of Radio In Beaver County”, which will be published by Beaver County Radio in conjunction with the 70th anniversary of WBVP on May 25, 2018.
“The original 1948 lineup and broadcast day at WBVP, as has been said many times before, was an amazing collection of talented people. Arnold Felsher started the day off with the morning show broadcast beginning at 6 A.M. Felsher, a New Brighton native, was one of the more flamboyant and popular announcers of that era at WBVP. ‘ Arnie was a free spirit to put it mildly and would prove to be rather eccentric in his ways. On several occasions he would race downstairs before the 8 A.M. newscast and grab a child on his way to school and let him read the news on the air. Once he tried to call President Truman on the air and actually got thru to the White House switchboard.
On another occasion he put a fifteen-minute recorded transmission on the air and calmly strolled across the street to the General Brodhead Hotel to have a morning cup of coffee leaving the studio completely unattended. (Another staff announcer Chuck) Wilson would sputter and (Founding partner and general manger) Mr (Frank) Smith could only shake his head in amazement at the unique blend of individuals he had brought together.’ wrote Ken Britten about the first morning show host at WBVP. The program was sponsored at least in part by local steelmaker Babcock and Wilcox.”
Owen Simon worked at WBVP in the early days, who also happened to have his tonsils removed as a twelve year old at Providence Hospital in that era, reminisced in 2017 about a popular radio station promotion from those early days. According to Simon, Arnold Felsher would deliver ice cream from Burns Drug Store in Beaver Falls to children at the local hospital to help cheer them up. Evidently Felsher left a positive impression on the young lad as Simon came to work at WBVP just a few years later as the first stop in a long successful career in the entertainment business.
“70th Anniversary Moments” is presented by Freedom United Federal Credit Union and Rochester Manor and Villa. Archived editions can be viewed on the 70th Anniversary Moments page.
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Tune into a special edition of Notes on Local Entertainment with Scott Tady, Entertainment Editor for the Beaver County Times and Frank Sparks at 11 AM tomorrow, February 8, 2018. Stephen Rubinosky a New Brighton native and another of the awesome young music artist that call Beaver County home will be performing live on the air. The show will also be streaming on Facebook Live. Click on the Facebook image below at show time to see it streamed live……
White House advances idea of military parade
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House pushed ahead Wednesday with plans to throw a grand military parade through the streets of Washington, brushing aside criticism that such a display could be an unnecessary show of raw military power.
In a briefing to reporters, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said the parade plan reflects Trump’s respect for the armed forces.
“We all know the president of the United States’ affection for the military,” Mattis said. He said the Pentagon has been “putting together some options” for the parade to send to the White House.
The Washington Post, which was first to report the plan Tuesday, said Trump wants an elaborate parade this year with soldiers marching and tanks rolling, but no date has been selected.
Massive military parades of the kind that are common in authoritarian countries like China and North Korea are not quintessentially American. The U.S. traditionally has not embraced such showy displays of military might, such as North Korea’s parading of ballistic missiles as a claim of international prestige and influence.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham told CNN that such a parade risks being “kind of cheesy and a sign of weakness” if it’s all about showing off military hardware.
“My hope is this parade will not focus on military hardware, but on military service, sacrifice, and saying ‘Thank You” to those who protect our nation,” Graham said on Twitter.
Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin said a parade would be a “fantastic waste of money.” But White House legislative director Marc Short shot back on MSNBC: “I’m not sure honoring the military is a waste of money.”
Short said it was too early to know how much the parade would cost.
It has long been conventional wisdom that the U.S. does not need to boast of its military strength because it already is recognized as the leader of the NATO alliance and a model of military professionalism that countries across the globe seek to emulate.
Last September, at a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, Trump announced his idea of staging a grand parade of the armed forces in Washington on July 4.
Trump reminisced about watching France’s Bastille Day military parade when he visited Paris in July. He said the two-hour parade was a “tremendous thing for France and for the spirit of France,” and said he wanted one on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington that would be grander than the one he saw in Paris.