A Beaver Falls man is facing charges after being found with drugs during a parole officer’s home check. Dwayne Wells was charged after being found with cocaine, heroin, and marijuana at his home on Second Avenue on January 25th. . Wells had been under supervision for a firearms violation and previous drug charge. The 28-year-old is in the Beaver County Jail on 75-thousand-dollars bail.

Beaver County authorities don’t know why two men made the deadly decision to drive on railroad tracks in Rochester. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has details. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

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The Beaver County Transit Authority has scheduled two public hearings tonight on proposed service changes. The first hearing will be held this afternoon at 5 p.m. in the board room of the BCTA Transportation Center on West Washington Street in Rochester. The service cuts include the elimination of some early morning hours on Routes 1 and 11 and late night hours on Route 11, with the last weekday Route 1 bus from Pittsburgh being at 7 p.m. from the East Busway stop. Another proposed cut is the elimination of Route 1 service to and from Pittsburgh between the hours of 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. The stop at Drug and Alcohol in Vanport would be eliminated. CCBC service would be reduced on weekdays and eliminated on Saturdays. One Route 3 morning trip would be eliminated along with time changes and Route 11 Saturday service would be reduced. The Transit Authority says the changes will come with some benefits including improved time performance, improved connections between routes, the elimination of capacity issues on certain routes and the addition of a bus on Route 2 among other benefits. People looking to submit their comments in writing should mail them or deliver them in person before 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 19 to BCTA, 200 W. Washington St., Rochester, PA 15074. Beaver County Radio’s Matt Drzik will be at one of those meetings tonight and will have a detailed report for us tomorrow morning at 6:30 on AM Beaver County.

Residents of two Beaver County communities are under a boil advisory until noon. Aliquippa Water Authority officials say a water main break Saturday on Green Garden Road caused a significant drop in water pressure to Raccoon and Potter townships. People are being asked to boil their water for at least three minutes before using it for drinking or cooking. Officials say the advisory will be lifted at noon.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4TH, 2019

 

 

TODAY – MOSTLY SUNNY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF A RAIN
SHOWER. HIGH NEAR 60.

TONIGHT – STEADY LIGHT RAIN THIS EVENING. SHOWERS
CONTINUING OVERNIGHT. LOW – 45.

TUESDAY – CLOUDY. HIGH NEAR 50.

Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow this morning meaning an early Spring!!!!

Phil emerged from his burrow at Gobblers Knob Pennsylvania around 7:25 a.m. Saturday February 2, 2019 to a huge crowd of supporters. The cheers got loud as the proclamation was read that Phil did not see his shadow thus it will be an early spring this year.

The broadcast heard live on Beaver County Radio was presented by the Beaver County Conservation District.

 

Will Phil see his shadow? Tune to 1230 WBVP and 1460 WMBA as we will be live from Gobbler’s Knob  starting at 7a.m. this morning until Phil makes his prediction. Meantime here’s a preview of today’s event s.

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — As the Midwest and East Coast try to recover from this week’s dangerous Arctic blast, Pennsylvania’s most famous groundhog is gearing up to reveal whether an early spring is on the way or if winter will stick around.
Members of Punxsutawney (puhnk-suh-TAW’-nee) Phil’s top hat-wearing inner circle plan to reveal their forecast at sunrise on Saturday.
The festivities have their origin in a German legend that says if a furry rodent casts a shadow on Feb. 2, winter continues. If not, spring comes early.
In reality, Phil’s prediction is decided ahead of time by the group on Gobbler’s Knob, a tiny hill just outside Punxsutawney. That’s about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

A Pacific Northwest measles outbreak has some state lawmakers rethinking the so-called “philosophical” vaccine exemption as the number of confirmed cases of the virus grows to the dozens. Washington and Oregon are among 17 states that allow some type of non-medical exemption for childhood vaccines for “personal, moral or other beliefs.” In Washington, a bill introduced by Republican Rep. Paul Harris would remove the personal exemption for the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, or MMR.

President Donald Trump is giving his State of the Union address at a sensitive time in talks to prevent another government shutdown. But the striking visual is shaping up to be the record number of women House members who will be seated in front of the president while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sits just over his shoulder on the dais. Afterward, Stacey Abrams will become the first black woman to deliver the Democratic rebuttal.