Beaver County weights and measures manager Ron Zuccarro met with the commissioners for specifics on a new registration fee for scales and fuel pumps. According to Beaver County Radio’s Greg Benedetti, Zuccarro says there are 60 fuel stations in the county with 1,248 dispensers for gasoline grades. The new county fee will be 35 dollars per dispenser. Zuccarro says there are 84 stores with 461 scales in the county and the new registration fee will be 30 dollars per scale. Zuccarro will do the billing and collections. The commissioners have to adopt a resolution setting the fee schedule.

A cell phone caller alerted Aliquippa Fire Department of a brush fire between 1st Ave. and the hillside behind St. Titus Church at 1:30 p.m., according to Fire Capt. Bill Brucker. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano reports that a  blown transformer knocked out power on Franklin Ave.Brucker said the brush fire could have been responsible. Capt. Brucker said the fire was put out quickly, the cause is undetermined.

Hopewell township Zoning Hearing Board approved a request from Kelar Properties LLC   owners of Washington Street Apartments  last night   for variances to build 6 townhouses on the existing property. this year.  According to Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano, the units will  have 2 bedrooms and 1/12 baths Zoning board, co owner Phil Laird told the board .chairman Dan Maravich  said that residents have 30 days to appeal the decision if they aren’t in favor of the development.    The owners Phil Laird and Ed Keller told the board that they plan to build 18 more units in the future. Mr. Laird said   2 18 unit apartments are located  on the 3.3 acre site.  The men purchased the site last year from Glen Wells of Pittsburgh..

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the  youngest U.S. president to be elected into office in 1960, and his 100th birthday  would be May 29, Memorial Day 2017.  According to Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano, a forever stamp was issued yesterday by the U.S. Postal Service.t , President’s Day in his honor John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Mass. The stamps are available today in all U.S. Post Offices , according to Mark Saunders, the post office department’s media contact .  The stamps cost .$49 each. The stamp  features a 1960  photo of Kennedy by Ted Spiegel taken in Seattle while he was on the campaign trail . Artwork on the stamp shows the late president in a reflective pose  is a 1970 oil painting by Aaron Shikler through the White House Historical Association Jack Schlossberg, Kennedy’s grandson , said in a news release that ” our family is honored that the Postal Service is commemorating  my grandfather with this stamp.” Kennedy visited Aliquippa, on October 12, 1962.  Kennedy Boulevard is named for the late president.