Category: News

Singer Jimmy Beaumont of the Skyliners Dies At The Age Of 76

Jimmy Beaumont – the long-time lead singer of the Skyliners – died Saturday in his sleep at his home in McKeeesport, after a career that lasted nearly 60 years. Jimmy was best known for the 1959 hit, “Since I Don’t Have You”,  which he co-wrote at the age of 18. Scott Tady of the Beaver County Times gave Frank Sparks some history of the singer and the band during today’s edition of Teleforum…

Tady says Beaumont was still singing as recently as Sept. 17th when the Skyliners performed a concert in New York…

Frank asked Tady about the cause of death for Beaumont….

Tady called the Skyliners an iconic band…

Jimmy Beamont was 76.

October Is Domestic Violence Awareness Month In Beaver County

OCTOBER IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARNESS MONTH HERE IN BEAVER COUNTY. WE SPOKE WITH ANN COLELLA-MURRAY, THE EDUCATION TRAINING COORDINATOR OF THE WOMEN’S CENTER OF BEAVER COUNTY. SHE SAYS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM NOT JUST IN THE COUNTY BUT ACROSS THE COUNTRY….

SHE TALKED TO US ABOUT SOME OF THE SERVICES THAT THEY PROVIDE…

SHE TALKED TO US ABOUT SOME OF THE COUNSELING SERVICES THEY PROVIDE…

SHE SAYS VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CROSS ALL AGE BRACKETS…

SHE SAYS EVEN THOUGH IT’S CALLED THE WOMEN’S CENTER OF BEAVER COUNTY…THE CENTER PROVIDES SERVICES FOR BOTH MEN AND WOMEN…

THE WOMEN’S CENTER’S 24-HOUR HOTLINE NUMBER IS (724) 775- 0131.

Beaver Area Nurse Joins Union-Led Puerto Rico Relief Efforts

(Photo used with permission of Wendy Snyder)

A Beaver Area nurse has joined hurricane relief efforts in Puerto Rico. Wendy Snyder – an orthopedic nurse at Heritage Beaver Valley Hospital – has joined 200 skilled union members in a two-week relief trip to the island in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Kathy Stoddard is a nurse at Allegheny General Hospital and a member of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania…and she says Snyder is one of the hundreds of volunteers from over 17 states to help in the relief effort:

The volunteers will return to Newark on October 18th.

 

Beaver County Commissioners Discuss Sandie Egley’s Upcoming Trip To D.C. On Teleforum

THIS MORNING DURING THE ASK THE COMMISSIONERS SEGMENT OF TELEFORUM HERE ON BEAVER COUNTY RADIO, COMMISSIONERS CHAIRMAN SANDIE EGLEY CONFIRMED THAT SHE WILL TRAVEL TO WASHINGTON D-C WITH THE PITTSBURGH PENGUINS NEXT TUESDAY. THE PENGUINS ARE BEING HONORED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR THEIR SECOND STRAIGHT STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONSHIPS….

EGLEY SAYS IT WAS AN HONOR FOR HER AND HER FAMILY TO ACCEPT THE INVITATION FROM THE WHITE HOUSE…

COMMISSIONER TONY AMADIO SAYS HE WOULD HAVE ACCEPTED THE OFFER AS WELL IF IT WEREN’T FOR A PREVIOUS COMMITMENT…

COMMISSIONER EGLEY SAYS SHE WILL PAY HER OWN EXPENSES WITH NO MONIES COMING FROM THE COUNTY.

Beaver County Commissioners Stop Short Of Committing To No Tax Increase In 2018 Budget On Teleforum

THE 2018 BEAVER COUNTY BUDGET WAS A BIG TOPIC DISCUSSED DURING THIS MORNING’S ‘ASK THE COMMISSIONERS’ SEGMENT ON TELEFORUM.
ONE LISTENER CALLED TO SUGGEST THAT A POTENTIAL INCREASE IN TAXES WOULD BE UNACCEPTABLE…AND ASKED EACH OF THE COMMISSIONERS TO MAKE A COMMITMENT TO NOT RAISES TAXES IN NEXT YEAR’S BUDGET:

ALL THREE COMMISSIONERS APPEARED ON ‘ASK THE COMMISSIONERS’ THIS MORNING.

 

Steel City Ruins to play live on Notes on Local Entertainment Thursday October 4, 2017

Scott Tady , Entertainment Editor for the Beaver County Times and Frank Sparks, host of Teleforum are at it again on the show they co-host, Notes on Local Entertainment, this Thursday October 5, 2017. This Thursday’s show is a special one hour edition that will feature Beaver County’s own Steel City Ruins playing Live on the air.  The show will also be on Facebook live on our Facebook page  https://www.facebook.com/beavercountyradio/

Tune into 1230 WBVP and 1460 WMBA at 11:10 a.m. and listen to more of the vast array of talent that is in Beaver County. You can participate in the show by calling 724-843-1888 or 724-774-188.  Notes on Local Entertainment is brought to each week by Wooley Bully’s in New Brighton.