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(Reported by Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano, Published on November 20th, 2024 at 6:27 A.M.)
(Center Township, PA) The supervisors met Monday night and introduced the tentative budget of $8,987,899.00. A millage increase of 1/10 will be 2.2%, a tenth of a percent more than 2024.
Story by Curtis Walsh – Beaver County Radio. Published Novemeber 19, 2024 8:06 P.M.
(Darlington, Pa) The Big Beaver Borough Council met Tuesday evening for their monthly meeting.
Council swore in and welcomed Karla Meyers as a new Council member.
In other business at the meeting, Treasurer and Secretary Jennifer Gasser spoke about their plan to move the Council meetings back to the Borough Building, as they have been holding them at the fire hall.
In preparation of the move, they will be purchasing 16 new chairs and will be considering flooring work and painting to be performed on the meeting room.
Council also approved 2 resolutions to reapply for Local Share Assessments Grants for funding to perform sewer line extensions on Midvale and Hollowvue Roads, respectively.
A third resolution was approved for reapplying for a grant for a new dump truck and High Lift.
Story by Curtis Walsh – Beaver County Radio. Published November 19, 2024 4:43 P.M.
(Beaver Falls, Pa) An accident took place on the Beaver Falls side of the Eastvale Bridge Tuesday afternoon.
One person was attended to by medics at the scene.
The scene was cleared shortly after 4pm.
Story by Curtis Walsh – Beaver County Radio News. Published November 19, 2024 3:49 P.M.
(Aliquippa, Pa) A lifeflight was been called in for a crash at the intersection of Kennedy Boulevard and Grand Avenue in Aliquippa Tuesday afternoon.
Multiple people were attended to for injuries, with at least one being transported by lifeflight.
The crash happened shortly after 3pm.
Kennedy Boulevard was shut down in both directions while multiple departments worked at the scene.
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Source for Photo: FILE – Chester County, Pa., election workers process mail-in and absentee ballots at West Chester University in West Chester, Pa., Nov. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Harrisburg, PA) The 2024 presidential election is over, but in Harrisburg, employees from the Pennsylvania Department of State used a risk-limiting audit to find out which ballots cast in that election will receive an audit, which involves using ten sided dice to determine that result at random. On Monday, Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schimdt talked about how the state of Pennsylvania uses their techniques to certify ballots for a small percent of them to confirm accuracy.
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Source for Photo: File – A help-wanted sign hangs in the front window of the Bar Harbor Tea Room, Saturday, June 11, 2022, in Bar Harbor, Maine. On Thursday, the Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Bethlehem, PA) Pennsylvanians that are looking for a career as well as learning from it can take advantage of 2024 National Apprenticeship Week, as the administration of Governor Josh Shapiro is working towards building up opportunities for possible employees as well as watching the evolution of the community of jobs across the state. Secretary of Labor and Industry Nancy Walker at the Apprenticeship PA Collaborative and Expo in Bethlehem talked about how the difference between the unemployment and job frequency can attract people to get accommodated to their place of employment.
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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Aliquippa, PA) After an attempted homicide in Aliquippa on Sunday night, the victim is now in critical condition. Police confirmed that twenty-five-year-old Javen Alford was transported by flight to Allegheny General Hospital after getting shot in the back with the bullet going through his chest when officers went to 400 Superior Avenue, Valley Terrace B Building after 9 p.m. If anyone is aware of information on this incident, the Pennsylvania State Barracks in Beaver is who to contact, and the Pennsylvania State Police are still investigating what occurred.
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Source for Photo: A customer holds a credit card at the pay-at-the-pump gasoline pump in Rolling Meadow, Ill., Thursday, June 30, 2022. The U.S. economy shrank from April through June for a second straight quarter, contracting at a 0.9% annual pace and raising fears that the nation may be approaching a recession. The decline that the Commerce Department reported Thursday, July 28, in the gross domestic product — the broadest gauge of the economy — followed a 1.6% annual drop from January through March. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pennsylvania) In Western Pennsylvania, gas prices continue to go down this week because the average is around $3.37, with a decrease of four cents from the previous week, according to AAA. AAA also notes that at this time last year, the average gas price totaled at around $3.68. According to the report, the average amount of gas you can expect at a gas pump here in Beaver County is about $3.30.
According to AAA, here are the average gas prices of some other Pennsylvania counties:
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Source for Photo: FILE – A passenger uses a laptop aboard a commercial airline flight from Boston to Atlanta on July 1, 2017. Concern about new high-speed wireless service interfering with airplanes appears to be easing. Federal safety regulators said Friday, Jan. 28, 2022 they have cleared the way for Verizon and AT&T to turn on more 5G towers. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes, File)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
According to a release from Jim Garrity, Director of Public Affairs for AAA East Central this week, almost eighty million Americans will be traveling the week of and starting the week after Thanksgiving. An estimate by AAA of travelers that are going greater than or equal to fifty miles away from home, according to Garrity is 79.9 million people. The number from the previous year went up by 1.7 million, while back in 2019, the present total was two million more. According to INRIX, which investigates data in transportation, notes that Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon are the worst days to travel over Thanksgiving, and compared to last year, Gerrity asserts that gas prices went down, and on Thanksgiving Day, an average of $3.26 was calculated nationally.
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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
According to a release from Nicole Roschella in Pittsburgh on Monday, the American Red Cross is announcing that during a difficult season which Hurricanes Milton and Helene as well as other disasters passed, Pennsylvanian volunteers from the American Red Cross are working around the clock to provide essential needs to the victims that are still recovering. Roschella notes that this year experienced twenty-four events that dealt with bad weather and climate, with losses of over a billion dollars, while these methods are being achieved from Red Cross volunteers: giving away over seven million meals, providing first aid assistance to seventy-six thousand Pennsylvanians, and letting those in the military have a chance to rekindle that connection with those they love. Roschella is also urging those to give both blood and platelets on Giving Tuesday and throughout the rest of the year at redcross.org.