Pittsburgh, PA – PennDOT District 11 is inviting the public to attend a career fair on Wednesday, March 6 to learn about available maintenance positions the department offers in Beaver County.

The event will be held at PennDOT’s Rochester Maintenance Building located at 155 Stewart Avenue Rochester, PA 15074 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 6.

Available positions in Beaver County include full-time, permanent Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) Operators, seasonal CDL Operators, and full-time and seasonal Diesel Mechanics. Commercial drivers must have a valid Pennsylvania CDL Class A or B with the Air Brake Restriction (L) removed and a current medical examiner certificate.

PennDOT representatives will be on-hand to discuss openings in Beaver County. Onsite application completion, on the spot interviews, driving skills testing, and conditional job offers for select positions will occur. Applicants are asked to bring two forms of identification.

Story by Sandy Giordano – Beaver County Radio. Published March 5, 2024 12:32 P.M.

(Ambridge, Pa) The Ambridge School Board hired a new teacher at their meeting. Nicole Kelly was hired to teach fifth grade at Highland Elementary School. She will begin her duties on Monday, March 18, 2024. Her salary will be $48,781 a year.

The board also approved the hiring of all spring sports coaches for 2024.

Their next meeting is a work session on Wednesday March 13, and the regular meeting is Wednesday, March 20. Both meetings begin at 7 pm.

Beaver County Radio News Staff. Published 12:28 P.M.

(Center Township, Pa) An adjunct faculty member of CCBC will be featured in a television series called Into the Wild Frontier. Brady Crytzer teaches history at CCBC and is an expert commentator in the series.

The show is described as a look into early pioneers, scouts, hunters, and traders as they fulfill America’s destiny to expand Westward, exploring uncharted territory to blaze new trails.

Story by Curtis Walsh – Beaver County Radio. Published March 5, 2024 12:17 A.M.

(Center Township, Pa) State Police in Beaver have released details on a chain reaction crash that took place on I-376 in Center Township in February. 4 women were operating 4 vehicles travelling on I-376 West near mile marker 41 when the second vehicle rear ended the first. As the third vehicle continued operating, the fourth vehicle went on to rear end vehicle 3. Two of the vehicles were able to driven from the scene while two had to be towed. No injuries were reported. Two of the women were issued citations for travelling too closely.

Photo of Skip Haswell obtained from ellwoodcity.org

(Nokomis, Florida) Lloyd “Skip” Haswell has passed away at the age of 79 in Nokomis, Florida. He graduated from Lincoln High School in Ellwood City in 1964 and went on to join the Marines and serve in Vietnam. Many knew Skip for his service with the Beaver Falls Police Department in which he was the chief for many years and his work with Medic Rescue and the Beaver County Coroner’s Office. After retiring, he had since moved to Florida. A full obituary for Skip Haswell has been posted at ellwoodcity.org: https://ellwoodcity.org/2024/03/05/lloyd-e-skip-haswell-jr-79/

Story by Curtis Walsh – Beaver County Radio. Published March 5, 2024 11:43 A.M.

A global social media outage has caught the attention of the world this morning. Meta owned Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram all went down abruptly approximately an hour ago. Users were logged out of their accounts and are unable to log back in. Intermittent issues have also been reported for Youtube and Discord. Andy Stone, Meta’s head communications, told the Associated Press the company is working on the issue. Service began to be restored to the platforms shortly before noon.

BERLIN (AP) — Production at Tesla’s electric vehicle plant in Germany came to a standstill and workers were evacuated after a power outage that officials suspect was caused by arson. The interior ministry in the state of Brandenburg says unidentified people are suspected of deliberately setting fire to a high-voltage transmission line on a power pylon. Police say they are examining a “letter of confession” by a leftist group in connection with the outage. Environmental activists have been protesting in a nearby forest against plans by Tesla to expand. Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Germany’s interior minister condemned the incident.

Motorists saw gas prices increase over the final week of February. The national average for a gallon of gas is $3.35, nine cents higher than it was one week ago. Historically, March and April bring higher gas prices as travelers start heading out of town for Spring Break and demand increases. Today’s national average is 24 cents more than a month ago but four cents less than a year ago.
The current average price for a gallon of gas in Beaver County is $3.66

This photo provided by Nancy Run Fire Company shows a train derailment along a riverbank in Saucon Township, Pa., on Saturday, March 2, 2024. Authorities said it was unclear how many cars were involved but no injuries or hazardous materials were reported. (Nancy Run Fire Company via AP)

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — Norfolk Southern crews and contractors are working on cleanup and track repair after a collision and derailment in eastern Pennsylvania over the weekend. The derailment involved three trains that left some railroad cars scattered along a riverbank and at least one partially in the river. Officials in Northampton County say the derailment happened at 7:15 a.m. Saturday in Lower Saucon Township along the Lehigh River. It caused no reported injuries. The National Transportation Safety Board says one train hit a stopped train and a third hit wreckage from that crash. Norfolk Southern says cars from two of the trains derailed. The safety board is still gathering information at the scene.

FILE – A polling judge, right, helps guide a voter’s ballot into a voting machine during the Pennsylvania primary election, at Mont Alto United Methodist Church in Alto, Pa., on May 17, 2022. Voter-by-voter electronic election records are not subject to public scrutiny, a Pennsylvania court ruled Monday, March 4, 2024, in a case that began with a request for those records by an election researcher whose work has fueled right-wing attacks on voting procedures. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania state court says spreadsheets of raw data associated with every ballot cast in an election aren’t subject to public scrutiny. The Commonwealth Court ruled Monday on “cast vote records,” which were requested by an election researcher whose work has fueled right-wing attacks on voting procedures. The 5-2 ruling sides with Secretary of State Al Schmidt, whose office argued against access to these electronic records from Lycoming County for the 2020 General Election. The court majority says the cast vote records are the “electronic, modern-day equivalent” of all the votes in a traditional ballot box. State law says the contents of ballot boxes are not public records.