(Photo courtesy of Ambridge Bourough Manager Mario Leone)

(Reported by Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano, Published on November 18th, 2024 at 8:18 A.M.)

Ambridge’s Streetscape projects now have an update. Borough Manager Mario Leone reported that a new storefront facade improvement is being made for the future site of Cafe Nero. Contractors poured the first sidewalk ADA ramp in front of R&S Enterprises and Ambridge Bricklayers started working on the sidewalks last Monday at Wholesale Tire. Last Wednesday, twenty yards of concrete were poured in the 900 block near Merchant Coffee and the Verizon building

On Monday, November 18, 2024, plans are to have the concrete poured at Fermata Brewing’s entranceway. 

Leone told Giordano that all work is being done weather permitting.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Canonsburg, PA) According to a release from Lee Gierczynski (Geercisinski) from Columbia Gas Communications in Canonsburg on Thursday, November is Carbon Monoxide Awareness Month, and Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania is reminding Pennsylvanians that carbon monoxide is a gas that can be made when certain materials such as natural gas, gasoline, propane, or oil incompletely burns, and safety from it is prominent. According to Gierczynski, here are some tips to prevent spreading carbon monoxide and to stay safe from it:

• Purchase carbon monoxide detectors or make sure yours are operating properly 

• Make certain all fuel-burning equipment (coal, wood, natural gas, propane, pellet stoves, kerosene, and fuel oil) is installed, inspected, and operating properly 

• Hire a professional to install all fuel-burning appliances, including ovens, stoves, and clothes dryers 

• Do not cut off or restrict air sources to appliances 

• Provide adequate indoor ventilation when using fireplaces or unvented space heaters 

• Never burn charcoal indoors or in an enclosed space 

• Clean chimneys and check for blockages 

• Open garage doors before starting vehicles 

• Do not heat your home with a gas oven or burn anything in a fireplace that is not vented 

 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Vanport Township, PA) The closing of lanes on the Beaver Valley Expressway, part of I-376, this Monday through Thursday, weather permitting, was announced by PennDot on Friday. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day, starting on Monday, November 18th through Thrusday, November 21st, bridge washing operations will occur as a single lane will be closed on the I-376 Vanport Bridge. Please stay safe when you are driving around the area, as traffic patterns could be changed. 

 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that at 9:11 p.m. on Sunday, an attempted homicide occurred at 400 Superior Avenue in Aliquippa. According to the report, Aliquippa police responded to the parking lot of 400 Superior Avenue B Building after gun shots were reported. The victim was identified as twenty-five year old male Javen Alford of Aliquippa, who had a gunshot wound. Alford was taken to a local hospital after the incident, and the investigation continues at this time. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(North Sewickley Township, PA) On Friday, a teenager was killed and two other teenagers were injured after a crash that occurred in North Sewickley Township. According to a report from Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver, Pennsylvania State Police responded to a single vehicle motor crash in the 600 block of Harpers Ferry Road. Three teenage boys were driving a vehicle that went off of the road and then hit a tree, which killed the sixteen-year-old boy in the passenger’s seat. The male driver, according to troopers, was also sixteen, and the male in the back seat was fourteen. Both teenagers who survived were taken to UPMC Children’s Hospital after getting injured. The investigation regarding the crash is still continuing at this time. 

Story by Curtis Walsh – Beaver County Radio. Published November 17, 2024 8:56 P.M.

(Rochester, Pa) A crash took place in Rochester Sunday evening shortly after 8pm.

The accident occurred at the intersection of Rhode Island Avenue and West Washington Street.

At least two vehicles were involved and we have confirmed at least one person was transported to the hospital by ambulance from the scene.

Story by Curtis Walsh – Beaver County Radio. Published Novemeber 17, 2024 8:53 P.M.

(New Brighton, Pa) – Fire crews were dispatched to Brightwood Manor Apartments in New Brighton Sunday evening around 8pm.

Crews were at a building where a previous fire left an apartment boarded up. The scene was cleared before 9pm.

We have no further details at this time.

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Source for Photo: An election worker continues the process in counting ballots for the Pennsylvania primary election, Wednesday, May 18, 2022, at the Mercer County Elections Board in Mercer, Pa. Vote counting continues as Republican candidates Dr. Mehmet Oz and David McCormick are locked in a too-early-to-call race for Pennsylvania’s hotly contested Republican nomination for an open U.S. Senate seat. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

(Pennsylvania) According to Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schimdt, since the upcoming votes are being retallied for the 2024 election result for the United States Senator in Pennsylvania between Democrat Bob Casey and Republican David McCormick, this is one of only eight times this has happened. Schimdt notes that the previous instance of counting votes a second time for an election also involved McCormick and his opponent Dr. Mehmet Oz in 2022. Schmidt says that November 20th, will be the date when the tallying will begin again, finish the counting on November 26th, as well as Pennsylvania counties getting their results reported to the Department of State on November 27th by noon, the same day that Pennsylvanians can see the results online.

 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

PennDOT District 11 has announced that the ramp that holds traffic from Route 51 on Coraopolis Road going to southbound I-79 in Robinson Township will close on Friday, November 15th through Sunday, November 17th, weather permitting. 

The ramp will experience traffic closing on Friday night at 7 p.m. through 6 a.m. Sunday morning for concrete slab replacement work.
 

The Neville Island ramp located on Exit 65 that holds traffic from northbound I-79 to Grand Avenue will alos be opened again to traffic at 7 p.m. on Friday, November 15th in order to adjust the route detouring from Route 51 to the closing of the southbound I-79 ramp. If work is completed sooner than expected, the ramp could reopen to traffic earlier.

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Source for Photo: Republican David McCormick addresses supporters after announcing he will enter Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race and make his second bid for the office, this time to take on Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, at the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pennsylvania) On Thursday, the United States Senate vote between Democrat Bob Casey and Republican David McCormick has still has not reached a legitimate outcome, because the votes are going to be retallied, and now McCormick is using legal filing to prevent counties in Pennsylvania from counting ballots that either do not have a date or have the incorrect date. The campaign of McCormick does not believe that the outcome will be decided by these ballots that are from both Centre and Bucks Counties. McCormick only has twenty-six thousand votes more than Casey as of Thursday afternoon.