(File photo of Cracker Plant in Potter Twp. during construction)

Story by Beaver County Radio Staff
(Potter Twp., Beaver County, Pa.) Shell Inc. is reporting on their Shell Chemicals Pennsylvania Facebook Page that they are one step closer to starting up the cracker plant in Potter Twp. and there is a lot of activity on site in preparation for startup that you will not see or hear. The company did say however, in the next day or so, you may see additional flaring activity and hear intermittent noise coming from the site as they start up some of the machinery and systems. Shell said in the post that they hope these events will cause you little to no inconvenience. Flares are important environmental controls and safety devices, used in refineries and petrochemical processing plants like the cracker plant and they are utilized as a safe way to burn hydrocarbon gases, as an alternative to releasing the gases directly into the atmosphere. This protects the community and employees from exposure. Shell’s flares are designed to achieve a minimum of 98% combustion efficiency and the combustion products are mainly carbon dioxide and water.
Shell said they will continue to keep everyone updated on activities as they continue to commission the plant on the way to full operation.

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Story by Sandy Giordano, Beaver County Radio News
(Racoon Twp., Beaver County, Pa.) PA State Police in Beaver responded to a one vehicle accident, in which four people were injured, at 5 a.m. Tuesday morning  on Service Church Road in Raccoon Township. Beaver County 9-1-1  said that Raccoon Township asked PSP to take over the investigation. As of 840 am Tuesday morning crews were still on scene.

Stay tuned to Beaver County Radio as this is a developing story.

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(Homewood Borough, Beaver County, Pa.) Pa State Police in Beaver are reporting that they conducted a DUI Checkpoint along Big Beaver BLVD in Homewood Borough on Friday Night September 2, 2022 around 11:00 PM.
Troopers said via release that during the DUI Checkpoint 103 motorists were contacted and it resulted in four DUI arrests, several citations, and numerous warnings.

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Story by Frank Sparks, Beaver County Radio News
(Beaver Falls, Pa.) Jim Riggio from the Beaver Falls Municipal Authority reported to Beaver County Radio that a 24 inch transmission water line broke in the area of 10th Ave. and 26th Street in Beaver Falls Monday afternoon around 3PM.
Riggio said that as of 8:45 PM Monday evening all of Beaver Falls is without water as well as part of Eastvale. BFMA is hoping to have water service restored sometime around midnight Monday Night.
All of Beaver Falls and Eastvale are currently under a boil water advisory and Riggio said once the water service is fully restored all of the rest of the Upper Beaver Valley will be under a boil water advisory for up to 48 hours per DEP regulations. The advisory will continue until samples submitted to the DEP meet regulator standards. The communities involved that the BFMA services that will be in the boil water advisory are The City of Beaver Falls, Eastvale Borough, Big Beaver Borough, Patterson, White Township, West Mayfield, South Beaver, and Chippewa Township.  Riggio said that if you are north of the Beaver Falls-New Brighton Bridge and you are serviced by BFMA you will be part of the boil water advisory.
This story is continuing to develop. Stay tuned to Beaver County Radio as we are expected to get an update from Jim around 7:30 AM Tuesday morning.

Update: You can read the updated story from Tuesday morning by clicking below:

All of 15010 Zip Code Under Boil Water Advisory, Water Service Restored to Beaver Falls Early Tuesday Morning

The image above shows the St. Elijah Serbian Orthodox Church in Aliquippa. Photos by Sandy Giordano
Story by Sandy Giordano – Beaver County Radio. Published September 5, 2022 10:55 A.M.

(Aliquippa, PA) All eyes and ears will be open when the St. Elijah Choir hosts its 90th  Concert and Kafana on Saturday, September 17, 2022. Honored guests for this great event that was cancelled the last 2 years due to the pandemic will be the St. George Choir from Lanexa, Kansas. Other choirs participating are; St. Nicholas, Monroeville, Tsar Lazar Male Choir, The SSF Convention choir from the USA and Canada. The choir’s history began in 1930 when 2 socio-music groups formed they were  ‘SVEMIR” and ‘FRUSKA GORA’ and they united forming the St. Elijah Serbian Orthodox Church Choir. The choir continues to perform with enthusiasm and are spirited singers dedicated to the Serbian traditions , culture, and church music.

Doors open at 4:30 p.m. for the event to be held at the Serbian Center at 2200 Irwin Street, dinner is to be served at 5p.m.,The  concert will begin at 6 p.m. Following the concert Srpski Sinovi will provide musical entertainment   Reservations are due Friday, September 9, 2022. The cost is $30 per person .  Email to saintelijah.choir@gmail.com.

REGINA, Saskatchewan (AP) — Canadian police are searching across the expansive province of Saskatchewan for two suspects believed to have stabbed to death 10 people in an Indigenous community and a nearby town in one of the deadliest mass killings in the country’s history. The suspects also injured 15 people in the series of knife attacks that led the James Smith Cree Nation to declare a state of emergency and shook residents of the nearby village of Weldon. Resident Ruby Works, who was close to one of the victims, said “No one in this town is ever going to sleep again.” Police chief Evan Bray said they believe the suspects are in Regina.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump isn’t the first to face criticism for flouting rules and traditions around the safeguarding of sensitive government records. But national security experts say recent revelations point to an unprecedented disregard of post-presidency norms established after the Watergate era. As more details emerge from last month’s FBI search of Trump’s Florida home, the Justice Department has painted a portrait of an indifference for the rules on a scale that some thought inconceivable after establishment of the Presidential Records Act in 1978. The act specifies that immediately after a president leaves office, the National Archives and Records Administration takes legal and physical custody of the outgoing administration’s records.