(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of KDKA-TV Pittsburgh, Posted on Facebook on May 1st, 2026)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Cranberry Township, PA) Wegman’s Food Markets will break ground on August 13th on its new location in Cranberry Township, which will mark the company’s first store in the Pittsburgh region.

The site at 5000 Cool Springs Drive will feature a facility of 115,000 square feet.

The project is expected to create approximately 450 jobs for the local community. This expansion will bring the total number of Wegmans locations in Pennsylvania to 20, as the company currently operates 19 stores across the state.

The store will feature departments for bakery, cheese, deli, produce, meat and seafood.

Customers will also have access to a large selection of beer and wine as well as a market café which includes indoor and outdoor seating.

The store has a targeted opening date in the fall of 2027.

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HOPEWELL TWP. — Tasker Smith yearns to be a pinball wizard, a quest that brings him to Beaver County on Sunday.

From 3:30 to 6 p.m., Smith will appear at Pinball PA, the pinball and vintage arcade game museum in Hopewell Township, signing copies of his book “Pinball: A Quest for Mastery.

Released this past Tuesday, “Pinball: A Quest for Mastery” shares tips on how to improve your pinball playing, while also offering insights on how pinball became such a popular activity.

Interviewed Thursday on “The Beaver County Radio Morning Show,” Tasker talked pinball and encouraged pinball players to test their skills at Sunday’s event at Pinball PA, located in the Hopewell Shopping Center. To hear the full interview, press play:

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(File Photo of a Road Work Ahead Sign)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Robinson Township, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that bridge inspection activities on the I-376 (Parkway West) in Robinson Township will occur Saturday and Sunday, August 1st and 2nd, weather permitting. 

From 9 A.M. to 3 P.M. each day, bridge inspection activities on the Rosslyn Farms off-ramp (Exit 64B) from westbound I-376, requiring a single-lane restriction on I-376 in each direction will occur. 

Inspection activities will be conducted by crews from A&A Consultants, Inc. and the Sofis Rigging Company. The ramp will stay open as this work occurs. 

(File Photo of a Road Work Ahead Sign)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Findlay Township, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that utility work on Clinton Road (Route 3089) in Findlay Township is underway. 

From 9 A.M. to 3 P.M. weekdays through late December, Clinton Road will have single-lane alternating traffic restrictions controlled by flaggers between Clinton Lake Drive and the Route 30/Washington Road intersection.

Gas line replacement work for Columbia Gas will be conducted by crews from Team Fishel.

(File Photo of the CCBC Logo)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Monaca, PA) The Community College of Beaver County is hosting its fourth annual Community Day from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. this Saturday, August 1st, on its Monaca campus. 

The event includes games, food trucks, vendors that are local, craft artisans, giveaways, youth and high school e-sports tournaments, as well as a dunk tank in which CCBC administrators and staff will hope to not get wet. 

There also will be three historical escape rooms, which includes a history experience for children, an American history experience, along with a historical heist room.  

The night ends with a fireworks show. 

This coincides with CCBC’s 60th anniversary and the celebration of the 250th birthday of the United States of America in collaboration with America250PA Beaver County. 

(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of the City of Aliquippa Police Department, Posted on July 17th, 2026)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) Thirty-one-year-old Nathan A. Hawk is now in custody in the Beaver County Jail as of yesterday after he was accused of stealing approximately eighteen electronic devices from the Boost Mobile store in Aliquippa this month in two separate incidents.  

The incidents occurred when officers responded to the store on Brodhead Road on July 17th and an investigation revealed that Hawk entered the business on July 16th at approximately 6:34 p.m. and then again at 6:40 p.m. and stole approximately 18 electronic devices with an estimated total value of $12,000.  

Hawk tried to disguise his appearance during the second break-in because he changed his hat from a Pittsburgh Pirates hat to a Von Dutch hat as well as putting on a face mask.  

No employees were inside the business and it was believed that the front door had been left unlocked when these thefts occurred.  

An anonymous tip led to Aliquippa Police locating Hawk and taking him into custody. 

(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of the City of Aliquippa Police Department, Posted on Facebook on July 29th, 2026)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) The Aliquippa Police Department is requesting the assistance of the public in identifying the suspect of an incident that occurred yesterday at a local store.

A white or Hispanic middle-aged man entered Keystone Vapors on Brodhead Road at approximately 12:39 p.m., went behind the counter, and stole approximately $225 worth of merchandise before exiting the store. 

His picture can be found below, and if you recognize him or have any information about this incident, you can call the Aliquippa Police Department at 724-378-8000. 

(Credit and Caption for Photo: The new UPMC Terrace at Pittsburgh International Airport shown on Wednesday. (Kristina Serafini, TribLive)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Pittsburgh International Airport showed the first of its four new outdoor terraces on the landside terminal’s arrivals level of the airport yesterday. 

The 36,000 square-foot terrace is called the UPMC Terrace and it is near the baggage claim.  

Customers do not have to pass through security to access it or the terrace across from it, but they will need to go through security to reach the other two. 

According to Allegheny County Airport Authority Chief Operations Officer Travis McNichols, the designs of the terraces evoke Western Pennsylvania’s natural landscapes, complete with more than forty native plant species, like American witch hazel, river birch, and Appalachian sedge. 

These terraces are free and open to the public and they can congregate on the many rocking chairs and tables that are spread around the walking paths. 

(File Photo of Police Siren Lights)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Pennsylvania State Police at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh reported yesterday that forty-year-old Jiqiao Zheng of Cranberry Township was arrested after an incident of disorderly conduct at that casino on July 16th.

According to police, Zheng physically blocked the path and hindered troopers while they were in the process of effecting another separate arrest at 1:14 a.m.

Casino security asked Zheng numerous times to leave the casino property and he was found to be under the influence of multiple alcoholic beverages.

Zheng was ejected from the casino property, was issued a lifetime property ban from the casino and was taken into custody.

Charges were filed against him.