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The Beaver Falls Police Department had a historic night at the October 25 City Council Meeting.

The evening started off with the introduction of a new K-9 officer to the BFPD staff, a young 17-month-old Czechoslovakian German Shepherd named Figo (pronounced fee-go). “He was imported over to the United States in July,” said Officer Wetter, who will be Figo’s partner and caretaker. “We took possession of him at the end of July, where we started to build some type of rapport amongst each other before going into school together.”

Officer Wetter trained with Figo at a training facility in Central Pennsylvania for six weeks, and were certified through the North American Police Work Dog Association to work as a K-9 team. Figo did a demonstration where he sniffed out and found a band-aid “with the odor of meth” on it, placed before the meeting by Officer Wetter. The K-9 unit was given several rounds of applause by the council and citizens in attendance.

Police Chief David Johnson also formally requested the approval to hire Christina Good to its staff. “I have been an officer for six years going on seven, I worked in the schools, I have my graduate degree,” Good spoke as she introduced herself to the council. She had previously served with Washington Township and the Southwest Regional Department of Fayette County. “I’m excited to get to know the community and especially our youth,” she added.

“I am confident in saying that she’d be very qualified to be an officer for the city of Beaver Falls,” spoke Chief Johnson, “and I would appreciate if you would approve that.” The Council did approve the hire, exuberantly and unanimously, and–once sworn in–Good would become the first woman of color to be on the police force (and only the second woman following the swearing in of Sierra Higby earlier in the year).

The city also approved General Fund Expenditures of $320,431.26, and learned from DPW director Patrick Burdine that street sweeping in the city will conclude on Friday, October 28.

FILE – Twenty dollar bills are counted on June 15, 2018, in North Andover, Mass. The number of Americans who do not have a bank account fell to a record low last year, as the proliferation of online-only banks and an improving economy is bringing more Americans into the traditional financial system, according to a report Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The number of Americans who do not have a bank account fell to a record low last year, as the proliferation of online-only banks and an improving economy is bringing more Americans into the traditional financial system. A new report from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. issued Tuesday found that 4.5% of Americans _ representing approximately 5.9 million households _ were without a bank account in 2021. That’s the lowest level since the FDIC started tracking the data in 2009 and down from 5.4% of Americans in the 2019 survey data.

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(Wampum, Pa.) Pa State Police in New Castle are reporting that they were called  to the scene of an ATV Rollover at the Mines and Meadows ATV Park in Wampum on Saturday, October 22, 2o22 at 5:25 PM.

Upon arriving and investigating it was learned that an unnamed 34-year-old male had been involved in a single vehicle accident and sustained severe injuries.  The man was transported to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio for further evaluation.

There is no word on his condition as Troopers continue to investigate.

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(Beaver Falls, Pa.) Tune into 1230 WBVP, 1460 WMBA, 95.7 FM, 99.3 FM, and beavercountyradio.com Wednesday October 26, 2022 at 11:10 a.m. for the second in a series of interviews highlighting the candidates running for office in the November 8, 2022 General Election.

The second interview in the series is with Jeremy Shaffer who is a Republican Candidate for United States Congress in the 17th District. Jeremy is trying to defeat Chris Deluzio who is a Democrat. The winner will replace current Rep. Conor Lamb who did not seek re-election and instead ran for US Senate and lost in the primary to John Fetterman.  Jeremy will be interviewed during Teleforum with Eddy Crow at 11:10 a.m.. The interview will be broadcast on all platforms of Beaver County Radio as well as being streamed Live on our Facebook Page:

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(Beaver Falls, Pa.) Tune into 1230 WBVP, 1460 WMBA, 95.7 FM, 99.3 FM, and beavercountyradio.com Wednesday October 26, 2022 at 10:10 a.m. for the first in a series of interviews highlighting the candidates running for office in the November 8, 2022 General Election.

The first interview in the series is with Rico Elmore who is a Republican Candidate for Pa. State Representative in the 16th District. Rico is trying to defeat incumbent Rob Matzie who is a Democrat. Rico will be interviewed during Teleforum with Eddy Crow at 10:10 a.m.. The interview will be broadcast on all platforms of Beaver County Radio as well as being streamed Live on our Facebook Page:

Click the link below to be directed to our Facebook Page:

If you can’t tune into the game you can click the link below to listen on-line via beavercountyradio.com:

You can also down load our free apps:

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(Hopewell Twp., Beaver County, Pa.)  Hopewell Township Commissioners approved a zoning change on Valleyview Avenue from R-1 agricultural district to r-2 low density residential. The change was advertised in the Beaver County Times  approved  by the zoning hearing board   Solicitor Mike Jones told the commissioners  the map will be changed on the back of the zoning  ordinance.

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(Hopewell Twp., Beaver County, Pa.) Hopewell Township Police announced on Monday that they are hosting ‘COFFEE WITH A COP ON Wednesday, October 26, 2022 from 9-10:30 a.m. at George’s Restaurant. Any resident interested in attending is welcome to do so, according to  Sgt. Jill Banovski.

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(Center Twp., Beaver County, Pa.) An unidentified female driver was not  injured in a one vehicle accident that occurred in the 3300 block of Brodhead Road in Center Township Monday afternoon. at 4:06 PM

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(New Beaver, Lawrence County, Pa.) Pa State Police in New Castle are reporting that they were called to the Green Meadow Trailer Court on Glenkirk Road in New Beaver Borough Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 5:49 PM.
Troopers said via release that Upon arriving on the scene and investigating it was learned that 32-year-old Christopher Novakovich of New Galilee has an active PFA against him by a 29-yer-old female victim and he violated the PFA. According to Troopers at 5:40 PM Novakovich walked up the road and made a handgun shape with his hand and pointed it at a 32-year-old female and a 32-year-old male both from Girard, Ohio. After Novakovich made the gun like motion he then made a hand motion like he was cutting his own neck. All three victims told the Troopers that they thought he was going to kill them.
Novakovich now faces multiple charges including Indirect Criminal Contempt charges that were filed for the first victim at the Lawrence County Court House and two citations for harassment for the other two victims were filed at the local magistrate’s office.