Of all the food being cooked today, depending on who you ask there is sure to be a mix of answers of what the best thanksgiving dish is here in Pennsylvania. Turkey takes the top spot for main course but according to Google searches, green bean casserole is the most popular side dish for the state. Cranberry sauce takes the second spot, followed by mashed potatoes.
NEW YORK (AP) — New York is planning tight security around the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in the wake of mass shootings elsewhere in the U.S. Police said Wednesday that there’s no known, credible threat to the famed event itself. But New York Police Department counterterrorism Chief Martine Materasso says police will deploy additional resources to make sure the festivities are safe. Security measures include heavy weapons teams, explosives detection dogs, a bomb squad, radiological and chemical sensors, drone detection, blocker vehicles and additional cameras on the route.
MONTROSE, Pa. (AP) — A plea hearing has been scheduled for next week in the case of a natural gas driller facing felony charges in Pennsylvania over allegations it polluted a small community’s drinking water. Houston-based Coterra Energy Inc. will appear in Susquehanna County Court on Tuesday. That’s according to online court records. Coterra’s corporate predecessor, Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., was charged with drilling faulty gas wells that leaked flammable methane into residential water supplies in Dimock and surrounding communities. Dimock drew national notoriety after residents were filmed lighting their tap water on fire in the 2010 documentary “Gasland.”
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(North Sewickley Twp., Beaver County, Pa.) For the second time in less than a week vandals have struck a popular Christmas display in North Sewickley Township.
The North Sewickley Township Police Department reported on their Facebook Page that the vandals struck again around 8:00 PM on Thanksgiving Eve.
Home owner Emmett Santillo puts up the display each year at his home on Route 65, Mercer Road, near Stop and Sock. He also raises money through donations from people who stop to look at the display for the Women’s Center of Beaver County.
Chief Becze is asking for the communities help in locating the individual Grinch’s who are responsible for the vandalism. They are hoping someone nearby might have a video camera or doorbell camera that caught something that can help them. Anyone with information is encouraged to call the North Sewickley Police Department at 724-843-8118.
Sharon Rombold started a GoFundMe to help assist in repairing the damage that the vandals have done.
You can donate if you would like to by going to the link below: https://www.gofundme.com/f/please-help-emmett-fix-all-the-damage?qid=58529113d9aea996affe4264e888a0b6
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Story by Sandy Giordano, Beaver County Radio News
(Hopewell Twp., Beaver County, Pa.) The Hopewell Area School Board met on Tuesday Night and approved the retirement of the Junior high school head cook Denise Stevens. Her will retirement will be effective April 14, 2023. She has served the district in that capacity for 40 years
In other business the board approved the hiring of Kamryn Geisler as a special education teacher. She will teach at the junior high school effective December 12, 2022. Reon Nesmith resigned as volunteer junior high school assistant basketball coach, he is being replaced by Ryan Brown Temporary employment acting. high school assistant principal Nadia Engel was thanked. by the board for her service. Dr. Robert Kartychak, the assistant high school principal, has been serving as Acting Superintendent.. The new superintendent Jeff Beltz was hired. earlier this month and begins his duties on December 14, 2022. He is being paid an additional $750.00 a week during the transition period, November 29 to December 13, 2022..
The board will reorganize on Tuesday, December 6, 2022 at 7 p.m.
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Story by Beaver County Radio News Staff
(Aliquippa, Pa.) Three female students at the Aliquippa Junior/Senior High School have been charged after they were caught on video in October attacking another student during school hours.
The three unnamed students are teenage girls and they allegedly ganged up on another female student kicking her multiple times on her way to gym class.
Aliquippa Police have charged the three girls with disorderly conduct and simple assault. The charges are misdemeanor juvenile charges.
(Photo from Rep. Josh Kail’s Facebook Page. Used with permission)
Story by Frank Sparks, Beaver County Radio
(Harrisburg, Pa.) Pa State Representative Josh Kail (15th) has been named as the House Republican Policy Committee Chair for the 2023-2024 legislative session.
The Pa House Republican Caucus elected their slate of leaders in the Pa. State House on Tuesday. Rep. Kail said in a Facebook post that he is very humbled to the support of his colleagues to take on the critical role, and he looks forward to the work ahead on how Pennsylvania can move forward.
Other Republican leaders who were elected are: House Leader: Rep. Bryan Cutler, House Whip: Rep. Tim O’Neal , Appropriations Chair: Seth Grove, Caucus Chairman: Rep. George Dunbar, Caucus Secretary: Rep. Martina White, and Caucus Administrator: Rep. Sheryl Delozier.
(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)
“Today is a special day in Beaver Falls.”
The city’s mayor, Kenya Johns, opened up the November 22 council meeting with those remarks, and in a matter of minutes she would be correct.
Nearly a month after receiving the unanimous approval of city council to be hired, Christina Good was officially sworn in as the newest police officer for the Beaver Falls Police Department on Tuesday evening. She becomes only the second female and first female of color to serve on the patrol.
“It really is an honor, and I’m beyond thankful and feel very blessed and privileged to see all the wonderful additions we’re adding,” Mayor Johns exclaimed. “Adding to what we have–not taking it away–but adding additional things, and today is memorable as we add the first female officer of color to the City of Beaver Falls Police.”
Following the ceremony, the regular (and brief) council meeting went on as usual. The largest subject presented was by Fire Chief Mark Stowe, who spoke about the need to resuscitate the Blight Committee following a gradual erosion of concern and meetings begat by the pandemic. “The Blight Committee, when you look at the ordinance for vacant buildings…it’s the Blight Committee that actually hears if there’s an appeal,” Stowe stated. “So this is very important moving forward that we get this Blight Committee up and running again.”
Stowe noted that there are several buildings–“thankfully there’s only a handful”, as he put it–that impede the progress of the downtown business district that Mayor Johns and the council has tried to push forward. In kind, councilwoman Peggy Evans nominated herself with approval from council to represent them in this restart of the Blight Committee.
The council approved General Fund expenditures at a total of $271,308.21, and also approved a recommendation by the Safety Committee to investigate with the intent to solve the drainage issues at the Second Baptist Church on the corner of 24th Street and 10th Avenue. Lastly, council members invited those in attendance (in person or on stream) to attend the Beaver Falls Christmas Parade on November 26 beginning at 6 PM.
(File Photo of The Pennsylvania State Capitol Building, in downtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.)
By MARC LEVY Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Inflation is gift-wrapping a salary increase for Pennsylvania state lawmakers, judges and top executive branch officials in 2023. That includes boosting rank-and-file lawmakers and district judges into six-figure territory. Salaries will rise nearly 8%, a figure tied by state law to the year-over-year change in the area consumer price index. That’s about 50% higher than what federal data shows for average private sector wages in Pennsylvania. The increase applies to more than 1,300 positions, including the governor, all lawmakers and state and county judges. They are already enjoying a substantial bump in pay this year. The highest paid will be state Supreme Court Chief Justice Debra Todd at about $252,000.
A Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center nurse loads a syringe with a Moderna COVID-19 booster vaccine at an inoculation station next to Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss., Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. Moderna recently announced early evidence that its updated booster induced BQ.1.1-neutralizing antibodies. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer
Americans who have gotten the updated COVID-19 boosters appear better protected against symptomatic infection than those who haven’t — at least for now. That’s according to a first look at the new shots’ real-world effectiveness, released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Only about 13% of U.S. adults have gotten the updated booster. The CDC tracked people tested for coronavirus-like symptoms at drugstores between September and early November. The study found people who’d had the new booster were less likely to have COVID-19 than those who’ve skipped the new shot.