(File Photo of the Beaver County Courthouse)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver, PA) Several topics were discussed at the Beaver County Commissioners’ work session this morning at the County Courthouse. One of them was yesterday’s primary election in the state of Pennsylvania. Beaver County Solicitor Garen Fedeles reported that the county had 8,789 mail-in ballots that were returned and 36% of the votes came from the mail-in ballots. Fedeles also stated that according to Director of Elections Colin Sisk, amoung counties that sent out more than 10,000 ballots, Beaver County had the most percentage of mail-in ballots returned and the highest percentage of mail-in ballots by vote that it has had in a primary this year. Fedeles also told Commissioner Jack Manning that a meeting will be in place in regards to the colors of the hazmat building along Route 51. One audience member wanted to know the stance of the Commissioners in regards to data centers because of the recent concerns from its residents that one may be built on the site of the former Pittsburgh Race International Complex. Commissioner Chairman Dan Camp said that the Commissioners are in support of the data center in Shippingport. Fedeles also noted: “Whenever someone submits a development to a local municipality, it doesn’t come to the county. There’s nothing that the three gentlemen to the right of me (the Commissioners) have any vote on whatsoever or any control on legally to say whether a data center can be put into any communtiy in Beaver County.”