(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)

Wednesdays at the courthouse? Seems like it’s been a long time.

As be the case, the County Commissioners gathered in the Beaver County Commissioners’ session room for a Wednesday work session, the first in over a month due to the pandemic. The pandemic has shut down Beaver County for the majority of March and April, and May seems to be headed in that same voided direction.

As such, the County Commissioners made an official press release on Wednesday, asking Governor Tom Wolf to consider Beaver County’s reopening of businesses in a safe manner. The majority of the County’s deaths and cases of COVID-19 have been from nursing homes, particularly Brighton Health & Wellness in Beaver. All three Commissioners have voiced their opinions as such, and Commissioner Tony Amadio spoke about the board’s unity:

 

However, Commissioner Chairman Dan Camp veered ever so slightly away from such unity, as he took some time to make personal comments in regard to his feelings on the failures of the Pennsylvania Department of Health:

 

The next Commissioners’ work session will be on May 13.