(File Photo of the Beaver County Courthouse)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver, PA) There were several topics discussed at the Beaver County Commissioners’ work session this morning at 10 a.m. in Beaver. Beaver County Solicitor Garen Fedeles confirmed that mail-in ballot requests for the 2025 municipal election on November 4th, 2025 in Pennsylvania are around 11,000. Fedeles also noted that the end of the first week of October should be when people should be getting those requests in their mailbox. Two of the four resolutions that were mentioned by Fedeles in this work session were for a “community development to build two duplexes in Midland” and a blight removal program “to remove a commercial building in Ambridge.” Beaver County Commissioner Jack Manning also had a couple of topis to mention during the point where the Commissioners speak during their work session. Manning stated that since the COVID-19 pandemic, Beaver County has the ninth highest eviction filings in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Manning also was at the ribbon cutting ceremony in Koppel yesterday for Tenaris’ new $85 million fume exhaust system at its steel mill there. Manning was also excited about the new Sheetz convenience store opening in Chippewa tomorrow morning at around 9 a.m. and added that there will be a Chipotle, a Diary Queen and a Starbucks restaruant will be coming to that Chippewa complex where that new Sheetz is. Beaver County Recreation and Tourism Director Tony Caltury also mentioned two upcoming events in Beaver County. The first event Caltury mentioned was the New Brighton Historical Society’s Underground Railroad Weekend, which will take place on Friday, September 26th and Saturday, September 27th, 2025, which includes historian Eddie Murphy giving a presentation at 7 p.m. on Friday at the New Brighton High School Little Theater and walking tours from the J&J Spratt Funeral Home in New Brighton to seven sites in New Brighton tied to the Underground Railroad and the Abolitionist Movement. The second event Caltury mentioned was the Beaver Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual Wine Fest on Third Street in downtown Beaver from 3-7 p.m. on Saturday, September 27th, 2025, where guests can enjoy wine tastings that are exquisite, food pairings that are delicious as well as shopping with vendors and stores that are local.