(File Photo of the Beaver County Courthouse)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver, PA) The upcoming animal diagnostic lab at Penn State Beaver in Monaca and the expansion of Penn State Beaver were among the topics discussed at the Beaver County Commissioners’ work session this morning in Beaver. Beaver County Commissioner Jack Manning noted in the section of the session where the Beaver County Commissioners have information they would like to share that there was a yearly Beaver County Corporation for Economic Development meeting on Monday, September 15th, 2025 at Penn State Beaver. The new director of the upcoming animal diagnostic lab at Penn State Beaver was present at that meeting and Manning stated that the animal diagnostic lab there will open in “about a week or so” to provide testing for animals and to provide farming for the Beaver County region, while Penn State Beaver will expand things there including their curriculum and veterinary services. After a $6 million investment was given from the administration of Governor Josh Shapiro towards the expansion of the Animal Diagnostic Laboratory System for this new animal diagnostic lab at Penn State Beaver, this lab is the fourth animal diagnostic lab in Pennsylvania, joining the ones at the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture’s Pennsylvania Veterinary Laboratory in Harrisburg, Penn State’s Animal Diagnostic Laboratory in University Park and the New Bolton Center at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in Kennett Square. Manning also noted that testing in this lab could help to find out what occurred “in the wake of the Norfolk Southern train derailment,” which occurred in East Palestine, Ohio on February 3rd, 2023. In other business, Manning wanted to extend a congratulations to the twenty-seven graduates of the Beaver County Firefighters’ Academy who graduated on Saturday, September 13th, 2025. Two upcoming events that were mentioned during the Beaver County Commissioners’ work session this morning were the free Sea, Air, Land, Space Military Exposition on Saturday, September 20th from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Beaver County Airport in Beaver Falls to see and experience a presentation of military equipment which was mentioned by Manning and a fall festival in Midland on the nights of Friday, September 19th, 2025 and Saturday, September 20th, 2025 with fall fun and food which was mentioned by Beaver County Controller Maria Longo. Beaver County Recreation and Tourism Director Tony Caltury also said in the Department Head Report session of the Beaver County Commissioners’ work session this morning that Brady’s Run Road in Beaver County will be closed on Saturday, September 20th, 2025 from 6 a.m. until around 2:30 p.m., because the Beaver County Collegiate Triathlon will be held at Brady’s Run Park in Beaver Falls that day during that time where athletes from colleges across the country will compete in a triathlon.