On Monday’s edition of A.M. Beaver County, Matt Drzik will talk with Dr. Todd Graham at 8:10 about the upcoming performance of the Hopewell Community Big Band as part of “Midland Music Mondays”. Then at 8:35, Matt will talk with Kelly Cope of Patriot Home Care in Beaver Falls to talk about the benefits of…
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(Photo provided with release) Keystone State News Connection May 10, 2022 Available files: mp3 wav jpg Emily Scott The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections has officially launched “Little Scandinavia,” a unit in a state prison to focus on rehabilitation and reintegration. The new unit at SCI Chester comes after a multiyear partnership with the Norwegian Correctional…
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(Photo Courtesy of Pa Media Services) Bethlehem, PA – Governor Tom Wolf was joined by Representative Steve Samuelson on Thursday to call on Pennsylvania’s Republican-led General Assembly to immediately use $1.7 billion in unspent American Rescue Plan Act dollars to help older Pennsylvanians and individuals with disabilities through property tax rebates to recover from the…
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Keystone State News Connection February 15, 2022 Emily Scott By Katie Fleischer for Ms. Magazine. Broadcast version by Emily Scott for Keystone State News Connection reporting for the Ms. Magazine-Public News Service Collaboration Throughout 2020 and 2021, marginalized communities were hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, exacerbating economic inequities that already fell along race, gender and…
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PITTSBURGH (Jan. 28, 2022) – Allegheny Health Network (AHN) today announced an impending leadership transition at Allegheny General Hospital (AGH). David Parda, MD, is stepping down as AGH’s President to take a new role as AHN’s Publication and Research Collaboration Physician Executive. Imran Qadeer, MD, AGH’s Chief Medical Officer, will assume the role of hospital…
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(Photo Provided by Councilman Donald Walker) Story by Beaver County Radio news Correspondent Sandy Giordano Monday, January 24, 2022 at 7:14 AM (Aliquippa, Pa.) Aliquippa Councilman Donald Walker reported Sunday, January 24, 2022, that T-Mobile presented a $50,000 grant to the City of Aliquippa’s Parks and Recreation Department last Thursday, January 20, 2022, at the…
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BEAVER FALLS, PA (JANUARY 12, 2022) – The Cornerstone of Beaver County (TCBC) – a nonprofit organization working to prevent and end homelessness in Beaver County – has coordinated with community partners to provide warming centers this winter for those experiencing homelessness or housing-related crisis in Beaver County. Warming centers provide relief from inclement and potentially dangerous winter weather, including extreme…
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(Photo Courtesy of Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium) Tuesday, January 11, 2022 at 9:45 AM (Pittsburgh, PA) -Guests to the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium may notice a unique penguin among the black and gold colony: a one-winged, one-year-old gentoo penguin named Floppy. Floppy, named by a donor shortly after his birth, is the only…
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The Veterans Breakfast Club is about to hold an event that not only covers breakfast, but extends to lunch, dinner, dessert and midnight snacks–regardless of the time zone. “Vet-A-Thon” is a 24-hour livestream event taking place on Veterans Day, November 11, beginning at 12:00 AM ET and running until 11:59 PM ET. It will feature…
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Keystone State News Connection October 11, 2021 Emily Scott HARRISBURG, Pa. — Amid staffing shortages at Pennsylvania’s long-term care facilities, there are growing fears many vulnerable older adults and their caretakers will be left to fend for themselves in the event of closures. A recent survey of 82 operators and administrators of nursing homes, personal-care homes and…
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