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Officials from Heritage Valley Health System plan to meet with Beaver County’s leaders this week about potential vaccine distribution. The county commissioners and Heritage Valley officials hope to develop a plan where the Beaver County Emergency Management Agency can help with the rollout of as many as 140,000 vaccinations. The health system has received 3,950 doses of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccine and has administered at least one dose of the vaccine to 2,600 frontline healthcare workers as part of Phase 1A of the state’s vaccine plan. Of those, 680 workers have received the second dos...

Beaver County's leaders called Wednesday's violent insurrection embarrassing and disheartening.  Republican Commissioner Jack Manning took to Twitter late Wednesday to denounce the violence that broke out when protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol to interfere with the certification of presidential election results. Manning, who has run previously as an Independent in county politics, said he was embarrassed by the behavior exhibited.  He doubled down on those feelings Thursday afternoon. "I'm beyond saddened and appalled by the desecration that was happening in the People's house that was ur...

Man earns first-ever Maryland state fishing record for invasive flathead catfish elisfkc2 / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0     ELKTON, Md. (WJZ) — A Cecil County man earned the first-ever state record for the invasive flathead catfish, according to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Joshua Dixon caught a 57-pound, 50-inch long flathead catfish, or Pylodictis olivaris, on Dec. 27, 2020 while he was fishing near the Lapidum Boat Ramp on the Susquehanna River. According to DNR, the 34-year-old angler was fishing from the shore with a Zoom plastic swimbait. It took nearly 30 minutes t...

New top river monster pulled from Susquehanna River PennLive.com 1/7/2021 Marcus Schneck, pennlive.com The upper limit for a giant fish in the Susquehanna River has been bumped up once again by the latest record flathead catfish to be pulled from the river by an angler. A 57-pound, 50-inch-long flathead has been certified as the first-ever state record for the invasive, predatory species by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. That tops a 50-pound 7-ounce catfish caught in the river near the Muddy Creek public access in York County on April 6, 2019, that held the Pe...

UpdatedWed, Jan 6, 2021 at 12:49 pm ET Reply Dixon’s record-breaking catch surpassed the state’s minimum flathead catfish weight of 40 pounds. (Getty Images) MARYLAND — A 34-year-old angler nabbed the state's largest invasive flathead catfish. Joshua Dixon caught the 57-pound, 50-inch long flathead catfish Dec. 27 while fishing near the Lapidum Boat Ramp on the Susquehanna River. According to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Dixon was using Zoom plastic swimbait. It took him almost 30 minutes to wrestle the fish to shore, he said. Dixon was using medium-weight spinning ta...