Sunday, December 23, 2001
Holiday trash pickup
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- There will be no garbage pickup on Christmas Day and New Year's Day in the city. Pickup will remain the same Monday for both weeks. Those who normally have Tuesday collection will have it on Wednesday. Rubbish will be collected one day later than normal for the rest of the two holiday weeks.
Mercer recycling grant
GREENVILLE, Pa. -- Mercer County has been awarded a $15,688 state recycling grant to help reimburse 50 percent of the county recycling coordinator's salary and expenses, state Sen. Robert D. Robbins of Greenville, R-50th, announced. The money comes from the state Department of Environmental Protection.
Shelter fund-raiser
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- The Women's Shelter/Rape Crisis Center of Lawrence County is selling 2002 lottery calendars to benefit the shelter. Each calendar has a three-digit number valid for all of 2002 with the chance to win $25 each day, as well as two $50 days and one $100 day each month. Winners are based on the Pennsylvania lottery three-digit number. To order, call the agency office at (724) 652-9206.
Man sought in shooting
YOUNGSTOWN -- Police are looking for a 22-year-old city man accused of shooting at his ex-girlfriend's boyfriend several times early Saturday at the woman's West LaClede Avenue home.
The woman told police her boyfriend was sitting in a Ford Explorer parked in the driveway just after 2:30 a.m. when the ex-boyfriend came from behind the home and started shooting at the truck. The woman told police the ex-boyfriend had made threats to the boyfriend in the past.
The boyfriend, reports said, drove to his Boardman Township home and was not injured. Police recovered five shell casings from the driveway and found 11 bullet holes in the man's truck.
Fatal car accident
CLEVELAND -- A Lisbon man is in critical but stable condition in Cleveland MetroHealth Medical Center with injuries he suffered early Saturday in a car accident that killed a Hanover Township man.
Larry Warner Jr., 19, of Camp Boulevard, Hanover, was pronounced dead at Salem Community Hospital. Chad Pahanish, 22, of state Route 46, Lisbon, was flown to Cleveland from Salem Community Hospital.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol post in Lisbon said a car carrying Pahanish and Warner north on Whinnery Road in Butler Township veered off the left side of the road around 1:33 a.m.
The car hit an embankment and a ditch, rolling before coming to a stop upright. Warner was ejected from the car.
Troopers would not say who was driving. The car was traveling at about 55 miles per hour in an area posted 45 mph.
Connecting highways
CRANBERRY, Pa. (AP) -- By 2004, motorists won't have to leave a highway to travel between the Pennsylvania Turnpike and Interstate 79 in southern Butler County. The Dick Corp. had the low bid of $44 million to build what will be known as the Cranberry Connector, officials of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced Friday.
Currently, drivers have to use a short stretch of Route 19 -- a congested, commercial thoroughfare -- to travel between the highways about 20 miles north of Pittsburgh. The bid must still be reviewed and approved. Construction could start in the spring.
Golf course purchase
BEDFORD, Pa. (AP) -- The Bedford County Redevelopment Authority is buying the golf course at the Bedford Springs Hotel for $2.4 million. The authority board voted unanimously to approve buying the course.
The county is still seeking state funds to pay for the $60 million renovation of the landmark hotel, about 85 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The hotel was built in 1805 and used as President James Buchanan's summer White House.