Sharpsville fills school board seat

Sharpsville fillsschool board seat
SHARPSVILLE, Pa.-- A Sharon schoolteacher has been selected to fill a vacant position on the Sharpsville Area School Board.
The board picked Kimberly Barringer of Blue Jay Drive from a list of eight candidates. The applicants for the nonpaying job were interviewed by the school board Wednesday.
She wasn't the first person nominated for the post.
Gerard Hanley of Oak Street, a former member of the board, got the first nomination, but the board voted 4-4 on his appointment.
Barringer was then nominated, and she won the post with a 7-1 vote, with only School Director Donna Murray opposed.
Barringer was administered the oath of office and immediately took her seat on the board.
She will complete the remaining two years in the unexpired term of Dr. Henry VanZanten, who resigned last month.
Swords, knives stolen
GROVE CITY, Pa. -- Someone took a variety of swords and knives, including Samurai-style and collector swords, from a shop on Pa. Route 58 in Pine Township. Pennsylvania State Police said this morning that the thief or thieves forced open a back door at the Penny Pincher shop, owned by Edward Stewart of Hilliards, Pa., on Friday night.
No more public service
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- Lawrence County Housing Authority residents will no longer have to complete an eight-hour per month public service requirement. Bob Session, county housing authority chairman said the county is eliminating the requirement because the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development eliminated the requirement.
House damaged
FARRELL, Pa. -- Fire of suspicious origin damaged a second-floor bedroom in a vacant house at 1024 Spearman Ave. Fire Chief Joseph Santell said the flames were confined to that one room in the 9:40 a.m. Wednesday blaze. The house was open when firefighters arrived and the owner is unknown, he said, noting the structure may be on a city demolition list.
Pleaded guilty
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- Haisam Mansour, 45 of Mercer Road, Neshannock Township, pleaded guilty to three counts of delivery of OxyContin and possession of marijuana, said District Attorney Matthew Mangino. Mansour had been arrested Feb. 2, 2001, and charged with four counts of possession with the intent to deliver, three counts of delivery of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, criminal use of communication facility and one count of possession of marijuana. In exchange for Mansour's guilty plea, the district attorney recommended that he be sentenced to 111/2 to 23 months in Lawrence County Jail, followed by five years' probation. He could have faced up to 19 years in prison and a $40,000 fine if convicted of the original charges, Mangino said. Mansour will be sentenced within 60 days in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court.
Suspect arraigned
SHARON, Pa. -- Holly Mae Eppinger, 23, of Hamilton Avenue, Farrell, was freed on her own recognizance after her arraignment on charges of forgery and receiving stolen property. Police said Eppinger is accused of stealing several checks from the home of an acquaintance in Sharon and forging her name on checks used to buy $518 worth of merchandise in Sharon and Niles on Jan. 25, 29 and 30. Police secured a warrant for her arrest, and she turned herself in at the police station at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Trial date set
YOUNGSTOWN -- A trial date has been set for one of two men accused of stabbing a Canfield High School student last month.
Joel Lassalle, 18, of East Philadelphia Avenue, Youngstown, will be tried on felonious assault charges beginning at 1:30 p.m. April 10 in the Mahoning County Common Pleas courtroom of Judge Jack Durkin. The trial date was set after a pretrial hearing earlier this week.
A county grand jury indicted Lassalle for the stabbing of Jose Morales, 17, of North Palmyra Road.
A grand jury also has been asked to consider indicting Eithyer Ramos, 18, of Coitsville Road, Campbell, in the stabbing.
Morales told deputies he was stabbed in the chest during a fight at his home around 1:24 a.m. Feb. 24. Deputies gave no reason for the fight.