Board backs change

Board backs change
GREENFORD -- The South Range school board has gone on record in support of an effort to revise the way Ohio public schools are funded.
The board adopted the Proclamation of a Right to a World Class Education for Every Child in Ohio. The proclamation is part of a statewide campaign calling for the Legislature to find a way to fund schools without relying on property tax.
In other business at its meeting Monday, the board voted to advertise for bids for a new, 65-passenger school bus. The specifications for the bus are available in the administration office at the high school in Beaver Township.
Loitering discussed
EAST PALESTINE -- City council discussed complaints about loitering in front of the Community Lighthouse, a community center for teenagers on Market Street. Council members said residents and business owners complain about the teens loitering in the evenings, and there are frequent calls to police. Councilwoman Margo Zuch said all the council members have received complaints that teens were throwing trash in the area and using profanity. Zuch said she avoids the area because she doesn't want to hear the profanity. "I've heard it all, but that doesn't mean I want to hear it again," Zuch said. She said it is not the council's intention to close the teen center, but to work to improve the situation for downtown shoppers and business owners. She said Councilman Scott Rauch will discuss the problems with police and the center's staff.
Temporary solution
GREENVILLE, Pa. -- The water problem that shut down Greenville schools and affected supplies throughout the community has been temporarily corrected.
Maria Kerekes, office manager for Greenville Municipal Authority, said the filtration plant's raw-water pump that draws water from the Shenango River failed Monday morning.
The authority ordered a new pump, but it wasn't scheduled to arrive until today, she said.
The authority was able to use portable pumps to restore flow to the filtration plant Monday, but all reservoirs were at critically low levels, prompting the authority to ask the schools to close and everyone else to curtail water use.
That caution was still in place today though the schools were allowed to reopen, Kerekes said, noting it will take two or three days for water storage levels to return to normal.
There was never any danger of water contamination, she said.
3 hurt in crash
FREDONIA, Pa. -- Pennsylvania State Police said three people were injured in a two-vehicle crash at District Road and Pa. Route 58 in Delaware Township. Police said a car driven by Mildred Resinger, 71, of Greenville, was eastbound on Route 58 around 3 p.m. Monday when it tried to turn north onto District Road but collided head-on with a westbound car driven by William Sumners III, 16, of Greenville. Resinger was in stable condition today in UPMC Hospital in Pittsburgh, and Sumners was in serious condition in UPMC Horizon in Greenville. Police said a passenger in his car, Nick Brown, 16, of Greenville, was also taken to UPMC Horizon, but the hospital said it had no record of him this morning.
Hershey Cocoa stolen
SANDY LAKE, Pa. -- Someone stole 960 8-ounce cans of Hershey Cocoa from a truck at a truck stop on Billy-Boyd Road in New Vernon Township. Pennsylvania State Police said the thief cut a padlock on a Shaffer Trucking trailer around 3 p.m. Monday and removed five cartons of the cocoa cans. Loss is estimated at $1,800.