Unclaimed assets

Unclaimed assets
MERCER, Pa. -- Representatives of the state treasurer's unclaimed-property bureau will be at the Christmas Victorian Mercer Craft Show from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Brandy Springs Community Building on state Route 158 to help local residents find and claim any assets to which they're entitled.
The state has some $952 million worth of unclaimed assets from dormant bank accounts, stocks or dividends, uncashed payroll or accounts payable checks, uncollected utility deposits, unredeemed gift certificates and safe deposit box contents that have been abandoned for five years.
The treasury representatives will have laptop computers to help find the assets, and a notary will be available to expedite claims.
Burglary at business
SALEM -- A burglar entered a business and stole tools and equipment, police said.
Brass Accents, 1693 Salem Parkway, was entered sometime after 6 p.m. Wednesday.
The crime was reported at 8:14 a.m. Thursday.
Choir festival benefit
SALEM -- A choir festival is set for 3 p.m. Sunday at First United Methodist Church, 244 South Broadway Ave.
Nine choirs will be featured in the event, for which donations will be sought.
Proceeds will benefit the Grace Dyball Scholarships, given to Salem schools juniors and seniors who will major in music in college. The Lois Frost Piano and Organ Memorial Fund also will benefit.
Board presidentelected at meeting
HERMITAGE, Pa. -- Gene Martuccio was elected to succeed Duane Piccirilli as school board president at the board's reorganization meeting Wednesday.
Tim Ruffo was re-elected vice president. Ray Slovesko was elected treasurer to succeed Jim Lumpp, the interim treasurer, who was defeated in the November election. Laurie Biblis and Jane Matusick were sworn in as newly elected board members. Martuccio, Matt DeJulia and Carol Rich, who were re-elected, were sworn in to their new terms.
Piccirilli, Ruffo, Slovesko and Victor Ellenberger are in mid-term. The board is expected to accept Piccirilli's resignation Dec. 17 because he has been elected a Hermitage city commissioner. Applicants to succeed him will be interviewed Jan. 7-8, and, if the board reaches consensus, it will appoint his replacement Jan. 12, Superintendent Karen Ionta said.
Van window shattered
SALEM -- An object was used to shatter the driver's side window of a van parked on the 300 block of South Broadway Avenue, police said.
The crime was reported at 8 a.m. Wednesday.
Wreck kills woman
GROVE CITY, Pa. -- A 47-year-old Greenville woman was killed in a two-vehicle accident Wednesday afternoon at state Route 173 and Scrubgrass Road in Wolf Creek Township, state police said.
Betty Jean Cassida of Brentwood Drive was pronounced dead at the scene by Robert Snyder, Mercer County deputy coroner.
The car she was driving south on Route 173 was struck broadside by a pickup truck being driven west on Scrubgrass Road by William J. Hilty Jr., 20, of Hunter Hill Road, Mount Pleasant.
Police said Hilty, who was treated for minor injuries at United Community Hospital, failed to stop at a stop sign in the 3:25 p.m. collision.
Sharon school board
SHARON, Pa. -- Melvin Bandzak and Dominick Russo have been re-elected president and vice president, respectively, of the Sharon school board.
Newly elected board members Christopher Gavin and Daniel Gill and re-elected board members Kathy Hall, Richard Mancino and Russo took their oaths at Wednesday's reorganization meeting.
Next year, regular board meetings will be at 6:30 p.m. the third Monday of each month at 215 Forker Blvd.; work sessions will be at 6:30 p.m. the preceding Wednesday.
Reorganization meeting
SHARPSVILLE, Pa. -- Terry Karsonovich and David DeForest were re-elected president and vice president, respectively, of the school board during Wednesday's reorganization meeting.
The oath of office was administered to newly elected board members Deneen Joseph, Len Grandy and Gerard Hanley and re-elected board member Susan Pokorney, but new member Burt De Vries did not attend.
It was the last meeting for Solicitor John Reed, who has been elected to a Mercer County common pleas judgeship.
The board will seek a new solicitor.
Next year's board meetings will be at 7 p.m. the third Monday of each month, except July, in Seventh Street Elementary School.
Work sessions will be at 7 p.m. the previous Monday.