Late pay for employees

Late pay for employees
CANFIELD -- Township employees said they received their paychecks a day late Friday after Trustee Bill Reese -- on vacation in California -- signed and faxed a statement stating he intended to sign the checks.
Checks for the six employees are usually issued on Thursday every two weeks and must be signed by two trustees. Trustee Paul Moracco signed the checks before the deadline Thursday afternoon, but Trustee Judy Bayus did not. Township employees called Bayus' home, but was told she was on vacation. Assistant Mahoning County prosecutors advised the township to have Reese sign the statement by fax, but Reese was unable to get to a fax machine before Friday.
The employees are members of Teamsters Local 377.
Water service disruption
YOUNGSTOWN -- Water service to homes on Dearborn Street and Robinwood Place will be shut off for most of the day Monday while a waterline is relocated.
Water service will be disconnected at 8:30 a.m. and will be restored around 3 p.m., according to the Youngstown Water Department.
Great Lakes Construction is relocating the waterline in connection with the 711 highway connector project.
After water service is restored, residents should boil water for at least one minute before using it for cooking or drinking. The boil warning will continue until water quality tests are completed.
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency requires all cities to issue the one-minute boil warning after depressurization of any drinking waterlines.
Charged with murder
YOUNGSTOWN -- Edward C. Anderson, charged with murder, was arraigned Friday in municipal court. Judge Elizabeth A. Kobly set bond at $100,000 cash or surety.
Anderson, 58, of East Philadelphia Avenue, is due back in court July 23 for a preliminary hearing.
The victim, unidentified before court began, was listed as Jane Doe, pending identification from Mahoning County Coroner David M. Kennedy.
The woman was shot four times inside Anderson's home around 11 p.m. Thursday in what detectives described as a domestic dispute. She collapsed in a neighbor's driveway, then later died at St. Elizabeth Health Center.
New Habitat house
YOUNGSTOWN -- Habitat for Humanity of Mahoning County will have a groundbreaking ceremony at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the corner of Bruno and Oregon Avenues on Youngstown's West Side. The home to be built on the site will be Habitat's 12th new residence in the Valley.
Ohio Edison, a FirstEnergy company, is sponsoring the home as part of FirstEnergy's $260,000 grant to the local Habitat affiliate.
Over the past two years FirstEnergy has funded an additional 2 1/2 Habitat homes in the Valley and is the largest single donor of funds for Habitat homes in Ohio.
The faculty, staff and students of Austintown Fitch High School, as volunteer workers, will build the house. Youngstown State University will also provide volunteers as needed, plus technical assistance. The inmates of Elkton Federal Prison will pre-fab the home's interior and exterior wall panels. The Valley's Trade Union Apprentice Programs will do all the plumbing, heating and electrical work.
Malpractice insurance
YOUNGSTOWN -- The Universal Cafe at First Unitarian Church of Youngstown will present a discussion at 7 p.m. Monday. The topic of "Whose Doctor is Next?" will be the costs of medical malpractice insurance. Admission is a $3 donation. The church is at the corner of Elm and Illinois streets just north of Youngstown State University.
Panelists will include Dr. Clifford Waldman, Chief Medical Officer at Humility of Mary Health Partners; Dr. Dean Economous, a family practitioner in Salem and president of Columbiana Medical Society; Dr. Marc S. Saunders, general surgeon and president of the Mahoning County Medical Society; Dr. David Brown, retired; and Atty. Martin White. Dr. Gabriel Fernandez Palmer, an ethicist, will moderate.
The Tri-County Physicians for Patients Rights has information at www.wheredoesithurt.org.