Sebring levy on ballot

Sebring levy on ballot
SEBRING -- The board of education voted Wednesday to place a five-year operating levy on the ballot in November.
Superintendent Howard Friend said that Mahoning County officials must certify the amount of the levy, but that it should be about 6.8 mills, which would raise about $305,000 a year.
Friend said two other levy requests had recently been defeated by voters.
If approved, the levy would be the first new one for the district since 1990.
2 men arrested in robbery
HERMITAGE, Pa. -- Police arrested two men accused of robbing McQuaid's Sunoco at North Hermitage and Lamor roads.
Gregory P. Sverre, 21, of Valley View Road, Sharpsville, and James M. Combine, 20, of East Lake Road, Transfer, turned themselves in Wednesday afternoon after learning warrants had been issued for their arrests, police said. Both are charged with robbery and criminal conspiracy, and Sverre faces an additional count of carrying a firearm without a license.
Sverre is accused of entering the service station around 4:30 a.m. Sunday and using a handgun to take a cash box from the clerk. He fled to a waiting car driven by Combine, police said.
Police said they have recovered the gun used in the crime as well as the stolen cash box.
Sverre and Combine were arraigned before District Justice Henry Russo, who ordered them held on $20,000 bond each. Sverre posted bond but Combine remained incarcerated this morning.
Street closing for derby
YOUNGSTOWN -- Fifth Avenue between Grant and Wood streets will close at 5 p.m. Friday for the Soap Box Derby. The closure will be in effect until about 8 p.m. Sunday. The derby starts Saturday. Sunday is a rain date.
During evening hours, traffic can cross Lincoln Avenue, though all other sections of Fifth Avenue will remain closed.
The city is urging drivers to seek alternative north and south routes to avoid Fifth Avenue.
Route 46 reopens
NORTH LIMA -- The Ohio Department of Transportation announced state Route 46 just south of state Route 165 in Beaver Township reopened Tuesday afternoon.
The road had been closed because of culvert damage caused by a storm last month.
State Route 534 one mile south of U.S. 224 in Berlin Township also recently reopened. The road was also closed because of an emergency culvert replacement.
Seeking robbery suspects
FARRELL, Pa. -- Police said two men, one armed with a handgun, robbed the Citiline Market at 1158 Fruit Ave.
Clerks told police that two men entered the store around 11 p.m. Tuesday with T-shirts pulled up over their faces. One of the men had a chrome-plated handgun and demanded money from the cash register, police said.
They got some money and ran west on George Street, police said.
Both men were described as black and about 6 feet tall with slender builds, police reported.
Both wore jeans and one wore a red T-shirt and the other a blue T-shirt.
Businessman charged
ELLWOOD CITY, Pa. -- A New Castle man operating a fire protection business is accused of theft by deception and receiving stolen property.
Police said Anthony Villani, 47, of West Madison Avenue, who operates M & amp;A Fire Protection, did not perform work or overbilled Foodland Grocery Store on Beaver Avenue from January to April. Police said the loss was about $1,310.
Villani was arraigned before District Justice Samuel Battaglia and released without monetary bond.
Items stolen from cars
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- Neshannock Township police are warning people to lock their vehicles.
Police said money and other items were taken from several unlocked cars on Okinawa Drive sometime overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday.
Police said a 1994 Plymouth Voyager van was also stolen.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Neshannock police.