MVSD board meeting

MVSD board meeting
MINERAL RIDGE -- The Mahoning Valley Sanitary District's board of directors will meet in special session at 4 p.m. today in the assembly room at the district offices to authorize contract negotiations, appoint temporary legal counsel and select an engineering and design firm for the Niles standpipe capital improvement project.
Bloomfield firefightersto get federal grant
BLOOMFIELD -- U.S. Rep. Steven C. LaTourette of Concord, R-14th, announced that Bloomfield Volunteer Fire Department will receive a grant for $61,560 for firefighting operations and safety.
The Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program is administered by the U.S. Fire Administration and U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Office for Domestic Preparedness.
The grants are commonly used to buy turnout gear, thermal imaging cameras and other devices, LaTourette said.
Warren man indictedon felony gun charges
CLEVELAND -- A federal grand jury has indicted a Warren man on charges of possessing a firearm after having been convicted of felony offenses.
Mario Mostella, 35, of Second Street, was charged after an investigation by Warren police and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the U.S. attorney said.
The case is being prosecuted under Project Safe Neighborhoods, a gun-violence reduction program of the U.S. Department of Justice and local police.
3 use unlicensed tatooist;skin infections result
LISBON -- The Columbiana County Health Department has issued a warning that an unlicensed tattooist is working throughout the county.
Three people, who refused to name the tattooist, were recently diagnosed with a common type of skin infection.
The health department said that clean needles were used in each case but that the tattoo site was not properly sterilized.
The three likely contracted the infection because the same cloth was used to wipe the blood from their tattoos.
The health department urged all people thinking about getting a tattoo to make sure the person is licensed by the health department. Anyone tattooed by an unlicensed person should seek testing for HIV, and hepatitis C and B.
Anyone with information about the tattooist should call the health department at (330) 424-0272.
Single firefightercontains house blaze
GREENVILLE, Pa. -- Fire Chief Steve Thompson said the quick work of a single firefighter prevented a blaze from spreading in a South Second Street home.
Lt. Mike Cadman was working the shift alone when the alarm came in around 9:15 a.m. at the home of David Stephens at 109 S. Second St. Cadman took a pumper truck to the scene and contained the blaze to a single second-floor room, Thompson said, adding that four other firefighters reached the scene a short time later.
There was heat damage throughout the second floor and some smoke damage to the first floor, but no one was injured, Thompson said.
The blaze was determined to be an accidental electrical fire, he said.
Hubbard Twp. police probebreak-ins at 3 churches
HUBBARD -- Township police are investigating the overnight break-ins of three churches. Detective Michael Begeot said cash was taken and church officials were conducting inventories.
The churches are Church of the Nazarene, state Route 62 and Chestnut Ridge Road; Corner House Christian Church, Chestnut Ridge and state Route 7; and Coalburg United Methodist Church, Wick-Campbell Road and Chestnut Ridge.
Grants for flood victims
COLUMBUS -- Emergency management officials have approved 1,447 grants for housing repair and other assistance worth $2,494,678 for this year's flooding victims in the tri-county area, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The number and amount of grants approved in each county as of the close of business Monday was: 449 worth $1,107,108 in Columbiana County; 610 worth $707,513 in Mahoning County; and 388 worth $680,057 in Trumbull County.
The application deadline for disaster assistance is Nov. 18. To apply, call (800) 621-FEMA.