Hot-mix paving

Hot-mix paving

MINERAL RIDGE

Weathersfield Township trustees Thursday hired R.T. Vernal Paving and Excavating, Inc. of North Lima as the contractor for the township’s hot-mix paving program this year.

The contract is for $56,594, and the roads to be paved are: Stewart Street from state Route 46; Chestnut Street from Route 46 to Ashland Street; Arbor Drive to Dumont Drive, and Dumont Drive from Niles-Carver Road to Rosalyn Drive.

Lottery check gone

YOUNGSTOWN

A Youngstown man won an Ohio Lottery contest, but his winner’s check from the Ohio Lottery Commission was cashed at the Huntington Bank in Girard by someone else.

According to a police report filed Wednesday, two people signed their names on the check, but neither name belonged to the winner.

Police received a phone call from the man, saying he was awaiting his cash winnings from the lottery.

According to the report, the man said he called the lottery commission to inquire on his cash reward. The commission told the man he would receive a check by mail sometime in June.

After waiting nearly the entire month of June, the man again contacted the commission, only to find out his $3,726 winner’s check had been mailed May 27 and cashed June 2.

The man told police he had not given permission to anyone to cash the check, and he did not recognize the two names on the back of the endorsed check. Police advised the man to follow up with the lottery commission.

Waste project

KINSMAN

U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, has written to Tom Vilsack, secretary of the Department of Agriculture, to ask for support for a waste-treatment project that would serve 350 residential and commercial customers in the Kinsman Center and Farmdale areas of Kinsman Township.

Rex Fee, executive director of the Trumbull County Sanitary Engineer’s Department, said his department applied for a USDA grant that would pay 75 percent of the $8 million to $10 million project with the affected property owners paying the other 25 percent. The money would come from federal stimulus funds.

“This funding would help Kinsman Township upgrade outdated water and sewer systems that would promote the public health, attract new businesses to the area and ensure that residents pay less for their water and sewer bills,” Brown said.

Farmer’s Market

SHARON, PA.

Downtown Sharon Farmer’s Market, Sharon City Center, will be selling fresh homegrown produce every Wednesday and Saturday from 7 a.m. to noon, or earlier if sold out, through Oct. 21.

The market growers will have available a variety of locally grown vegetables, fruits, bedding and potted plants throughout the summer/ autumn seasons. Come early for the best selections. New vendors are welcomed. For more information, call Ed Farkas at 724-981-0688.

Abduction seminar

MINERAL RIDGE

Next Level Martial Arts, 1330 Seaborn St., Suite 2, is having a child-abduction prevention seminar from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. today. It is free and open to the public.

Included in the seminar will be tips on stranger awareness, role-playing abduction scenarios and escape techniques. For more information, call James Terlecki at 330-550-4324 or Tracie Terlecki at 330-550-8502.