Metro Digest | Weathersfield trash

Weathersfield trash

MINERAL RIDGE

The startup date for garbage pickup and recycling throughout Weathersfield Township has been changed to Jan. 1, 2011, instead of Dec. 1.

Trustees moved the date this week, chairman Steven Gerberry said, to allow Allied Waste Services of Youngstown more time to order more garbage containers, recycling bins and a new truck.

The switch will also allow billing to take place on a routine quarterly basis. Trustees hired the company to provide refuse and garbage pickup and recycling for township residents last month under a three-year contract with an option for a fourth year.

All residents must switch to the company. The quarterly cost of basic service is $41.94.

Weekly leaf pickup

NEW MIDDLETOWN

Village government will offer leaf pickup for residents. Bags are available at the municipal building, 10711 Main St., and cost 25 cents per bag. Pickup will be every Monday morning in October and November. The municipal building is open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Political forum planned

POLAND

The Democrats of the 17th and 6th Districts, a local political organization, will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Poland Community Baseball Association Hall on Sheridan Road. The guest speaker will be Youngstown Councilwoman Carol Rimedio-Righetti, the Democratic nominee for Mahoning County commissioner. The group will discuss the candidates and issues on the Nov. 2 ballot.

Top 10 in K’nex

BOARDMAN

Township resident Quinton Currier is still in the running for a K’nex building contest.Quinton is in the top 10 in the 9- to 12-year-old division. He used 4,000 K’nex pieces to build a “Wheel of Thunder” that is almost 7 feet tall.

People can vote for Currier until Monday at http://www.knex.com/club/knexpert_vote.php

Hardware fraud

NEW CASTLE, PA.

A Lawrence County man is behind bars on charges of defrauding hardware stores in Ohio and Pennsylvania out of more than $30,000.

According to The Vindicator’s media partner WFMJ TV-21, John Cameron, 35, would order large quantities of construction supplies, mainly copper tubing, and then have the store bill construction companies he did not work for.

Cameron would scrap the material and use the money to support a drug habit. Police arrested him at his home Tuesday. He is in the county jail on a $10,000 bond.