Water samples below limit for lead

Water samples below limit for lead

SEBRING

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has received another round of test results from homeowners in the village water supply system who asked to have their tap water tested, and all the 36 most-recent samples were below the federal allowable limit for lead.

On Jan. 21, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency ordered Sebring to offer free water testing for any homeowner who asked and will make those results public as they are received.

Combined with earlier voluntary test results received, 971 of 1,015 samples have been below the federal allowable level of 15 parts per billion.

The Ohio EPA has followed up on some of the high readings and has found the water coming into the homes is healthy. Running the tap for several minutes eliminates any detectable lead in the water, OEPA officials said.

Trial reset for June

WARREN

The trial for Arthur A. Harper, 43, of High Street Northeast, charged with killing Russell Cottrill, 3, last fall, has been reset to June 6.

The delay is because the Ohio Public Defender’s Office asked to be removed from Harper’s case because it has a conflict in representing Harper.

Judge Peter Kontos of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court assigned Atty. John B. Juhasz to the case, but Juhasz represents former Mahoning County Auditor Mike Sciortino in the Oakhill Renaissance Place criminal-corruption case, which is scheduled to go to trial Monday in Cleveland, the same day Harper was scheduled to go to trial.

Resolution OK’d

POLAND

The school board at a meeting this week approved a resolution that allows the district to continue its partnership with an Ohio Facilities Construction Commission program that would pay 19 percent of an estimated $35 million project to build a new school.

Voters last fall defeated a bond issue and levy that would have allowed the district to fund the local share of that project.

The district’s last chance to take advantage of the state partnership before an August deadline is getting a ballot issue approved in a special election. The school board has not yet decided what it will do.

The resolution approved by the board this week was a step required by the state, Superintendent David Janofa said. The board must periodically approve continuation of the partnership, he said.

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