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Sharon native Tony Butala croons a Christmas standard with his iconic group The Lettermen. They performed Sunday before a packed house at Akron Civic Theatre. Butala will be featured in an upcoming issue of The Herald's Life & Times magazine that details the lives of those aging with flair.
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Court nixes ruling man is sexually violent predator
State Superior Court has denied a local judge’s request to issue a precedential opinion in a rape case.
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Mercer County Common Pleas Court Judge John C. Reed had ruled that Chad S. Thompson, 24, formerly of Stoneboro, is a sexually violent predator, but Superior Court said in a 2-1 decision July 8 that an expert’s testimony was insufficient to back that declaration.
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Stacey wants to continue fight over razed home
Raymond Stacey has requests pending in three courts as he presses his long-running attempt to prosecute the city of Hermitage and those he believes are responsible for illegally demolishing his parents’ house.
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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Philadelphia, on April 29 quashed an appeal because Stacey did not file his argument brief and appendix of supporting documents.
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Burglars strike while residents sleep: Police issue window warning
Several Shenango Valley residents’ homes were broken into overnight Tuesday and Wednesday while they slept.
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Two burglaries in Sharon involved people entering open windows.
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Commissioners formally move to raise sewer fees
Hermitage commissioners introduced an ordinance Wednesday to increase sanitary user fees.
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Residents tapped into the Hermitage Municipal Authority lines now pay $95 a quarter. That rate will bump up to $105 a quarter on Jan. 1, under the proposed rate hike.
Two more hikes on Jan. 1, 2012, and Jan. 1, 2013, will result in the rates increasing 50 percent from the current fee. -
Water is on at Forrest Brooke: Managers: Well pump shorted out
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Water service has been restored at Forrest Brooke Manufactured Home Community after well problems left the 165-unit complex dry Tuesday.
A boil and conserve water advisory has been issued by the DEP and will remain in place until tests confirm the water is safe to drink, Forrest Brooke’s manager Pete Havens said.
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Court nixes ruling man is sexually violent predator
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COLLEGIATE NOTEBOOK: Woods has banner year throwing shot
Former Grove City star Kristy Woods winds up to throw the shot at the U.S. Track & Field Championships where she placed 9th in the Junior Division.
KRISTY WOODS of the University of Buffalo boasted a banner 2010 season for the Bulls’ track & field team.
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The former Grove City High standout and multiple PIAA placewinner and gold-medalist improved as the season progressed in Mid-American Conference, NCAA and ultimately, national-caliber competition.
- Landino, Gramley qualify for Kings finals
- AUTO RACING NOTEBOOK: Mike Lutz is chip off the old (engine) block
- Grove City Senior LL All-Stars earn berth in state tourney
- Outdoors: Paddling into the Allegheny River headwind
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- Death Listing
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Deaths from July 30, 2010
David Morgan Boyd Jr., 77, New Wilmington.
Frances B. Deets, 90, Greenville.
Robert M. “Percy” Garrett, 86, West Middlesex.
Edith Louise Smith, 89, Carlton.
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Deaths from July 30, 2010
