Sharon News

While the news so many times concerns "gloom and doom" recently in the Mercer County area, it's nice to see that positive events locally continue to bring smiles to faces of people of all ages.

A polka worship service in memory of John Krizanscic is planned for 9:30 a.m. Sunday in Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 3325 Morefield Road.

Sharon Sanitary Authority Wednesday filed civil lawsuits against eight members of the Baldarelli family and two of their businesses for a total of $10,851 in back sewer bills for 18 rental properties since 2007.

School property taxes in Sharon are going up 3.5 percent for the 2009-2010 school year.

Olde Town Grove City's movie-themed art mural is getting a sequel this summer. The mural, located on the side wall of the Guthrie Theater at 232 S. Broad St., features people standing in line at the side of the building, waiting to get into the theater in a style that exemplifies the 1920s through the 1940s.

After about an hour of searching dense woods, emergency crews rescued a man who was alone and hurt after crashing his all-terrain vehicle Monday afternoon in South Pymatuning Township.

EMTs from McGonigle Ambulance and STATMedEvac bring an injured ATV rider to the shore of Shenango River Lake after pulling the man out of the woods in the nearby Bayview Off-Road Vehicle Area.

Shelly Blue was sitting on her front porch Friday afternoon when a gray minivan pulled up to the stop sign in front of her home with the Jackson 5's "ABC" blasting out of the open windows.

As Dillon Hamilton raced down East State Street in a soap box derby car, he looked over at his grandmother with a broad smile.

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Sharon Regional Health System offers these events at the Diagnostic & Imaging Center, 2435 Garden Way, Hermitage, unless otherwise noted: * Playtime Stimulation for Newborns, 10 a.m. July 2. This is a one-time class for newborns to 7 months taught by a pediatric physical therapist.

Sharon Sanitary Authority President Robert Beach on Wednesday announced his immediate resignation from the board in an e-mail to authority and city officials.

Vendor Safe Technologies announces that America's #1 motorsports theme family restaurant, Quaker Steak & Lube, has signed a five-year agreement with Vendor Safe to implement a single source Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard compliance solution.

Info: 724-699-2277. * General Federation of Women's Clubs members past and present are invited to a Three "Rs" luncheon to be held at noon July 11 at Jess's Restaurant, Hermitage.

I have written about the importance of fatherhood - serving as a loving and caring parent and role model for your children - many times in this column.

The city of Hermitage's insurance company will fork over the full $25,000 the city agreed to pay to settle a lawsuit filed by the wife of a man killed in a traffic crash, said City Manager Gary P. Hinkson.

The way things are going in state government, the question probably isn't if we'll have a tax increase.

A Cleveland man is headed to court on charges that he shot two women May 2 in Sharon after he allegedly shot at them in Farrell and chased them into Sharon.

A boy was hurt when his bike ran into a car Sunday night at Meek Street and Fourth Avenue in Sharon, police said.

Sharon school directors called a special meeting to approve a final 2009-2010 budget on June 30 - the last day to do so under state law.