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SALEM City council members have been asked to attend the next Salem Utilities Commission meeting at 4 p.m. Thursday regarding sewer rates.
City Utilities Superintendent Don Weingart issued the invite when council met Tuesday night, saying the agenda includes rate study findings regarding the city sewer rates, which haven’t been increased since 1995.
The commission has been talking about raising the sewer rates, but by law, city council has final say on any rate hikes for sanitary sewer. The commission has control over the water rates.
Weingart explained that it’s time to move into Phase 3 of the wastewater treatment plant improvements and the price tag for that project is upwards of $11 million. He said money will have to be borrowed and told council members the commission will be recommending a sanitary sewer rate hike, which council will have to act upon.
Alliance Police database for Jan. 21
The Alliance Review
AIMEE VICTORIA HALL, 26, of 227 S. Linden Ave. in Alliance, was arrested at 6:40 p.m. Jan. 6, 2021, at East Broadway and South Freedom in Alliance. Police report Hall was a passenger in a vehicle that was stopped when an officer noticed her in the vehicle. Police report Hall was actively wanted on a warrant out of Columbiana County Sheriff’s Office for failure to appear for an OVI charge from October 2020. When officers stopped the vehicle, they reported that Hall attempted to hide a backpack in the back seat. Police found approximately 27 grams of methamphetamine in 3 separate baggies; a digital scale with residue; baggies; and a glass bubble pipe with residue. Police report Hall had the items in a box with large magnets, used to conceal the box on metal items, such as motor vehicles. The report says Hall declined a voluntary drug screen. Hall was booked into the Stark County Jail, held for Columbiana County. She faces cha
PERRY TOWNSHIP A woman in the 1100 block of West Perry Street reported at 11:28 p.m. Saturday that a neighbor was playing music loudly in a vehicle. An officer spoke with the person in the vehicle and told him to turn it down. Police were dispatched at 8 p.m. Saturday to the 900 block of Elberon Avenue for a report of possible shots fired, but found and heard nothing in the area. A caller at 9:24 a.m. Saturday reported a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot in the 1300 block of Pembrooke Drive. Police identified the driver, who said he was waiting to pick up a friend.
John Scheets
John Scheets trained to become a welder after high school, but when he was a kid, he wanted to be just like “Gibby” the cop.
“I was just amazed. He always took time to stop and talk. He was just neat as a pin. His persona, the way he carried himself. I just thought that was awesome,” Scheets said.
Older folks in Salem will remember Gilbert “Gibby” Bartha Sr..
He was a well-known Salem city police officer who during his off-hours, still in uniform, worked the door at the grocery/department store Persky’s, where Giant Eagle stands now and where Scheets used to see him.
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Longtime Salem Police Sgt. John Scheets flashes the familiar smile thatâs greeted Salem residents the past 36 years, first with the auxiliary then full-time as a road patrolman, detective, road supervisor and drug task force agent. Scheets retired from the department Jan. 8, but remains in law enforcement as a new member of the Columbiana County Sheriffâs Office. (Photo by Johnâs son, Jack Scheets)
SALEM Â John Scheets trained to become a welder after high school, but when he was a kid, he wanted to be just like “Gibby” the cop.
“I was just amazed. He always took time to stop and talk. He was just neat as a pin. His persona, the way he carried himself. I just thought that was awesome,” Scheets said.