Published: February 02, 2008 11:16 pm         

In brief

Boro to oversee

noise enforcement

EBENSBURG – At the request of owner Shane Caylor, Borough Council members on Monday agreed to assume local responsibility for noise enforcement under the Pennsylvania Liquor Code.

The former owner of the Castle Pub on North Center Street had difficulty complying with the state’s strict noise enforcement, and the liquor agency allows local municipalities to enforce that portion of liquor laws locally, borough Manager Dan Penatzer told the council.

The borough has a noise ordinance in place, and local control would involve amplified music coming from the bar.

Conservancy buys Somerset County land

A 2,300-acre tract along a creek in Somerset County was among several land purchases announced Friday by the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.

The conservancy also bought 1,600 acres along the Clarion River south of Cooksburg and purchased the timber rights on another 1,700 acres in the same area in Clarion County.

The organization says all of the timber rights and land have been transferred to the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Bureau of Forestry.

Area Legion donates

phones to soldiers

Post 294, American Legion, 114 Main St. in downtown Johnstown, is participating in a Geistown man’s program to send unused cell phones to troops serving overseas.

Adjutant Robert Bender said the post on Monday installed a collection box inside the post for members and the public to drop off their phones.

The post is helping Richard Fleck, a Korean War veteran, collect the phones for a nonprofit program called Cell Phones for Soldiers.

The phones will be refurbished before they are sent overseas.

For more information, call Bender at the post, 536-6540, or at home, 266-3946.

     

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