Greenville News

Two women were injured Wednesday morning when the sport utility vehicle in which they were passengers was struck by a tractor-trailer on Route 100 in Colebrookdale Township, police said.

In a five-minute meeting Tuesday, Greenville council members adopted a proposed 2010 budget of $2,980,097. Property taxes will stay at 31.5 mills and council President Pete Longiotti advised several newly elected council members in attendance to study the budget so they "know what's coming." Greenville has the highest property tax rates in Mercer ...

A*Someone broke into a Greenville woman's home between Nov. 14 and Sunday and stole her car, which has been spotted in Hempfield Township, police said.

Mercer County Regional Council of Governments is seeking to increase the assessments and hourly incarceration fees it charges at the two lockups it runs.

A Venango County man, injured in a one-vehicle crash in October in Mercer County, died this week in an Ohio Hospital, state police said.

An Allegheny County jury convicted a Ghana national Thursday of third-degree murder for strangling his wife in their Forest Hills home.

A* Farrell High School class of 1974 holds its 35th class reunion beginning at 6 p.m. Nov.

A* The 4th annual Bingo to Benefit Children's Hospital by Eat N Park will be held today in Grove City American Legion.

A* Stoneboro Methodist Church holds an all-you-can-eat hunters breakfast from 5 to 7 a.m. Nov.

Greenville Water Authority customers can expect a rate hike of 3 percent in 2010 and again in 2011.

Jeff Myers called the thought that there was a methamphetamine laboratory in his West Salem Township neighborhood unsettling.

Brenda Wallace of the Pennsylvania Department of Health administers nasal vaccine for H1N1, commonly called the swine flu, to Greenville second-grader Makayla Upperman at Greenville High School.

Robert Bauman, Busch Gardens' original burgermeister, has died. According to Amory Funeral Home in Grafton, Bauman died Saturday in Williamsburg at the age of 95.

Westminster College oboist Jennie Smith and flutist Erin Thompson will present their senior recital Sunday, Nov.

A* A benefit party for Eric and Becky Ramp West is planned for noon to 4 p.m. Sunday at West Salem Volunteer Fire Department, Route 358, Greenville.

It was a ho-hum Election Day in Mercer County, with unofficial results putting the turnout at a mere 24 percent.

A* The Thiel College Student Affiliate Chapter of the American Chemical Society is hosting its annual "Kids & Chemistry" program to spark interest in chemistry in children in grades 4-6 from local elementary schools from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday in the Academic Center, room 100, at Thiel College, 75 College Ave., Greenville.

AFTER THE HEADY 2008 when the presidential race drove up voter turnout and political involvement locally and across the nation, a simple municipal election seems like a letdown.

When the proposed Farrell budget was announced this week, it contained no pay increases for any city workers.

If money grew on trees, then Greenville Area Leisure Services Association would have no problems.