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Dauphin County rejects incinerator fee increase
by GARRY LENTON, Of The Patriot-News
Wednesday December 03, 2008, 12:17 PM
A Penn Waste truck arrives at the Harrisburg Incinerator. Fees for dumping trash, which are ultimately paid by Harrisburg and Dauphin County residents, would have increased under a proposal rejected today by the county. The Harrisburg Authority, which owns the incinerator, wants to increase tipping fees from $65 to $165 per ton on Jan. 1 to meet payments on nearly $308 million in debt. If approved, it would become the highest rate in the nation, according to some estimates. For county residents, trash rates would rise from about $60 to about $90 per quarter.
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Non-union state workers face wage freeze
by CHARLES THOMPSON, Of The Patriot-News
Wednesday December 03, 2008, 3:00 PM
Gov. Ed Rendell announced an additional $128 million in mid-year state budget cuts today, including a freeze on 2009 wage increases due Jan. 1 to some 13,600 non-union state employees.
That wage freeze, applying mostly to supervisory or managerial staff, will save the state a projected $14.3 million in the current fiscal year, the governor said.
Continue reading "Non-union state workers face wage freeze" »Harrisburg Area Humane Society runs out of cat litter
by The Patriot-News
Wednesday December 03, 2008, 11:45 AM
The Humane Society of Harrisburg Area, which houses more than 300 cats and uses a ton of kitty litter a week, ran out last week, spokeswoman Kelly Hitz said.
Donations of non-scoopable cat litter can be dropped off at the shelter at 7790 Grayson Road in Swatara Twp.
While you're there consider adopting a cat, dog or rabbit. The shelter is offering half off its adoption fees at a holiday open house from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.
HIA parking rates taking off
by DAN MILLER, Of The Patriot-News
Wednesday December 03, 2008, 11:33 AM
Parking rates at Harrisburg International Airport will increase on Jan. 1, the Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority decided this morning.
The daily rate in the HIA garage will increase from $16.50 per day to $18 while the daily rate in the long term lot will go from $5.50 to $7. Both fees include a 10 percent parking tax that the airport was mandated to collect starting in 2007.
Airport spokesman Scott Miller said the increase is needed to cover rising costs for energy, winter weather materials, maintenance supplies and employee benefits that are reflected in the authority's 2009 budget. Miller said this is the first time long-term parking rates at the airport have gone up since 2002, not counting the tax.
House Democratic leaders will forgo raises
by JAN MURPHY, Of The Patriot-News
Wednesday December 03, 2008, 8:45 AM
State Capitol dome in Harrisburg.They are calling on other House members to do the same.
Driver in fatal crash traveling almost 150 mph, police say
by FRANK COZZOLI, The Patriot-News
Tuesday December 02, 2008, 5:48 PM
The driver of a sports car was traveling at nearly 150 mph before he crashed and died, critically injuring his cousin, on U.S. Route 22/322 on Saturday night, Harrisburg police said.
Mark Essis, 36, of Susquehanna Twp., was pronounced dead at the scene. The cousin who was riding in the car with him, Nicholas Essis, 24, of West Hanover Twp., was ejected from the vehicle, police said.
Nicholas Essis remained in critical condition Tuesday at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman said. The Essis family operates Essis & Sons, one of the midstate's leading floor-covering businesses.
A reconstruction done by the city's crash unit estimated the speed at the time of the crash at 147.5 mph, said Sgt. Cliff Karlsen, the unit's commander.
Continue reading "Driver in fatal crash traveling almost 150 mph, police say" »Incinerator woes might cost county residents another $120 a year
by JOHN LUCIEW, Of The Patriot-News
Tuesday December 02, 2008, 4:20 PM
A machine drops trash into a burn hopper at the Harrisburg incinerator, which despite a major overhaul cannot meet both its operating costs and its debt payments.The Jan. 1 rate hike, needed to cover a projected $17 million deficit at the plant, would add about $30 to the quarterly trash bill of the average county resident living outside Harrisburg.
Continue reading "Incinerator woes might cost county residents another $120 a year" »Harrisburg to explore selling money-losing incinerator
by JOHN LUCIEW, Of The Patriot-News
Monday December 01, 2008, 3:36 PM
With the Harrisburg incinerator projected to lose tens of millions of dollars over the next five years, the Harrisburg Authority, the city utility agency that owns the plant, said it's already begun exploring a sale to Covanta Energy of New Jersey, the private company operating the plant under a 10-year contract.
Michele T.V. Torres, the authority's executive director, said today that provisions of the deal call for the agency to negotiate exclusively with Covanta through July 2009. After that, the authority can seek bids from outside buyers, but Covanta can match any competitor's price through Dec. 31 2012, Torres said.
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Auto break-in suspect arrested in Harrisburg sting
by MATTHEW KEMENY, Of The Patriot-News
Monday December 01, 2008, 3:31 PM
Harrisburg police arrested a "person of high interest" in a series of vehicle break-ins at the Executive House parking garage following a Saturday evening sting involving a decoy vehicle, officials said.
Keith Allen White Jr., 38, no address given, was taken into custody after he was accused of breaking into the vehicle that police had parked five minutes earlier in the garage at South 2nd and Chestnut streets, Mayor Stephen R. Reed said.
Former CV teen listed as 'endangered' runaway
by The Patriot-News
Monday December 01, 2008, 2:49 PM
Quinn Elizabeth Glenny, who is 5'3" with brown hair and blue eyes, has ties to the Harrisburg area. She has been missing since Oct. 4. Her family says she has been missing since Oct. 4, when she ran away from an independent-living facility in Duncansville, Blair County. She might have traveled to Harrisburg or York, her mother says.
Anyone who has seen Quinn Glenny should call 800-THE-LOST (800-843-5678).
Officials say sleeping child was locked in Harrisburg daycare
by MATTHEW KEMENY and NANCY ESHELMAN, Of The Patriot-News
Monday December 01, 2008, 11:45 AM
A Harrisburg day care has been shut down by the state amid allegations it locked up last week and left a sleeping child inside, a spokeswoman for the Department of Public Welfare said this morning.
The incident was reported Nov. 24 after a mother went to Kids Kingdom daycare in the 1100 block of North Third Street about 6 p.m. to pick up her 11-month-old child and found the building dark inside and locked, Stacey Witalec said.
Continue reading "Officials say sleeping child was locked in Harrisburg daycare" »Holiday shoppers begin bargain-hunting quest early this morning
by The Patriot-News Friday November 28, 2008, 8:26 AM
The sun was still below the horizon when shoppers congregated around mid-state stores hoping to be among the first to gain entrance to begin the annual buying frenzy for bargains for upcoming holiday celebrations.
The Hershey Outlets accommodated midnight shoppers by opening shortly as the new day began. Other stores began throwing open their doors around 4 a.m.
One downtown Harrisburg in the 300 block of Market Street had about 20 people waiting in line around 7 a.m.
Shoppers line up arond the corner of the Best Buy in Lower Paxton Twp. for the 5 a.m. Black Friday opening.
John Glindeman of Susquehanna Twp. waits in a line at the Best Buy in Lower Paxton Twp. He and wife Pam were first in line for the 5 a.m. Black Friday opening. They celebrated Thanksgiving Wednesday with relatives so they could be first in line at 10:45 a.m. Thursday.
Shoppers wait in line for the 6 a.m. Black Friday opening of Kmart in Lower Paxton Twp.
Dave and Melanie George of Harrisburg wait in line for the 6 a.m. Black Friday opening of Kmart in Lower Paxton Twp. They joined the line around 4:30 a.m. this morning.
Shoppers wait in line for the 6 a.m. Black Friday opening of Target in Lower Paxton Twp.
Beth Rager of Hummelstown, center, with nieces Gretchen Grim of Red Lion, left, and Paige Rutherford of Lancaster, head to the back of the line for the 6 a.m. Black Friday opening of Target in Lower Paxton Twp.Local natives of India pray for peace after attacks
by JIM LEWIS AND MARY KLAUS, The Patriot-News
Thursday November 27, 2008, 7:10 PM
Hari Temple priest, Shastriji, blesses a woman and her baby, as a handful of people attend a regular noon service at the temple in Fairview Twp. He prayed that they would change, for "God is mighty -- he can do anything," said Naruka, one of a handful of devotees who attended the service in the wake of the attacks Wednesday in Mumbai.
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by JERRY L. GLEASON, Of The Patriot-News Wednesday November 26, 2008, 2:45 PM
Dauphin County Commissioners Jeff Haste, Nick DiFrancesco and George Hartwick III issued a proclamation Wednesday morning honoring Hyleas Fountain for winning a silver medal in the heptathlon at the Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Fountain said she apprecates all the attention she is receiving and that she isn't resting on her laurels as an Olympic silver medalist.
Harrisburg taxes unchanged but budget goes after crime
by JOHN LUCIEW, Of The Patriot-News
Tuesday November 25, 2008, 10:06 PM
Harrisburg's taxes won't be going up in 2009, but Mayor Stephen R. Reed is hoping that city crime rates will be going down under a police-heavy budget he proposed tonight.
Continue reading "Harrisburg taxes unchanged but budget goes after crime" »City Council rejects $215 million parking lease offer
by JOHN LUCIEW, Of The Patriot-News
Tuesday November 25, 2008, 9:21 PM
The Fifth Street Parking Garage at Fifth and Market streets is among facilities that would have been affected by a proposed leasing plan.Unanimously rejecting a private company's $215 million offer to lease 8,500 public parking spaces in Harrisburg, City Council members called on the city parking authority to be "more creative" in adding services and enhancing revenue to make the parking operations even more profitable in the future.
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