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Who’s in the news There is good news today in The Indiana Gazette about these area people: Kelsey Grech and Patrick Fuller, Leslie Bartlebaugh, Linda Emery, Bob and Audrey Vargo.
By KARIN LAUB and OMAR AKOUR
Inside REBUTTAL: The attorney general’s office fired back Tuesday at a lawsuit brought by the man Gov. Tom Wolf removed last month as executive director of the state Office of Open Records, saying he served at the governor’s pleasure./Page 3 DECREASING THE CACHE: The United States is about to begin destroying its largest remaining stockpile of chemicalladen artillery shells./Page 5 DEADLY COLLISION: A commuter train slammed into a sport utility vehicle on the tracks at a suburban New York crossing and burst into flames, killing seven people and seriously injuring nearly a dozen in the railroad’s deadliest crash, authorities said./Page 7 SECTION CHAMPS: Indiana Area Senior High School clinched the WPIAL Section 3-AAA championship Tuesday with a 60-29 victory over Greensburg Salem./Page 11 BOOK DUE OUT: Pulitzer Prizewinning author Harper Lee will publish a follow-up to her 1960 classic “To Kill a Mockingbird” in July./Page 18
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Deaths Obituaries on Page 4 ANDERSON, Marian E. “Babe” Blough, 100, Indiana CUNNINGHAM, Ruth Viola (McCoy), 81, Homer City PELES, Florence M. “Floie” (Lokey), 86, Glen Campbell Late death REICHARD, Wilmer Jr., 84, Indiana
Index Classifieds ...............19, 20 Comics/TV....................17 Dear Abby .......................9 Entertainment ..............18 Family .............................8 Lottery.............................2 NASCAR ........................12 Sports.......................11-16 Today in History.............9 Viewpoint .......................6
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KAREN McMILLEN, director of right of way with Sunoco Logistics, spoke with Blairsville landowner Ron Dillon during a meeting Monday at the Chestnut Ridge Resort in Burrell Township for landowners who will be affected by the proposed pipeline project.
Sunoco gives landowners update on pipeline plans By CHAUNCEY ROSS
chauncey@indianagazette.net
BURRELL TOWNSHIP — More than 60 area residents met with Sunoco Logistics Partners representatives Monday at an open house display of the plans for a $2.5 billion pipeline construction project. Sunoco proposes to lay most of the pipeline within the right-ofway of a smaller pipeline built about 80 years ago. The new, larger pipe is intended to carry natural gas from western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, where production has increased in the Marcellus shale area, and pump it to a major Sunoco processing and distribution center in the Delaware Valley. The transmission line will be called Mariner East 2. It will gen-
erally follow the Route 22 corridor through Burrell, West Wheatfield and East Wheatfield townships in southern Indiana County, but preliminary plans show it being diverted from the most congested section of Route 22 between the Blairsville area and Pennview Mountain. Sunoco will negotiate with owners of about 120 properties in the proposed path of the pipeline in those areas, said spokesman Jeffrey Shields. A preliminary map of the approximate route of the pipeline shows it crossing the western edge of Indiana County north of Route 22, through the areas of Industrial Park Road, High Rise Drive and Country Lane. The pipe would tunnel under the “Mile Hill” section of Route 119, then cross under Route 22 near the
Snyder Lane intersection, and join the path of the existing pipeline south of the highway stretching east to Cambria County. Company officials emphasized that the map is not final. “Landowners attending the open house, as they often do, wanted to make sure that we will treat them fairly, both in terms of compensation and pipeline routing,” Shields said. “They wanted to know that their land will be restored as much as possible to its previous condition, and that we take every measure to make the pipeline safe.” Sunoco representatives at the open house, held at Chestnut Ridge Conference Center, included specialists in design, right-ofway acquisition, construction, Continued on Page 10
AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan executed two al-Qaida prisoners before dawn today, just hours after an online video purported to show Islamic State group militants burning a captured Jordanian pilot to death in a cage. The gruesome death of 26-year-old Lt. Muath Al-Kaseasbeh, captured while participating in airstrikes by a U.S.-led coalition targeting the militants, sparked outrage across the Middle East and anti-Islamic State protests in Jordan. King Abdullah II, a staunch Western ally, rushed back to Jordan, cutting short a Washington trip to try to persuade his people to support an even tougher line against the militants. Rallying such backing is pivotal for Jordan’s continued role in the coalition. Public opinion in Jordan has been ambiguous — growing demands for revenge against the militants have been mixed with misgivings about Jordan’s role in a bombing campaign widely seen as serving Western interests. The extremists, meanwhile, appeared to be goading Jordan. In Raqaa, the Islamic State group’s de facto capital, the militants gleefully played al-Kaseasbeh’s slaying on outdoor projectors, with some chanting “God is great,” according to militant video posted online today that conformed to Associated Press reporting of the event. In the 20-minute video, the pilot displayed signs of having been beaten, including a black eye. Toward the end of the clip, he is shown wearing an orange jumpsuit. He stands in an outdoor cage as a masked militant ignites a line of fuel leading to it. Continued on Page 10
Greenawalt named to fill vacancy on council INDIANA BOROUGH
By RANDY WELLS
rwells@indianagazette.net
Tony Greenawalt, an Indiana resident since 1971, was sworn in Tuesday evening to fill a vacancy on Indiana Borough council that only occurred Monday. Greenawalt assumed the Fourth Ward council seat of Julie Adcock, whose resignation was effective Monday because she is moving to a new residence out-
side the borough. Greenawalt’s appointment to council is only for the remainder of 2015, but he said after Tuesday’s council meeting that he intends to be a candidate in this year’s elections for his own term. All three Fourth Ward council seats — two four-year seats and a seat for the remaining two
years of Adcock’s term — are up for election in 2015. Adcock had been a councilwoman since October 2011 when she was appointed to fill a vacancy. Greenawalt’s name was recommended to council Tuesday evening by the two other Fourth Ward representatives, Ross Bricklemyer and John Hartman, and his appointment passed with only Councilman Gerald
Clark seeks 4th term as auditor Helen Clark, of Indiana, an Indiana County auditor, will seek a Republican nomination this spring for a fourth four-year term. Clark previously served as chairwoman of the threemember auditor team, a distinction made possible by garnering the most votes countywide in an election for auditor. Clark once described the auditors as the “watchdogs” of the county’s financial transactions, adding they especially pay attention to offices where cash changes hands. In announcing her candidacy, Clark said she offers the public a track record of 12 years of consistent administrative, organizational and supervisory excellence. She said she can continue to provide Indiana County citizens with an efficient, service-oriented and responsive office to advance the interests of the county. She said she brings to the office a solid foundation of administrative experience and has demonstrated a devotion to public service to enhance the functions of the office. In the past, Clark has served as administrator of the T.H. Murray estate, AudioTone Hearing Aids. Look For Our Circular Inside Today’s Gazette.
HELEN CLARK ... R-Indiana managing properties in Clearfield and Cameron counties. She worked with Downtown Indiana’s capital campaign and has served as the business group’s executive director. She has served on the boards of directors of the Greater Indiana Endowment, New Growth Arts Festival, the Indiana Healthcare Corporation, the Red Cross, Welcome to Indiana, Citizens’ Ambulance Service and the Indiana County Humane Society and has Save The Date ... Indiana’s Cookin’ Is Coming April 14!
been a supporter of Four Footed Friends. Additionally, she has served as president of both the Indiana Arts Council and the Indiana Hospital Auxiliary. In 2002, she was chosen as Rotary’s Civic Leader of the Year. Clark has been active in the Republican Party since her freshman year at Bucknell University, where she earned a degree in business administration. She has held positions with the Internal Revenue Service in Cleveland and the accounting firm of Ernst and Young in Pittsburgh. She has also served as treasurer of the First Baptist Church of Glen Campbell for 20 years. In the 1990s, Clark attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania and received her master’s degree in education. Graduating with honors, she was elected to Phi Delta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi and Kappa Delta Pi honor societies. Advocating responsible government, Clark said she pledges to continue the same dedication that she has demonstrated throughout her tenure as county auditor. Permit Renewal, Mortgage Foreclosure Notices In Today’s Classifieds
Smith dissenting. Smith said he would have preferred that Fourth Ward residents would have been made aware of the opening and some time provided for other interested residents to also apply for the appointment. In other action, council rejected a proposal that council try to persuade the Indiana Area School District directors to revert Continued on Page 10
TONY GREENAWALT
TAKING IT IN STRIDE
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JAMES ROBERTSON, 56, of Detroit, says he typically walks 21 miles to get to and from work. But hundreds of people have contributed tens of thousands of dollars to help him with transportation. See story on Page 7.
New in vitro technique raises ethical concerns By STEPHEN CASTLE
New York Times News Service
LONDON — Despite warnings that a new ethical threshold was being crossed, British lawmakers on Tuesday voted to allow the in vitro creation of babies using the DNA of three people, a procedure that could prevent
the inheritance of genetic diseases. The move would make Britain the first country to authorize an in vitro fertilization technique that involves altering a human egg or embryo before transferring it to the womb. The issue provoked fierce Continued on Page 10
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