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MAHONING TWP. - Township officials will ask the planning commission for Mahoning and Cooper townships for recommendations for regulating ground-mounted solar panels, they said at Monday s Mahoning Township supervisors meeting.
They also will encourage supervisors in neighboring Cooper Township to make the same request.
Zoning Officer Dean VonBlohn told the Mahoning supervisors that he and fellow Zoning Officer Jim Dragano have been seeing an increasing number of solar panels, both on roofs and ground-mounted in Mahoning Township.
Permits are only required to install them on roofs, he said. Right now there is no ordinance to put in a large ground-mounted solar farm, VonBlohn said, adding the ordinance should not be to prevent them but to administer them.
ROSE: Mahoning Township Chief Fred Dyroff is trying to harness the proliferation of surveillance cameras in his Danville-area township into a crime-fighting tool. We applaud his effort, so long as it remains voluntary. Dyroff said at a recent township meeting he’s hoping to build a list of cameras that police could consult when they’re looking for evidence of a crime.
Published: December 30, 2020 MAHONING TWP. Police Officer Jason Bedisky was named the township’s first detective at this week’s Board of Supervisors meeting. Police Chief Fred Dyroff.
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Dec 28, 2020
Mahoning Police Chef Fred Dyroff, center, gives detective badge to Jason Bedisky, right, at Monday eveningâs township meeting. At left is police officer Garon Fenstermaker Rick Dandes/The Daily Item
DANVILLE â Mahoning Police Chief Fred Dyroff introduced newly installed detective Jason Bedisky to the board of supervisors at Monday evening s meeting.
In a short formal ceremony as the meeting began, Dyroff gave Bedisky his detective badge.
Bedisky thanked the board and Chief Dyroff, for coming up with the idea of having a detective in the police department. And he thanked the board for approving of the position.
Dyroff had suggested to the board the idea of having such a position in the department without having to hire another officer. His suggestion was to hire from within his department. He assured the board and residents that there would be no reduction in service, even with Bedisky taking on his new, added responsibili