CHRIS MORELLI cmorelli@lockhaven.com
BELLEFONTE The 16-member Solid Waste Advisory Committee was appointed during Tuesday’s Centre County commissioners’ meeting. Joanne Shafer, deputy executive director and recycling coordinator of the Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority, spoke during the meeting, which was held via Zoom.
“It is an open-ended commitment,” Shafer explained. “Our hope would be to follow through at least until a new contract is executed. At that point, the committee would still exist, but it would be rendered inactive.”
Commissioner Steve Dershem questioned the open-ended committment.
“I would feel more comfortable if there was a stop date certain on here,” Dershem said.
Parole denied for Summit County man convicted of killing 2 teenagers Thomas Gilbert (Source: Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction) By Julia Bingel | February 19, 2021 at 11:24 AM EST - Updated February 19 at 11:24 AM
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - The Ohio Parole Board denied parole for the man convicted of killing two teenagers in the summer of 1981.
Thomas Gilbert has spent almost 40 years behind bars for the murders of Sandy Jo Hogue, 19, of Akron and Joanne Shafer, 15, of Stow.
The Ohio Parole Board said “release of the inmate into society would create undue risk to public safety”.
On August 12th, 1981, Hogue was working at an all-night convenience store in Akron, when Gilbert dragged her out of the store, raped and murdered her.