Times Observer (Newspaper) - January 15, 2007, Warren, Pennsylvania Serving All Of Warren County Knights win tournament OBSERVER Determined A 5 18 Pages JANUARY 2007 50f Hatchery roof placed million requested to finish project By CHUCK HAYES Staff Writer The Allegheny National Fish Hatchery is one step closer to being back in opera Two elongated metal arch buildings have been constructed to cover the entire length of the raceways at the hatchery at the base of Its a huge said Tracy manager of the federal hatch which is operated by the Fish and Wildlife The hatchery has been out of operation since a series of mishaps in 2005 wiped out the entire fish Last at the urging of Congressmen John Peterson and Phil the Fish and Wildlife Service reallocated to construct the buildings to cover the 40 Copeland said the concrete raceways which were in poor condition were also The project to cover the raceways was completed in late Thats half the said The rest of the solution will be con struction of ah aeration tower to prevent mortality at the A re nsn arme re t i quest for the million for the aeration Hatchery raceways u rider cover i 4 t r t t t hi I by Hayes tower was placed in the federal budget by See Raceways at the Allegheny National Fish Hatchery at Dam are now protected by two long the first step to ward getting the facility back in Kick starting times Observer by Victoria Main Street project area Warren Countys Main Street downtown revitalization program will renovate downtown areas in Sheffield and Sugar Grove the next four Grants sought to boost downtowns By VICTORIA BARONE Staff Writer Main Street Program but on a larg er covering all four areas in The Pennsylvania Downtown Pro part of the is working with the EOC on the Grant funds require a 50 percent match from partici how to spend the money Warren County Economic Council Executive Director Robert Raible plans to hand deliver the application for funding for the Regional Main Street Program next pating week in One of the reasons were hand de We are finishing the final touches livering the application is that several on the and I have an the communities are already chomp pointment with the De of Community and Economic Develop ment arid Pennsylvania Downtown We will be hand delivering it next Raible The EOC is applying for for the first year and for the second including in This is all part of a county wide Main Street revital ization The bor of Sugar Tid and and Sheffield Township are Much of the funding will be used for fa cade work businesses as well as for hiring a Main Street The pro gram will operate much like theCity of Warrens By Staff Writer fouryear and the second The funds will pay for a Main Street manager to be hired and funding for Warren fo renovations and facade work in four participating es Sugar and Youngsville bor and Sheffield Town In Sheffield township Kristi Kulka said funds will be spent up the Countys Main Street Pro gram the munici involved must deter mine exactly how spend the Wanen County Opportunities Council has applied to Department Of Economic Development for for the first year of a ing at the bit to do some facade Raible noting once the required pa is he wants to communicate to the lets work together and see if we can get this done more Some business people want to get busy on facades and each of the four munici are looking at which will blend right into every thing Raible said with January about half those in the com involved are anxious to have every thing in place to begin projects in the upcoming warm weather If we want to do anything this we need to he We dont want to miss another renovation Raible explained that funding is designed for a fouryear period and the EOC and communities involved have made a fouryear commitment to the Addi programs and funding will also be sought to support the See GRANTS Commons decision due this month Corps addressing issues in environmental suit By CHUCK HAYES Staff Writer The Army Corps of Engi will have a decision on reis suance of a permit for Warren Com mons this Corps personnel at the Pitts burgh district office are reconsider ing a permit dealing with the 67 commercial development in North A group called Defenders of the Creek filed a lawsuit against the saying the agency failed to take adequate pre cautions to assure dis charge from the development does not endanger the protected northern mussels which may be present in the nearby Responding to the the Corps asked the court for more time to reconsider issuance of the permit and held a public hearing regarding the permit in Warren last We fully anticipate we will have a decision by the end of this Mike regulatory branch chief for the Corps of Engineers in said Tues Cummings Were address ing all of the issues raised in the and making sure weve cov ered well have a decision by the end of the he Virtually all of the comments of at the 4 hearing in War ren were in support of the continu ing North Warren The Corps also received written com ments regarding the from the date of the hearing the Corps has 120 or until early to issue its deci sion on the The six plaintiffs in the suit one has withdrawn are all mem See DUE Medicaid cut could hurt rural hospitals Administration proposes cuts to save billion in five years WASHINGTON AP Many rural hospitals and nursing homes would get fewer federal dollars un der a proposal to save Medicaid al most billion over the next five The change would have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of health care the Bush administration At issue are financing arrange ments between states and local gov These deals tend to in crease Washingtons share of spend ing in the joint statefed eral program covering 55 million poor and disabled even when a states share is unchanged or The federal share of the program ranges from 50 percent to 76 per depending upon the Poor states receive a greater federal In many financing arrangements between health care providers and the state result in the federal government paying more than the law says it Dennis director of the federal Center for Medicaid and State said the proposed rule made public late Friday would put a crimp on that This is about the match and states have demonstrated theyre fund their share of the Smith said in an inter view Its just that for many years previous to they were not paying their The Kaiser Family which conducts health care re said some of these arrange ments have helped states maintain important such as nursing home during tough economic The proposed rule says that Med payments to health care providers operated by local govern ments such as counties cannot ex See MEDIC AID A6 Index Classified Comics B5 Community Life Local News A3 Obituaries A3 Living Cl Public Notices C4 Sports Deaths Thomas Buchanan James formerly of Monroe Eleanor formerly of Warren Donald formerly pf area Lewis formerly of Russell Found A camper missing in New Mexi co for five weeks is found after her search had been called 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