Garage owner fined for dumping old oil
05.02.10
A Danby man who pleaded guilty to three felony charges in an illegal dumping case was ordered to pay almost $40,000 in fines and restitution when he was sentenced Thursday.
David McLellan, 60, was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and $29,077 in restitution to the state, which spent $30,000 to clean up McLellan's service station on Route 7 in Mount Tabor, according to court records.
McLellan pleaded guilty last month to three counts of reckless waste disposal — offenses that each carry a maximum of five years in jail and a $250,000 fine.
But in exchange for the guilty pleas, prosecutors agreed to drop two other charges of reckless waste disposal and they agreed not to seek more than a three- to six-year suspended sentence with probation as well as about $100,000 in fines and restitutions.
But at a contested sentencing hearing for McLellan, Judge Thomas Zonay decided to go lower, sentencing McLellan to a one- to three-year suspended sentence and lowering
Source: Rutland Herald
Military support group needs home
04.02.10
A Yuba-Sutter group dedicated to providing some necessities and small luxuries to U.S. soldiers serving far from home is about to be in need of a new home itself.
Tri-County Blue Star Moms have until Feb. 15 to find a new base of operations, after the group's rent-free stay in a Yuba City strip mall comes to an end with a gym moving into the space.
"It was an awesome space that allowed us to grow threefold," said Lori Danby, the group's president. "I'm anxious to see how moving will affect us."
The not-for-profit group collects donations and then assembles and sends care packages of snacks, toiletries and other items to soldiers serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and other overseas deployments.
Danby said the space the group has now, on Bogue Road west of Garden Highway, was ideal not only for storing supplies but turning them into packages, as well as having group meetings and open houses.
As she confirmed the impending vacancy at a Blue Star Moms meeting Wednesday evening, other directors said the shopping center location gave the group not only a regular space, but visibility.
Source: Appeal-Democrat
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