Five Things You Need to Know This Week

Here are five things going on in the Canon-McMillan Patch that you need to know about this week:

1. Tonight, Canonsburg Council meets to conduct its voting meeting for February. One of the items expected to be voted on is an amendment to an ordinance that governs the way trash bills are collected.

Councilman Rich Russo has asked council to consider changing language in the current ordinance that would have bills put in the names of landlords instead of individual tenants. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. and will be held in council chambers (located on the upper floor of the borough building).

2. Canon-McMillan School Board will meet at 6:45 p.m. tonight for a special voting meeting. School directors meet in the district administration building at 1 N. Jefferson Ave. The regular voting meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Feb. 22, also in the district administration building.

3. North Strabane Township supervisors will hold their nonvoting meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday. The board is scheduled to open and publicly read competitive bids for the 2011 road pavement maintenance program. Meetings are held in the township building.

4. A public meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the Cecil Township Municipal Building for residents wishing to address oil and gas drilling company Range Resources. The supervisors scheduled the meetings as an open-forum, question-and-answer session between the company and residents.

5. Canonsburg code officers have been out and about in borough neighborhoods to assess damage to sidewalks. Owners of sidewalks that are in a state of disrepair will be given notice that the it must be repaired or replaced by June 1. Borough officials said that, by ordinance, homeowners and businesses are responsible for their sidewalks and curbs.