Copper tubing was reported stolen during the burglary of a home on Rheams Avenue reported April 26.

Furniture and a lawn mower were reported stolen from the yard of a vacant home on Longmore Avenue sometime during April.

A vehicle was reported stolen from Ohio River Boulevard between April 14 and 25.

A contractor working at a North Jackson Avenue property uncovered a large container of floppy disks that had been buried in the yard. The disks reportedly contained suspicious, possibly pornographic, images.

The Borough of Bellevue is now looking for a swimming pool manager and lots of lifeguards after council rejected a proposal from a pool managment company at Tuesday’s regular meeting.

For the last two years, the Memorial Park swimming pool has been managed by SwimAmerica, which hired all of the guards and managed day-to-day operations. Prior to that, Bellevue’s pool had been managed in-house, with a pool manager and guards hired directly by the borough.

After awarding Pampena Landscaping & Construction two bids in August to make repairs in Ben Avon, borough officials say they have not yet received the necessary bonds and documents. At Tuesday's meeting, council voted to award the work to different companies if Pampena has not supplied the information to engineer Ed McGee by Oct. 25.

Plans for construction of a skate plaza in Bayne Park will go no further for now, as concerns about the rising cost, loss of green space and lack of proper procedure prompted Bellevue officials Tuesday to again delay a decision.

Bellevue Council voted unanimously at its Tuesday work session to pay the contractor responsible for summer paving projects, primarily the repair of Davis Avenue.

Council voted to pay A. Folino Construction, Inc. the sum of $64,580.29.

Elizabeth Avenue in Avalon is expected to open temporarily to traffic this weekend, and then permanently by the middle of next week. Weather permitting, the contractor planned to lay the binder course on Friday, and then pave the street early next week. Elizabeth Avenue had to be reconstructed from the Jackman Avenue intersection to Ohio River Boulevard. The street was undermined by thousands of gallons of water that gushed from a water pipe that was crushed when a tractor-trailer driver attempted to turn the corner onto Jackman and got hung up on a fire hydrant.

The cost of the construction of a new sewer pump station in Emsworth has increased by $35,000, with the potential for another $73,000 price jump on the horizon.

Meeting on Jan. 13, Emsworth Council approved the project's first change order, made necessary by the discovery that gas lines were not where they were supposed to be.

Improvements to Avon Park will be modified to make sure the project does not cost more than the grant funds available.

Although the park property is leased and maintained by Ben Avon Borough, it lies within Kilbuck Township, and Kilbuck obtained a $25,500 grant to make the facility more handicapped-accessible.

Beattie project expanded

The A.W. Beattie Career Center board has decided how to spend the last of the excess bond funds.

Approximately $3 million in bond funds were left over when bids for the renovation project came in under what was projected. The board already had decided how to spend $2 million of that money, with about $1 million going towards paying down the debt created by the bond, and another $1 million going towards more energy efficient repairs.

Unknown -- although not unexpected -- sewer problems will ensure that Avalon uses the entire $2.1 million borrowed to fund a boroughwide rehabilitation project, and ends up without enough money to completely repair all lines.

Chester Engineers' Shawn Rosensteel told council members at their meeting Wednesday evening that it had been possible to trim about $200,000 from the original cost estimate of $1.7 million before deficiencies discovered during the project ate up the savings as well as the contingency funds built into the borough's financing through PennVEST.