Summaries of the week's news appear in the Sunday edition. These current and past weekly chronologies are online as are day-by-day links to past stories and deaths.

• HERMITAGE: Commissioners want to fill vacant buildings in city

• FARRELL: Police believe Brodie fired 1st shot in fatal gunbattle

• SHARON: Noise violators could see jail, hefty fine

• MERCER COUNTY: Commissioners, county dropped from suit

• MERCER COUNTY: List of primary election candidates for cities, boroughs

• YOUNGSTOWN, SHENANGO VALLEY: 'Time Machine' gears up; Youths to star in Playhouse production

Richard Albert Axtell, Greenville.

• William Brigham, Hermitage.
  
• Katherine M. Crist, Masury, formerly of Farrell.
  
• Hope Cornelius Englehart, Ballwin, Mo., formerly of Grove City.
  
• M. Gertrude Huck, Slippery Rock.
  
• Mary Lemos, Masury.
  
• Wendell L. Plotts, New Castle.
  
• Josephine Funelli Groff Ryan, Hermitage, formerly of Farrell.
  
• Walter Townsend Stevens Jr., Mercer.