Fear of dog

Fear of dog
YOUNGSTOWN -- A report of a man afraid to come down from the roof of a car because of a dog sent police to the 900 block of Wick Avenue on Wednesday evening.
The dog ran up to the cruiser, barking and growling, which prevented officers from getting out of their car.
The dog's owner showed up and said the animal is an English bulldog, and that he has a license for it.
No citations were issued because the dog was primarily on its own property, police said.
Annual inspectionof buses, ambulances
CANFIELD -- The Ohio State Highway Patrol will conduct its annual inspection of church buses and privately owned ambulances in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties beginning April 3 at the Canfield Fairgrounds.
Call the patrol's Canfield post at (330) 533-6866 for appointment times.
Decorations removed
BOARDMAN -- All Christmas and artificial decorations must be removed from The Mill Creek Memorial Park Association, Forest Lawn Cemetery, by today.
Mural project begins
YOUNGSTOWN -- The city's design review commission has approved putting up the first of several downtown murals.
Artist Jack Carlton, coordinator of the Downtown Murals Project, was given permission Wednesday to put up "Snap the Whip" by Winslow Homer on a 14-foot by 25-foot piece of vinyl. The mural will appear on a building at Federal and Chestnut streets, across from Powers Auditorium.
Carlton eventually hopes to put up about 10 murals in all.
The commission also approved the design concept for the new federal courthouse at Commerce Street and Wick Avenue. Construction begins April 2.
Lawsuit filed
YOUNGSTOWN -- A third lawsuit has been filed against Physicians Dialysis Center of Youngstown by a patient who got sick there last summer.
Joanne Hight of Stocker Avenue and her husband, Ernest Sr., are seeking unspecified damages in the suit, filed Wednesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. Two other suits were filed there last week.
Twenty patients became ill after receiving dialysis treatments at the center on Belmont Avenue in August. The center closed for a month and made major repairs to its water system.
Also named as defendants in the suit are Renal Care Group of Knoxville, Tenn., Northeast Ohio Kidney Group of Youngstown, Dayton Water Systems of Dayton and the United States Filter Corp. of Los Angeles.
Trustees award contractfor government building
HOWLAND -- Trustees have awarded the general contract for the construction of a township government building to D.J. Porter Co. Inc. of Youngstown.
John Emanuel, township administrator, said Porter had the lowest and best bid of the 13 companies that bid on the project. Porter bid $807,275 for the building and a 100-space lighted parking lot.
Officials hope the building, across High Street N.E. from the current township building, will be done by November.
Limits adult businesses
COLUMBIANA -- The village planning commission will recommend that council regulate adult entertainment establishments by allowing them only in commercial areas zoned C-4.
Such a designation would limit adult entertainment to the east side near state Routes 7 and 14 and keep them away from churches, schools and day-care centers, planners said.
Zoning suggestion form
MINERAL RIDGE -- The Weathersfield Township Zoning Commission has approved a new form that any resident or property owner can use to suggest changes in zoning law.
The form is designed to provide a uniform procedure for changes in zoning regulations.
Township trustees must approve the form.