Zoning violation hearing

Zoning violation hearing
NEW MIDDLETOWN -- A zoning violation hearing has been set for 7 p.m. May 21 at the municipal building for a car lot that the village has cited for sign and maintenance violations.
Zoning Inspector Dale Miller said Dacaro Corporation of Canfield has been cited for property it owns at 9969 Youngstown-Pittsburgh Road. T & amp;B Auto Sales is doing business at the property. Miller said still standing are signs advertising a gas station that once operated at the location. Village ordinances require that signs and poles be taken down after a business stops operating. He said other citations were issued over what he called the general disrepair of the building, an improperly repaired fence, and trash and weeds on the property.
Tractor-trailer accident
LISBON -- An East Liverpool man was not hurt or cited after a tractor-trailer he was driving rolled onto its side late Monday morning. The Lisbon post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said Ivan Ward, 37, was headed north on state Route 45, just south of Miller Road in Center Township, when he pulled to the right to yield to a northbound emergency vehicle. He lost control of the rig, which went off the right side of the road into a ditch and rolled.
Crash victim identified
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- Shenango Township police have identified the man who died in a one-vehicle crash on Ellwood Road as Robert Ekis, 54, of Mount Holly, N.C.
Police said Ekis was driving south on Ellwood Road near Pa. Route 388 about 1:42 a.m. Saturday when he failed to negotiate a bend.
Ekis lost control of the 2002 Dodge truck, and it ran into the Energy Auto Sales lot at 3906 Ellwood Road.
Police said the truck struck seven cars in the used car lot and overturned twice, coming to rest on its roof. Ekis was pronounced dead at the scene by Lawrence County Coroner Russell Noga.
West Hill survey
BROOKFIELD -- Residents in the West Hill section of the township are urged to attend a township trustees meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the township administration building.
Trustees and the Trumbull County Planning Commission are surveying residents to determine if it can be designated a low- and moderate-income area to qualify for a $600,000 sanitary-sewer grant through the Ohio Department of Development.
Trustee Gary Lees said West Hill residents were surveyed May 1, but many were not home. Construction of the sewer project is expected to cost more than $2 million. If the project receives the grant, it will lower the cost to homeowners.
Robbery suspect
HERMITAGE, Pa. -- Police have charged Kenneth L. Thomas, 37, of Park Avenue, Farrell, with robbery, burglary, criminal mischief and terroristic threats after a robbery at an apartment in Orange Village in the 300 block of Orange Drive. Thomas is accused of kicking in the rear door of the apartment around 3:30 a.m. today, grabbing a knife from the kitchen and then threatening a man and woman there, demanding money. They gave him $30, and he fled to a waiting car, police said. Police stopped the car a short time later and Thomas, who was a passenger, jumped out and ran. Officers found him lying in a nearby stream. The driver of the car wasn't charged, police said.
Hermitage gas station
HERMITAGE, Pa. -- The city is getting a new gas station. The Hermitage Zoning Hearing Board voted Monday to allow a gas station to be built next to the Hermitage Shop N' Save on North Buhl Farm Drive. It's a Shop N' Save project, but Duncan Oil will be the vendor. A gas station was on the same spot about a decade ago.
Woman robbed
HERMITAGE, Pa. -- Police said a 44-year-old woman was accosted and robbed of her cellular telephone as she walked in Buhl Farm. The attack occurred around 7:15 p.m. Sunday. The woman said two men approached her from behind, grabbed her, took her cell phone and ran. She suffered minor injuries, police said. She described her assailants as two black males, one in his 40s, about 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing more than 200 pounds. The second is in his 30s, about 6 feet 4 inches tall and thin.