Bartending services

Bartending services
YOUNGSTOWN -- Mill Creek MetroParks' board members voted to change the general rules and regulations for patrons serving alcohol at the Davis Center.
The parks board lists 32 caterers from which those renting the facility can choose to cater functions at the center. Now patrons must also look to that list of 32 approved caterers in selecting a bartender. All 32 caterers offer bartending services.
Board members said no specific occurrences led to the change, but that it was needed for liability and safety reasons. They said the change should not be an added cost to those renting the center.
Money, checks missing
BOARDMAN -- About $6,450 in money and checks was reported missing from St. Charles School on West View Drive. Sister Mary Koval, the school's principal, told police that school officials determined the money, held in two envelopes, was missing about 10:30 a.m. Monday. When contacted this morning, she declined to comment.
Saving Evans Field
YOUNGSTOWN -- North Side residents Cynthia Williams and Lori White are asking that anyone interested in saving Evans Field on the North Side attend an information meeting at 6 p.m. Friday at 617 Fairgreen Ave.
Charged in dog neglect
YOUNGSTOWN -- A 26-year-old Youngstown man is facing misdemeanor charges of not properly taking care of his dogs. Shawn D. Ramsey of Tampa Avenue was charged with depriving a companion animal of necessary sustenance and not having a dog license. Police reports say a hound dog was found tied to the back of his home without food or water and with its ribs showing. Another dog was found on the property without a license.
Pot plant seized
CAMPBELL -- Police confiscated a 6-foot-tall marijuana plant growing in heavy brush in the 1000 block of Struthers-Coitsville Road.
Police said Monday that a neighbor notified authorities about the plant about 6 p.m. Saturday.
Stolen car recovered
STRUTHERS -- Police recovered a stolen car and charged two teenagers with receiving stolen property little more than an hour after the vehicle was reported missing from a church parking lot in Campbell.
Police said Monday that a 1989 Oldsmobile Cutlass Cierra was reported missing about 4 p.m. Sunday from a lot at St. Joseph the Provider Church, 633 Porter Ave.
Struthers officers later spotted the car parked along East Midlothian Boulevard. They arrested Rachel M. Stevens, 18, of Highland Avenue, Warren, and Alan Rouse, 17, of Chestnut Street, Struthers. Stevens was also charged with operating a motor vehicle with a temporary permit without a licensed driver. She was in Mahoning County Jail this morning after she failed to post $5,000 bond. The boy was taken to the Mahoning County Juvenile Justice Center.
Route 46 segment closed
MINERAL RIDGE -- State Route 46, between Salt Springs Road and McKees Lane, is closed through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily and again Sept. 22-26 for repairs to the CSX Railroad underpass.
Settlement reached
LORDSTOWN -- Village leaders have agreed to settle a federal lawsuit against the Trumbull County sanitary engineer's office and county commissioners.
Council passed legislation Monday to settle the suit, filed in May. Details of the agreement are not being released pending approval by the commissioners and a federal judge overseeing the case.
Lordstown officials had asked for more than $1.2 million, contending village taxpayers paid for a sanitary sewer system for the past 11 years, then the sanitary engineer and commissioners charged tap-in fees to village residents to use it.
The suit said the tap-in fees were used to extend sewer lines to other areas of the county.
State senator selected
YOUNGSTOWN -- State Sen. Marc Dann of Liberty, D-32nd, will be named Wednesday the Democratic ranking member of both the Civil and Criminal Judiciary committees. He has been one of three Democratic members of both committees since January.
Dann will step down from the State and Local Government and Veterans Affairs Committee.
The Democratic Senate Caucus made the change with the resignation of Leigh Herington of Ravenna.