Unanimous vote allows 90-acre rezoning to begin

Unanimous vote allows 90-acre rezoning to begin
LIBERTY -- Township trustees voted unanimously Wednesday night to rezone land on a 90-acre parcel off state Route 304.
In agreeing with the recommendation of the township zoning commission, trustees rezoned 60 acres from residential to commercial use while 30 acres will remain residential.
There will be a 100-foot buffer zone between an adjacent residential development in addition to the 30 acres that will remain residential.
Builder Robert Walley of Liberty had originally sought that the entire 90 acres be rezoned from residential to industrial.
Cops and Car Show features food, prizes
BROOKFIELD -- The Brookfield Township Police Association will hold a Cops and Car Show from 3 to 8 p.m. Saturday in the parking lot of Brookfield Giant Eagle, 7229 Warren-Sharon Road.
Free gunlocks will be distributed as long as they last. The family oriented event includes car and motorcycle shows, free refreshments and hot dogs, music and door prizes, along with the opportunity to meet law enforcement officers and get a close look at safety vehicles.
Festival parking donations
HUBBARD -- The National Guard Family Support Group will accept donations for parking during the St. Patrick Parish Festival that begins tonight and runs through Sunday.
The group will be at a parking lot at 718 N. Main St., across from Kelley and Robb Funeral Home. Proceeds go to support the deployed soldiers and families of C Company, 216th Engineer Battalion based in Austintown.
The 216th has about 136 soldiers in Iraq. They began their deployment Jan. 3 and are expected to return July 4.
Sidewalk office hours
WARREN -- Councilman John Homlitas, D-3rd, will conduct sidewalk office hours beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday at Montclair Street Northeast and Garfield Drive Northeast.
Weapons violation charge
HERMITAGE, Pa. -- Police said a Niles woman picked up on a retail theft charge turned out to be wanted by U.S. Marshals on a weapons violation charge in Roanoke, Va.
Police were called to Shop N' Save at 2191 E. State St. at 2:50 p.m. Wednesday after store workers detained a woman accused of trying to leave the store with $160 worth of baby formula without paying for it.
Police identified her as Aisha Salaam, 42, of Nash Street, Niles, and said she also had drug paraphernalia in her possession.
A records check turned up the warrant out of Roanoke and the U.S. Marshals Service said it will extradite her, police said. She is being held in Mercer County Jail on that warrant.
Yard Sales Days
NORTH JACKSON -- The North Jackson Citizens' Association will hold Community Wide Yard Sales Days beginning at 9 a.m. Friday and Saturday.
More than 100 yard sales are slated to be held throughout the community.
Maps to the yard sales will be available Friday and Saturday at local businesses and at 11349 Mahoning Ave.
TB exposure lawsuit
YOUNGSTOWN -- A Florida woman is suing Forum Health, saying she was exposed to a patient with tuberculosis last year.
Tracy L. Phillips of Cape Coral, Fla., is seeking more than $25,000 in damages.
The suit, filed Wednesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, says Phillips was exposed to the disease when she worked as a registered nurse at Forum Health Northside Medical Center in August 2003. It says Forum did not "follow accepted medical standards" in dealing with a TB-infected patient.
Forum Health officials said this morning they had not seen the suit and would not comment.
Phillips' attorney, Ilan Wexler, said Phillips subsequently tested positive for TB herself and has undergone treatment.
Wexler said Phillips no longer works for Forum.
School lawsuit settled
YOUNGSTOWN -- A Girard woman has dismissed her lawsuit against Cardinal Mooney High School and the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown over injuries her son suffered in a fall at the school.
The suit, filed in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court in 2000, said Stephen Ambrosio was hurt when he fell in the gymnasium bleachers at Mooney in December 1998. His mother, Janet, sued on his behalf.
Documents filed Wednesday in common pleas court said the case has been settled and the complaint is voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiffs. Terms of the settlement were not included in the court papers.