Road closings

Road closings
YOUNGSTOWN -- Effective Wednesday, the following roads in Mill Creek MetroParks will be closed for the winter:
* Calvary Run Drive from Milton Avenue to Belle Vista Avenue
* Chestnut Hill Drive from Scholl Recreation Area to Canfield Road
* High Drive from West Cohasset Drive to Scholl Recreation Area
These roads may be used for walking or cross-country skiing. The drives will reopen to vehicular traffic in the spring.
At gunpoint
WARREN -- A 22-year-old Kinsman Street N.W. man told city police that two men came to his residence waving handguns after 11 p.m. Sunday. They forced their way in and fled with personal belongings, police report. No one was injured.
Kids' programs
WARREN -- The children's department of the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library plans a variety of programs in January at the main library, 444 Mahoning Ave. N.W.
Free preschool story times will be held Tuesdays at 1 p.m. (ages 3-5) and Thursdays at 7 p.m. (ages 2-5) starting Jan. 11. No registration is needed, but children must sit with an adult companion Thursday nights. These half-hour programs include stories, songs, rhymes and a craft.
Free toddler-parent story times will be offered at 11 a.m. Wednesdays starting Jan. 19 for children ages 24-36 months and accompanying adults. Call (330) 399-8807, ext. 401, starting Jan. 10 to register for the five-week series.
Babies age 6-23 months and their adult companions are invited to "Baby Stay and Play" from 9 to 11 a.m. Jan. 28.
Cell-phone suspicion
GREENE -- A cellular phone left at the scene of a burned, new home led authorities to arrest a 20-year-old North Bloomfield man and charge him with arson.
Daniel Day of York Street made an initial appearance Monday before Judge Thomas Campbell of Central District Court in Cortland.
Day faces the arson charge filed by sheriff's deputies in the Saturday fire.
They report that the new Greene Township modular home owned by Ted Popvichok of Helsey Fusselman Road, Southington Township, had no gas or electric hooked up.
The fire was deemed suspicious by investigators.
Day was identified after his cell phone was found at the fire scene.
Day was in Trumbull County jail Monday and will return to court for arraignment Dec. 20.
Subway robbed
BOARDMAN -- Two men wearing black pantyhose on their heads held up the Subway sandwich shop on Boardman Poland Road and escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash. Police said Monday that the two employees in the store when the robbery occurred Friday evening were unhurt, though one was pushed into a cooler and the other made to lie on the floor.
School donations
CORTLAND -- The Lakeview school board accepted the following donations at its meeting Monday: $600 from Marjorie Sudimack for the Thomas Sudimack Scholarship Fund; $2,000 from the Tim and Jonie Woofter Family Foundation for the Cortland Elementary School Principal's Fund; $100 from LHS Booster Club for the Sports Award Banquet; and $100 from the Churchill United Methodist Women's Group to the High School Choir.