Fighting flooding

Fighting flooding
BOARDMAN -- Township officials will reveal three design maps designed to address flooding problems in the township at 6 p.m. Thursday in the Center Middle School auditorium.
Trustees, road superintendent Gary Dawson and administrator Curt Seditz will discuss the results.
Residents are encouraged to attend the meeting.
Bus driver disciplined
YOUNGSTOWN -- A city schools bus driver who refused to complete her route on a recent snowy day will remain on the route.
Youngstown Superintendent Benjamin L. McGee said Tuesday that a disciplinary action was taken but that Gracie Evans was not fired. He would not comment further.
Evans had been placed on paid administrative leave immediately after the Feb. 3 episode. School officials said she began her route before deciding roads were too dangerous to drive on and returning children to their homes. She had been instructed to continue the route or take the children to school.
Evans drives roughly 40 children to Bennett Elementary and Immaculate Conception schools on the city's East Side, school officials said.
Black history program
YOUNGSTOWN -- The public is invited when the Christian education and music ministry of Tabernacle Baptist Church, 707 Arlington St., presents a black history program at 7 p.m. Friday featuring the Harambee Drum and Dance Group.
Citation for house
YOUNGSTOWN -- Boyd E. Davis, 67, of Rockwood Drive, Liberty, was issued a citation Tuesday at his home that charges he failed to secure a vacant and unsafe house at 763 Fairmont Ave. on the city's North Side.
Reports show that Davis was told by a housing inspector last July to board up the vacant house and has refused to repair or demolish the structure.
Davis was uncooperative with the housing inspector who issued the citation Tuesday and called Liberty police, who arrived and explained that the situation was being dealt with legally, reports show. Davis then called Liberty police back and demanded that an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper be sent to tow the Liberty cruiser from his driveway.
Davis owes $1,485 in delinquent taxes on the property, which has a value of $5,900, according to Mahoning County records.
Charged in house fire
YOUNGSTOWN -- Richard A. Rice, 44, of Cabot Avenue was arrested Tuesday and charged with aggravated arson in the Feb. 8 burning of a house at 2112 Donald Ave.
Fire Lt. Kevin Johnson said the house was in the process of being sold.
Johnson said Rice's motive for setting the fire was an alleged $50 debt.
The house, valued at $20,000, was a total loss, Johnson said. The renter was away at the time of the fire.
'Inherit the Wind' events
HUBBARD -- Hubbard Public Library is among public libraries in Trumbull and Ashtabula counties planning book discussions and other activities based on the book "Inherit the Wind" by Ohio authors Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.
The book is a fictionalized account of the 1925 Scopes trial, which pitted defense attorney Clarence Darrow against the fundamentalist orator William Jennings Bryan over the teaching of evolution in the classroom.
Participants are invited to read the book March 1 to April 16, then join in discussions at various libraries, or attend a performance of "Clarence Darrow: a One-Man Play" at 6:30 p.m. March 13 at the Trumbull County Courthouse.
Screenings of the film version of the book have been scheduled at several libraries.