Auto dealership moving

Auto dealership moving
WARREN -- Diane Sauer Chevrolet is moving across town from its longtime location at 419 W. Market St. to the corner of South Street and Niles Road, also in Warren. The new site was the former Downtown Oldsmobile and more recently had been a used car lot operated by the Cole-Valley dealerships. Sauer said the move should be complete by June 15. She plans extensive renovations at the new location that will make it more than twice as large as the dealership's current home. Sauer said she decided to make the move because the new site is a better, high-traffic location and because of a legal dispute with her present landlord who once owned her dealership, Paul Martin Inc.
Attempted murder
AKRON -- Police detectives are investigating the attempted murder of a 24-year-old Niles man Wednesday night. Jason A. Boggs of West Park Avenue is in critical condition this morning in Akron City Hospital with a bullet wound of the lower back. City police said he was to undergo surgery today. A man with Boggs, Steven C. Douglas of North Main Street, Niles, was not injured and drove Boggs to the hospital, police said. According to the report, Boggs was at a North Adams Street residence about 10:30 p.m. when he was shot. The only description of the suspect is that he is a Hispanic man.
Motorcyclist injured
YOUNGSTOWN -- Van Clark, 67, of Southwest Boulevard, Warren, was in critical condition today at St. Elizabeth Health Center with a head injury after a motorcycle accident at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday. Clark was riding his 2003 Harley Classic on Interstate 680 northbound at the Route 711 entrance ramp, roughly 600 feet north of Division Street, when he drove off the right side of the road, said Detective Sgt. Rick Hart of the accident investigation unit. Clark lost control when his motorcycle traveled through the grass, hit the curb at the entrance ramp and slid, Hart said.
Levy group to meet
MINERAL RIDGE -- The committee promoting the Weathersfield schools' 5.5-mill, five-year emergency levy to generate $538,168 annually will meet at 7 p.m. May 27 in the high school library. The committee is open to all who would like to participate, school board president Douglas Darnall said. Darnall noted the committee hopes to be able to raise the $2,000 it will cost the district to place the school levy on the special Aug. 3 ballot. Residents who wish to join will be asked to help puts signs in yards in the township and work the polls.
Returning to air base
VIENNA -- Eleven members of the 910th Airlift Wing's 757th Squadron were scheduled to return home today from a 60-day deployment to an air base in Kuwait, used for the movement of people and supplies in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
Seat-belt crackdown
MINERAL RIDGE -- The Weathersfield Township Police Department joins the Ohio Department of Public Safety and the Ohio State Highway Patrol in stepping up enforcement during the summer driving season.
Starting Monday and continuing through June 6, the officers will be patrolling area roads and highways for violators of Ohio's child passenger and seat-belt laws.
Law enforcement will adopt a zero-tolerance policy to those not buckling up. Tickets will be issued to those found in violation of Ohio state law.
Enforcement boost
NILES -- City police will be stepping up enforcement during Memorial Day through June 6. Working with the Ohio Department of Public Safety and Ohio State Highway Patrol, police will focus on violators of child-restraint and seat-belt laws.
"The goal of our heightened enforcement efforts is to increase seat belt usage and to save lives," said Police Chief Bruce Simeone, noting that more than half of the traffic fatalities in Ohio in 2003 were unbuckled.