Meet-the-candidates night

Meet-the-candidates night
KINSMAN -- Political candidates will present their qualifications and answer questions at a meet-the-candidates night at 8 p.m. Oct. 25 in the Kinsman Fire Hall. The event is sponsored by the Kinsman Area Business and Professional Organization and the Kinsman Fire Department and Ladies Auxiliary.
Paper bags for leaves
GIRARD -- Paper lawn bags for the annual leaf collection will not be available until Oct. 12 at the street department, 943 S. State St. The first five bags are free. Additional bags are five for $1 while supplies last. They can be picked up from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and from 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays from Oct. 12 through Nov. 20. Leaves will be picked up with the normal garbage collection.
Disposing of tires
HOWLAND -- Township residents may drop off up to eight tires for disposal at the public works department on North River Road from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 4 to Oct. 8. Tires must be off the rim.
Bicentennial postcards
BRISTOLVILLE -- The Bristol Bicentennial Committee is selling commemorative postcards stamped with a special bicentennial cancellation. The cards are $1 each or six for $5. For more information, call Lori Vaccar at (330) 899-2659 or Donna Craiger at (330) 889-2602.
Tax committee to meet
HUBBARD -- People for Progress, the city income tax promotion committee, will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the city administration building. Voters will cast ballots in the Nov. 2 general election on a 0.5-percent city income tax increase.
Gas leak at restaurant
BAZETTA -- A small gas leak in the kitchen of Eat 'N Park Restaurant, 2033 Walmart Drive, sent one employee to a local hospital. Township firefighters said employees began getting ill around 7 a.m. today. One employee was taken to the hospital for observation. The gas leak was fixed and the restaurant reopened around 8:30 a.m.
Delivery driver robbed
SHARON, Pa.-- Police said a female pizza delivery driver for Four Star Pizza reported being robbed at gunpoint in the 200 block of Mesabi Street. The driver said that when she arrived at the location, she was confronted by a man wielding a handgun who pulled her behind the apartment complex where two other men were waiting. The men took the two pizzas she was carrying as well as money from her pocket, the driver said.
Man gets jail for cursing
YOUNGSTOWN -- A Canfield man was given a 30-day jail sentence Thursday after he cursed at a judge. As he was leaving a hearing in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, Vincent Giordano called Judge Maureen A. Cronin a profane name. The judge heard him, ordered him brought back into the courtroom and sentenced him to 30 days in the county jail for contempt of court. Giordano, 40, of Callahan Drive, is awaiting trial on multiple counts of receiving stolen property, passing bad checks and forgery.
Obstructing roadway
MERCER, Pa. -- Pennsylvania State Police said they have charged a Jellison Lane couple with obstructing public highway or passages for blocking a school bus turnaround near their home. Police gave no motive for the actions of Ellyn S. Atkinson, 61, and Chris D. Atkinson, 51, but said the two barricaded a bus turnaround on Bend Road where it dead-ends at Interstate 80 in Lackawannock Township between Aug. 29 and Sept. 17. The couple will face a hearing before District Justice Ruth French, police said.
Suspicious package
YOUNGSTOWN -- A suspicious package at the main post office downtown early today turned out to be household goods, said Lou Ciavarella, a member of the police department's bomb squad. The post office called 911 at 2:56 a.m. Ciavarella said the package was stained and leaking. He said a post office employee moved it to the dock, where the bomb squad robot was used to open it. He said the package had been shipped by a man in the military stationed in Okinawa to a relative in Austintown.
Man damages gas hose
YOUNGSTOWN -- A 34-year-old Struthers man who pulled in the wrong way to get gas at the BP station at 3827 Market St. at 11 p.m. Thursday gave the attendant a hard time when told he couldn't stretch the gas line over the top of his car. The West Omar Street man then got back into his car, forgetting that the hose was still stretched across the top of it, and began to turn his car around. The movement ripped the hose from the pump. The man told police he would return today to pay for the damage.