2 robbed outside bar

2 robbed outside bar
YOUNGSTOWN -- Two gunmen wearing ski masks robbed the manager and a bartender of Jolly Joe's Sports Bar & amp; Restaurant, 3718 Sheridan Road, as they left work at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, police said. One man ordered the 29-year-old manager to the ground, put a gun to his head and said, "Give me the money bag," reports said. The manager said he didn't have a money bag but handed over cash from his pocket. The 25-year-old bartender was in his car when a second gunman entered and started looking for a money bag. The bartender gave him $100. A security guard had walked out of the restaurant with the workers but left them to go to his car in a different parking lot. The robbers ran off when a car came down the street.
Purse snatching
YOUNGSTOWN -- An 18-year-old Struthers woman told police she had her purse snatched as she was sitting in a car on McGuffey Road near McGuffey Plaza. The woman said she and some friends had gotten lost about 4 p.m. Saturday so they asked a man for directions to Brookfield, reports said. The man opened the back door of the car and stole the woman's purse, which contained $5, a checkbook and a bank card.
Cleanup day planned
AUSTINTOWN -- The township's cleanup day will be from 9 a.m. to noon April 29. Individuals and community groups are asked to participate. For more information, call the Austintown Junior Women's League at (330) 270-0316.
Political forums set
WARREN -- Two forums will be in Trumbull County in the next two weeks featuring candidates for political office. The first will be at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the Warren G. Harding High School auditorium, sponsored by the Trumbull County Chapter of the Asa Philip Randolph Institute. Chapter coordinator Sonny Morgan said the organization has received commitments to attend from most of the county commissioner candidates. Candidates for other offices will be allowed to speak briefly, Morgan said. The second forum will be at 6:30 p.m. April 25 in Lecture Hall A at Kent State University Trumbull Campus in Champion, sponsored by the Trumbull County League of Women Voters. The League of Women Voters forum will feature candidates for an open seat on the board of commissioners along with candidates for two seats on the 11th District Court of Appeals, based in Warren.
No cardboard recycling
MINERAL RIDGE -- Cardboard dropped off at the Weathersfield Township recycling center is not being recycled, township trustees announced. It is being taken to a landfill because state officials have not found a recycling center that will handle cardboard, trustees said. Because the trustees must pay $68 a month to have the cardboard taken away, they are considering a halt to the practice of accepting cardboard at the township recycling center, and would like residents' opinions on the matter.