Rain soaks courthouse basement

YOUNGSTOWN — County maintenance employees were busy Tuesday afternoon mopping the floor and drying carpets in the Mahoning County Courthouse basement after storm water backed up through two basement drains due to heavy rains. Although some cardboard boxes on the floor, which contained court records, were wet on the bottom, no records inside were damaged, a deputy clerk of court said. No records were damaged in the recorder’s office or microfilm department. “It probably can be corrected. We’ll have to adjust our backflow protectors,” said Pete Triveri, county facilities director, adding that the same problem has occurred previously, as recently as last summer.