Ballfield maintenance

Ballfield maintenance

NEW CASTLE, Pa. — New Castle Area Baseball Association will be taking over maintenance of the city’s ballfields. City council recently approved an agreement making the association responsible for cutting the grass at Dean Park, Gettings Field, Mangino Field and nine fields at Deshon Park. The association will also pay the electric and water bills at the complexes. Until now the city had been responsible for the maintenance. The association proposed the agreement to city officials last month as an alternative to possible fees the city considered imposing next year.

Also, officials said the association was concerned about potentially losing the fields because of the city’s lack of finances to maintain them. In exchange for taking over the maintenance, the association agreed to supervise the scheduling of all other youth organizations using the fields.

The two-year agreement expires March 31, 2010.

The public and the law

WARREN — A workshop for law enforcement officers and community members will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Warren West Community Center auditorium on Palmyra Road.

The workshop is a collaboration of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, Warren-Trumbull County NAACP, the community organization Inspiring Minds, Warren city and township police departments, and the U.S. Marshal Service.

The goal is to give community members a better understanding of the law enforcement perspective and to give law enforcement officers a better understanding of the community perspective. The workshop will include role playing and videos of traffic stops gone bad.

Ronald Brown of Joparo Cultural Diversity Consultants in Akron will serve as a facilitator. Atty. Edward Gilbert from Akron will discuss civil rights issues. The workshop is free to the public.

Boy held in bomb threat

NEW CASTLE, Pa. — A 15-year-old Edinburg, Pa., boy is being held in the Keystone Adolescent Center in Greenville after an investigation into a bomb threat at Mohawk High School. According to police reports, a threatening, handwritten note was discovered in a boy’s restroom at the school. The boy has been charged with aggravated assault, two counts of terroristic threats and threats to use weapons of mass destruction. The boy, accompanied by a guardian, surrendered to police Friday.