Hearing on strip club

Hearing on strip club

YOUNGSTOWN — A hearing is set for 10 a.m. today on an Austintown building owner’s request for a temporary restraining order, to bar Mahoning County and the township fire department from blocking renovations or interfering with a strip club’s opening.

The hearing is before Magistrate George J. Limbert in U.S. District Court in Youngstown. The federal suit by 5455 Clarkins Drive Inc. and its president and sole shareholder, Robert Neill, also seeks a permanent restraining order. Neill leased the 5,000-square-foot building at 5455 Clarkins Drive, where he intends to open the Go Go Girls Cabaret.

The suit alleges the Austintown Fire Department and Mahoning County’s chief building official violated free-expression rights by blocking minor renovations for the cabaret. These renovations were blocked with stop-work orders linked to fire and building code issues, states the action.

Named as defendants are the Austintown Fire Department and its inspector, Lt. Richard Milliron, and Mahoning County and its chief building official, Jeffrey Uroseva.

Warren council meeting

WARREN — Councilman Vince Flask, D-5th, chairman of the Water Pollution Control Committee, will be meeting with other members of council and the city’s WPC Division at 2 p.m. today in council chambers.

The committee and council members will then be touring soy crops grown with Nature’s Blend, which the city creates at its treatment facility from treated, dried and packaged waste then markets to growers, greenhouses and the public.

OVI enforcement

GOSHEN — The Mahoning County OVI Task Force will have increased impaired-driving enforcement Saturday evening. The task force will be enforcing zero tolerance for Operating a Vehicle Impaired offenders from the hours of 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., at a location to be announced later.

The mission of the Mahoning County OVI TF is to keep roads safe by reducing alcohol- and drug-related crashes through public awareness and enforcement. The task force encourages responsible drinking and the use of sober designated drivers.

Funding for the extra patrols is available from a grant from U.S. Department of Transportation and Ohio Department of Public Safety through the Goshen Police District.

Fire damages house

JACKSON CENTER, Pa. — Details are sketchy about a fire that damaged a house on Jackson Center-Polk Road in Worth Township in Mercer County shortly after 4 p.m. Monday. Occupants of the house were not home when the fire occurred. No injuries were reported, according to the Mercer County 911 Dispatch Center.

Nature walks planned

ALLIANCE — The John T. Huston-Dr. John D. Brumbaugh Nature Center of Mount Union College will have a walk with a naturalist at 2 p.m. Sunday. The leisurely discovery walks, which usually last one or two hours, will be held on the second and fourth Sunday of each month through October. Participants can show up at the Visitor’s Center by 2 p.m. to see what the trails reveal. No registration is required. The nature center is located six miles south of Mount Union College on Daniel Street, just off state Route 183. For more information, contact the center at (330) 823-7487.

Motorcyclist killed

NEGLEY — Ronald Cope, 42, of Wheathill Road, East Palestine, was killed Monday morning when he lost control of his motorcycle on a curve on state Route 170. He ran off the left side of the road and was thrown from his cycle when it hit a dirt mound and overturned.

According to the Ohio Highway State Patrol in Lisbon, Cope was southbound on Route 170, just south of state Route 154 in Middleton Township in Columbiana County, when the crash occurred at 11:30 a.m.