Armstrong ornaments to raise food-bank funds

Armstrong ornaments to raise food-bank funds

BOARDMAN — Armstrong Cable is having a fundraiser to benefit the Second Harvest Food Bank.

The local telecommunications provider is selling a series of collectable Christmas ornaments.

The shatter-proof ornaments are imprinted with Armstrong’s logo on one side and images of a television, telephone and Internet on the other and have a 2008 stamp on them.

The ornaments are available in exchange for a $2 donation.

All proceeds from the Armstrong Christmas Ornament Project will go toward the Second Harvest Food Bank.

The ornaments are available only at the local Armstrong Cable office in North Lima, 9328 Woodworth Road. Business hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

For more information, contact Dan McGahagan at (330) 726-0115, ext. 221.

Lane restrictions today on section of I-680

YOUNGSTOWN — Interstate 680 between South Avenue and Midlothian Boulevard will have various lane restrictions in the southbound direction today.

These restrictions will occur from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. and are necessary while ODOT crews make needed pavement repairs.

Man still jailed in theft of grandmother’s purse

NEW CASTLE, Pa. — A man charged with taking his grandmother’s purse remained in the Lawrence County Jail on Monday on $5,000 bond. Anthony Audino. 22, whose address is the same as the victim’s on East Lutton Street, was arraigned Saturday on a charge of robbery.

There had been a warrant for his arrest after the purse-snatching last Tuesday. Audino will have a preliminary hearing in Lawrence County Central Court at 9:30 a.m. next Tuesday.

The robbery happened around 8 p.m. as the victim was entering her house.

Someone wearing a gray hooded sweat shirt came up from behind her and snatched her purse, which contained $400 in cash and credit cards, she told police.

Audino emerged as a suspect after police found a cell phone while searching the area and traced it back to an acquaintance of his.

The acquaintance told city police Audino had plans to take “his people’s purse” and had borrowed his phone, a police report says.

Man injured in crash with snow-removal truck

HERMITAGE, Pa. — A Mercer County man was injured in an accident with a snow-removal truck over the weekend.

Patrick Kane, 59, of Ivanhoe Road, Sharpsville, was taken to Sharon Regional Health System’s hospital after the accident at 5:22 a.m. Saturday at North Water Avenue and Downing Lane in Hermitage, city police said.

The truck, driven by Duane Kelly, 46, was westbound on Downing and failed to stop at a stop sign, police said.

Kelly, whose address wasn’t given, struck Kane’s vehicle, police said.

Kane had to be extricated from his vehicle by the Hermitage Fire Department.

The hospital said Monday that Kane had been discharged. Kelly was cited for a stop sign violation, police said.

McDonald school board sets 2009 meeting times

McDONALD — McDonald Board of Education has set its meetings for 2009 for the third Monday of the month at 7:15 p.m. in the high school library.

The board will have its reorganizational meeting at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 12 followed by the regular meeting at 7 p.m.

Current President Robert Jones Jr. has been named chairman to preside over the reorganizational meeting.