Lowered water pressure

Lowered water pressure

There will be low water pressure in portions of Austintown, Boardman and Canfield townships beginning at midnight today and continuing into Friday. It is occurring because of improvement work Youngstown is doing at its Webb Road pumping station, which requires the city to close the facility.

This will affect customers in Canfield and Austintown west of Raccoon Road and south of New Road, and from Mill Creek Park west to Tippecanoe Road in Boardman. The work is expected to be done at 6 a.m. Friday.

People in those areas are asked to conserve water during this time.

For more information, contact the city’s water department engineering office at (330) 742-8765.

Dog euthanasia drops

WARREN — The euthanasia rate at the Trumbull County Dog Pound is dropping.

A yearly report provided by Robert Campana, the county’s chief dog warden, shows that the facility on Anderson Avenue in Howland sold 324 dogs and returned 100 to their owners out of 995 dogs handled during 2007.

That means the facility euthanized 571 dogs in 2007, or 57 percent.

Earlier this year, the pound reported that 86 percent of the dogs taken in were euthanized, which is double the state average of 43 percent.

Since then, improvements have been made at the dog pound, such as additional dog runs being built and repairs to the building. Trumbull County Commissioner Frank Fuda said he expects additional improvement in 2008, as the dog pound is enlarged.

Two stabbed in home

WARREN — One person remains hospitalized and another was released after treatment after they were stabbed New Year’s Eve

Boyd J. Proper, 39, remains in serious condition in Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital, while Kari Lynne Thomas, 21, has been released. Police were called to their home at 1936 Norwood St. N.W. about 10:45 p.m. Both of them were found in a bedroom trying to slow the bleeding. According to the police report, they were able to identify the man who stabbed them, though no motive was given.

Man robbed of wallet

BOARDMAN — An 83-year-old Melrose Avenue man reported being robbed at his home.

The victim told police that he heard a knock on his door about 8:30 p.m. Sunday and thought it was a neighbor. He opened the door and let the man in before realizing that it wasn’t his neighbor but a man he said stole his wallet two years ago.

The victim told police that he picked up his wallet so that the man wouldn’t take it and the man shoved him to the floor, took the wallet, which contained about $50, and then ran out the front door. The victim didn’t report the crime until Monday morning. He told police that he waited because he didn’t believe the suspect would be found.

Meeting rescheduled

GIRARD — The Girard school board meeting scheduled for today has been rescheduled for 6 p.m. Monday in the board offices.

Fatal crash investigated

NEW CASTLE, Pa. — Neshannock Township Police are investigating the cause of a crash that killed a New Castle man. Police said Matthew L. Leonard, 22, of McCaslin Road was trapped in his vehicle on East Maitland Lane when they arrived at 8:04 a.m. Tuesday. Police said Leonard’s car was about 30 feet off the road resting against several trees. Once Leonard was freed from the car, he was taken by ambulance to Jameson Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Police said that at the time of the crash, the roads were dry and clear.

New police sergeant

WARREN — A 37-year veteran of the police department has been promoted to sergeant. Michael Albanese, who was sworn in Feb. 1, 1970, as a patrol officer received the promotion because he was at the top of the civil service exam certified Wednesday by the city civil service commission. The department now as 15 sergeants, the number required by city law, said Gary Cicero, the city’s human resources director.