Italian fest parade set

Italian fest parade set

YOUNGSTOWN — Sunday’s parade for the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Italian Festival will begin at 3 p.m. at the corner of Fifth and Lincoln Avenues. It will proceed south on Fifth Avenue, then east on West Wood Street, north on Wick Avenue, and then east on East Rayen Avenue to Watt Street, where it will end. There will be a reviewing stand at Watt Street. The parade will feature 75 units, said Claire Maluso, parade co-chairwoman. The festival begins today on the church grounds, which are at Via Mount Carmel and Rayen Avenue.

Work starts at cemetery

GIRARD — Sealing of the roads at the Girard Cemetery begin today and finish Friday. Jerry Lambert, director of public services, said public access to the cemetery will be limited both days. The roads will reopen Saturday morning.

Boardman to put 2.2-mill levy on ballot

BOARDMAN — After an executive session to discuss personnel and pending or imminent litigation, township trustees passed a resolution late Wednesday to place a 2.2-mill safety-services levy on the November ballot.

The levy would raise about $2 million annually, officials said.

The Vindicator objected to a levy being discussed behind closed doors. Under Ohio’s Open Meetings Law, only specific topics may be discussed in executive session.

WWII museum to close

HUBBARD — The World War II Vehicle Museum and Learning Center, 5959 W. Liberty St., has closed due to personal circumstances of the owners.

For almost 10 years, the doors were opened for visitors to see vehicles, uniforms, small arms and more World War II history. Though the pieces housed in the museum are not staying in Ohio, they will remain together as the Henry Venetta Collection. The collection was bought by C. Reed Knight, a Florida resident, who hopes to open his museum in Titusville by the beginning of 2009. Knight’s museum will include the Venetta collection as well as contents from the Civil War to the present.

Motorcycle run planned

WARREN — The third annual Chuck Sines Memorial Motorcycle Run will begin at noon Saturday at the Horseshoe Bar at the corner of West Market Street and Pine Avenue. Registration begins at 11 a.m.

Registration is $15 per motorcycle, plus $5 for an additional rider. That fee includes food at 4 p.m. at the Horseshoe. Cost for food only is $5.

Proceeds will benefit the Animal Welfare League of Trumbull County. The run is organized by the Warren Blue Knights, an organization of Warren police officers with motorcycles. Sines was a Warren police detective who died of cancer in 2004. For more information, call (330) 240-3304.

DUI checkpoint enforced

A sobriety checkpoint will be somewhere in Mahoning County from 10 p.m. Friday until 2 a.m. Saturday. Members of the Mahoning County Operating Vehicle Impaired Task Force will target impaired drivers. The mission of the task force is to keep roadways safe by reducing alcohol- and drug-related crashes through public awareness and enforcement.

Lighthouse boat rides

ASHTABULA — For the second time this summer, the Ashtabula Lighthouse Restoration and Preservation Society will host narrated boat rides around the lighthouse Sunday.

The event begins at noon and will last about four hours. Admission is $15 per person, and all of the proceeds will go to the society’s efforts to restore the lighthouse as a museum and open it to the public. The immediate goal of the society is to raise money for a generator and other tools to repair the lighthouse.

Road work postponed

MOULTRIE — The closing of state Route 172 in West Township in Columbiana County scheduled to begin this week has been postponed to Monday, said Becky McCarty, an Ohio Department of Transportation spokeswoman.

McCarty said the extension was simply a change in the schedule by the contractor.

The road will be closed for 21 days at Moultrie for bridge repair work. The $457,677 project also includes the rehabilitation of a bridge on state Route 518 near Millport. The completion date is Oct. 31.