McCain to visit GM plant

McCain to visit GM plant

LORDSTOWN — U.S. Sen. John McCain, R.-Ariz., the presumptive Republican Party nominee for president, is expected to visit General Motors’ complex here June 27. Details of the visit are being worked out, said Chris Lee, a GM spokesman.

It was announced last week that McCain would be visiting the region that day for a fundraiser. Local officials said he would be visiting a home in Howland and visitors would be paying at least $1,000 to attend.

Lake’s warning lifted

BAZETTA — A water quality warning at Mosquito Lake State Park, issued last weekend about swimming due to a high reading for E. coli bacteria, has been lifted. A park spokeswoman said Thursday that a test conducted this week found that the reading for the bacteria was far below state standards.

Michael Grammer, park manager, said that test readings of above 235 colony-forming units of E. coli per 100 milliliters of water is considered unsafe. The last reading before the warning was 9,400. The spokeswoman said the latest reading is 40, thus the warning was lifted.

Grammer had speculated that something was wrong with the testing equipment.

Tire recycling planned

YOUNGSTOWN — The city will have a tire recycling drive from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Chevrolet Centre on East Front Street.

The city’s litter control and recycling department will accept up to 10 rimless tires per vehicle at no cost. Additional tires can be recycled for $1.50 each.

Food to be distributed

YOUNGSTOWN — Friends House Chapel, 192 S. Hazeltine Ave., will have a food distribution from 11 a.m. to noon today for residents in ZIP codes 44505 and 44506. Recipients must bring identification and containers.

Land price decreased

WARREN – The board of education slightly decreased the sale price of about 4.5 acres on Elm Road that may eventually become an elderly housing facility. Thursday, the board reduced the selling price of the site of the former McKinley School from $300,000 to $295,000 under option to the Western Reserve Port Authority.

The parcel will be sold to Indianapolis-based AHEPA National Housing Corp. if it receives a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

An AHEPA spokesman said Thursday that plans call for the company to build a 54-unit facility if the company receives the grant.

Boardman man charged

BOARDMAN — A township man was charged with receiving stolen property, resisting arrest and obstructing official business.

Police were called about 10 a.m. Wednesday to Lockwood Boulevard on a report of a car being driven on its wheel rim. An officer followed gouge marks in the asphalt to a driveway where a man, later identified as Ryan Ricciuti, 21, of Spring Park Drive, ran from the car, a police report said.

The car, a purple Ford Probe, had been reported stolen during a robbery in Youngstown, the report said. Ricciuti ran toward the rear of the Lockwood house and was caught trying to cross a fence.

Teen is road rage victim

BOARDMAN — A Poland teenager told police he was a victim of road rage when another driver pulled a gun on him.

The 17-year-old said he was driving on U.S. Route 224 near East Golf Drive about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday when he passed a pickup truck that was sitting at the entrance of a doctor’s office.

After the vehicle behind the teen’s car let the truck leave the parking lot onto Route 224, the truck driver, a man in his late 40s, pulled up next to the victim and yelled for him to roll down the window. The teen did so, and the truck driver pointed a handgun at him, asking “What now?” according to police reports.

The victim put his hands up and his passenger ducked down, but neither saw the truck’s license plate number as it did a U-turn and traveled east on Route 224.