Levy-support event

Levy-support event

YOUNGSTOWN — Backers of the four-year, 9.5-mill city school tax levy on the Nov. 4 ballot will stage a community walk Saturday in support of the tax issue.

Members of the levy committee, school officials, city school union employees and others will meet at the levy headquarters at Mill Creek Deli, 1260 S. Schenley Ave., at 10:30 a.m.

Participants will break up into small groups and then travel to all parts of town to knock on doors and deliver a message of support for the levy.

The event is scheduled to last until 2 p.m.

Alternative-energy topic

CHAMPION — Athan Barkoukis, Northeast Ohio program manager for Green Energy Ohio, a nonprofit organization that promotes environmentally sustainable energy policies, will speak at a meeting of the Trumbull County Clean Energy Network at 7 p.m. today in Room 117 in the Technology Building at Kent State University Trumbull Campus.

Barkoukis will discuss federal tax credits and Ohio grants for residential and commercial installations of alternative energy systems, such as wind and solar energy.

Smoke-inhalation death

NEW CASTLE, Pa. — A Union Township woman who perished in a fire at her mobile home Saturday morning died of smoke inhalation, said Pennsylvania State Police. Sylvia Ann Summers, who fire personnel said was in her early 60s, lived at 430 Rapson Ave. She was alone in the home when the fire broke out at 7:25 a.m.

A state police fire marshal investigation is ongoing.

OVI checkpoint arrests

BOARDMAN — Members of the Mahoning County Operating a Vehicle Impaired Task Force made eight drunken-driving arrests during a sobriety checkpoint over the weekend.

The checkpoint was on U.S. Route 224 between Tiffany Boulevard and South Avenue from 11 p.m. Saturday until 3 a.m. Sunday. The task force processed 436 motorists through the checkpoint. Five drivers were charged with driving under suspension.

One of the drunken-driving arrests involved a 17-year-old girl who made an illegal U-turn to avoid the checkpoint and crashed her vehicle.

School groundbreaking

WARREN — A groundbreaking ceremony will be at the site of the new McGuffey K-8 School, 3456 Tod Avenue N.W., at 11 a.m. Wednesday.

The McGuffey school is among four new K-8 facilities and a new high school being built for the district as part of an Ohio School Facilities Commission project to replace all of the district’s buildings.

Construction of the McGuffey building is expected to be complete for the 2010-11 school year.