Coitsville Road upgrade

Coitsville Road upgrade

CAMPBELL — Work on the $538,000 project to resurface Coitsville Road between Wilson Avenue and U.S. Route 422 is slated to begin Monday.

Traffic will be maintained while the resurfacing work, being financed with a $420,000 federal grant and $118,000 in local funds, is done, said Mayor John Dill.

The project, which includes cleaning of some storm sewers, is expected to be completed within two or three weeks, depending on weather conditions. Applying the final course, a rubberized material, requires a temperature of 60 degrees or higher, so that might be delayed until spring 2009, the mayor said.

Dill said Coitsville Road has been in bad shape for a long time, and he is happy to see the repairs get under way. The contractor, Shelly and Sands of Akron, was low bidder on the project, he said.

Remembering children

WARREN — The Trumbull County Chapter of Parents of Murdered Children will have its annual remembrance day at 5 p.m. Sunday at Warren Community Amphitheater, across Mahoning Avenue from the Trumbull County Courthouse.

There will be a balloon launch with messages to loved ones, after which candles will be lighted and the names of those killed will be recited.

Participants are invited to bring a lawn chair and a picture of their loved one.

For more information, call (330) 637-1482.

Parks worker injured

YOUNGSTOWN — City police said a 52-year-old Mill Creek MetroParks employee was seriously injured when he was struck by a vehicle as he picked up debris along McCollum Road near Monterey Avenue around 8:30 a.m. Friday.

The identity of the victim wasn’t released pending notification of next of kin, but police said he was in stable condition in St. Elizabeth Health Center after emergency surgery.

Police said the worker was afoot near a motor cart he had been operating when he was struck by the vehicle, which came over a hill. The impact caused his head to strike the vehicle’s windshield, police said.

The vehicle driver, identified only as a young woman, said she didn’t see the worker, police said.

New U.S. citizens

YOUNGSTOWN — These people were sworn in as new U.S. citizens Thursday by Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. Their names, countries of origin and hometowns are:

UKay Robinson Brown, United Kingdom, Austintown.

URuth Correa, Colombia, Poland.

UJuliette Gebrael Ginnis, Lebanon, Campbell.

UBasel Tawfiq Al Shawabkeh, Jordan, Boardman.

UMargarita Yauman, Mexico, Boardman.

UDiem Thi Thu Nguyen, Vietnam, Boardman.

UIvorie Loletta Jones, Jamaica, Austintown.

Car ends up in lake

HERMITAGE, Pa. — An overly excited dog ended up putting a car in Shenango Lake, city police reported.

The dog, a 195-pound Rottweiler named Satch, was eager to get out of the car at the lake to go swimming, police said. As he was scrambling to get out, he knocked the driver, Matthew Melhorn, 27, of Mercer, Pa., out of the car around 5:40 p.m. Thursday, they said.

Melhorn was at the Golden Run Access area boat ramp dropping off a passenger, Satch and two other dogs. The driverless car drifted down the boat ramp and sunk about 30 feet from shore.

Attempted burglary

YOUNGSTOWN — Police responding to a call of an attempted burglary in the 100 block of East Judson Avenue said a witness was able to identify a suspect who was still in the area.

A witness said the man, later identified as Joshua M. Atwood, 19, who is homeless, tried to break into the back of a house around 11 a.m. Thursday, police said.

Officers spotted Atwood in the area and followed him to a garage in the 1200 block of Clarencedale Avenue, where he was arrested on a charge of attempted burglary.

He was lodged in the Mahoning County jail to await arraignment.