Metro digest

Body found hanging in Boardman Park

BOARDMAN — A township park employee made a disturbing discovery in a park pavilion Friday. The employee found a 34-year-old Canfield man about 1:30 p.m. hanging in a pavilion near the Kids’ Town Playground — an apparent suicide. The employee called police.

Police said notes believed written by the man were found near the scene.

The man, whose identity wasn’t available Friday, worked as a Marine recruiter, police said.

2 men rob 2 women

YOUNGSTOWN — Police are looking for two men who robbed two women familiar to them at gunpoint.

According to police, a man called and asked a 23-year-old Poland woman and her 23-year-old Lisbon friend for a ride from the area of Marion Street and Oak Hill Avenue on Wednesday afternoon. When the woman arrived at the South Side location, one of the men pointed a gun at her head and demanded money.

The woman told police she threw a $10 bill out the window, but the men demanded more, then fired a shot out of the open car door, stole the purse of the woman’s friend and got out of the car.

The women drove to the police department to report the crime. One spent shell casing was found inside the car and collected by police as evidence.

Man robbed at gunpoint in midafternoon

YOUNGSTOWN — Police are looking for two men who robbed a South Side man at gunpoint in the 500 block of West Chalmers Avenue.

According to police, the 26-year-old victim parked his car at 2:30 a.m. Thursday and was immediately approached by two men — one wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans and the other wearing a Cleveland Browns hoodie. One of the men pulled out a gun and demanded his money and car keys.

The man handed over a wallet containing $18, a YSU ID card and a food-stamp card.

Reports say the men demanded that the victim leave with them, but he refused. The men threw the victim’s keys at him and fled.

West Fifth Street paving

BELOIT — The resurfacing of about a mile of West Fifth Street here began Thursday and is expected to be completed Oct. 15 by Diorio Paving Co. of Girard. The $168,000 project is funded in full by federal stimulus money.

One lane of traffic will be maintained by flaggers while the street is repaved from the eastern Sebring village limit to state Route 165 in Beloit, according to the Ohio Department of Transportation.

Three band shows scheduled next week

Three high school band shows will take place next week.

The first will be the Austintown Fitch Band Night at 7 p.m. Monday at Falcon Stadium, featuring Austintown, Beaver, Canfield, Jackson-Milton, Lisbon, McDonald, Ursuline and Youngstown State University bands.

Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for students. Senior citizens and children get in free.

The second is the 35th annual Show of Bands at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Canfield High School stadium, featuring Canfield, Austintown, Boardman, Poland, Struthers and West Branch bands. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for senior citizens and students and free for children 5 or younger.

The show also will feature special guest Anthony Cebriak conducting the national anthem. Cebriak served as Canfield band director for 27 years beginning in 1970 and organized the first Show of Bands. He is musical director of Canfield Community Concert Band.

The third, at Niles McKinley High School’s Bo Rein Stadium, will start at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and feature Niles, McDonald, Mineral Ridge, Lakeview, Howland and Warren Harding bands. Tickets are $5, $4 for senior citizens and $2 for students. Carla Dean is the McKinley band director.