Metro digest || Letter carriers honored

Letter carriers honored

YOUNGSTOWN — Eight local letter carriers from the United States Postal Service will be recognized today for their service to the organization.

The carriers will be inducted into the National Safety Council’s Million Mile Club, which recognizes and honors letter carriers who have driven 1 million miles or have 30 years without a preventable accident on duty. The event is at 7:30 a.m. at the Youngstown branch on South Walnut Street.

Honorees are David Depaul, Jerome Durkin, Ronald Ruchtie and Cecil Thomas from the Boardman branch; William Huzicka and Richard Simerlink from the Cornersburg branch; Dale Stratton from the Poland branch; and Robert Klucher of the Youngstown branch. The carriers have a combined 290 years of service.

Electrical fire killed man

HUBBARD — A man was killed after his apartment caught fire because of an overloaded electrical extension, said fire Chief John Clemente.

Clemente said Monday he does not yet have the identification of the victim confirmed from Saturday night’s fire at 261 Clingan Road in the city.

He said the victim was a man in his early 20s. The fire broke out at 10:42 p.m. in the upstairs apartment at the duplex, Clemente said. The downstairs tenant called the fire department. The fire started in a room the victim was using as an office or a spare room, Clemente said. That room was gutted, and the rest of the apartment was heavily damaged by smoke.

Safe stolen

WARREN — Warren Police Department is investigating the theft of a 200-pound safe from the Trumbull Country Club containing about $6,000.

An employee at the country club, 600 Golf Drive N.E., reported that the safe was about two feet square and was inside a closet at the restaurant. The restaurant was closed on Thanksgiving, and the safe was discovered missing Friday morning when it reopened. The safe was not attached to anything, just sitting on a table, police said.

Toy donations

BOARDMAN — Cumulus Media Youngstown, located on Simon Road, announced that radio station WHOT-101 FM has partnered with local businesses to generate toys for local children who are less fortunate this holiday season. The station and the Salvation Army will be taking donations through Dec. 12 at these locations in Trumbull and Mahoning counties:

UToday: Covelli Centre, Youngstown, 2 to 6 p.m.

UThursday: Taylor Kia of Boardman, 2 to 6 p.m.

UFriday, Saturday and Sunday: Eastwood Mall, Niles, all day.

UDec. 10: Jillian’s, Boardman, 2 to 6 p.m. The station will broadcast live for two hours at the donation sites, and the limo will be there an additional two hours to collect toys during the stops.

Burglary investigated

BOARDMAN — Police are investigating another burglary at a township home. Police responded about 2 p.m. Sunday to a home on Terrace Avenue on a report of a burglary in progress.

A neighbor told police that she heard a loud thud from a neighbor’s home and saw that the door appeared to be open. Police didn’t find anyone in the home but found evidence that the door had been kicked open.

When the homeowner arrived, he said that a flat-screen television, Xbox gaming systems and games, a digital camera and a video camera and jewelry were taken. During the last several weeks, police have been investigating about 20 home burglaries some of which have occurred during daylight hours.

Civil Service meeting

NILES — Niles Civil Service Commission meets at 4:35 p.m. today in the City Building, Conference Room 1.

Finance committee

YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown Board of Education’s finance committee meets at noon today in the Irene L. Ward Building, 20 W. Wood St.