Holy Family graduation

Holy Family graduation

POLAND — The 50th class of Holy Family School graduates today.

A graduation ceremony for the 24 students is scheduled for 7 p.m at the school, U.S. Route 224, followed by a reception at The Georgetown, Boardman.

The school started in 1958 with 364 students in grades one through eight. Half-day kindergarten was added two years later and expanded to an all-day program in 1979.

The school had about 280 students in kindergarten through eighth grade this year. With the preschool, which opened in 2001, 350 children were enrolled.

New U.S. citizens

YOUNGSTOWN — These people became U.S. citizens in a Thursday naturalization ceremony, over which Judge Lou A. D’Apolito of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court presided. Their names, hometowns and countries of origin are as follows: Ali Mahmoud Jaber Al Tawil, Youngstown, Jordan; Kanwaljit Kaur, Poland, India; Irina Gennadievna Lefler, Youngstown, Russia; Vlad Constantin Ursu, Youngstown, Romania; Adaobi Veronica Agbasiere, Liberty, Nigeria; Rachid Ajal, Austintown, Morocco; Zouhair Rachid Rached Tabbara, Austintown, Lebanon; A K M Anwarul Islam, Canfield, Bangladesh; Tamanna-E Kabir Chowdhury, Canfield, Bangladesh.

Charged with theft

BOARDMAN — Police have accused a Warren man of taking money for work that he didn’t do at a condominium complex.

Aura Adams, 46, of Adelaide Avenue Southeast, is charged with two counts of theft by deception. The victims are elderly women. Adams was released from the Mahoning County jail after posting $8,000 bond.

Three Pearson Circle women, one 87, the other two both 62, told police in April that they and another Pearson Circle resident paid Adams, who owns All Homes R Us of Warren, $2,756 to repair and replace two outside metal patios at their condominiums.

He was supposed to begin the work last September but didn’t show up, one of the women told police. Last November, the women received a letter telling them that Adams had trouble getting the steel for the decks and was unable to do the work until the weather broke, a police report said.

When the women tried to contact him, they received no answer at the number Adams had provided, the report says.

Drug-trafficking charge

YOUNGSTOWN — A 24-year-old city man is in Mahoning County jail on $25,000 bond after police say he tried to enter the Community Corrections Association on Market Street carrying suspected marijuana.

Gregory Richardson, who listed the Market Street CCA facility as an address, appeared Thursday before Judge Elizabeth A. Kobly of Youngstown Municipal Court for arraignment on the drug- trafficking charge.

According to police reports, Richardson was searched when he attempted to enter the CCA facility Wednesday, and employees at the facility found one large bag containing suspected marijuana along with 11 smaller bags containing the suspected drug stuffed down his pants.

Water safe to drink

YOUNGSTOWN — On Tuesday, the city installed two water valves on Rayen Avenue. In order to perform this work, the current waterline on Rayen was shut off. These addresses were affected by the shut down: 106, 141 and 150 W. Rayen.

All microbiological drinking-water samples have been examined and found to be noncontaminated. The drinking water is now considered to be safe. Therefore, the boil-water alerts for those areas were lifted.

Resident robbed

YOUNGSTOWN — Police are looking for the man who robbed a group of people of $349.

A 36-year-old East Philadelphia Avenue man told police he was at home with friends about 7:41 p.m. Wednesday when two men, one of whom is an aquaintance, stopped by to visit.

The man he did not know used his telephone, shook his hand and left with the other man.

The Philadelphia resident and several others in the apartment told police the man they just met returned a short time later with a revolver and took money from the resident. The robber also demanded money from another man in the house, but that man refused to give him any.