Business robbed

Business robbed

AUSTINTOWN — A man got away with an undisclosed amount of cash after holding a Conroy’s Express employee at gunpoint.

The convenience store employee said he was doing chores inside the South Meridian Road business just before 2 a.m. Wednesday when a man wearing dark clothing, white gloves and a red bandanna over his face entered.

The man pointed a silver semiautomatic handgun and ordered the employee to open the cash register. The robber emptied the cash into a white plastic bag. He ran out of the business across South Meridian and headed southeast.

Austintown and Youngstown police unsuccessfully searched the area.

Temporary closings

The Mahoning County engineer’s office has announced two road closings in Beaver Township over the next two weeks for culvert-replacement projects.

The first is Garfield Road between state Route 7 and state Route 164. Weather permitting, the work begins Tuesday and is to be completed June 18. The detour around the area will be along Route 7, West Pine Lake Road and Route 164.

The second project is on Blosser Road between Route 164 and state Route 165 (East South Range Road). Blosser will be closed from June 23 to 25. Traffic will be detoured along Routes 164 and 165.

House to be razed

AUSTINTOWN — Township trustees approved the demolition of a North Turner Road home that was deemed a total loss after an arson earlier this year.

Zoning Inspector Darren Crivelli said 154 N. Turner Road should be razed within one month.

“We’re going to have to bid out the job, which should take about two weeks,” he said. “The house should be down in a month if all goes well and according to plan.”

Firefighters said the blaze was intentionally set, and a man who identified himself as Charles E. Field Jr., 57, said he lived at the residence with the homeowner, Harry J. Field. Charles Field was later determined to be Harry Field. He was indicted in March on an aggravated-arson charge.

Man robbed, shot

YOUNGSTOWN — A Cordova Avenue man was beaten, robbed and shot in the upper right leg while fleeing on foot from his assailants around 10:45 p.m. Tuesday.

The 38-year-old victim was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center for treatment. The victim, who police found at Granada and Fifth avenues, said he had just pulled into the driveway of a home in the 2000 block of Cordova and got out of his car when a man ran toward him.

The victim got back into his car, but another man appeared, and the two pulled him out of his car and beat him with fists and a handgun. He told police he escaped, and while he was running away, he heard several gunshots. The victim got to Granada and Fifth when his leg became numb, and he realized he had been shot. Police recovered five spent 9 mm shell casings.

Alex’s Lemonade Stand

BOARDMAN — The Purpose Organization will have its second Alex’s Lemonade Stand from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday at Pettiti’s Garden Center, South Avenue, as part of the National Lemonade Days weekend.

After having the first stand, the organization decided to host a lemonade stand every year to contribute to the battle against childhood cancer.

Lemonade Days is a three-day national event that grew out of Alexandra “Alex” Scott’s front-yard lemonade stand and is conducted every year over the same June weekend. This marks the event’s sixth year with an estimated 10,000 volunteers at more than 2,000 Alex’s Lemonade Stands across the country. To date, Alex’s Lemonade Stand has raise more than $25 million toward fulfilling Alex’s dream of finding a cure for all childhood cancer.

Elder-abuse awareness

YOUNGSTOWN — The fourth annual observance of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, sponsored by Mahoning County Department of Job and Family Services, will be at noon Monday at the Mahoning County Courthouse, 120 Market St. The speakers will consist of a diverse group of community agencies that service the elderly population and citizens working together to prevent abuse, neglect, self-neglect and exploitation of the elderly population.