Awaiting coroner’s ruling in deaths of couple

Awaiting coroner’s ruling in deaths of couple

POLAND — The official causes of death in an apparent murder-suicide of a township couple are still pending by the Mahoning County coroner’s office.

The bodies of William and Kathleen Smith, both 56, were found Wednesday evening in the Stymie Road home. The coroner’s office called it a shooting.

The couple’s daughter, who discovered the bodies, told a Mahoning County 911 dispatcher that she believed her father killed her mother and then himself.

The Smiths’ other child, a son, James, was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1999 in Hubbard. He was 24.

Postage price increase

YOUNGSTOWN — The cost of a single first-class stamp will increase from 42 cents to 44 cents effective Monday.

The U.S. Postal Service says it’s part of an annual price scale adjustment.

In 2006, Congress signed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act into law, ensuring a cap on the rate in which postage can be adjusted.

The postal laws divided the office into two sections, mailing and shipping. The shipping side had rate adjustments in January.

Man jumps into lake

BOARDMAN — Firefighters are trying to determine why a 37-year-old man jumped into Lake Newport somewhere near Lanterman’s Mill on Friday afternoon.

Joe Rosky, Boardman Fire Department assistant chief, said firefighters Tom Donadee and Gary Houser jumped in after the man, who was intoxicated, and pulled him out of the water before he reached the waterfalls at Lanterman’s Mill.

Fire Capt. Ron Russ said Youngstown responded to the scene with a motorized rubber raft as backup.

The man was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center.

Choffin artwork review

YOUNGSTOWN — The commercial-art program at Choffin Career & Technical Center, 200 E. Wood St., will present a review of the portfolios of its junior and senior students from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the center’s lower level.

Romaine Ruffley, commercial art instructor, has invited numerous professional artists to view and critique the students’ work. Family, friends and students interested in pursuing art are invited to attend.

The commercial-art program focuses on skills taught to students in the areas of design, desk-top publishing, mechanical art and reproduction, photography, hand-lettering, calligraphy and screen printing.

Memorial service

BROOKFIELD — Brookfield Township Firefighters Auxiliary members and police are inviting the public to the annual memorial service honoring deceased members at 7 p.m. May 19 in Fire Hall 774 on state Route 7.

A light supper will be served for members and their guests before the memorial service, but refreshments will be served to the public after the service.

Those looking to attend should contact: Raella Baker at (330) 448-4386; Janet Wedge, (330) 448-8070; or Pat Barnhart, (330) 448-8550.

Indecent exposure

YOUNGSTOWN — Police are looking for a man who exposed himself and chased a 12-year-old girl walking to school Thursday on Glenwood Avenue near Rockview Avenue.

The man, exposed and performing a sex act, pulled alongside the girl. He was driving a maroon minivan with rust on the sides and asked the girl to get into the vehicle. The girl began running, and the man attempted to chase her, police said.

The girl managed to run to a friend’s house, and the man left the area.

The man was said to be in his early 20s with reddish brown hair and missing front teeth.

St. Rose registration

GIRARD — St. Rose School, 61 E. Main St., will have kindergarten screening May 20. Registration for first through eighth grades also is being accepted.

Contact the school office at (330) 545-1163 to schedule a screening or tour and for registration material.

St. Rose School is an Ohio Education Choice Scholarship (voucher) participating school. The school offers busing from Girard and Liberty.