McMenamy’s owner faces noise charge

NILES—The owner of McMenamy’s Restaurant and Banquet Center faces a hearing in Municipal Court Friday on a charge of violating the city’s recently revised noise ordinance. Complaints about loud band concerts at McMenamy’s last year led council to work for several months on revisions to the noise ordinance. City council finally enacted it into law last month.

Police say Robert Leonard, owner of the Youngstown-Warren Road business, was cited early Sunday morning. Police Lt. Dave Smathers said that officers had responded to complaints about the loud bands twice during the afternoon and evening, and that Leonard had agreed to “tone it down.” However, Smathers said that he issued the citation after 1 a.m. Sunday.

“Although the band was playing for a fundraiser, under the ordinance, the (music) should have ended by midnight and it didn’t,” Smathers said.

A call requesting comment from Leonard was not returned.