Input favors new schools

Input favors new schools

AUSTINTOWN — Township residents expressed strong support for a proposal to replace two schools.

The board of education conducted two informational meetings earlier this month and received feedback on a proposal to replace Frank Ohl Intermediate and Watson Elementary schools with two new facilities. The projects would be funded by the Ohio School Facilities Commission and a township tax. The state would provide about 47 percent of the funds.

The new schools would replace the structures on the district’s main campus between Idaho and Raccoon roads. One building would house students in kindergarten through second grade, and the other would house grades three through five.

The board’s next regular meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. June 23 in the Austintown Middle School cafetorium.

To view the video played at the meetings, visit www.austintown.k12.oh.us/main.

New Warren museum

WARREN — The public is invited to attend the free grand opening of the Women’s Suffrage Museum and archives at Upton House, 380 Mahoning Ave. N.W., from 2 to 5 p.m. today.

The museum and archives were built in a 600-square-foot room above the garage that was formerly used as an apartment before it was renovated, said Sandra Sarsany, museum curator.

The downtown museum contains displays of memorabilia, suffrage jewelry, dishes and other items pertinent to the involvement of Upton and other local women in the suffrage movement. The house was once the national headquarters for the women’s suffrage movement.

For more information, call (330) 395-1840 or visit www.uptonhouse.org online.

Accused of stealing gas

NEW SPRINGFIELD – A member of the Springfield Township EMS squad faces a June 10 hearing on township administrative charges that she stole gasoline from township tanks.

Springfield Township trustees filed disciplinary charges against EMS volunteer Nancy Marx, accusing her of “malfeasance and misconduct in office.” They allege that she “filled her personal truck with fuel from the Springfield Township fuel pumps” March 20 and 21.

The charges are administrative, not criminal, and any penalty she could face also would be administrative. Marx could be dismissed from the squad depending on the outcome of the hearing at 6 p.m. June 10.

Officials said Marx is on a leave of absence from the EMS squad, which she joined in 2001.

Marx could not be reached to comment.

Noise citation contested

NILES — The owner of McMenamy’s Restaurant and Banquet Center has contested the noise-ordinance citation issued against the Youngstown-Warren Road business last weekend.

Robert Leonard entered a written innocent plea in Municipal Court on Friday.

A pretrial hearing has been scheduled for June 26.

Police charged the facility with violating the recently revised ordinance after receiving complaints from residents about loud music around 1 a.m. Monday.

Police said the ordinance requires cessation of the music after midnight Sunday.

Investigators said the concert was held as a fundraiser for charity.

Leonard has not responded to requests to comment.

Civil-suit trial scheduled

WARREN — A jury trial is set for Dec. 1 in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court in a civil suit filed against the city of Cortland over the death of a 16-year-old girl killed July 25, 2006, when she was struck by a cruiser.

The suit was filed by William D. Thompson, administrator of the estate of Cassandra N. Thompson of Kinsman, who died after being struck by the cruiser driven by Patrolman Jason Smith.

Smith was driving north on High Street and responding to a disturbance call on Stahl Drive about 11:30 p.m. when the accident occurred. The girl was crossing the street near a convenience store.

In a hearing Friday before Judge Thomas P. Curran, a visiting judge from Cuyahoga County, the parties also agreed to a final pretrial hearing Nov. 13.