Metro Digest

H1N1 vaccine offered

LISBON — The Columbiana County Health Department, 7360 state Route 45, has announced an H1N1 clinic today at the health department for people 6 months to 24 years old.

The department will continue to provide vaccines to pregnant women with a doctor’s referral, medical professionals and first responders.

The clinic will be offered from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. at the department. The department plans to finish the first round of clinics in county school districts Wednesday.

With continued vaccine shipments, the health department and the school districts anticipate additional vaccine clinics in mid-December to administer the second dose of vaccine for children 9 and under. Parents and students will be notified directly by their school district of these additional clinics.

The Columbiana County Health Department will expand H1N1-vaccination clinics in the coming weeks pending vaccine availability for caregivers of children under 6 months and those age 25-64 with chronic illnesses. All people are encouraged to complete vaccine registration form online at www.odh.ohio.gov in advance to ensure efficient vaccination programs.

Search for youth

NEW WATERFORD — New Waterford Police Chief Dan Haueter is asking people for any information about the whereabouts of Sebastian Bragg, 14, who ran away from home last Wednesday.

He is believed to be with Andrew Taromina, 22, who has lived in New Waterford, Alliance and North Carolina.

Police do not think there is any foul play involved.

Haueter asked people with information to call police at (330) 457-2444.

Man sought for questioning

YOUNGSTOWN — Police want to speak with an unidentified Jean Street man after a teen girl said the man exposed himself and performed a sex act in her presence while she was walking to school.

Police reports say the 14-year-old girl called her mother Monday morning while still enroute to East High School and said the man appeared in a window of his home without clothes just after 7:30 a.m. The girl’s mother told police the man has spoken to the girl in the past, commenting on how pretty she is.

Police went to the man’s home but received no answer at the door.

Robberies probed

YOUNGSTOWN — Police are investigating several weekend armed robberies that took place on the South and North sides of town.

A 25-year-old Lora Avenue man told police he was robbed at gunpoint while walking to his apartment building at midnight Sunday.

A South Side man told police he was robbed at gunpoint in the driveway of his home Saturday. The man told police he had just gotten off work and was standing in the driveway of his Everett Street home when a man with a handgun robbed him.

Police were called to a home on Brooklyn Avenue just before 10 p.m. Saturday for another armed robbery.

An Illinois man told police he is working for a company that has him fixing work trucks at the Brooklyn Avenue location. He said two men robbed him of cash, two laptop computers, two cell phones, a radar detector, a CB radio and a GPS system from inside the man’s work truck.

Food donations sought

WARREN — Dr. Patrick Ensminger of Trumbull County Chiropractic will conduct his 13th annual holiday food drive at his Elm Road clinic through Thanksgiving. All food donations brought to the clinic, located next to Panera Bread, will be turned over to Second Harvest Food Bank to help local families during the holidays. Contributors are asked to donate five or more nonperishable food items. All who donate are entered into a drawing for prizes.