Metro Digest || Golf course opening

Golf course opening

YOUNGSTOWN

The city-owned Henry Stambaugh Golf Course on the North Side was to open at 8 a.m. today, weather permitting.

The city is paying $76,000 to David Boos to manage the course with the city keeping the course’s profits. Boos has been the course’s golf pro since 2006.

The course typically opens March 1, but because of the city’s financial problems, the opening was delayed as city officials worked out a deal with Boos.

The nine-hole course will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday and 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, weather permitting. The course’s last day of the season is Nov. 30. Greens fees are $8.50 for city residents, $9 for nonresidents.

Street union to vote

YOUNGSTOWN

The 31-member city street union will vote Monday on whether to take the city administration’s “last, best and final” contract offer or go on strike.

City administration and Teamsters Local 377 officials met Thursday to discuss the contract. The city made “very minor changes” to its contract proposal, which already had been rejected twice by the union, said Sam Prosser, the union’s president and business agent.

The contract’s two sticking points are a change to out-of- classification pay and the job bidding based on seniority, he said.

Gun-sales-ban suit

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A gun-rights group is suing the city over an ordinance that bans gun sales in the city limits.

Ohioans for Concealed Carry filed the suit Thursday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

The suit asks for a declaratory judgment invalidating the ordinance, passed in January. It also asks for recovery of costs and attorney fees.

The ordinance is also the subject of a protest rally at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Campbell city building on Tenney Avenue.

Council is expected to repeal the ordinance at its meeting Wednesday. It had been tabled and was in the process of being amended to prohibit store sales but allow private sales. Council has said it may introduce a new ordinance that would regulate through zoning where guns can be sold.

Model UN session

YOUNGSTOWN

More than 300 high school students from 14 area schools will convene at Youngstown State University today for the 22nd annual High School Model United Nations Conference.

Students from Northeast Ohio and western Pennsylvania will simulate various international committees such as the U.N. General Assembly 3rd Committee, The Human Rights Council, African Union, the International Criminal Court and the United Nations Security Council. Topics include human trafficking and peace and security in Africa and Afghanistan.

Cynthia Anderson, YSU president-elect, will be the keynote speaker for the program that begins at 8 a.m. in YSU’s Kilcawley Center.