H1N1-flu vaccine

H1N1-flu vaccine

BOARDMAN — Mahoning County District Board of Health will administer H1N1-flu vaccine at Boardman High School today from 3:30 to 8 p.m. There is no charge for either the nasal or the injectable H1N1-flu vaccine.

Children under age 10 who received their first H1N1 vaccine before Jan. 1 are eligible to receive their second H1N1-vaccine dose at this clinic. County health officials urge anyone 6 months of age or older to get the H1N1-flu vaccine. Flu season can extend into April, said Diana Colaianni, nursing director.

Academic Challenge

SALEM — The Columbiana County Educational Service Center is coordinating the County Varsity Academic Challenge competition starting at 9 a.m. Saturday at Salem High School.

Ten Columbiana County high schools will compete in the tournament. One team will emerge as county champion.

The winner will represent the county at the Regional Academic Competition on April 24 at Jefferson Community College in Steubenville. The state tournament is May 1 at Columbus State Community College.

The event marks the 33rd consecutive year for the Columbiana County Varsity Academic Challenge. It is the longest-running countywide academic competition in the state. The event is open to the public.

First-, second- and third-place winners will be announced at 2:45 p.m. in the cafeteria.

Delivery driver robbed

YOUNGSTOWN — Police are looking for the man who robbed a pizza-delivery driver on the South Side.

The 58-year-old Pizza Hut delivery man went to a home in the 500 block of East Avondale at 5 p.m. Tuesday, police report. He pulled into the driveway, blocking a cream-colored sedan. The passenger in the sedan asked him to move his car so the sedan could back out.

The driver told police he let the sedan back out of the driveway, then was approached by the same passenger, who pulled a gun and demanded his money. The thief made off with $29, a pizza and three other food products.

Rogers man arrested

NEW MIDDLETOWN — A Rogers man, wanted on charges of felony aggravated burglary and misdemeanor theft, was arrested by the Columbiana County sheriff’s office.

Village Chief Vincent D’Egidio said deputies found Jack Nalley, 25, hiding in the basement of his mother’s house in Wellsville.

Nalley is scheduled to appear Friday morning in Struthers Municipal Court.

Nalley is accused of forcing his way into his ex-girlfriend’s apartment in the village and pulling a handgun on the woman and her male companion. He also is accused of taking the woman’s cell phone and fleeing.

YWCA workshop set

WARREN — The third and final workshop on communicating with a teenager will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the YWCA, 375 N. Park Ave.

The session is free and open to the public and will be run by Mary Olesh, a certified family life educator, and Toni Blake, YW teen program manager.

The workshop brings together the discussion from the first two sessions — “Getting to Know You” and “Whose House is It Anyway?” — but attendance at the first two sessions is not required to attend the third one. Register by calling the YWCA at (330) 373-1010.