Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Explosion injures teen
HUBBARD
A teenage boy from Hubbard suffered face injuries during an explosion late Monday.
“From what we gather — and the police did the investigation — they were supposed to be camping out and they went into the woods by the oil well with tiki torches, and I guess something exploded. We’re still investigating it,” said Hubbard Fire Chief John Clemente.
Two other teenage boys were with him and didn’t suffer any injuries, Clemente said.
Class of ’68 reunion
BAZETTA
About 150 people — nearly evenly split between 1968 graduates of Warren Western Reserve and Warren Harding High schools — are expected for a 60th birthday party, 4 to 10 p.m. Saturday at Maffitt Meadows, 2970 Hoagland Blackstub Road.
There was a good response because it is an event different from any event ever in Trumbull and Mahoning counties, said Ron Zelenak, one of the birthday party organizers. The class of 1968 went to elementary school and middle school together but were split up for their senior year of high school, so they made many friends from the other side of town, Zelenak and other organizers have said.
For more information, e-mail Zelenak at billow277@yahoo.com or Mark Clawges at undy526@hotmail.com.
I-80 delays
GIRARD
Beginning Thursday, Interstate 80 will have 15-minute traffic stoppages at Mosier Road for utility-line work. The stoppages will occur every half-hour between the hours of 9 p.m. and midnight. Delays are to be expected, according to a press release from the Ohio Department of Transportation.
Toddler fundraiser
Austintown
A pair of young girls are doing what they can to help a toddler with leukemia. Ashley Mickey and Courtney Schwind, both 8, are setting up a lemon shake and candy sale from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday in front of Mahoning Medical Supply on the corner of state Route 46 and Ohltown Road. Proceeds will benefit 2-year-old Brett Wilcox of Austintown, who is fighting acute myeloid leukemia and has undergone several rounds of chemotherapy already. He is scheduled for a bone-marrow transplant in Cincinnati.
The fundraiser will take place rain or shine, and Austintown Detective Sgt. Ray Holmes said the department plans to send officers over throughout the day to support the effort.
Pizza-robbery suspect
liberty
Police are looking for Daniel Litz, 22, of West Second Street, Erie, Pa., who is accused of robbing Papa John’s Pizza, 3175 Belmont Ave., around 8:30 p.m. Monday. The manager told police a man came into the pizza place and ordered water. Then he pulled out a revolver and demanded money in the register. With the assistance of U.S. Marshals, the suspect was identified as Litz, who had escaped from a detention facility in Erie.
Gas line ruptured
HOWLAND
Workers cutting into the roadway at the intersection of Henn-Hyde Road and Hunt Club Trail ruptured a gas line Tuesday afternoon, forcing the evacuation of two nearby homes. The rupture, which occurred at 1 p.m., was repaired by about 2 p.m. Howland Fire Department and Trumbull County 911 officials said they didn’t know the identity of the company whose workers ruptured the line.
McDonald levy
McDONALD
McDonald Board of Education approved placing a 13.4-mill emergency levy on the Nov. 2 ballot to generate $715,000 a year. The board took the action at its Tuesday meeting after the Trumbull County Auditor’s office certified the millage and amount to be generated for the five-year levy. The funds will be used to help the district dig out of a $2.01 million debt, which placed the district in state fiscal emergency in October 2009. The board also approved seeking approval for renewal of a 2-mill levy for five years to generate $61,828 annually to provide for general improvements.