Mall festival will close earlier Friday and Saturday after melee

BOARDMAN

An outdoor festival at the Southern Park Mall, where fights broke out last weekend, will close earlier both Friday and Saturday this week, township officials said.

Jason Loree, township administrator, said the event will close at 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

“I’ve also told [police chief] Jack [Nichols] that if the township needs to send out additional police officers for overtime we will do that,” Loree said.

There’s also been discussion — although no decision — about sending that overtime bill to the mall, he said.

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