Metro digest || GM CEO here today

GM CEO here today

Lordstown

Ed Whitacre, CEO of General Motors, will tour the Lordstown Assembly Complex today during a visit with employees. GM Lordstown spokesman Tom Mock said the event will not be open to the public or media.

Whitacre, who has been running GM since January, will survey the multimillion-dollar improvements being made to the plant in preparation for manufacturing the new Chevrolet Cruze this summer, Mock said.

School district closes open enrollment

liberty

Liberty schools will not accept any new open-enrollment students for the 2010-11 school year. The district has 108 students through open enrollment; the policy change will not affect them.

“When we look at the current status of the Liberty schools, we are reaching classroom/teacher capacity, and now is the time to close open enrollment to new students for the 2010-11 school year,” said Jeffrey Grinstein, school board president.

The change will be effective with the next school year that begins in August.

Man, 79, in squalor

campbell

Police found a 79-year-old man living in squalor in his Sixth Street home after being called Monday for a welfare check. The man had fallen in his living room.

A police report said the residence had “garbage and junk” piled throughout, and had “a strong odor.”

The man told police he had no home-health-care workers or family members to contact. Police found a relative who was able to come and secure the house. The man was taken to Northside Medical Center.

Rash of car break-ins

boardman

Residents of Windsor Road, Glenwood Avenue and Devonshire and Hudson drives reported their cars broken into between Sunday and Monday.

Windows were broken in each of the nine vehicles, and some owners reported cash, photos, a diaper bag and a GPS unit taken from their cars.