Legacy Academy for Leaders will close

School will close

YOUNGSTOWN

Citing declining enrollment, the board of directors of Legacy Academy for Leaders and the Arts has opted to close the school’s doors at the end of the school year.

The school has 52 students enrolled this year compared with 250 in past years. The school in Mount Calvary Pentecostal Church on Oak Hill Avenue has been in operation for 10 years.

It started as a kindergarten-through-10th-grade school and later scaled back to kindergarten through sixth grade.

Two in custody face drug charges

WARREN

Two people were taken into custody Thursday at 164 Park Drive, Leavittsburg, after the Trumbull Ashtabula Group Law Enforcement Task Force served a search warrant there and found methamphetamine along with materials typically used to make the drug.

Joshua J. Eubank, 36, was found outside of the house, and Chelsey A. Kirby, 25, was found inside. Both face drug charges and were taken to the Trumbull County Jail.

Officers sought the search warrant after a monthlong investigation.

In addition to the drugs, which were in a package, officers found digital scales, portable radios, a police scanner, hypodermic needles, and Mason jars with suspected drug residue.

YSU vice president

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Jack Fahey, who has worked 31 years in various capacities in Youngstown State University’s Division of Student Affairs, has been named that division’s vice president.

Fahey has served as interim vice president of Student Affairs since July 1, 2010, when Cynthia Anderson, who formerly filled the post, was appointed YSU president. His annual salary will be $140,000.

“Jack has a passion for this university and our students that guides every decision he has made in more than three decades at YSU,” Anderson said. “There is no better person to ensure that the interests and welfare of our students are being met.”

Anderson made the appointment after a three-month national search led by a seven-member search committee.

Petition drive seeks to reach goal today

Boardman

We Are Ohio members will push to reach their petition-signing goal to place Senate Bill 5 on the November ballot today.

SB 5, signed into law by Gov. John Kasich earlier this year, restricts some collective-bargaining rights for the state’s public employees. A drive is under way to place the issue on the November ballot. More than 231,000 valid signatures are needed. We Are Ohio is spearheading the petition drive.

In Boardman, Mahoning County firefighters, teachers, nurses and other public employees will have a “drive-through” petition signing from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at Shepherd Self-Storage, 7345 South Ave.

State Sen. Joe Schiavoni of Canfield, D-33rd, and JoAnn Johntony of the Ohio Association of Public School Employees will be available to comment.

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