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Deputy recovering

YOUNGSTOWN

A Mahoning County deputy sheriff is recovering in a Columbus hospital from injuries sustained in a two-car accident in Delaware County while picking up a prisoner.

The sheriff department’s Maj. Lenny Sliwinski said Deputies Larry Dollak and John Naples were sent to Delaware County on Tuesday morning to pick up a prisoner for an appearance in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. He said a woman in Delaware County pulled out in front of the deputies on U.S. Route 42 causing the accident.

Naples was transferred from a Delaware County hospital to the Riverside Trauma Center in Columbus, where he was treated for unspecified injuries. Sliwinski could not comment on his condition. Dollak and the prisoner being transported were treated for minor injuries and released. The driver of the other car was not injured.

Bank robbery

BOARDMAN

Police plan to resume a search today for the person who robbed a Market Street bank Wednesday afternoon.

A man walked into the First National Bank about noon, brandished a gun and demanded money.

Police Chief Jack Nichols said police are looking into the possibility that the gunman is the same person accused of robbing the Check into Cash store in the Boardman Plaza over the weekend. In that case, the gun was a BB gun that looked like an actual gun.

A robbery was reported earlier this week at Check into Cash on Mahoning Avenue, Austintown.

The same bank, near Southern Park Mall, also was robbed last January. A 40-year-old township man was charged in that crime.

Committee meeting

NORTH LIMA

Beaver Township Anniversary Committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Memorial Park, located behind the South Range High School Football Stadium in Beaver Township.

The committee is finalizing plans for the township’s 200th anniversary celebration scheduled to take place this summer. For more information, contact the Beaver Township Park Board at 330-549-9552.

History lecture

Youngstown

There will be a lecture on the history of Calvary Cemetery at 10 a.m. Saturday at Newport Library, 3730 Market St. The speaker will be Louis J. Joseph, treasurer of the Mahoning Valley Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society.

Joseph has co-authored a four-volume history of the cemetery, located at the corner of Mahoning Avenue and South Belle Vista Avenue on the city’s West Side, that recently received two prestigious awards from the Ohio Genealogical Society.

Drives to be closed

YOUNGSTOWN

Several Mill Creek MetroPark drives will be closed for the Eastern Regional Kidney Foundation Walk from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday.

Bears Den Drive, Cross Drive and New Cross Drive will be closed. Participants and spectators are asked to use the Wick recreation area parking lots accessible from the intersection of South Belle Vista Avenue and McCollum Road.

Opposition rally

BOARDMAN

A rally in opposition to Senate Bill 5 is scheduled from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Operating Engineers Hall, 291 McClurg Road. SB 5 is a law that restricts collective-bargaining rights for state employees. Opponents to the newly approved state law are collecting signatures to place an issue on the November ballot to repeal it.