OH WOW! Free entry to children’s center this weekend

September 2, 2011 at 12:00a.m.

Youngstown

All visitors to OH WOW! The Roger & Gloria Jones Children’s Center for Science & Technology, 11 W. Federal St., downtown, will be admitted at no cost Saturday and Sunday. The cost of admission is being underwritten by First National Bank in conjunction with a new interactive ATM exhibit at the museum. Visitors will be able to watch what happens inside an actual ATM as they conduct simulated banking transactions. At designated times throughout the weekend, First National Bank employees will help children understand the value of saving money.

While supplies last, children attending these instructional sessions will receive a piggy bank.

Free admission will be available during the regularly scheduled weekend hours of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.

Suspect in Howland burglaries arrested

HOWLAND

Detectives with the Trumbull County Sheriff’s Office have arrested a 46-year-old man in connection with two home burglaries.

They also believe he’s responsible for about a dozen car break-ins in recent days in Fowler and Bristol townships.

The man was arrested at the Capri Motel in Howland Township on Wednesday and is being held in the Trumbull County Jail on a probation violation, said Maj. Thomas Stewart of the sheriff’s office.

He is believed to have broken into a home on Hyde Shaffer Road in Bristol Township on Wednesday and a home on Beech-Smith Road in Kinsman Township on Aug. 17, Stewart said.

Boardman meeting

boardman

The Boardman Township Civil Service Commission will meet at 8:30 a.m. today in the conference room of the township government building, 8299 Market St.

Produce giveaway

WARREN

The Warren Family Mission will have a free produce distribution at its 361 Elm Road NE location at 10 a.m. Thursday. The produce will be provided by Second Harvest Food Bank.

11 face disorderly conduct charges

NEWTON FALLS

Police charged five adults with disorderly conduct and 11 juveniles with disorderly conduct and a curfew violation early Thursday after youths got into an argument near the downtown area.

Police were called at 12:44 a.m. to 17 River St., a commercial building, about a group of young people who had congregated and were making threats.

It appeared that the conflict involved a group of youths from Mahoning County and another group from Newton Falls village and township, Newton Falls police said.

Arrested werew seven from Youngstown, three from Newton Falls, and two each from Newton Township, Canfield and Austintown.