St. Pat’s Parade

St. Pat’s Parade

BOARDMAN

The 34th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade will step off at 1 p.m. March 11. The two-hour parade will begin on Market Street at McClurg Road and proceed north on Market Street to Southwoods Avenue. The parade’s theme is “Cead Mile Failte,” which translates from Gaelic to “A Hundred Thousand Welcomes.” Grand marshal is John Sheridan.

School registration

YOUNGSTOWN

Registration for children planning to enter Youngstown Community School, 50 Essex St., for the 2012-13 school year will take place from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday and 7:30 a.m. to noon Friday.

All applicants are subject to a lottery per grade level. Children applying for kindergarten must be age 5 on or before Sept. 30. For information, call Dianne Grimm, school secretary, at 330-746-2240.

Forums on levies

Poland

Two public levy forums are set for Sunday.

In the morning, the Breakfast Club at Poland Presbyterian Church, 2 Poland Manor, will hear from school and township officials discussing levy measures on the March 6 ballot. The club meets at 10 a.m. in the church’s fellowship hall.

Another forum will be at 7 p.m. that day in the Poland Seminary High School auditorium.

The school is asking for a 3.8-mill, 5-year additional emergency-operating levy to generate $1,448,561 annually. After a bond reduction and tax rollbacks are taken into account, the levy would cost the owner of a $100,000 home $91.88 per year. The schools also are asking for a 1.0-mill permanent-improvement renewal levy.

Poland Township seeks approval of a 2-mill renewal levy to maintain roads and bridges.

Animal cruelty

YOUNGSTOWN

An East Pasadena Avenue man is accusing his nephew of animal cruelty, saying the nephew shot his pit-bull terrier with a pellet gun.

The man told police his nephew came by the Pasadena Avenue home looking to speak with him Sunday but got into an argument with the man’s wife over the nephew’s blowing his horn in the driveway. The man said his dog came outside, and his wife returned to the house.

The man said his wife heard popping sounds, and the dog came back to the house bleeding from both hind legs.