Council meeting

Council meeting

Struthers

A special meeting of Struthers City Council will be at 7 p.m. today in council chambers. Lawmakers plan to fill the position of clerk of council for Jan. 1, 2012, through Dec. 31, 2013. The clerk will be sworn in.

Girard City Council

Girard

Girard City Council will have its organizational meeting at 7 p.m. today in council chambers, 100 N. Market St.

Shootings probed

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are investigating two weekend shootings.

A 21-year-old South Side man told police he was walking from a corner store to his East Ravenwood Avenue home Monday when a maroon car rolled past him and opened fire, hitting him in the arm.

He was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center’s Boardman campus, where it was determined that the wound was not life-threatening.

A 21-year-old South Side woman was hit by gunfire Friday when bullets ripped through the walls of her East Florida Avenue home.

The woman told police she was in bed with her three children when she heard about five gunshots and realized she had been shot in the arm. Her 23-year-old boyfriend pulled her and the children from the bed to the floor then called 911.

She was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center, where medical personnel determined she had been grazed by the bullet just below the armpit.

Jail disturbance

NILES

Gary Arnio, 37, of Circle Street, Niles, pleaded innocent to two counts of misdemeanor assault and single counts of misdemeanor menacing and criminal trespassing Tuesday in Niles Municipal Court after causing a disturbance in the Niles jail.

Around 1 a.m. Sunday, Arnio was banging, kicking the door and yelling obscenities inside the jail and saying he’d been falsely arrested.

He had been placed in the cell about an hour earlier, just after the new year began, on a trespassing charge.

When two officers entered his cell, Arnio fought with them, assaulting both of them and threatening one of them.

He eventually was brought under control after being hit with a stun gun.

Quake discussion

YOUNGSTOWN

The West Side Citizens Coalition is sponsoring a talk next week by Dr. Jeffrey Dick, chairman of the Youngstown State University geology department, concerning the possible relationship between hydraulic fracturing and several area earthquakes.

He will discuss the drilling that has been taking place off Salt Springs Road.

The meeting is set for 7 p.m. Tuesday at the D.D. & Velma Davis Center at Mill Creek Park’s Fellows Riverside Gardens, 123 McKinley Ave. There will be a question-and-answer period after his presentation.

For more information, contact Karen Fox at kfox65@sbcglobal.net.

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