Discipline pending

Discipline pending

WARREN

Nick Kerosky, executive director of Trumbull County Children Services, says the agency employee who sent a threatening message Friday to the website of Atty. David Engler will be disciplined.

Kerosky said the employee was using an office computer to compose and send the message but it took place during the employee’s lunch hour. The employee sent messages to the website called “David Engler’s Elder Law Blog” the day after Engler participated in a hearing in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court regarding a lawsuit Engler filed against Children Services. The lawsuit asks the court to stop the agency from requiring citizens to put their name on a sign-in sheet before entering monthly meetings of the Children Services Board.

The message said Engler, of Canfield, should stay out of Trumbull County and stop being critical of Children Services or else steps will be taken to embarrass Engler and hurt his law practice.

No plea entered in marijuana case

CANFIELD

A Canfield man accused of growing more than 300 marijuana plants did not enter a plea during his Wednesday arraignment in Mahoning Area Court here.

Charles Brian Muth, 40, is charged with illegal assembly or manufacturing of drugs, a second-degree felony. Muth also is charged with aggravated menacing and ethnic intimidation in a separate case in Boardman.

Boardman police were investigating the menacing case when they searched Muth’s residence at 9075 Briarwood Court and saw the marijuana plants, officers said.

Muth reportedly is renting the Briarwood Court house, which is valued at more than $300,000.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is investigating.

Board meeting

Youngstown

Youngstown Academy of Excellence has called an emergency board meeting for 9:30 a.m. today at the academy, 1408 Rigby St.

Open house

AUSTINTOWN

Fresenius Medical Care North America is having an open house from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at its newly renovated dialysis clinic at 139 Javit Court. Nurses and staff will be available to discuss patient services and dialysis treatment options, including home dialysis, and the Treatment Options Program education session.

There also will be tours to view the facility’s dialysis technology and treatment stations, which include touch-screen media systems and reclining, heated treatment chairs with massage features. Light refreshments will be available.

Meeting planned

Youngstown

Powerstown Neighbors Block Watch will meet at 7 p.m. today at New Vision New Day Church, 1970 Everett Ave. Councilman John R. Swierz will discuss neighborhood issues.

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