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Snake goes missing

WARREN

A family living in the Candlelight Apartments on Berkshire Drive Southeast may not sleep well if they don’t soon discover where a 30-inch brown and black snake went.

A man living at 4241 Berkshire said he and his family had come home from a few days away and found the snake in the apartment Thursday morning.

“They moved the couch, and it went somewhere, but it’s still in the apartment,” John Onatz, the Warren police animal-control officer, told dispatchers.

The family told Onatz that the snake did not belong to them and that they “searched and searched, [and] they cannot find him anywhere,” Onatz said.

Road closing

Youngstown

North Phelps Street between Commerce and West Federal streets will be closed for the Mahoning Valley Italian American Sports Hall of Fame event from 5 p.m. today to 1 a.m. Saturday.

Medicare event

youngstown

The Ohio Senior Health Insurance Information Program will have a “Welcome to Medicare” event in Mahoning County at the Youngstown Senior Center on Tuesday at 6 p.m. to help new and soon-to-be beneficiaries understand the basics of Medicare. The senior center is at 1110 Fifth Ave.

At the Welcome to Medicare event, people also can learn the benefits Medicare provides and important deadlines. Information also will be shared about Medicare Advantage plans, prescription-drug coverage and supplemental health-insurance coverage.

There also will be information about financial- assistance programs that help pay for Medicare’s Part B premium, which is $99.90 per month in 2012, and out-of-pocket expenses associated with prescription-drug costs.

Woman shot in leg

WARREN

A 28-year-old Vernon Avenue Northwest woman remained in ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital on Thursday afternoon with a gunshot wound to her lower leg she suffered early Thursday in the parking lot of the Sunoco gas station, 805 W. Market St.

The woman said she was pumping gas at 2:59 a.m. when a fight in the parking lot broke out. “She said that people were trying to get out of the way when gunshots were heard,” a Warren police report said.

Conservation fund

YOUNGSTOWN

Eastgate Regional Council of Governments is announcing the start of Round 7 of the Clean Ohio Conservation Fund for Mahoning and Trumbull counties.

The fund has protected more than 3,000 acres of open space in both counties in the last six months. Pre-applications are due Aug. 24, and the final applications will be due Nov. 9.

Eastgate also has announced that District 6 Natural Resources Assistance Council, charged with reviewing and scoring local conservation projects for state funding, needs nominations for a council vacancy. The position is for the remainder of a three-year term that ends in October 2014.

For information about the Clean Ohio Conservation Fund or the vacant council seat, call Rachel McCartney at 330-779-3800.