Traffic charge

Traffic charge

SEBRING

Bentley Lenhoff, 81, of Uniontown, Ohio, is scheduled to be arraigned March 15 in Mahoning County Area Court here on a traffic charge of failure to control stemming from a two-car crash about 3:30 p.m. Thursday.

According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol report, Lenhoff, eastbound on state Route 165, stopped at a stop sign, then turned right onto state Route 45 into the path of a southbound vehicle driven by Michael Palmer, 35, of Lisbon. Lenhoff is former executive director of the Youngstown Playhouse.

No serious injuries were reported. The OSHP reports said Palmer was taken to Salem Community Hospital by his wife, who was not involved in the crash. Two passengers in Lenhoff’s vehicle, Nancy Lenhoff, 81, of Uniontown, and Lyndean Brick, 52, of Frankfort, Ill., were treated at the scene by Green Township EMS personnel. The Goshen Police Department and Damascus Fire Department assisted the OSHP at the scene.

BOE meeting

AUSTINTOWN

Austintown Board of Education’s Administrative Oversight Subcommittee meets at 2 p.m. today at the school board office, 700 S. Raccoon Road.

Location changed

Ellsworth

The location of the Ellsworth Township Zoning Board workshop at 7 tonight has been changed due to the primary election. It will be at the Town Hall, U.S. Route 224.

Public showing

VILLA MARIA, Pa.

Sisters of the Humility of Mary will offer a public showing of “Split Estate,” an Emmy Award-winning documentary on hydraulic fracturing and natural gas, at 6:30 p.m. March 20 in Villa Maria Community Center conference room. It is open to all and free. “Split Estate” maps a tragedy in the making, as citizens in the path of a new drilling boom in the Rocky Mountains area struggle against the erosion of their civil liberties, communities and health. For information, call 724-964-8920, ext. 3331.

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