METRO DIGEST || Groundbreaking for new Rayen stadium Friday

Groundbreaking for new stadium

YOUNGSTOWN

Groundbreaking for a new stadium will happen at 1 p.m. Friday at the site of the former Rayen School off Benita Avenue on the city’s North Side.

Supporters of the Rayen Stadium renovation project, which has a $3 million goal, can make their donations online at www.rayenstadium.org. Contributions by traditional mail are also accepted.

Donors of larger amounts can have their support memorialized on a brick walkway or a donor wall that will be built near the stadium locker rooms. More information about contributing funds or construction services is available online at www.rayenstadium.org or from the Rayen Stadium information line at 330-740-8773.

Contributions may also be made by checks to the Rayen Stadium Renovation Fund mailed to Youngstown City School District, Rayen Stadium Renovation Fund, P.O. Box 550, Youngstown, OH 44501-0550.

Former judge to be released from jail

YOUNGSTOWN

Maureen A. Cronin, a former Mahoning County Common Pleas Court judge, is scheduled to be released today from a federal prison facility in Greenville, Ill.

She was sent there in March 2010 to serve time for honest-services mail fraud.

Cronin admitted taking, and not reporting on a state disclosure form, an $18,000, no-interest cash loan from Flora Cafaro, part-owner of the Cafaro Co., while that company had cases pending in her courtroom.

Cronin resigned from her judgeship in 2007 and resigned from her law practice in 2010 shortly before she entered prison.

Seeking students for JA event

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Junior Achievement of Mahoning Valley is looking for junior and senior high school students from Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana and Ashtabula counties to compete in the third annual JA Titan Business Challenge.

Students can form teams of two to three students to compete using JA Titan, an online business educational program. Teams will have the opportunity to create, manage and operate their own virtual businesses. Each team will get paired with a local business mentor as they compete in the first two rounds. First-place team members will each be awarded a $500 scholarship.

The event will be from 7:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. March 15 at Youngstown State University’s Williamson College of Business Administration.

Contact Melissa D’Apolito at 330.539.5268 or jamvmelissa@onecom.com.

Block Watch

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Powerstown Neighborhood Block Watch meets at 7 p.m. today in New Vision New Day Church, 1970 Everett Ave. Councilman John R. Swierz, D-7th, will discuss neighborhood issues.

Baseball meeting

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A parent meeting and registration will be from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at Chestnut Ridge Church of God, 7215 Chestnut Ridge Road, for Challenger Baseball.

The league is for special-needs children age 4 to 18 (or the completion of high school) from Trumbull and Mercer counties. For information, call 330-448-1903.