METRO DIGEST || Route 224 lane restrictions start today

Route 224 roadwork

BOARDMAN

U.S. Route 224 westbound at Tanglewood Drive will have various lane restrictions for drainage repairs from 5 a.m. to 4 p.m. today.

Learn to grow

YOUNGSTOWN

City residents interested in learning how to grow produce for sale may sign up for the free market gardener training program at the Iron Roots Urban Farm on Canfield Road, which is the working farm and training center for the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. New participants will be supplied with books. The application deadline is 5 p.m. March 8. Applications are available at the YNDC office, 201 E. Commerce St., Suite 140, or at www.yndc.org.

Pharmacist threatened

BOARDMAN

Police continue to investigate a robbery at a pharmacy in which a man took about $2,500 worth of oxycodone, a prescription painkiller.

The robbery occurred about 11:15 p.m. Tuesday at Walgreens, 7295 Market St., police said. A pharmacist told police she had just finished taking a phone order when the other phone line rang. When she answered, a man said “I’m withdrawing off my meds, give me all your oxys,” according to reports.

The man yelled at her, saying he could see her and if she didn’t comply, he would shoot her and threatened to kill her, police said. He told the pharmacist to place the bag in the drive-through window, which she did, and said he would be back for more medications, records show.

No indictment

WARREN

A Trumbull County grand jury refused to indict a 31-year-old Lexington Avenue Northwest man on felony charges of aggravated arson and domestic violence relating to a fire at the house he shared with a 51-year-old woman Dec. 30.

Bruce Vonbergen was charged after the woman reported seeing Vonbergen pounding on the back door to the home and saying something about the porch being on fire.

The woman saw flames, so she and two others fled the house. The woman had called police to the house earlier that night claiming Vonbergen had broken a variety of things in the home. The fire caused minimal damage.

Tax bills coming

YOUNGSTOWN

Mahoning County property owners will receive their first-half real-estate tax bills in the mail in the next few days, county Treasurer Daniel R. Yemma has announced. The deadline to pay without penalty is March 8. Taxes may be paid in person between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., business days, at the county treasurer’s office, 120 Market St., first floor, or by mail, or online by credit card or electronic check. Tax payments postmarked on or before March 8 will be considered on time.

Boil advisory lifted

Hubbard

The boil advisory issued Monday in Brookfield and Hubbard townships due to a water main break and repair work has been lifted for Trumbull County Water customers on the following streets: Stiver, North Price, Vanness, Hubbard-Masury, Richardson, Connelly, Catherine, Madeline, Hubbard-Thomas between U.S. Route 62 and Hubbard-Masury Road, and Chestnut Ridge between Route 62 and Hubbard-Masury Road. For information, contact the Trumbull County Sanitary Engineer at 330-675-2775.