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New YSU trustee

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Gov. John Kasich appointed Atty. James E. “Ted” Roberts of Poland to the Youngstown State University board of trustees.

Roberts’ term began Wednesday and runs through April 30, 2022. Roberts replaces Scott Schulick, whose term expired.

Roberts is a lawyer, director and stockholder with the Youngstown firm Roth, Blair, Roberts, Strasfeld & Lodge, where he’s been president since 2002. He also has served as a limited-service instructor at YSU’s Beeghly College of Education, teaching graduate courses on school law and collective bargaining.

Since 1978, he has represented several Mahoning Valley school districts including Youngstown City Schools.

Roberts earned his bachelor’s degree from YSU and his law degree from the University of Akron School of Law.

4 hurt in 2-car crash

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Four people were injured and trapped in a two-car accident Wednesday night on U.S. Route 224 and Glenwood Avenue. All the victims were transported to St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol dispatcher did not know by press time how the victims were freed from both vehicles.

National Guard event

AUSTINTOWN

Ohio Army National Guard B Co., 237th Brigade Support Battalion, is having its annual open house from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at the Christy Armory, 475 Victoria Road.

Visitors will see the unit’s vehicles, weapons and training equipment, and get hands-on experience on several training devices, including pop-up targets, laser marksmanship, convoy simulation and military truck-driving simulation.

Also, there will also be an obstacle bouncer, face-painting and concessions. This is a family event meant to build awareness about the National Guard and what it does.

The ONG’s 838th Military Police Co., also located at the Armory, is deployed for a year to Afghanistan.

Service disruption

Craig Beach

Craig Beach water customers on Denver Drive, Lundys Lane, Triumph Avenue and Woodland Avenue should expect a temporary disruption of water service from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday.

A main waterline near these locations is being relocated to provide access for a storm sewer project by the JS NorthEast Co.

Customers are urged to fill clean containers or their bathtub with drinking water for coffee, cooking and other personal use the day before the disruption. It is mandatory to boil all water for cooking or drinking for 24 hours after water has been restored.

Customers with medical issues, small children or other special needs should contact the Mahoning County Sanitary Engineering Department for assistance at 330-793-5514.

Hot Dog Day events

NILES

The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile will participate in Harry Stevens Hot Dog Day on Sunday. The Wienermobile also will take part in the Fourth of July parade, set for 2 p.m. Sunday in the downtown area.

The event is in honor of Harry Stevens, who lived in Niles and is credited with inventing the hot dog, baseball scorecard and, by some accounts, the drinking straw.

The event also features an 11 a.m. baseball clinic in Waddell Park, cornhole tournament at noon behind the McKinley House, live music at 2:45, 5 and 7:30 p.m., hot-dog eating contest at 3 p.m., and wiener-dog races and costume contest at 4 p.m. at the bicycle trailhead park.

Menacing charge

HUBBARD

A 74-year-old Hubbard man threatened to shoot his neighbor with a shotgun because the fumes from the neighbor’s lawn mower were bothering him, according to a police report.

The neighbor called police when he saw Joseph Trolio Sr. polishing his shotgun in plain view of the shared yard area of their apartment building on Stewart Avenue. The neighbor told police Friday that Trolio was trying to intimidate him.

Trolio told police the weapon, which belonged to his son, had not been cleaned in a decade and that he needed to clean it that day. Police explained to Trolio that cleaning his gun in that fashion could be perceived as a threat, especially after the altercation over the lawn mower fumes. Trolio was given a summons to appear at Girard Municipal Court in July on a count of aggravated menacing.

Man arraigned

WARREN

Dwayne A. Elder, 23, of Viola Street Southwest, was arraigned in Warren Municipal Court on a felony charge called “attempt to commit an offense” for purportedly trying to break into a house on Delaware Avenue Southwest at 7:43 a.m. Tuesday.

The 34-year-old resident of the home said Elder hit the windows, yanked on the front door trying to get inside, then pushed in the air conditioner and hit the window, breaking it and cutting Elder’s arm.

A police officer found Elder nearby and arrested him. Elder was taken to ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital for treatment of his cut and then taken to Trumbull County jail.