Grants for projects

Grants for projects

COLUMBUS

The Ohio Development Services Agency has awarded two $300,000 grants to Mahoning Valley projects. One went to Columbiana County to replace the Sumner Street bridge, an unsafe 1920s-era bridge that crosses a small stream in East Palestine. The other went to Trumbull County for a series of sidewalk, street, park and fire-protection improvements in Girard.

The grants are competitively awarded within the Community Development Block Grant program. These awards are among more than $8 million in grants given to 23 Ohio communities.

Ribbon-cutting set at new village hall

EAST PALESTINE

Village Council will conduct its first meeting in the new village hall, 85 N. Market St., at 7 p.m. Monday, preceded by a 6 p.m. ribbon cutting and open house. The new village hall, which will give village offices larger quarters, is the former PNC Bank building that the village bought this year.

Village offices will move at the end of this month from the current village hall at 144 N. Market St. to the new location. Those offices will be closed Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 for the move.

Talk on nonviolence

Youngstown

The Young Women’s Christian Association of Youngstown and Community Initiative to Reduce Violence of Youngstown will present a talk on Non-violence Week in Ohio, featuring guest speaker Penny Wells at 5 p.m. Tuesday at the YWCA of Youngstown, 25 W. Rayen Ave. The event also will feature a peace-poetry contest for elementary-, middle- and high-school children with a $25 prize for the winner in each age group. Admission is free. For more information, call 330-746-6361.

150 pallets stolen

boardman

A Boardman business lost out on $750 after someone stole 150 wooden pallets. The pallets went missing from Architectural Ceramic Products on Boardman-Canfield Road sometime between Oct. 3 and Monday, according to a police report. The business receives $5 for each of the pallets returned to delivery companies.

Public meeting planned

BOARDMAN

Mahoning County officials will explain the $400,000 Community Housing Improvement Program grant received by the county during a public meeting at 6 p.m. Oct. 21 in the Boardman Township Administration Building, 8299 Market St. Activities included in the grant, the target improvement area, income guidelines and other program requirements will be explained. Applications for assistance will be available at the meeting. CHIP funds local governments for the provision and improvement of affordable housing for low and moderate income people.

Neighborhood meeting

Youngstown

The Garden District Neighborhood Association will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Fellows Riverside Gardens, 123 McKinley Ave. Guests will include Juvenile Court Judge Theresa Dellick and Chief Probation Officer Wes Skeels. Youngstown City Councilman Mike Ray, D-4th, will give community and neighborhood updates. The community is welcome.

Man faces charges

YOUNGSTOWN

A 56-year-old city man was arrested on charges that he failed to disclose he had a concealed-weapon permit when he was pulled over for speeding on the South Side about 10:55 a.m. Thursday.

Reports said Thomas Stewart was pulled over by police at Glenwood and Lakewood avenues, and he gave the officer his identification number but he had no valid drivers license.

A records check revealed Stewart has several suspensions and he also had a carry permit but never told the officer.

Police found a loaded .40-caliber handgun inside the car and two oxycodone pills

Stewart was taken to the Mahoning County jail on the charges of carrying concealed weapons and possession of drugs.

Search goes on for man impersonating officer

youngstown

Police are asking for help in looking for a man who impersonated a police officer Sunday morning and groped a woman he pulled over on Interstate 680 Southbound.

The man is described as a white male in his late 50s, about 5-feet 10-inches tall, 135 pounds, with short black hair and a receding hairline. He is described as being very thin and had on a light-blue uniform shirt.

He was driving a black Ford Crown Victoria with white doors. The victim said the man pulled her over, said he was a police officer and had to search her and groped her before she got back in her car, locked the doors and drove away.

Anyone with information is asked to call Lt. Brian Flynn at 330-747-7911 or Crimestoppers at 330-746-CLUE.

Foliage tour planned

WARREN

The Trumbull County Farm Foliage Tour will be 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday in the Burghill-Hartford area.

The tour includes these stops: Hartford Orchards, Route 305, Hartford; Storeyland Christmas Tree Farm, Route 7, Burghill; Hartford Greenhouses, Route 7, Hartford; Hartford Center, Route 305 and Route 7; Hartford United Methodist Church, Route 305 in Hartford; and Hartford Township Volunteer Fire Department, Route 305 in Hartford.

The tour is free. Participants are asked to refrain from smoking and bringing pets.

Man struck by car

WARREN

A 27-year-old Oak Street Southwest man suffered an apparent minor injury after being struck by a car driven by a 22-year-old Warren woman he knows at 7:33 p.m. Thursday at Haymaker Street and Ward Avenue Northwest.

The man was taken by ambulance to St. Joseph Health Center for injuries to his leg, police said. Police recovered a front headlight from the vehicle that hit the man.

Traffic charges

YOUNGSTOWN

Sammy F. Anderson Jr., 18, of Austintown, was charged with failure to stop after an accident, failure to maintain assured clear distance and driving under suspension at 11:38 a.m. Friday after an accident at Mahoning and Belle Vista avenues.

Police were called to the location for an accident involving injuries and a driver who had left the scene. They located the fleeing vehicle on Industrial Road and stopped Anderson at 940 Industrial. He was released on a summons to appear in court.

Cars damaged by fire

YOUNGSTOWN

Three cars were heavily damaged by fire at 2:36 p.m. Friday at the Park Avenue parking deck at St. Elizabeth Health Center.

A man reported going to his car and seeing smoke inside and fire beginning to drip down from the dash, but when he opened the door, the fire spread rapidly, said Youngstown Fire Capt. Ralph DeMichael.

That car quickly became a fire ball, and the fire spread to the two cars on either side, damaging them as well. No one was injured.