METRO DIGEST || Front Street closing

Road closing

Youngstown

Front Street will be closed between Phelps and Market streets in the downtown area from 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday as a result of the Mahoning and Trumbull County Regional Veteran Stand Down event.

Event to close road

YoungstOWn

Park Vista Drive will be closed between Lansdowne Boulevard and Forest View Drive on the East Side because of a block party from noon to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Immunization clinic

GIRARD

The well-child immunization clinic is Wednesday at the Girard Health Department, 100 W. Main St., in the City Building. A $10 fee is charged per child. Parents are reminded to bring a copy of the child’s immunization record. A parent or guardian must accompany children under 18.

Parents must pre-register children before the clinic. For an appointment, call 330-545-6048 between 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Zoning-case plea

WARREN

Atty. Tom Letson, a state representative from Warren, entered a written innocent plea to a misdemeanor zoning charge filed against him over a house he owns on Foster Street Northeast.

Because he filed the written plea, Letson didn’t have to appear Wednesday morning in Warren Municipal Court. Later in the day, the case was transferred to Newton Falls Municipal Court.

Warren officials filed the charge against Letson, D-64th, last week. It accuses him of violating the single-family zoning for the neighborhood because the home is being operated as a “sober house” for recovering alcoholics.

Pit-bull attack

WARREN

A 78-year-old Bon Air Street Northwest woman’s Yorkshire terrier suffered serious injuries to its spine and ribs when it was attacked by a neighbor’s pit-bull terrier Monday morning.

The Yorkshire terrier was taken to a veterinarian for treatment. The pit bull was taken to the Trumbull County Dog Kennel on Wednesday morning and euthanized, said John Onatz, Warren animal- control officer. No charges have been filed.

Anna Rezabek, daughter of Betty Buzzelli, owner of the Yorkshire terrier, reported the attack to police Monday night. Rezabek said this is the third time the pit bull has attacked Buzzelli or her dog. A patrolman spoke with a resident who admitted that her son’s pit bull has attacked Buzzelli in the past. She asked that it be removed because of its vicious nature.

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