Fundraiser planned

Fundraiser planned

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A spaghetti dinner fundraiser is planned from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Aug. 17 for the Fourth Annual Nonviolence Parade/Rally.

The dinner will take place at the Richard Brown Memorial United Methodist Church, 1205 Elm St. The cost is $7 for adults and $4 for children younger than 12. The Fourth Annual Nonviolence Parade/Rally will take place Oct. 5 beginning at 3 p.m. on Wood Street in front of Youngstown State University’s Williamson School of Business and proceed to the Covelli Centre for the rally. This will be the kick off for Nonviolence Week. For information, contact Penny Wells, director Mahoning Valley Sojourn to the Past, at 330-788-0545.

ODOT to fix sinkhole

EAST LIVERPOOL

Ohio Department of Transportation is taking over the emergency repairs needed to fix a sinkhole that appeared Wednesday on the Second Street on-ramp to U.S. Route 30/state Route 39 in East Liverpool.

ODOT design and construction engineers visited the site Monday to begin assessing what repairs will be needed to fix the subsurface drainage structure failure and how much it will cost.

Beginning at the intersection of Jackson Street and the U.S. Route 30/state Route 39 westbound on-ramp, traffic is being detoured west on the U.S. 30/state Route 39 westbound on-ramp to the state Routes 7 south/state Route 39 west (Wellsville) off-ramp to West 8th Street, then east on the U.S. 30/state Route 39 on-ramp.

Performance’s new time

YOUNGSTOWN

Mill Creek MetroParks and the Mahoning Valley Players have rescheduled the Aug. 2 performance of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” which was canceled last week due to inclement weather, for 6 p.m. Friday at the Judge Morley Pavilion at the Wick Recreation Area, 1861 McCollum Road. This is a free performance with lawn seating, and those attending should bring a lawn chair or blanket.

Drug-possession case

WARREN

Paul E. Pollis, 48, of Oak Knoll Ave. Southeast and Trentwood Drive Southeast, was released from the Trumbull County jail on $3,500 bond after a not-guilty plea was entered for him Monday to felony drug possession.

Police arrested Pollis at 7:40 p.m. Friday on Vermont Avenue Northwest after a Warren police officer observed him leaving a known drug house and discovering that the truck’s license plates were expired. In preparation for the truck being towed, the officer checked inside and found two suspected rocks of crack cocaine in the driver’s door map pocket.

Pollis was sentenced to prison in 2007 and 2009 for violating his probation stemming from a conviction for showing up at the Howland police chief’s home in 2005, asking the chief a question and then being found in possession of a firearm in the car.

Mom pleads not guilty

WARREN

Samie J. Bortz, 31, of Sussex Street Southeast, was released from the Trumbull County jail Monday after posting $3,000 bond and pleading not guilty to two misdemeanor child-endangering charges.

She was arraigned Monday in Warren Municipal Court on allegations that she left her 2-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son alone Sunday morning. The boy called 911 at 10:03 a.m., causing an officer to respond to the house, where he found the two children alone but in good condition.

Bortz arrived at the house about 30 minutes later, saying she’d gone to Austintown but her 16-year-old daughter was supposed to be babysitting. Bortz was unwilling to provide information about the 16-year-old so police could corroborate her claims.

The judge ordered Bortz to have no contact with her children unless Trumbull County Children Services approves.

Teen faces rape charge

WARREN

A 15-year-old Front Street Southwest boy was charged with rape and taken to the Trumbull County Juvenile Justice Center at noon Friday after a 4-year-old Beal Street Northwest boy reported that the suspect sexually assaulted him.

Drugs, cash found

EAST LIVERPOOL

Two search warrants were served Monday by the Columbiana County Drug Task Force, Columbiana County Special Response Team, Columbiana County Sheriff’s Office and East Liverpool police at two residences.

At a residence in the 1200 block of Erie Street, authorities found $3,200 in cash, $200 in cocaine, oxycodone tablets, digital scales and drug paraphernalia.

In the 900 block of Montgomery Street, some $2,000 in cash, digital scales and drug paraphernalia were recovered.

No charges have been filed.

Facing multiple counts

JACKSON CENTER, Pa.

A man is charged with multiple counts, accused of shooting someone in the arm.

Matthew Jordan Sines, 22, of Jackson Center, Mercer County, is charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault, simple assault, endangering the welfare of children, four counts of recklessly endangering another person and harassment. He was in the Mercer County Jail on $250,000 bond, according to Mercer County Pennsylvania State Police.

Police said between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. July 30, Sines purportedly shot Jacob Carlyle Boughner, 26, of Jackson Center, in the right arm. A 17-year old female and 1-year old male were present at the time of the shooting.