METRO DIGEST || Students help out with Winter Celebration

Winter Celebration

YOUNGSTOWN

Juniors and seniors in the Interactive Multimedia class at Mahoning County Career and Technical Center in Canfield have partnered with Mill Creek MetroParks to help with the Winter Celebration at Fellows Riverside Gardens, 123 McKinley Ave.

The students designed all the gingerbread cutouts on Gingerbread Lane and also made the murals throughout the tour.

This is the second year the class has been involved with the holiday festivities. Winter Celebration, sponsored by Friends of Fellows Riverside Gardens, WKBN and Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley, is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays through Jan. 4.

Fatal accident

YOUNGSTOWN

Police still are trying to figure out who was driving the wrong way in an accident on the Madison Avenue Expressway about 10 p.m. Wednesday.

A police spokesman said the accident happened in the eastbound lanes near the Crescent Street exit.

Killed was 55-year-old John Kasich of Austintown. A father and son were in the other car involved in the accident. There was no word on their condition late Thursday.

Recycling site closing

AUSTINTOWN

The drop-off recycling site at the fire station at 1690 S. Turner Road will close Jan. 3 because too many items have been dumped on the ground outside the container there, Lou Vega, Mahoning County recycling director, announced.

The container will be moved 2 miles to Austintown Township Park, 6000 Kirk Road, which will be the nearest remaining drop-off center.

The closing will leave the county with 29 recycling drop-off sites.

Accused of theft

WARREN

Kim Scaffidi, 55, of Idylwild Street Northeast was indicted Thursday by a Trumbull County grand jury on 16 counts of tampering with records and one count of grand theft, accused of stealing $13,610 between 2006 and December 2013 from the Trumbull County Department of Job and Family Services as a client of the agency.

She is due for arraignment in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court at 10 a.m. Jan. 2 before Judge W. Wyatt McKay. If convicted, she could get more than 40 years in prison.

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