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Girard seeking bids

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The city will advertise for bids April 4 to replace the roof on the municipal building.

Mayor Jim Melfi said bids will be opened April 22.

The city’s project estimate is $155,000, Melfi said. The roof is more than 30 years old, Melfi said, and it leaks.

The roof over the justice center will not be replaced.

YPD cop arrested

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown Police Department’s Internal Affairs Division is looking into the arrest of a city officer in Austintown.

Close to midnight Monday, police were called to a large fight at the Sheetz gas station on Mahoning Avenue, where township officers say off-duty Youngstown officer Ken Bielik was confrontational and acting aggressively toward them.

Bielik faces a disorderly- conduct charge.

Died of broken neck

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A man who was found dead outside a neighbor’s house Sunday afternoon died of a broken neck, Pennsylvania State Police in New Castle, Pa., reported.

Police said an autopsy showed that Shawn Eric Harper, 41, of West Lawrence Avenue in Ellwood City was intoxicated and fell down steps leading to an outside patio.

Family Dollar arrest

YOUNGSTOWN

Police arrested a man at a Robinwood Avenue home about 2:20 p.m. Monday on a warrant in the robbery of a North Side Family Dollar on Feb. 21.

Rupert Jones, 56, was taken into custody on a charge of robbery and transported to the Mahoning County jail.

Reports said Jones is a suspect in the robbery at the store, 667 Gypsy Lane, which happened at 11:20 a.m. Reports said a clerk saw him put a CD in his coat, and when she confronted him, he punched her in the face.

Three customers tried to hold him for police, but he managed to slip out of their grasp and run away, reports said.

Injured by coffee cup

YOUNGSTOWN

Police arrested a Ravine Avenue woman early Wednesday after she was accused of throwing a coffee cup at a man, hitting him in the forehead.

Police were called to the home in the 1500 block of Ravine about 12:10 a.m., where a man told police he had argued with Ashley Deemer, 27, over a text from earlier in the evening and she picked up the cup and threw it at him.

Reports say the man was bleeding heavily from a gash on his forehead where the cup hit him, and he had lost consciousness a couple of times. He was treated by paramedics.

Deemer was charged with felonious assault and taken to the Mahoning County jail.

Teen arrested

YOUNGSTOWN

Police found a gun and several types of ammunition after arresting a 19-year-old man on a warrant at 4:35 p.m. Monday at a North Side home.

Police went to the home in the 2300 block of Ohio Avenue looking for Michael Terrell Green, 19, who officers knew was wanted on a charge of receiving stolen property, reports say.

The homeowner gave police permission to enter the home, and they found Green inside.

In one pocket, they found nine rounds of ammunition and in another pocket they found a gun.

In a search of a backpack that belongs to Green, they also found several .22-caliber rounds, .30/.30 rounds, and single live 9mm and 12-gauge shotgun rounds.

Green was taken into custody on the warrant and a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm and booked into the county jail.

Program on hip pain

HOWLAND

ValleyCare Health System of Ohio will host a free community program on chronic hip pain and hip replacement 6 p.m. Thursday at Leo’s Ristorante, 7042 E. Market St.

Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Kenneth Jones will present “When Is Hip Replacement the Best Option?” Those attending will learn about the causes of chronic hip pain and treatment options from medication and therapy to minimally invasive hip replacement.

Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and find out if they may be candidates for joint replacement.

Refreshments will be provided. Registration is required; call 800-679-3606 to register.

Cop’s stepson set for hearing May 7

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A pretrial hearing is set for a man charged with hosting an underage drinking party at a police officer’s residence.

Michael Dulaney, 18, who is officer Larry Neely’s stepson, will appear in Girard Municipal Court at 2 p.m. May 7.

Neely’s wife, Kandy, also is charged with hosting the Feb. 8 party in a garage behind the Neelys’ residence. She will appear for a pretrial April 9.

The charges are misdemeanors.

Neely was placed on paid administrative leave immediately after police broke up the party. He was given an unpaid 20-day suspension after his disciplinary hearing earlier this month.

Addiction recovery

WARREN

The Trumbull County Opiate Task Force, a program of the Trumbull County Mental Health and Recovery Board and the Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention, is presenting “Hope for Recovery from Addiction” from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the Trumbull Career and Technical Center in Champion.

The event is free and will feature speakers currently in recovery from substance abuse and their family members.

The presentation also will include resources available to help those dealing with these issues as well as provide the opportunity to talk with other families.

Refreshments are being provided by United Way of Trumbull County. For information, call 330-675-2765, ext. 119.

Pond-fish sale

YOUNGSTOWN

The Mahoning County Soil and Water Conservation District is taking orders for fish to stock local ponds through April 18 during its spring fish sale.

Pond owners must bring lined and lid-bearing containers filled with their own pond water when they pick up their fish between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. April 24 at the Canfield Fairgrounds Coliseum 8 in the junior fair.

Call SWCD at 330-740-7995 for information on types, sizes and prices of available fish and rules for pickup of orders.

Clean carpets for food

YOUNGSTOWN

Now through April 19, The Carpetsmith of Poland is offering residents and businesses of Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties a free room of carpet cleaning with any two-room scheduled cleaning in exchange for a bag of non-perishable food items to benefit Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley.

For information, visit Carpetsmith’s Facebook page or call 330-651-2227.

“Second Harvest fills more than 15,000 requests for emergency food assistance each week in the tri-county area, and as a local business, we want to do our part to ensure people in our community have enough food to eat,” said E. J. Skoloda, owner of Carpetsmith.

For information on how to get involved in Harvest for Hunger, visit www.harvestforhunger.org.