Access to King Graves Road area around air base to be restricted

VIENNA

Anyone thinking of driving near the Youngstown Air Reserve Station during the Thunder Over the Valley Air Show Saturday and Sunday will have to avoid King Graves Road between state Route 11 and state Route 193.

That section of road, on the north side of the Air Reserve Station, will be closed from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. both days.

Ernie Cook, chief deputy with the Trumbull County sheriff’s Office and county 911 director, said the roadway is within the designated “show box” — an area designated by the U.S. Air Force as being off limits to anything but air show activities.

The area is so restrictive that the two residences along Route 193 in the “show box” are being relocated to hotels from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. those two days, Cook said.