City receives grant

City receives grant

YOUNGSTOWN

The city received a $25,225 state grant to support litter cleanup and scrap-tire collection programs. Youngstown was among 40 communities to be awarded money Tuesday by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.

Also, the Carroll/Columbiana/Harrison Solid Waste District was awarded a $25,000 grant from the EPA.

The program requires a 10-percent local share.

Vice squad finds guns at 2 locations

YOUNGSTOWN

Members of the vice squad serving search warrants investigating drug activity Tuesday found guns at two addresses on the South Side.

At a 618 W. Princeton Ave. home, police found a loaded .25-caliber semiautomatic handgun about 5:05 p.m. Also found was a digital scale, marijuana grinder and $177 in cash.

At a 309 E. Judson Ave. home, police found a .22-caliber rifle about 6:55 p.m. Also found were two marijuana grinders, a marijuana pipe and three digital scales.

Block-watch to meet

GIRARD

The 2nd Ward Block Watch will meet at 6 p.m. tonight in the library at 105 E. Prospect St. The group will make plans for its summer picnic, and the community is invited.

Relay for Life location changed

LIBERTY

The Relay For Life of Liberty has changed locations from Liberty Churchill Park to Liberty schools at 4003 and 4115 Shady Road and 1 Leopard Way. The date is the same, from 6 p.m. Friday to 6 p.m. Saturday.

Documentary on shale gas

VILLA MARIA, Pa.

“Triple Divide,” a documentary on shale-gas development, will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in Magnificat Dining Room at Villa Maria Community Center.

“Triple Divide” is said to be the only documentary of its kind capable of speaking to all sides, with exclusive interviews from the industry, experts and Americans suffering in the wake of shale gas development. The 90-minute documentary is a project of PublicHerald.org, a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit organization.

The event is free and open to the public. Doors will open at 6 p.m.

For information, contact Sister Barbara O’Donnell at 724-964-8920, ext. 3350.

Disorderly conduct

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A man was taken to Mahoning County jail Monday night after repeatedly swearing at a police officer downtown and threatening him, reports said.

An officer spotted a man later identified as Forest Webster, 53, of Youngstown outside a West Federal Street bar, and it appeared he was urinating shortly before 10 p.m. When the officer went to talk to the man, reports said, Webster yelled at the officer and called him names. When he kept swearing at the officer, he was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct, reports said.

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