METRO DIGEST || Ex-DJ Scott Kennedy released to half-way house

Kennedy released

HERMITAGE, PA.

Former Mahoning Valley radio personality Scott Kennedy has been released from prison to a halfway house, Vindicator news partner 21 WFMJ-TV reported Wednesday. Kennedy, 58, of Hermitage, has been living at the Renewal Community Correction Center in Pittsburgh since Sept. 18, according to the Pennsylvania’s Megan’s Law website, where sex offenders are required to register their place of residence.

Kennedy was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison in August 2011 for possessing child pornography. Investigators discovered 238 images and videos of children engaged in sexual acts. His prison sentence is set to expire Jan. 13, 2015.

Kennedy was the program director and morning host for WYFM radio, where he worked from 1985 to 2011. He was incarcerated at Allenwood Federal Correctional Complex in Union County, Pa.

Pink Day at school

BOARDMAN

Stadium Drive Elementary School will celebrate its fifth annual Pink Day Friday. Students and staff will wear pink and make a donation to Vincent Massacci and his family. Vincent is a Robinwood Lane Elementary student recently diagnosed with throat cancer. A basket raffle will take place to benefit the Massacci family. Stadium Drive students will gather from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in front of the school to plant pink tulip bulbs to honor and remember those affected by cancer.

Valley Legacy Awards

HOWLAND

Twenty-nine people from Trumbull, Mahoning and Columbiana counties will be honored at 11:30 a.m. today at the Grand Pavilion at Avalon Inn for the 10th Annual Valley Legacy Awards. The awards are given for contributions, service and sacrifices performed by or for senior citizens.

TMM fundraiser

WARREN

A “Blingo Bingo” fundraiser for Trumbull Mobile Meals will take place at 5:30 p.m. today at Saratoga Restaurant, 129 E. Market Street.

Twenty percent of the Premier Designs jewelry sold at the event will be donated to TMM.

New at St. Rose

GIRARD

St. Rose School enrolled 46 new students this school year through a one-year, $1,000 scholarship offered by the Cafaro Foundation.

Prompted by last spring’s closure of St. Stephen School in Niles and Immaculate Heart of Mary/St. Joseph School in Austintown, the foundation offered the scholarship to any student from those schools who wished to enroll at St. Rose. The families of 46 students took advantage of the scholarship and the foundation advanced a $46,000 donation.

Moms fight at game

WARREN

One mom punched another mom in the face, causing an apparent minor injury at the football stadium at Warren G. Harding High School after a soccer game Tuesday night. The victim said she saw the children from one family “taunting her daughter inside the stadium during the soccer game.” The victim said she followed her daughter and the other children on their way out of the stadium. The children from the other family called their mother, who arrived a few minutes later and acted aggressively toward the victim, then punched the victim in the face at 9:25 p.m., police said. Another woman stepped between them. Police said the victim did not receive any medical attention for her eye injury and was advised to consult the city prosecutor about filing charges.

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