Council OKs contract

Council OKs contract

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The city council unanimously passed a three-year contract for about 30 city employees in AFSCME Ohio Council 8, Local 1256 at its meeting Monday.

The union voted to accept the contract last month.

The employees are in the street, wastewater treatment and water departments. They previously made between $16 to $21 an hour in all three departments. Under the new contract, they will receive a 3-percent raise the first year, a 1-percent raise the second year and a 1-percent raise the third year.

The contract also offers opportunities for more money if AFSCME employees obtain additional training and licenses.

Work session planned

POLAND

The Poland Board of Education will have a work session 6 p.m. today in the library at Poland High School, 3199 Dobbins Road. No action will be taken at the meeting.

Youth choir to perform

WARREN

Warren City-Wide Youth Choir will sing at the annual Dr. Martin L. King Jr. Youth Celebration planned at 6 p.m. Jan. 16 at Warren G. Harding High School.

The event will be sponsored by Trumbull County Dream Team in Warren.

This will be the choir’s first performance of 2015, and the group will celebrate its fifth anniversary this year. New youth and young adult members from the Warren area are invited to join.

Last summer, the choir raised more than $8,000 toward its scholarship program.

Assault reported

WARREN

A 21-year-old Newton Falls woman reported Sunday being held against her will for three days by her boyfriend and assaulted at his apartment, possibly in the Highland Terrace apartments in the Southwest area of the city.

Police were called to interview her at ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital on Sunday afternoon, where she had been placed in a neck brace and had bruising on her arms and a cut on her leg.

The woman’s father told police he normally talks to his daughter three times per day, but during those three days he didn’t hear from her at all.

The hospital called police while an officer was writing his report and said the suspect had threatened to come to the woman’s room at the hospital.

Facing rape charge

WARREN

Kyle Harris, 19, of North Park Avenue Extension in Champion was arraigned Monday in Warren Municipal Court on a rape charge, accused of sexually assaulting a 2-year-old child at a house on Laird Avenue Southeast.

He is in the Trumbull County jail without eligibility to make bond. A not-guilty plea was entered for him. He returns to court Jan. 15.

Harris’ father reported Friday morning that Kyle Harris had been staying with him at his house on Laird Avenue for a couple of weeks because he was homeless. While Kyle Harris was at ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital being treated for an infection, his father found his cellphone.

The father saw pictures on it showing his 2-year-old daughter being sexually abused. Kyle Harris was arrested later Friday.

Help sought to find missing man

YOUNGSTOWN

The brother of a local pastor is missing, and the public is asked to join police in locating him.

The Rev. Willie F. Peterson, pastor of the NewBirth Kimmel Brook Church and executive director of the Center for Community Empowerment, reported to police his brother, Bryan, 54, has been missing since August.

He solicited prayers for him and his brother on his Facebook page. According to a published report, the Rev. Mr. Peterson said his brother is homeless, and he was last seen at the Liberty Plaza.