Scholarship event

Scholarship event

YOUNGSTOWN

The Edward J. DeBartolo Memorial Scholarship Foundation’s annual Celebrity Auction Dinner begins at 5:30 p.m. Monday at Stambaugh Auditorium on Fifth Avenue. The event raises money for the scholarship foundation.

Special meeting

LOWELLVILLE

Lowellville Village Council will have a special meeting at 6 p.m. today in the second floor auditorium at city hall, 140 E. Liberty St.

Water report

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown Water Department customers will receive copies of a consumer-confidence report with their water bills by July 1.

The report is required by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act Reauthorization of 1996. The information in the report details what is in the water. The city purchases water from the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District and distributes about 18 million gallons a day through 750 miles of pipelines to residents of Youngstown, Austintown, Boardman, Canfield Township and Liberty and sells it in bulk to Mineral Ridge, Girard, the city of Canfield and North Jackson. For an additional copy of the report, call the department’s engineering office at 330-742-8765.

Meeting planned

STRUTHERS

The city of Struthers Records Commission will meet at 4 p.m. today in the caucus room at city hall, 6 Elm St.

House fires

YOUNGSTOWN

City firefighters battled two vacant house fires Monday. A small fire on the living-room carpet of a home at 3317 Neilson Ave. just before midnight caused $200 in damage. Reports said the back door was unlocked, and the front door was easy to force open. Earlier, at 924 E. Dewey Ave., a fire there caused $10,000 in damage. Reports said there was heavy fire on the first floor when crews arrived.

Bomb threat

HERMITAGE, PA.

The FBI is investigating a bomb threat that prompted the evacuation of several bank branches in Hermitage, according to 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner.

Police told the TV station that shortly after 10 a.m. Tuesday they received information from a First National Bank security officer that a bomb threat had been directed toward an unspecified FNB branch.

As a precaution, the FNB branches in Hermitage Square and the Town Plaza were evacuated, as well as the Walmart which has an FNB branch inside. Dogs were brought in to conduct searches of the branches.

After the searches were completed, the branches and the Walmart opened again. Police say the threats were also directed toward FNB banks in Somerset and Fayette counties.

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