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Ruptures discussed

WARREN

Trumbull County commissioners met with Marucci and Gaffney Excavating of Youngstown, the engineering firm Thomas Fok and Associates and various other county officials involved with a sewer project on state Route 193 in Vienna Township on Tuesday to discuss numerous gas-line ruptures that have occurred during construction.

Among the decisions made at the meeting were to work more closely with Dominion East Ohio Gas to better identify the location of gas lines and to use a subsurface exploration company to verify the locations of gas lines and other utilities.

Marucci and Gaffney employees hit a gas line Monday morning just south of Warren-Sharon Road, forcing evacuation of businesses and homes nearby for about 90 minutes until the gas was shut off.

Drug program

BOARDMAN

Boardman schools, in conjunction with Community Solutions, will present “Hidden in Plain Sight” at 6 p.m. March 31 in the Glenwood Middle School auditorium.

The program is designed to help parents detect if their child may be experimenting with illicit drugs. Experts will discuss the latest drug trends and indicators of risky behavior. All community members are invited to attend.

Free screening kits

WARREN

In recognition of March being National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, Trumbull Memorial Hospital, an affiliate of ValleyCare Health System of Ohio, is offering free colorectal cancer screening kits.

The kits are available from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. weekdays through the end of March in the Radiation Oncology Office in the Medical Professional Building, 1353 E. Market St., across from the hospital.

The Medical Professional Building can be accessed by the driveway on Laird Avenue.

The kit, called a fecal immunochemical test, is easy, painless and a simple process performed at home.

Once completed, the patient mails the sample back in the envelope included with the kit.

The TMH lab will perform the analysis and mail the results to the patient and his physician.

For information about the colorectal cancer screening kits, call 330-841-9399.

Ribbon-cutting event

NORTH LIMA

Beaver Township Historical Society will have a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 5 p.m. Thursday at its new location at the old South Range High School, 11836 South Ave.

The society, which is relaunching after being inactive for several years, will be open 9 a.m. to noon Tuesdays; 1 to 4 p.m. Thursdays; and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays.

To donate historical artifacts to the society, contact Scott Conway at 330-758-2616.

Added to board

YOUNGSTOWN

OH WOW! The Roger & Gloria Jones Children’s Center for Science & Technology, 11 W. Federal St., recently added Ellie Platt and Christine Zeller Papa to its board of directors.

Platt owns Platt Insurance and Financial Group with offices in Poland, Cortland and downtown Youngstown.

She has a master’s degree in business from Geneva College. Before owning her own insurance and financial agency, she spent 10 years at Meridian Services in Youngstown, where she was vice president of development.

Papa joined the law firm of Roth-Blair in 2014, and concentrates her practice in the areas of employment law, workers’ compensation and litigation.

She was born and raised in Girard, earned her juris doctorate degree from Case Western Reserve University, and is licensed to practice law in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Papa and her husband, James, and their sons, Rex and Cyrus, live in Poland.

Woman struck by car

WARREN

A woman was taken to ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital with possible injuries after being struck by a car as she walked across West Market Street at the Mahoning Avenue intersection on Courthouse Square at 10:51 a.m. Monday.

Kathleen C. Mallory of Roseway Avenue Southeast was using the crosswalk, walking from the south side of Market Street to the north side when a car driven by Cory R. Miller, 20, of McKinley Street Northeast struck her as Miller tried to turn left from Mahoning onto Market, police said.

Miller said the sun blinded him, but he was cited for failure to yield the right of way.