Five Minutes with Mayor

Five Minutes with Mayor

YOUNGSTOWN

The monthly Five Minutes with the Mayor program will take place at 5 p.m. today in the mayor’s office on the first floor of city hall, 26 S. Phelps St. Residents are invited to visit with Mayor John A. McNally to voice any questions or concerns they may have regarding issues in the city.

City board accepts minority health grant

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown City Board of Health accepted a $52,000 grant from the Ohio Commission on Minority Health to help operate the Youngstown Office of Minority Health.

In other action at its meeting Monday, Erin Bishop, city health commissioner, said the board allocated $4,000 of the minority health grant for a required outside evaluation of the program; and approved renting space for $6,000 and $2,400, respectively, to the Mahoning County District Board of Health for its Women, Infants and Children and HIV/AIDS programs.

The health board also accepted a grant of $437,000 to operate its air-pollution control program, which serves Mahoning and Trumbull counties.

Because the grant was cut about $15,000 from last year, the board approved laying off one program employee, Bishop said.

All-school Mass planned

YOUNGSTOWN

Bishop George V. Murry will celebrate the first Diocese of Youngstown All School Mass at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday St. Columba Cathedral, 154 W. Wood St.

About 1,000 students, teachers and administrators from all 22 Diocesan grade schools and six high schools will participate. The Mass will be conducted to recognize Catholic schools and to pray for a successful 2015-16 school year. The Mass is open to the public.

For information, contact Randy Rair, assistant superintendent of schools, 330-744-8451.

Sobriety checkpoints

AUSTINTOWN

The Mahoning County OVI Task Force and Ohio State Highway Patrol conducted two sobriety checkpoints in Austintown over the weekend resulting in one OVI arrest.

There were 237 vehicles that passed through the checkpoints, and three officers conducted saturation patrols in support and the checkpoints and conducted 14 total traffic stops.

In addition to the one OVI arrest, the checkpoints and patrols also issued one summons for open container, two summonses for drug abuse, one for drug paraphernalia, one for driving with a suspended license, one for driving without a license, one citation for not having headlights on and one citation for defective exhaust.

Multitude of assaults

WARREN

Police reported an unusually large number of misdemeanor assaults — nine — between Friday morning and Monday morning.

A 10th assault was called felonious assault because it involved a male who was shot in the leg Sunday evening in the area of Wood Avenue and Second Street Southwest.

The male, 19, was treated at ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital. The male said he didn’t know who shot him.