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Officials to revisit dog-tethering issue

POLAND

Village council’s legislative committee will revisit language of a dog-tethering ordinance. Animal-rights advocate Jason Cooke asked council Tuesday to reconsider the language, which now includes a limit on owning dogs.

The ordinance Cooke first proposed only included a prohibition on owners leaving their dogs tethered outdoors during extreme weather conditions.

Cooke said he was not sure how it came to also include the limiting of three dogs per resident. Also, resident David McLeroy, who has five dogs, said he felt concerned about the dog limiting ordinance.

“I believe the legislative committee is going to abandon this notion of limiting the number a dog each resident can own, so obviously I’m pleased about that,” Cooke said.

The ordinance Cooke is proposing would prohibit tethering dogs between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. during extreme weather conditions. Violations would be a misdemeanor.

Enterprise donates to Second Harvest

Youngstown

Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley received $10,000 from the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation to address food insecurity in Northeast Ohio.

The donation is part of a program called Fill Your Tank that celebrates Enterprise Rent-A-Car’s 60th anniversary by providing $60 million over six years to fight hunger around the globe. The Fill Your Tank program donations made locally are determined by the Mahoning Valley’s Enterprise operations.

Beyond donations, Enterprise Rent-A-Car is supporting the Fill Your Tank program with a hunger awareness and local engagement campaign.

Firefighters save dog

YOUNGSTOWN

Firefighters saved a dog while putting out a fire in a garage that broke out about 2:25 p.m. Wednesday at a home in the 3200 block of Kingston Lane on the West Side. There were no injuries. The fire was contained to the garage.

Trustee board to meet

POLAND

The trustee board of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County will meet in regular session at 4 p.m. today in the meeting room of the Poland Branch Library, 311 S. Main St.

Newton Falls man accused of making meth

WARREN

Dennis Duffield, 49, of Liberty Street in Newton Falls is free on $10,000 bond after pleading not guilty Tuesday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to a charge accusing him of making methamphetamine at home.

He was secretly indicted by a county grand jury on one count of illegal manufacture of drugs. If convicted, he could get eight years in prison.

Newton Falls police said Duffield’s wife came to the Newton Falls Police Department Oct. 11 and reported that Duffield was making meth in their garage and home. Members of the Trumbull Ashtabula Group Law Enforcement Task Force entered the home with her permission, and found products used in the manufacture of the drug.

A grandson, 6, lives in the home, the woman said.