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Out on house arrest

YOUNGSTOWN

Visiting Judge Michael Nunner on Wednesday agreed to allow John Dellick out of the Mahoning County jail on electronically monitored house arrest after a brief hearing in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Dellick, 21, the son of Judge Theresa Dellick of Mahoning County Juvenile Court, stipulated to a probation violation Jan. 11 after he turned himself in to probation officers Jan. 8 after Boardman police found a gun Jan. 3 in a hotel room where he was staying. Being around a gun is a violation of the probation Dellick received for a guilty plea to a charge of aggravated assault in 2015 for two separate incidents in 2013.

Dellick had been in jail since he turned himself in.

At his Jan. 11 hearing, his attorney, David Betras, said Dellick was considering suicide but someone talked him out of it. He said Dellick is under treatment for mental illness.

Appraising property

YOUNGSTOWN

Appraisers are beginning their fieldwork in Boardman and Berlin townships and in Struthers this month as they conduct the complete countywide real-estate re-appraisal Ohio law requires every six years for value and tax-determination purposes.

The appraisers from Integrity Appraisal Services Inc. are conducting on-foot and drive-by inspections of the exteriors of properties to obtain accurate information about homes and other structures on them, said Mahoning County Auditor Ralph Meacham.

The appraisers, who carry identification, may ask to speak to some homeowners, or, if nobody is home when they visit, they may leave door-card questionnaires for property owners to complete and return to them.

New library to open

CANFIELD

The new $5 million Canfield public library, 43 W. Main St., will open to the public for business at 9 a.m. Monday, Janet Loew, communications and public relations director for the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County, announced this morning.

The formal grand opening event will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Jan. 30 at the new library, with an 11 a.m. ribbon-cutting and dedication.

That event will include ice sculpturing and a children’s story time, with performers including Jocko the Clown, Stage Left Dance and groups from the Canfield schools.

Refreshments will be provided by the Stone Fruit Coffee Co., which will operate the new library’s coffee bar, and by Inspired Catering by Kravitz.

The new library, which will have a 65,000-item collection, is more than three times larger than the branch demolished on the same site in fall 2014.

Semi overturns, dumping scrap metal

BROOKFIELD

The Southington Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said the westbound lanes of state Route 82 at the U.S. Route 62 on-ramp were closed for several hours Wednesday after a tractor-trailer overturned about 10:50 a.m., dumping scrap metal onto the roadway.

A patrol news release said the semi, driven by Jeridith Pingley, 46, of Warren, was merging onto state Route 82 west from Route 62 east and overturned after failing to negotiate the curve.

Pingley was taken to St. Joseph Warren Hospital to be treated for nonlife-threatening injuries. Charges are pending. The Ohio Department of Transportation was able to clean up the debris and reopen the lanes later Wednesday, the patrol reported.

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