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Heisman winner named

CANFIELD

Lara Quirk, a Canfield High School senior student, was named Wendy’s High School Heisman Winner on Friday.

Her dedication to education and athletic participation earned her the award she shares with more than 600,000 of the nation’s most esteemed students. Recipients receive a certificate and a patch. The Wendy’s High School Heisman is a joint program between Wendy’s and the Heisman Trophy Trust and honors seniors who share Wendy’s values of giving back to their communities, treating people with respect, continuing education and excelling on the athletic field, according to a news release.

Facing OVI charge

POLAND

A Boardman man is facing a charge of operating a vehicle while impaired after running his car into a ditch off Struthers Road on Thursday. Township police arrived to the site where they found Thomas Sphar, 29, of West Boulevard, at 2:20 a.m., according to the crash report. A breath-analysis test registered Sphar’s blood-alcohol content at 0.195 percent, more than twice the state legal limit of 0.08 percent.

Suspicious powder

HUBBARD

The Trumbull County Hazmat Team responded Friday evening to a report of a suspicious powder on Trumbull Avenue with multiple mailboxes affected, WFMJ-TV 21, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, reported live from the scene at 11 p.m. The area has been cordoned off and anyone inside that perimeter may be subject to decontamination procedures, authorities said.

Downed light pole

YOUNGSTOWN

Traffic was backed for a time Friday in the southbound lanes of Interstate 680 at the state Route 711 connector after a light pole was knocked down. A police department spokesman said the pole was in the roadway and a crew from Ohio Edison Co. eventually was able to remove it. The pole was knocked down as the result of a traffic accident at about 4:10 p.m., the spokesman said.

$5K award for project

LISBON

The Little Beaver Creek Wild and Scenic River Advisory Council has received a $5,000 award for its Greenway Trail culvert replacement project. The grant will help the council and its partners remove an existing culvert and replace it with an open-bottom structure to facilitate normal water flows and fish passage, stabilizing the adjacent stream banks and reducing sedimentation. Through the support of Dominion, the Western Reserve Land Conservancy launched the Watershed Mini Grant Program last year to serve organizations working to protect and improve land around Ohio’s rivers, lakes and streams.

2 in clown masks rob man

YOUNGSTOWN

A 42-year-old West Judson Avenue man told police he was robbed of $300 by two clown-masked, handgun-toting young men as he was closing a food vending stand at Glenwood and LaClede avenues on the city’s South Side. The robbers, who wore light-blue and dark-blue hoodies, fled on LaClede after the 8:30 p.m. Thursday robbery, the victim told police.