Saturday, October 22, 2016
Using OEPA grant
YOUNGSTOWN
The Eastgate Regional Council of Governments will use a $5,000 grant from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to place signs with maps throughout the Yellow Creek watershed to help the public understand how to protect surface water.
Target areas include Poland Village and Township and Mill Creek MetroParks. Seven grants totaling $27,030 were awarded statewide.
The next Ohio Environmental Education Fund application deadline is Jan. 17, with an electronic letter of intent to apply due by Jan. 9.
Eligible grant recipients include environmental groups, public and private schools, colleges and universities.
Food giveaway set
YOUNGSTOWN
Victory Lutheran Church, 2110 Glenwood Ave., will have a food giveaway from 9 a.m. to noon today. Recipients must have two forms of identification – a current address with photo. Bring bags and containers. For residents of ZIP code areas 44502, 44507 and 44511.
Trail event canceled
HOWLAND
Nearly 4 inches of rain Thursday and Friday prompted the cancellation of today’s trail open house scheduled for the North Road Nature Preserve.
Zach Svette, operations director for the Trumbull County MetroParks, said the rainfall is the largest amount since May, and the trails are too wet for walking or riding.
He asks that people stay off the trail until it dries out to avoid damaging it. The event will be rescheduled for the next available dry weekend.
No-contest plea in crash near Eastwood
NILES
Robert D. Fowler, 59, of Holford Street pleaded no contest Thursday in Niles Municipal Court to failure to control in an Oct. 12 crash in front of Eastwood Mall that injured him and two other people, none seriously.
A judge found Fowler guilty and ordered him to pay $133 in fines and court costs on the misdemeanor offense.
Fowler was the driver of a car that went through an intersection, hitting a van on the other side of the intersection, losing a tire that hit a parked car, then crashing head-on into another car.
Part of U.S. Route 422 was closed while the crash was cleaned up, causing traffic backups.
Pleads guilty to arson
WARREN
Ricky A. Mohn, 19, of Lancer Court, pleaded guilty Thursday to arson and breaking and entering in connection with the Aug. 19 fire that destroyed the “Dragon Wagon,” a building at the Niles McKinley High School football stadium.
Mohn will be sentenced in about four weeks, after the Trumbull County Adult Probation Department conducts a pre-sentence investigation of his background. Mohn could get a couple of years in prison or probation. He entered his plea before Judge Ronald Rice of common pleas court.
Police said Mohn and three juveniles broke into an outbuilding at Niles Middle School on Brown Street on Aug. 18, then broke into the concession stand on the visitor’s side of the high school stadium and set the “Dragon Wagon” ablaze early Aug. 19.
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