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Hit on head by pool cue

YOUNGSTOWN

Reports said a 48-year-old man was treated Monday at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital after someone he knows broke a pool cue over his head in the 2000 block of McGuffey Road on the East Side.

The man told police he was beaten by a man who keeps demanding $200 from him to leave the victim’s business alone. Reports said the victim told police he will press charges.

Investigating burglary

STRUTHERS

Police are investigating a burglary reported Monday afternoon from a home on the 200 block of Lowellville Road.

A 99-year-old woman told police she returned from a doctor’s appointment to find about $450 worth of items, including an XBox, silver dollars and jewelry, had been taken. Police found no signs of forced entry.

Public meeting set

POLAND

The Poland School District has scheduled a public meeting for the Vision/Mission Committee at 6 p.m. today.

The meeting will take place in the library at Poland Middle School, 47 College St.

Water trustees to meet

CANFIELD

The ABC Water and Storm Water District trustee board will have a special meeting with Canfield Township trustees at 3 p.m. today at township hall, 21 S. Broad St.

The water district board and the trustees will adjourn to an executive session to discuss the purchase of property for public purposes.

New Head Start program

YOUNGSTOWN

Ted Schmidt, PNC Bank regional president, joined Joe Shorokey, CEO of Alta Behavioral Health, which is the operator of Alta Head Start, on Tuesday afternoon to announce a new program designed to help pre-K teachers in public, charter and Head Start classrooms across the U.S. obtain the resources to enhance student outcomes.

The initiative will support preschool classrooms in the Mahoning Valley and every state where PNC has a significant presence. In addition, PNC presented a $3,000 PNC Foundation grant to Alta Head Start.

PNC also designated April 4 as Great Day, part of Great Month, PNC’s annual recognition of its commitment to quality early-childhood education.

Dedicating fitness areas

YOUNGSTOWN

Three new outdoor fitness stations in Wick Park, installed as part of a partnership that included Youngstown State University, will be dedicated at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11 a.m. Thursday.

The event, which will be at the Fifth Avenue fitness station (across from Ohio Living Park Vista), is sponsored by the city’s Park and Recreation Department in partnership with Youngstown CityScape and YSU Campus Recreation.

Campus Recreation will conduct organized training and fitness classes incorporating the exercise equipment.

Testing prototypes

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown State University engineering students will be testing their prototype projects at OH WOW! The Roger and Gloria Jones Children’s Center for Science and Technology, 11 W. Federal St., on Thursday.

Each class will have WOW-tastic explorers put their designs to the test during their scheduled class times.

Different groups of students throughout the day will showcase their hard work.

OH WOW! invites explorers to visit anytime from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. for free. For information, call 330-744-5914.

No coal-mining lecture

YOUNGSTOWN

Today’s scheduled lecture at 7 p.m. featuring Christopher Mark on “Coal Mining: Past, Present and Future” at Youngstown State University has been canceled. Instead, there will be a presentation and update on recent earthquakes in Monroe County that resulted in the Ohio Department of Natural Resources halting fracking operations there.

The free presentation will take place at 7 p.m. in Cushwa Hall Room B112. The presentation is part of the YSU Lecture Series on Energy and the Environment sponsored by the university’s James Dale Ethics Center.