Easing the burden
Easing the burden
YOUNGSTOWN
For the second year, the Youngstown City School District will buy school supplies for students.
“This is a way that we can ease that burden on our families. We want all of the students to be prepared for the start of the school year, and we want to help with that,” said CEO Krish Mohip.
The 2017-18 school year also will be the second year that the district opted against school uniforms. Uniforms had been in place in YCSD for several years, but Mohip, after convening a panel of stakeholders before the start of the 2016-17 school year, decided to eliminate that requirement. A school dress code, however, remains in effect.
Park improvements
YOUNGSTOWN
Mill Creek MetroParks will begin the East Cohasset Improvement Project early next month with an expected completion date of late October. The project will close the East Cohasset Bike and Hike trail from the Ottawa Entrance to Old Furnace Road for the duration of the construction. Planned improvements include drainage maintenance and installation and trail surfacing upgrades.
Charged with OVI
YOUNGSTOWN
Police charged a Girard man who drove his car off the side of a West Side street Thursday with drunken driving after a blood-alcohol test showed he was just over three times the legal limit for impaired driving.
Reports said an officer found a car about 6:45 p.m. off the side of the street at Calvary Run and South Belle Vista Avenue driven by Ewen Berwick, 36, of West Liberty Street, who said he had just come from a West Side bar and had “three pints and three shots.”
Berwick smelled of alcohol, was staggering in the street and had slurred speech, reports said. Reports said he failed a field-sobriety test and took a breath test, which showed a blood-alcohol content of .328. In Ohio, a person is considered driving drunk if they have a BAC of .08 or higher.
Berwick was issued his citations and released to his mother-in-law, reports said.
Lane restrictions
State Route 11 between the Interstate 80/Interstate 680 split and U.S. Route 224 in Austintown and Canfield townships will have various daily lane restrictions for resurfacing and pavement repairs until further notice, said the Ohio Department of Transportation.
This work is part of a $3.8 million project to resurface Route 11 between Route 224 and the I-80/I-680 split. The project also includes bridge repairs. The entire project is scheduled to be completed by August 2018.
More road work
Beginning today, state Route 11 between King Graves Road and state Route 5 as well as state Route 534 between U.S. Route 422 and just north of state Route 88 will have lane restrictions until further notice, announced the Ohio Department of Transportation.
The work is part of a $1.1 million project to make pavement repairs in Ashtabula, Mahoning and Trumbull counties scheduled to be completed by late August.
Beginning Monday, state Route 7 in Hartford Township will be closed between state Routes 82 and 305 through Wednesday for a culvert replacement.
New tennis court
NORTH LIMA
Beaver Township Park officials will have a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 7 p.m. Wednesday for Woodworth Park’s new stage and tennis court. The ceremony, weather permitting, will take place at the park, 255 Warren Ave. off Western Reserve Road.
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