Girard mayor names new safety/service director
GIRARD -Jim Pallone, who has served for the past 35 years in the city's water, wastewater and street departments, will put that experience to good use as the city's new safety/service director. Mayor Mark Zuppo announced at Monday's city council meeting that he has named Pallone to replace ...
Dollar store charges bound over to grand jury
WARREN — Two felony charges and two misdemeanor charges filed against Hakim J. Caldwell, 58, of Central Parkway Avenue SE, for an incident at a Warren dollar store last week were bound over Monday to a Trumbull County grand jury. Felony charges of menacing and receiving stolen property and ...
Liberty woman seeks more support against vouchers program
LIBERTY - It's been nearly two years since a longtime resident expressed concern that school vouchers will "endanger" public schools and two years later, she's taking the stage to seek more support. During the public comments portion of Monday's Liberty Board of Education meeting, Julia Catchpole, a former teacher who has lived in Liberty since the 1980s and put two children through the district, thanked the board for being a part of the Vouchers Hurt Ohio coalition, a group to which multiple school districts in Trumbull County - Bristol, Girard, Hubbard, LaBrae, Lakeview, Lordstown, ...
County bike trail advocates urge maintenance improvements
WARREN — Trumbull County Commissioner Tony Bernard contacted Trumbull County MetroParks Board Chairman Randy Fabrizio recently because a woman was unhappy that the portable bathrooms on the Western Reserve Greenway bike and hike trail were removed a month earlier than usual this year. Fabrizio said he explained to Bernard that removing the portable toilets early was a way for the MetroParks board to stay within its $131,000 budget for this year. Fabrizio said the issue is just a small symptom of a bigger problem. The main issue is that the pavement on the trail “is near or at the ...