WARREN TOWNSHIP — Trustees plan to honor a township family whose sons all excelled in athletics by having a road named “Sixth Street Browner Way.”

Trustee Ed Anthony said plans are underway to host a ceremony Saturday to honor the Browner family. Plans are to designate a portion of Fifth Street from Tod Avenue SW to the Warren city limits as “Browner Way” and dedicate a sign.

Resident Darryl Parker said Jimmy and Julia Browner raised six sons in the township in a home their father built. He said all the sons played football for the former Warren Western Reserve High School, were all college graduates and all became professional football players.

“This will not only recognize the Browner family, but the township as well,” Parker said.

“The family was a very athletic family.”

Parker said the Browners raised their sons well, with all of them being good athletes and good students in the Warren City School District. He said the sons all earned black belts in martial arts.

“They are a very deserving family,” he said.

Parker said the sons were Ross, Jimmy, Willard, Joey, Keith and Gerald. There were also two sisters — Bernadette and Olivia.

Parker said there is a display dedicated to the Browner family at Warren G. Harding High School since it merged with Western Reserve High School in 1990.

Anthony said he remembers the sons who led the local football camps — a highly regarded youth camp that they helped run.

“They always came back to Warren and gave back to the community to run the camps. The kids loved having professional football players with them at the camp,” Anthony said.

In another matter, trustees at their June meeting approved the vacating of 60 feet of an unnamed street in the Leavittsburg Garden Farmers plat. The unnamed street is no longer needed for public use and does not provide essential public infrastructure.

Officials said the vacating of the unnamed street will allow for proper utilization of land for essential development, which will be in the best interest of the township

In other action, trustees:

• Will seek $198,899 in Ohio Public Works Commission funds for road paving on Jay Street, Melgren Street and Wylacker Road.

• Approved the promotion of Chuck Mohan from police patrolman to sergeant.

• Hired Miles Persondek as part-time emergency medical technician at $16 per hour.

• Accepted the resignation of Greg Wrightsman from the fire department.

• Announced new exercise equipment obtained by a Bureau of Workers Compensation grant was installed in the fire department weight room.

• Heard from Parker the former Bronze Torch Club is in poor condition with high grass and is a public nuisance. Trustee Tyler Wilson said the property can be turned over to the Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership for demolition. TNP assisted the township with demolitions in 2025.

• Heard from Fire Chief Joseph Natali there was emergency medical service billing collected from January to May totaling $62,367. He said in May, the township received 40 mutual aid assist and provided nine mutual aids to other townships.

• Heard from Natali a grant application was submitted for a Federal Emergency Management grant for fire hoses, thermal imaging cameras, appliances for the fire trucks and other items.

• Declared properties at 6229 Park Road, 3805 Winters Road, 158 Park Road, 3331 Warren Salem Road and 531 Seventh Street as public nuisances due to high grass of eight inches or more with property owners asked to address the nuisance by getting the lawn cut. If not, the township will cut the grass and assess the cost to the property owners’ tax bill.