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Local at a glance: Man ID’d in fatal motorcycle crash

Man ID’d in fatal motorcycle crash HOWLAND — The man killed Monday in a motorcycle crash on state Route 82 has been identified as Grant Sanzenbacher, 64, of Vienna, according to a news release from the Ohio State Highway Patrol post in Southington. The patrol responded to the two-vehicle crash in which a 2022 Indian motorcycle operated by Sanzenbacher was traveling west on Route 82 in the left lane at the state Route 45 overpass. The report states a 2020 Dodge Ram pickup truck driven by Joshua Mistovich, 34, of Lowellville, was traveling behind Sanzenbacher and struck the rear ...

Testimony continues in Warren murder trial

Staff report WARREN — Testimony continued Tuesday in the aggravated murder trial of Ashaud Johnson, 19, of Warren, who is accused in the Feb. 11 shooting death of Da’Mar McKinney, 16, of Youngstown. Johnson was indicted Feb. 19 on charges of aggravated murder, gun specifications, ...

Liberty Fire Department seeks $270K grant

LIBERTY — The township’s fire chief noted the importance of being meticulous in grant applications, as he reported the department is going after funds to upgrade equipment. Fire Chief Doug Theobald, as part of his report at Monday’s trustees meeting, said June is grant-writing month for the fire department, and fire officials are in the process of working with a “very knowledgeable” grant writer who has sat on the peer review committee. “He knows the yeses and nos, the ‘T’s and the ‘I’ — and we’ve been working with him, I can’t even think of how many hours ...

Girard looks at options for cat colonies

GIRARD — With large feral cat colonies in parts of the city, officials are seeing what options they have to reduce their numbers. Alicia Stoner, a volunteer with Trap, Neuter, Release (TNR) in Warren, which captures feral cats for neutering and spaying before releasing them, told city officials Monday that she has spent time in the city catching cats and noted there is “a hot spot” off Hartzell Avenue where there are two separate cat colonies. She said the goal is to get cats from those colonies and have them spayed or neutered and then released, which will help to decrease the ...

Commissioners, MetroParks plan to save Braceville cabin

WARREN — The Trumbull County Commissioners are leaning toward finding ways to help the Trumbull County MetroParks board maintain and rehabilitate a Braceville log cabin found in 2018 under a condemned building. During the commissioners workshop Tuesday, MetroParks Executive Director Zachary Svette provided them options about the cabin’s future, including maintaining it on the five acres on which it is located; maintaining the cabin, but only keeping enough of the five acres for its maintenance; or moving the cabin to a different site. The MetroParks, which owns the cabin, earlier ...

Lordstown officials review safety service complex options

LORDSTOWN — Village officials are looking at potential development of a safety service complex or new fire department in the future because of insufficient space for safety vehicles and fire staff. Members of council and the administration met in a work session Monday with members of the fire, road, zoning and water departments to discuss options for various village buildings. Mayor Jackie Woodward said everyone has different ideas for the village buildings, which include the fire/police building, former library building, road department, water department garage, recreation building ...