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Niles board updates bonds

NILES — Nearly a decade has passed since certain bonds were purchased as part of a district’s project, and the Niles Board of Education passed resolutions that would save the district money as part of a loop. At Tuesday’s meeting, the Niles Board of Education approved a pair of resolutions, the first one providing the issuance and sale of them in their maximum principal amount of $735,000, and the other one for $9,910,000. Both resolutions authorize the refinancing of the district’s outstanding June 20, 2017, school facilities improvement bonds to reduce interest charges and ...

Large gathering broken up at Warren park

WARREN — Warren police dispersed a large after-hours gathering of more than 30 people, many of them juveniles at Burbank Park early Sunday and issued dozens of citations and arrests for criminal trespass. According to a Warren police report officers responded around 1:36 a.m. July 26 after receiving a report of 20 to 30 juveniles and multiple vehicles in the park in the 300 block of Olian Avenue NW after closing time. Upon arrival, the report says police blocked the entrance and began issuing summonses and making arrests, clearing the scene by about 3:12 a.m., according to the ...

Large gathering broken up at Warren park

WARREN — Warren police dispersed a large after-hours gathering of more than 30 people, many of them juveniles at Burbank Park early Sunday and issued dozens of citations and arrests for criminal trespass. According to a Warren police report officers responded around 1:36 a.m. July 26 after receiving a report of 20 to 30 juveniles and multiple vehicles in the park in the 300 block of Olian Avenue NW after closing time. Upon arrival, the report says police blocked the entrance and began issuing summonses and making arrests, clearing the scene by about 3:12 a.m., according to the ...

Champion police probe incident at golf course

CHAMPION — The Township Police Department is investigating vandalism at a local golf course, including damage to several golf carts and to a green on one of the holes. Police Chief Larry Skaggs said the department received a call Wednesday from the owner of Cranberry Hills Golf Course, 4891 Clovercrest Drive, of criminal damage at the business. Reports indicate Steve Welch, the owner of the course, told police someone took seven golf carts out of a shed where they were stored and drove them onto the course and damaged them. Reports indicate carts were found scattered throughout the ...

Animals flock to McDonald park

Staff photo / R. Michael Semple Raptor Hallow Sanctuary of Alliance brought a variety of animals to Woodland Park in McDonald on Wednesday for a program “Fur, Feather and Scales,” in which children explored the differences between mammals, reptiles and birds. Aaliyah Groves, 10, of ...

Ex-auto title clerk sentenced for theft in office

WARREN — A former Trumbull County employee has been sentenced to six months in jail for six felonies related to her stealing money and altering records to cover up the crime. Vanessa Clark, 59, of McDonald Avenue in Niles, a former employee of the auto title division of the Trumbull County Clerk of Courts Office, was sentenced Tuesday by Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge Sarah Kovoor to 180 days in jail, with credit for 88 days already served while awaiting sentencing, court records show. She pleaded guilty May 5 to one count of theft in office and five counts of tampering ...