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AUGUST OVERFLOW: For the 18th consecutive year, Abundant Life Fellowship, 46469 State Route 46, New Waterford, is sponsoring August Overflow, a one-day community outreach event with distribution of school supplies, clothing, food and more. The event will be noon to 4 p.m. Saturday. The event includes free distribution of school supplies, clean used clothing, produce and baked goods and grill food and side dishes served on the premises. Also available are bounce houses, games and a barrel train ride for children. School supplies are available first to students in the Beaver Local, ...

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EASTERSEALS OPEN HOUSE: Easterseals of Northeast Ohio, 200 Edwards St., Youngstown, will have an open house 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today. The public will have the opportunity to see client artwork, meet the staff, visit program tables and have a chance to win raffle prizes. For information, call 330-743-1168 or neo.easterseals.com. ITALIAN FEST: The Greater Youngstown Italian Fest will take place Friday to Sunday in downtown Youngstown. The festival runs 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Sunday, and 1 to 11 p.m. Saturday. Admission is $5, with children under 12 free. There will be food vendors, ...

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• MILL CREEK METROPARKS Board of Park Commissioners will meet at 9 a.m. Thursday at the McMahon Hall Education Building on board governance. No action will be taken. • LIBERTY TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES will have a special meeting at 8:15 a.m. Thursday at the township administration building to accept the resignation of a police officer, promote an officer to sergeant and hire a probationary police officer.

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• MAHONING COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION will meet at 1 p.m. today at the county administration building. • POLAND TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES will have a special meeting at 6 p.m. today at the township government center on employment of a public worker. There will be an executive session, if necessary. • POLAND TOWNSHIP ZONING COMMISSION will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the township government center to meet on Dominic Marchionda’s residential planned unit development. • STRUTHERS CITY COUNCIL will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the municipal building.

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TRIBUTE TO REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS: An America250 celebration with a tribute and dedication to Revolutionary War soldiers buried in Milton Township will be at 5 p.m. Friday at the Lake Milton amphitheater at Craig Beach. A ceremony will include a tribute to 22 local soldiers and their families and descendants. Following the event will be a party at the beach from 6 to 10 p.m. at with the band RDNA at the amphitheater. There also will be food vendors. FUR, FEATHER AND SCALES: Raptor Hallow Sanctuary will present a program “Fur, Feather and Scales’” at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Woodland ...

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MEZUZAH TO BE PLACED: The Jewish Community Relations Council of the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation will hang a mezuzah at the entrance of the Schwartz Judaic and Holocaust Resource Center at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the center, 505 Gypsy Lane, Youngstown. A mezuzah is a handwritten scroll, called a klaf, containing the Shema prayer, which is placed inside a decorative case and affixed to a doorpost in the home or other building. The case protects the scroll from outside elements. Rabbi Seth Sternstein of Temple El Emeth will recite the blessing. Children in the Early Learning Center of the ...