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Girard officials look at options for feral 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 who assists communities with capturing 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 population by 75%. ...

Scouts from Valley celebrate successes

POLAND — Area Scouts have completed more than 19,000 service hours in the past year while working on their Eagle Scout projects — an average of 500 hours per project. That tidbit of information was given Tuesday morning at the 21st annual Celebration of Scouting Breakfast at The Lake ...

SOBE threatens to cut heat to tenants

YOUNGSTOWN — SOBE Thermal Energy Systems LLC, which is responsible for providing steam heat for a majority of downtown Youngstown, sent a disconnection notice to tenants at Wick Tower over a disputed utility bill. SOBE sent the 10-day “service disconnection notice” Monday to tenants at Wick Tower, 34 W. Federal St., stating the building’s owner has not paid $25,913.52. “As a result, steam service to the building will be disconnected 10 business days from this notice,” it reads. Dominic Marchionda, whose company owns the 13-story, 49-apartment building, said the amount is ...

Youngstown school board considers tax break for high-rise downtown

YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Board of Education has received a request from a consulting firm for a 15-year, 90% Community Investment Area tax exemption regarding developing the former Mahoning Bank Building. During its regular meeting Tuesday at Youngstown Rayen Early College High School, the board heard a presen- tation from Dennis McAndrew, president of Cleveland-based Silverlode Consulting Corp., which is assisting with an $18.5 million mixed-use redevelopment project to the 13-story downtown structure that was built in 1910 and is on the National Register of Historic Places ...

Alberini charged with OVI, threatening police

POLAND — Restaurateur Michael Alberini is in trouble with the law again, and he apparently did not handle it well. A Poland Village police report states that Alberini made several violent threats toward the officer who arrested him for operating a vehicle impaired Sunday. Alberini ...

Liberty fire 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 ...