BEACON JOURNAL
Call center holiday hours
AKRON: The Beacon Journal Customer Service Call Center will take calls from 7 to 10 a.m. Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The phone number is 330-996-3600 or 800-777-2442 or 800-777-2442.
Regular business hours of 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. will resume Tuesday.
The Public Service Counter inside the Beacon Journal, at 44 E. Exchange St., Akron, will be closed Monday. Regular business hours of 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. will resume Tuesday.
AKRON
Applications sought
AKRON: Applications are being accepted for the annual Judge Harold K. Stubbs Memorial Scholarship. Applications are available through counselors at Akron high schools after the winter break or can be requested by sending an email to reenie477@yahoo.com. The deadline is Jan. 13.
Recipients will be notified by mail 30 days after the deadline. For more information, call 330-867-4329.
NORTHEAST OHIO
Receive energy assistance
Local Ohio Salvation Army offices are accepting applications for Dominion East Ohio’s EnergyShare program, which helps families who have exhausted all other forms of winter energy assistance. EnergyShare is entering its 16th year in Ohio.
To qualify for a one-time EnergyShare assistance payment, a person must be a Dominion customer and must have:
• Demonstrated a need for assistance.
• Exhausted all other state and federal energy assistance; and
• Received a shutoff notice or had their service disconnected.
Dominion works with local Salvation Army offices to help eligible participants. Every dollar contributed to this fund goes to pay recipients’ Dominion East Ohio heating bills. The program runs through May 31, 2017.
STARK COUNTY
Temporary budget approved
LAKE TWP.: Trustees approved temporary appropriations of $12,625,373 for 2017 at their meeting Tuesday evening.
The board also passed a resolution clarifying the six major holidays that part-time Uniontown police officers will work as being Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. The part time officers will be paid $30 per hour for work on these holidays.
Two suspects on run
NORTH CANTON: City police are asking for help in catching the suspects who held up two separate pizza delivery drivers by gunpoint Thursday night.
In the first case, a Donato’s driver was robbed at 8:06 p.m. in the 1400 block of School Avenue Northeast. The suspect was described as a 5-foot-9 black man with a slim build in his 20s. He was wearing a gray hoodie and dark sweat pants.
The man reportedly showed a silver handgun and ordered the driver to turn over his cellphone, wallet and delivery bag containing an undisclosed amount of cash and receipts. The driver was then ordered to get back into his vehicle and leave, police said.
The second robbery occurred at 10:22 p.m. in the 700 block of Church Street Southwest. A Papa John’s driver was approached by two suspects who were both armed with dark handguns.
The suspects demanded cash and then fled on foot. No injuries were reported. Anyone with information is asked to call 330-499-5911.
STATE NEWS
Death row ruling upheld
COLUMBUS: A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a judge’s order blocking death row inmates from information about Ohio’s new lethal injection process.
The 2-1 decision by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will help determine whether Ohio will proceed with its first executions in three years beginning in February. Attorneys for condemned inmates had challenged the order. Ohio plans to execute Ronald Phillips of Akron on Feb. 15 for raping and killing his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter in 1993.