YOUNGSTOWN The city hired A. Joseph Fritz, the fired Newton Falls law director, as an assistant law director. Fritz was sentenced last year to one year of
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NEWTON FALLS A heated Newton Falls Village Council meeting Monday took a turn when three council members stood up and walked out before a vote to set a date for a recall election taking aim at the 4th Ward councilwoman.
Councilwoman Sandra Breymaier and councilmen Tarry Alberini and Adam Zimmerman walked out of the meeting in protest, as did David Lynch, the village manager, and Joseph Fritz, the law director, who was acting as village clerk for the meeting.
Though three of the five-member village council left, as did the acting clerk, Mayor Ken Kline took over the meeting and called for a vote to set the date to recall Breymaier for May 25.