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Poland trustees make financial cuts

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POLAND TOWNSHIP — Trustees at a special meeting Tuesday cut the township’s seasonal employees and canceled the Walnut Grove stormwater project after learning there will be a $1,678 budget shortfall by the end of the year. Trustees also are considering putting a police levy on the November ballot, but they need to move quickly because the deadline to get issues on the ballot is Aug. 5. “The $1,678 is hypothetical if we keep going the way we are going,” said Poland Fiscal Officer Paul Canter. “Right now, we will have a negative $2,000 balance at the end of the year. This is a ...

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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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FirstEnergy Corp. FirstEnergy Corp. on Tuesday reported second-quarter net income of $288 million. On a per-share basis, the Akron-based company said it had net income of 50 cents. The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 49 cents per share. The utility company posted revenue of $3.68 billion in the period, also beating Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $3.56 billion. FirstEnergy expects full-year earnings in the range of $2.62 to $2.82 per ...

Youngstown city schools still trying to fill 30 teacher vacancies

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YOUNGSTOWN — As the Youngstown City School District finds itself barely a month from the start of a major reconfiguration that was announced in May 2025 and will be launched Sept. 1, efforts continue to fill several dozen teaching and other staffing positions. “Every year, we have vacancies,” Superintendent Jeremy Batchelor said after Tuesday’s regular board of education meeting at Youngstown Rayen Early College High School. “In Youngstown, right now, we truly have about 30 teaching vacancies.” A sharper spotlight has been trained on hiring especially math and science ...

Man shot to death in ‘targeted shooting’ on South Side

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YOUNGSTOWN — City police and ambulance crews were on the scene of a fatal, targeted shooting Wednesday afternoon near a Glenwood Avenue auto dealership. A Youngstown police news release states that a man, 20, was killed in a 3:11 p.m. incident at Glenwood and Indianola avenues on the South Side. The release states that officers were called to the intersection for a shooting and saw a deceased man with multiple gunshot wounds. The police department’s detective division, crime lab and Mahoning County Coroner’s Office were called to investigate. The release states that ...

SOBE returns 2 boilers until October

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YOUNGSTOWN — The financially troubled company that provides steam heat for most of downtown Youngstown is returning two of its three rented boilers until October to cut expenses and agreed to a $750,000 settlement with Enbridge Gas Co., to be paid in $40,000 monthly installments, for late bills. In a Wednesday interview with The Vindicator, John C. Collins, receiver for SOBE Thermal Energy Systems LLC, and Michael Moran, his court-appointed attorney, said the return of the two boilers will cut the company’s monthly expense for that equipment from $58,200 to about $28,000. Moran ...