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Boardman trustees approve Forest Lawn pavilion funds

BOARDMAN — The next phase of the Forest Lawn Stormwater Park is underway. On Monday, Boardman Township trustees approved a motion accepting a $750,000 grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. The Capital Improvement Community Park Grant will provide the funds to construct an ...

Trumbull commissioners consider joining Huntington credit card program

WARREN — Trumbull County Commissioners are looking to join a statewide consortium of other counties working with Huntington Bank that will enable it to use bank provided credit cards to pay for a variety of transactions. The proposed system, if approved, will allow the county to pay vendors and other services through the credit card system and receive cash back rewards. The County Commissioners Association of Ohio, an association of county commissioners, has partnered with Huntington Bank to expand this program throughout the state. Counties in the program get annual rebates based ...

Oct. 7 agenda

POLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION will have a work session at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Union Elementary School with a board member tour at 5:30 p.m. COITSVILLE TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES will have a special meeting at 10 a.m. Thursday at the township hall to hire police personnel and to discuss road paving projects. MAHONING COUNTY COMMISSIONERS will meet at 8 a.m. Wednesday in the commissioners’ hearing room. A board meeting will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in the hearing room at the county courthouse basement and a staff meeting at 11 a.m. Thursday in the conference room at the administration building.

Commissioners consider buying two vehicles for sheriff

WARREN — Two new 2026 Ford Police Interceptors are expected to be purchased at a price of $100,182 for the Trumbull County Sheriff’s Office through the state purchasing program. Trumbull County Commissioners recently approved a program scheduled to begin in 2027 that will allow the sheriff’s office to purchase a new vehicle once every quarter. Under the program, the sheriff’s office will receive a minimum of four cruisers a year. “We won’t be purchasing vehicles for the first two quarters next year,” Shara Taylor, the county’s purchasing director, said. “We are ...

Dolly Parton’s multifaceted legacy showcased at Nashville museum

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Dolly Parton’s longtime creative director, Steve Summers, designed hundreds of dresses and outfits for the late singer and entertainer every year, so he saw her in many stages of her career. “Every person in here has a different Dolly Parton that they are in love with,” Summers told a crowd of fans gathered Tuesday for the opening of a new museum in Nashville dedicated to the beloved singer who died in August at age 80. The 20,000-square-foot Dolly’s Life of Many Colors Museum includes exhibits focused on many different aspects of her life and ...

Decision to allow data centers in Hubbard up to residents

HUBBARD — Data centers have been a hot topic across Trumbull County over the past year and Hubbard voters will decide Nov. 3 if they want to ban them from the city. Hubbard residents collected more than 750 signatures — nearly twice the minimum 370 required — in July for an initiative allowing Hubbard residents to decide whether they want to keep or outright ban data centers in the city. The option comes after residents expressed concerns about a data center development around Deer Creek Golf Course as part of Project Milo, which Mayor Ben Kyle previously spoke of in February ...