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YOUNGSTOWN — When Oak Hill Cemetery is mentioned, it’s easy to reflexively and initially think of the Wick, Tod, Pollack, Stambaugh and other influential families who shaped much of the city’s early history. Nevertheless, mixed…

Sferra reunion marks 100th year

CANFIELD — For most families, organizing a reunion every year is difficult enough. For the descendants of Domenico “Tony” Sferra…

Family nurtures deep roots

MINERAL RIDGE — While everyone didn’t share the same last name at the 100th Keeling Family Reunion on Saturday, they…

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OCCHA FOOD FEST: Organizacion Civic y Cultural Hispana Americana Inc. (OCCHA) will present its 14th annual International Latino Food Festival noon to 4 p.m. Sunday at OCCHA, 3660 Shirley Road, Youngstown. The featured cuisines will be Puerto Rican, Dominican, Mexican, Venezuelan and Latin American. Dinners are $15 each and include drinks and desserts. Entertainment…

• MILL CREEK METROPARKS Board of Park Commissioners will meet at 5 p.m. today at the…

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• BOARDMAN TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES will meet at 5:30 p.m. Monday at the township government center. •…

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AUSTINTOWN — David James Mayzik, passed away peacefully Wednesday, July 8, 2026, at the age of…

David J. Mayzik 1954-2026

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Siblings take opposite stances on sleepaway camp

DEAR ANNIE: My husband and I are at odds over whether to send our two children to sleepaway camp next summer. He went every year from the time he was 8 and talks about it as one of the happiest parts of his childhood. I never went to sleepaway camp, and the thought of…

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U.S. democracy doesn’t require the truth police

It became fashionable a few years ago for people to blame “misinformation” for others holding views they find wrongheaded. Social media platforms, sometimes jawboned by the federal government, invoked this supposed crisis to justify censorship, especially during the pandemic. This insulted the intelligence of the American people, who can make up their own minds…

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