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Central Y gets $1M grant for renovations

The YMCA of Youngstown received a $1 million state brownfield remediation grant, while two projects in Warren received a combined $935,520 for improvement work. The three projects were among 160 receiving funding Thursday through the Ohio Department of Development’s Ohio Brownfield Remediation Program. A total of $61 million in grants was announced. Gov. Mike DeWine said, “Sites like these do no good when they’re left alone to contaminate the soil and impact the health of our neighborhoods. Throughout the past five years, we’ve changed the trajectory of hundreds of ...

James Harden, Cavaliers a win away from conference finals

This may as well have been called The James Harden Experience. In the span of 22 seconds during overtime of Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday night, Harden did all this for the Cleveland Cavaliers — made a free throw, missed a free throw, ...

Pirates top Rockies in Endy Rodriguez’s MLB return

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Endy Rodriguez had two hits and drove in a pair of runs in his return to the majors and the Pittsburgh Pirates breezed past the Colorado Rockies 7-2 on Thursday. Rodriguez, a catcher once considered among the top prospects in Pittsburgh’s farm system before missing all ...

Prosecutor: Candidates must take stand on death penalty

Staff report Gov. Mike DeWine announced this week he will give his position soon on the enforcement of the death penalty in Ohio, which for nearly eight years has not been enforced because of the state’s inability to obtain lethal injection drugs. “Though the governor says he cannot obtain these drugs, many other states are carrying out court-ordered executions at record levels,” Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins. Watkins provided a look at the death penalty in Ohio and recent action in other states that “provide compelling evidence to maintain the present death ...

Cleanup of Mahoning River in Youngstown proposed

YOUNGSTOWN — The city is planning a project, costing up to $6.12 million, to remove three low-head dams in the Mahoning River to improve water quality and clean contaminated sediment behind them. City council will be asked Wednesday to approve three pieces of legislation related to the project. The ordinances would permit the board of control to enter into agreements for the work with companies at a cost of up to $6.125 million, spend up to $200,000 to acquire parcels and easements for the work, and enter into an agreement with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to obtain $3.5 ...

YNDC open house leaves residents feeling positive

YOUNGSTOWN — The stated central purpose of the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation is “to foster the transformation of vulnerable, undervalued and transitional neighborhoods into…places where people are willing to invest their time, energy and resources and where residents ...