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City schools establish clearinghouse

YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Board of Education has adopted a series of resolutions that entail establishing a central clearinghouse for normal operations, supporting a longtime community center and dissolving one of its committees. In one of the moves, school officials have offered their support and recognition to the McGuffey Center, 1649 Jacobs Road, for what they feel is the center serving as an anchor for much of the East Side, as well as the work it has done in the community, Superintendent Jeremy Batchelor said after Tuesday’s regular board of education meeting. “They’re ...

Official updates Liberty road projects

LIBERTY — Community improvements have quite literally been front and center for anyone navigating the Churchill portion of Belmont Avenue, and trustees learned the status of these and other ongoing improvements. At Monday’s meeting, trustees heard from Road Superintendent Wayne Hickman, who said the “never-ending” Belmont Avenue sidewalk project, which kicked off March 30, is undergoing some design changes. “We changed the design at the corner of (State Route) 304, (State Route) 193 to go behind the telephone poles; that’s why it’s been sitting stagnant,” Hickman ...

Update given on ‘Build a Better Belmont’

LIBERTY — There are about three more months before planning officials must deliver a finalized plan to revitalize a frequently used corridor connecting Mahoning and Trumbull counties — and on Monday, residents received an update. Officials heard from Katie Philips, an MS Consultants ...

Attacks launched in Iran

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. launched strikes on Iran early Tuesday morning, hours after President Donald Trump said Washington is “reinstating” a blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz. Trump separately suggested the United States will charge other ships for safe ...

Appeals court upholds order to reinstate fired officer

YOUNGSTOWN — The 7th District Court of Appeals upheld a Mahoning County Common Pleas Court judge’s decision requiring the city reinstate Brian Flynn, who was fired as a police lieutenant in December 2022 after being accused of dereliction of duty, with back pay and interest. In a 3-0 decision, the court denied the city’s claims that Judge Maureen Sweeney erred in affirming the Dec. 26, 2024, binding decision by arbitrator Jerry B. Sellman that the city should have suspended Flynn for two weeks without pay rather than fire him and Sellman correctly interpreted the collective ...

Youngstown council asked to save Cornersburg Sparkle

YOUNGSTOWN — A request from the Mayor Derrick McDowell administration to provide a $350,000 “business retention” grant and three years of income tax refunds to Sparkle Market in Cornersburg to keep it operating received a cool reception from council members. Council’s community planning and economic development committee heard the request Monday from administration officials and the owners of Sparkle Market. DeMaine Kitchen, the city’s community planning and economic development director, said some of the store’s aisles and shelves are empty, and some people thought the ...