BOARDMAN — Trustees are closing in on a replacement for their ailing township administrator. Jason Loree has been battling polycystic kidney disease for years now and the illness has brought him to a critical juncture. It is so unlikely he will be able to continue in the role that the ...

YOUNGSTOWN — The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio does not oppose Youngstown’s motion to intervene in the court case involving SOBE Thermal Energy Systems LLC’s receivership, but wants a judge to reject the city’s cross-claim against the beleaguered utility company. In a response ...

By BRANDON CANTWELL Staff writer LIBERTY — Akiva Academy representatives hope to continue under one charter, as they requested the Liberty Board of Education release property partially within the district. On Monday, board members heard from Melissa Bateman, the Youngstown Area Jewish ...

GIRARD — City officials will pursue $175,000 in grants for a proposed synthetic ice rink and curling area for David Tod Memorial Park. “They are expensive, but we have talked about an ice rink at the park before. This is something we can’t afford to do on our own,” Mayor Mark Zuppo ...

WARREN — After switching her party affiliation to Republican to run for reelection to the Trumbull County Common Pleas Court bench, Cynthia Westcott Rice, elected five times as judge as a Democrat, withdrew her candidacy. Rice submitted a letter Tuesday to the Trumbull County Board of ...

BOARDMAN — Despite economic hardships faced by many in the Mahoning Valley last year, area residents stepped up for the United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley and helped set a donation record. A news conference Tuesday morning at the Centofanti Volunteer Resource Center ...