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Boardman trustees support sales tax renewal for roads

BOARDMAN — The township will begin its summer paving project next week and officials want residents to know who to thank for it. Boardman awarded the $1.5 million contract to Lindy Paving, but much of the cost is covered by the 0.25% additional gas and sales tax, which Trustee Tom Costello ...

Changing the stigma

YOUNGSTOWN — Eric Ungaro said he felt “totally smashed” the day his younger brother Sean died at the hands of a drug overdose 13 years ago. “I called my brother every single day, a hundred times; ‘where are you going? What are you doing?’ in the midst of my own life,” said ...

Trumbull auditor notifying property owners of tax error

WARREN — The Trumbull County Auditor’s Office is asking owners of nearly 500 parcels of land transferred between 2020 and 2022 to contact the office to determine if they qualify for a Current Agricultural Use Values refund because of an error made in the calculation of the property ...

Cost for SROs at Trumbull schools are going up

WARREN — Trumbull County commissioners are expected today to pass contracts with nine area school districts that use the sheriff’s office to provide school resource officers to them at a combined cost of $497,857.02. Five of the districts — Joseph Badger in Kinsman, Mathews in Vienna, ...

Commissioners approve letter seeking relief on 50% steel tariff

WARREN — A letter asking for exemption to the 50% tariff on imported steel authored by union representatives of steelworkers at Thomas Steel, Warren Mayor Doug Franklin and Trumbull County commissioners was mailed last week to Sens. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, and Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, as well as ...