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City, JAC seek coordinator for Wean Park Complex

YOUNGSTOWN — The city of Youngstown and JAC Management Group is again looking to hire a community engagement and inclusion coordinator for the Wean Park Complex. The complex is a 22-acre riverfront entertainment area including Wean Park, the Covelli Centre, Youngstown Foundation Amphitheatre and Huntington Bank Community Alley. This is a subcontracted position under JAC Management — which operates the complex for the city — with an annual salary of $40,000 and no benefits. The coordinator’s primary objectives are to work directly with community groups, churches, ...

Man suffers gunshot wound on Youngstown’s South Side

YOUNGSTOWN — A man was shot in the arm at a home on East Lucius Avenue on the South Side at 10:19 p.m. Thursday. Youngstown police officers applied a tourniquet to the man’s arm to stop the bleeding when they arrived. Officers were called to the home for a shooting and made contact with the victim in a bedroom. Two officers followed a blood trail to the rear of the house, where they looked inside the garage to ensure there were not more victims and to make sure the suspect was not still there. That is when officers saw a bullet shell casing by the side garage door on the ...

Packard museum chronicles automaker’s finale in the ’50s

WARREN — In the early 1950s, the Packard Motor Car Co. was in better financial shape than it had been in years. By 1956, the final new Packard model rolled off the assembly line. How the iconic brand ended is chronicled in “Packard’s Fabulous Fifties,” a new exhibition at the ...

Property transfers

Property transfers recorded July 6 to 10 in Mahoning County and portions of Trumbull County: Austintown Christopher Roman, PSO, to Robert Moore, 3640 Wendover Ave., $122,500 Robert Jackson Jr. and Kimberly E. Jackson to Brandon Miller, 902 S. Meridian Road, $25,000 Estate of Ann Marie Martinko to Diana Perry, 3608 Meander Reserve Circle, $310,000 Raymond J. Conti and Kelly Anne Conti to Michael E. VanHorn and Deana R. VanHorn, 2900 Whispering Pines Drive, $1,650,000 Paul and Tammy Gay to Trenton David Thompson, 142 Kleber Ave., $220,000 David A Digman and Melissa A ...

Township receives letters of interest for Austintown seat

AUSTINTOWN — The township’s two remaining trustees have had their first look at seven applicants who wish to join the board. On Friday, township officials released the names of those who submitted letters of interest to be appointed as interim trustees in the wake of Robert Santos’s resignation from the board earlier this month. At the beginning of the July 6 regular trustees meeting, Santos announced he was stepping down immediately after having accepted a position with Mahoning County as Project Manager-Capital Programs. Per Ohio law, trustees Monica Deavers and Bruce ...

NC man gets 5 to 7 1/2 years in prison in fatal Coitsville crash

YOUNGSTOWN — Robert C. Powell, 25, of North Carolina, who was working in the Youngstown area when he struck a car in the intersection of U.S. Route 422 and North Hubbard Road in Coitsville Township, killing its driver, was sentenced recently to 5 to 7 1/2 years in prison. Powell gets credit for 67 days already spent in the Mahoning County jail. Powell was convicted at trial of aggravated vehicular homicide, a second-degree felony, improperly handling a firearm in a motor vehicle and misdemeanor OVI. Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Anthony Donofrio handed down the ...