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Caregivers awarded $500 grants from Dylan’s House

LIBERTY — Dylan’s House, a nonprofit founded in 2022 to assist individuals on the autism spectrum and their families in finding accessible opportunities for housing, education and professional caregiver services, presented $500 caregiver grants to 10 caretakers for their work with clients ...

Maplecrest hosts fundraiser for Alzheimer’s awareness

STRUTHERS — Maplecrest Nursing Home hosted a hot dog drive-thru fundraising event Thursday to support the Alzheimer’s Association’s 2026 Walk to End Alzheimer’s. “All the proceeds are going to the Alzheimer’s Association,” Tiffany Crane, admission coordinator for Maplecrest, said. “That is taking place on Oct. 10 at the Watson and Tressel Training Site down at [Youngstown State University.” The Walk to End Alzheimer’s, also called the Memory Walk, is a nationwide event meant to raise money for patients with Alzheimer’s and to raise awareness of the disease. The ...

Farm hosted children for 2-week camp

120 Years Ago, 1906 transcribed as originally published in the Youngstown Vindicator: “Children of the poor happy and care-free. Handsomely entertained by Misses Kate, Lottie and Elsie Deemer. Most commendable undertaking that is accomplishing splendid results – all for sweet charity – descriptive.” “In a house especially built and arranged for their accommodation, the house being on the I. J. Deemer farm about a mile west of the village of Poland and on the road leading from that village to Canfield, are to be found 20 of the happiest, care-free and fun-loving children in ...

Police blotters for Austintown and Boardman for July 18

Austintown Police activity reported July 9-16: July 16, 2:28 a.m. — Dustin J. Ortiz-Duley was arrested at 5 N. Edgehill Ave. on a criminal damaging warrant. 1:43 a.m. — Trevonn D. Johnson was arrested at 981 Compass West on a burglary charge. July 15, 3:12 p.m. — Valdino Marion was arrested at Meijer on charges of possession of criminal tools and theft. 2:43 p.m. — Stolen package reported at Compass West. July 14, 12:44 p.m. — Fraud reported at 131 N. Kimberly Ave. after a debit card number was used. July 13, 1:40 p.m. — A juvenile was released to his parents ...

Woman deemed incompetent for trial in daughter’s death

AUSTINTOWN — The defense and prosecution agreed Wednesday that Laronda Mitchell is not competent to stand trial, so she will be taken to Heartland Behavioral Healthcare, a state mental hospital in Massillon, to attempt to restore her to competency to stand trial. Mitchell, 39, of South ...

Fed loan guarantees fail for SOBE rescue

YOUNGSTOWN — An effort failed to get loan guarantees from the U.S. Department of Energy to help downtown Youngstown businesses get off of SOBE Thermal Energy System LLC’s steam heat system, so an option with a local lending institution and the state treasurer is possible. Zach Prouty, ...