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WRITER: Marly Reichert

On the record | Campbell City Council meeting

Campbell WHAT: City council meeting Sept. 21 PRESENT: Joseph Mazzocca, Timothy O’Bryan, Steven Cappitte and Robert Stanko ABSENT: George Levendis Council: Agreed to pay $3,346.50 to GPD Group for professional services from March 26 to April 29; * Agreed to pay $1,275 to GPD Group for the 2022 street resurfacing project; * Agreed to pay $69,342 to Santander for the lease agreement for two trucks ...

Campbell veteran brought cheer, beer to troops

CAMPBELL — Edward Lewis Sr. likely was the post popular and protected soldier in his Army unit while serving in Korea in the early 1950s. That’s because Lewis was the beer distributor for Headquarter Company, 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry — bringing cases of Budweiser weekly to the troops. Lewis, now 94, was born in Wooster, but graduated from North High School in Youngstown in 1947. He worked at ...

Boardman veteran wounded in Korea

EDITOR’S NOTE: To suggest a veteran for this series, which runs weekly through Veterans Day, email Metro Editor Marly Reichert at mreichert@tribtoday.com. BOARDMAN — Richard “Dick” Coughlin said his ego, and a little bit of his Irish temper, landed him on the front line of the Korean War in early 1951. Coughlin, 91, a 1949 graduate of Ursuline High School, was working the graveyard shift in the open ...

Army, advertising shape centenarian’s life

YOUNGSTOWN — The AMC television series “Mad Men” was a fictional representation of the advertising business in New York City in the 1960s, but Youngstown native William Farragher had a very real career in the industry in the city where he lived. Farragher turned 100 on July 22, and he now lives in a nursing home near his oldest daughter, Kelly Paras, in Manchester, N.H. She said his body is physically ...

Canfield teen takes charge to clean vets’ gravestones

CANFIELD — Sarah DeRosa’s project to honor veterans started by happenstance. Sarah, 17, a junior at Canfield High School, is planning to clean 350 veteran gravestones at Canfield East Cemetery by Memorial Day. The project started because she and her father, Michael DeRosa, wanted to clean the mold off their back patio and saw a video on YouTube of people using the the cleaning agent they were buying to ...

Blessed Easter baskets overflow in tradition in the Valley

YOUNGSTOWN — It’s all about tradition. That is what the approximately 15 people who showed up Saturday afternoon at St. Columba Cathedral said about bringing their Easter food baskets to be blessed. The blessing of Easter baskets on Holy Saturday is an Eastern European tradition dating back to the 15th century, according to the website of the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops. Juliann McLennan ...

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