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 — 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 ...
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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 ...
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 — 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 ...
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 ...