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MRTA TO MEET: The Mahoning Retired Teachers Association will meet on May 8 at Drake’s Landing, Western Reserve Road. Social hour begins at 11 a.m. with lunch at 11:45 a.m. The 2023-24 deceased Association members will be honored and the Community Service Collection will be donated to ...

Health notes

SELF-HELP GROUP TO MEET: Recovery International, a community self-help mental health group, will meet at 2 p.m. today at Michael Kusalaba Public Library, 2815 Mahoning Ave., Youngstown. For more information, call 330-747-1176. ASO WEBSITE REDESIGN: In recognition of Autism Acceptance Month, ...

Former Atlanta mayor to speak at Friday Unmute Symposium

YOUNGSTOWN — Keisha Lance Bottoms, former Atlanta mayor, will present as keynote speaker Friday at Unmute the Uncomfortable 2024. Former Youngstown resident Barbara Fant, a poet, will also present. Coleman Health Services in partnership with the Trumbull County Mental Health and Recovery ...

Valley Grows Calendar

Here are upcoming gardening events through the Ohio State University Mahoning County Extension Office. Contact the Extension Office, 490 S. Broad St., Canfield, at 330-533-5538. Plant and pest clinic What: Stop by to ask questions or drop off samples. When: Hours vary during winter ...

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Federal Frenzy turns 10 with opener

YOUNGSTOWN — Federal Frenzy celebrates its 10th year on Saturday, and its second edition on Youngstown’s East Side. Last year’s event moved to Penguin City Brewing, Youngstown Flea and East Federal Street because of downtown construction. Despite the first phase of that work being ...

Lit Youngstown hosts Biddinger, Dravec

Poets Mary Biddinger and Sarah Dravec will be featured at Lit Youngstown’s next First Wednesday Reader Series event. Biddinger is a poet and flash fiction writer who lives in Akron. She is an English professor at the University of Akron, where she is on the faculty of the NEOMFA creative ...

Salem group announces preservation events

Salem Preservation members have several events planned in May for National Preservation Month. The celebration of preservation will begin at 5 p.m. Wednesday with guided tours of the 103-year-old Salem Golf Club, 1967 S. Lincoln Ave., Salem, which the group saved from being turned into ...

Trumbull Seniors present ‘Broadway Rhythm’

Trumbull Senior Production Company brings its annual show to Champion High School for two performances this weekend. This is the 15th year for the group, which is open to people ages 50 and older. Performers have been rehearsing for months in preparation for the show. This year’s ...

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Births

St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital BRINKER, Melissa and Cameron, of Salineville, a daughter April 25 KEELEY, Samantha and Troy Kittrell, of Girard, a daughter April 25 LIPPILLO, Tammy and Jonathan Ruland, of Youngstown, a daughter April 25 SOOS, Kristy, of Wellsville, a daughter April ...

Births

St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital SHARKEY-SALCER, Kayla and Ricky, of Austintown, a son April 24 WRIGHT, Tiffany and Mathew Smith, of East Liverpool, a daughter April 24 St. Joseph Warren Hospital MILLER, Leanna and Martin M., of Middlefield, a daughter April 24 PEGUES, Marsheonia and ...

Births

St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital CARROLL, Allisyn and Dylan Morris, of Hammondsville, a son April 23 CRAIG, Paige and Robert Mackall, of East Liverpool, a son April 23

Births

St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital CLARK, Olivia and Deric Madick, of Lowellville, a daughter April 22 COLBRUNN, Shana and Joshua, of Cortland, a son April 22 DEMAIOLO, Sarah and Daniel, of Youngstown, a son April 11 FILIPCICH, Brittany and Jeff, of Niles, a daughter April 22 ROMAIN, ...

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The road less traveled by made too much of a gasping difference

Many years ago, poet Robert Frost penned the famous lines, “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.” Bob, buddy, I know what you mean. I got lost too. A wrong turn, and wrong turn there, and next thing you know, ...

30 years later, back to dorm life

After 30 years of living in a house in the country, I’ve moved to a small apartment in the city. It’s dorm life all over again, but with bad knees and fewer escapades involving random male stupidity. I grew up in the country, where we boys could run, holler, spit and throw things all we ...

The Cap’n and I are going to be ship shape — or barge shaped

Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but now that summer nears, I’m going to get back in shape. Oh, you’ve heard that one before have you? Well, I mean it this time. No seriously. Ah, c’mon, that wasn’t supposed to be the humorous part of this column. I started yesterday. Well, ...

Eh, where are the anvils kept, Doc?

Because I value continued learning, I eagerly studied a series of nature documentaries the other day. One of the episodes featured a rabbit, a duck and a befuddled hunter. “It’s rabbit season!” the black drake spluttered. “It’s duck season!” the gray bunny countered. Duck: ...

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If I could turn back time to high school, I wouldn’t

High school, ah, the memories! I was doing a little internal reminiscing about it myself recently and honestly, it had me cringing before you can even say “I’m late for homeroom.” Although these are only some of them, here are a plethora of the reasons why I’d never want to hop back ...

Working through sadness caused by deception

Unfortunately for us humans, certain things in life are, well, ill-fated. In other words, in every life a little sad must fall. And at one point or another, each of us faces a time when someone we care for deeply lets us down. It’s inevitable. But I happened upon a study by ...

Riding radical rollercoaster of recent(ish) inventions

I saw this article recently entitled “40 Things that Didn’t Exist 40 Years Ago.” Intrigued, I had to check out some of these said things. Here we go: Selfies — Though the concept is kind of timeless, never has it been so easy to take hundreds of self-portraits. Just think of how odd ...

Recapping some of the most quotable cinematic moments

Although it’s spring and after Hollywood’s big award season, I’ve still been in a silvery-screen mood. So, I went in search of some of the most iconic movie lines of all time. Sure enough, a quick little web search landed me on a www.msn.com link that provided precisely that. So, ...