It’s been kind of easy the last few years to forget we live in Northeast Ohio. We’ve had winters where I barely had to shovel, and the snows that came seldom exceeded a couple inches at one time. However, Sunday’s weather brought back memories of ‘78 and other big blasts. I shoveled ...

Art ARTS & EDUCATION AT THE HOYT, 124 E. Leasure Ave., New Castle, Pa.: “My Abandoned Heart: Photography by Diane Beatty,” “Portals to the Soul: Photography by Dina Liguore” and “Felicific Calculus: Photography by Eric Kunsman,” all Tuesday through March 12. Hours are 11 a.m. ...

Eastwood Mall hosts YSU quarterback A meet-and-greet with Youngstown State University quarterback Beau Brungard is scheduled 4 to 6 p.m. Friday at Eastwood Mall, 5555 Youngstown-Warren Road. The New Middletown native and Springfield Local graduate became the first Penguins player in school ...

Don Tanner’s second CD came pretty quickly. Organizing a CD release show for the album took some time. The Youngstown musician finished “It’s a Large World” in 2024, less than two years after the release of his debut, “Are You Going My Way.” Tanner has been playing music since he ...

The work of Davon Brantley will be featured in Youngstown State University’s Judith Rae Solomon Gallery in February. Brantley is a Cleveland native who earned his bachelor’s degree in drawing from Cleveland Institute of Art in 2018. He has exhibited and curated at such institutions as ...

Staff report Two poets from Cleveland will be featured at Lit Youngstown’s next First Wednesday Reader Series event. Conor Bracken’s latest translation is of Jean D'Amerique's “Workshop of Silence” (Vanderbilt, 2025.) His second book of poems, “All-American Dad,” will be ...