DEAR EDITOR: Everyone in Lowellville and Youngstown should take note of what is happening in Point Township, Pa. A proposed “chemical recycling” facility by a company called Encina has officially hit the road. This has come after significant opposition from area residents and a local ...
Springtime traditionally ushers in renewal and improvement on many fronts. Nowhere may that be more visible than on major highways in Ohio and the Mahoning Valley in what promises to be a bustling construction season. In Mahoning and Trumbull counties alone, the Ohio Department of ...
Words can’t necessarily describe my emotions when I answered my phone April 5. All I could hear on the other end of the line was sobbing. It wasn’t good news. My wife had just gone through her first set of shots for In vitro fertilization and we had been waiting to hear if any eggs had ...
Social media can be damaging, especially to young people. That’s no secret, but what to do about it remains a mystery. Ohio lawmakers are tossing around the idea of banning social media and the use of electronic devices during class, according to a report by News 5 Cleveland. House Bill ...
For two candidates running for Congress for the first time, state Sen. Michael Rulli and state Rep. Reggie Stoltzfus both raised impressive amounts of money in short periods of time. How each raised their money, though, was very different. The two were among three Republicans running for the ...
Students in the Youngstown City School District lost out on the beginning of their school year in August and spent the first month or so of it at home learning virtually as the district and the teachers’ union attempted to hammer out a new contract. That won’t happen again in 2024-25, ...
