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Weathersfield awarded $500K grant for park

WEATHERSFIELD — The township has been awarded a $500,000 capital improvement grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for improvements at the township park. Trustee Chairman Steve Gerberry said the Ohio legislature appropriated capital improvement funding through Senate Bill 450 for 2027 and 2028 to support community parks, recreation and conservation projects. He said the grant will be for a pavilion, restroom facilities, parking and other improvements to enhance the park located off state Route 46. Township officials previously sought state funding for a ...

Lordstown plans work at old library building

LORDSTOWN — Village officials said they plan to proceed with work at the former Lordstown library, with plans for that structure to house offices now located on the second floor of the nearby village administration building. Building Superintendent Martin Nelder said the village has sought bids for the library remodeling project. Resident Thomas Czolka of Hallock Young Road said residents want to see something done with the former library because it would provide easy access for residents. Mayor Jackie Woodward said once the administration building is moved to the library, the ...

Trial for suspect in postal carrier killing delayed

Newly discovered evidence in the federal murder trial of Kaprise and Thomas Sledge caused the start of the trial to be moved from Monday to 8:30 a.m. this Friday, according to a Sunday and a Monday filing in U.S. District Court in Cleveland. The Sledges were supposed to go on trial Monday in the March 2, 2024, shooting death of U.S. Postal Service carrier Jonte Davis, 33, at Olive Avenue and Scott Street just northeast of Courthouse Square in Warren. Kaprise Sledge, 25, is from Warren. His father, Thomas Sledge, 45, is from Youngstown. Federal prosecutors filed a response to the ...

N. Jackson shrine official charged in indecency case

WARREN — A second man has been charged in an alleged indecent act July 31 at Perkins Park in the city. Anthony Spinosa, the chorbishop of the Basilica and National Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon in North Jackson, was charged with procuring, a first-degree misdemeanor, and public ...

McGuffey milestone celebrated

YOUNGSTOWN — Peyton Lewis-Holman isn’t shy about making lots of artistic creations, and it’s safe to say that she will be making something else that does not require any supplies: memories. “We have been making trees out of paper, and we made (play) lawn chairs and a rocketship,” ...

Trump loosens S. Korea, US ties

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon on Sunday to scale back planned joint military exercises with South Korea, saying it declined to help denuclearize Iran and citing his good relationship with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. Trump said in a social media post that the exercises slated to begin this week are not only costly but “send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile” to North Korea, which he said “has been unthreatening and respectful” during his time in the White House. “Therefore, and based on the fact that it is too late to ...