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City board OKs Mill Creek sewer project contracts

YOUNGSTOWN — The board of control approved two contracts totaling $4,976,362 with MS Consultants Inc. for the Youngstown company to provide construction administration for the first two phases of a sewer interceptor project at Mill Creek Park and to design the latter two parts. The board ...

Two Mahoning commissioner candidates file

YOUNGSTOWN — State Rep. Lauren McNally, a Youngstown Democrat, and Canfield City Council President Christine Oliver, a Republican, have filed to run for the open Mahoning County commissioner’s seat while two GOP contenders decided not to run. County Recorder Richard S. Scarsella of ...

Extreme cold numbs 150M in US

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A huge swath of the U.S. from the Gulf Coast into New England was mired in extra-cold temperatures Sunday after a bomb cyclone brought heavy snow and hundreds of flight cancellations to North Carolina, flurries and falling iguanas in Florida, and more misery for ...

Youngstown aims to get the lead out

YOUNGSTOWN — City council will consider four different pieces of legislation Wednesday to address Youngstown’s lead waterline issues. One item would permit the board of control to apply for a loan of up to $13 million from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency’s Water Supply ...

Seminar sprouts pointers to grow giant pumpkins

CANFIELD — Despite the thermometer reaching 12 degrees below zero, about two dozen people congregated at Parks Garden Center on Saturday morning for a seminar on growing giant pumpkins, led by Tim Parks of the Ohio Valley Giant Pumpkin Growers. Among the participants was Diane Eisenbrown of ...