NEW YORK — Baseball owners proposed banning high school players from signing with major league teams, raising the age for international amateurs and slashing the money spent on signing bonuses in negotiations Thursday for a new collective bargaining agreement. The amateur draft for players ...
LAKE MILTON — Working with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and the Mahoning Valley Law Enforcement Task Force, deputies with the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office conducted a crackdown on lawbreakers at Lake Milton last weekend. Deputies, agents and ODNR officers, some working undercover, arrested or cited 15 people for various infractions. The operation was conducted at the behest of the ODNR, the sheriff’s office stated in a press release. Officers conducted foot and vehicle surveillance in the beach area, and deputies in marked cruisers and task force unmarked ...
YOUNGSTOWN — The city’s board of control approved a series of change orders to a phase of a project that diverts sewage from the Mahoning River that resulted in a $321,737.52 decrease in the total cost. That decrease is somewhat deceptive as most of the reduced costs were for an add-on that the city received a waiver for before the project began. The board voted 3-0 Thursday for the change orders, which were packaged as one item, for Rudzik Excavating Inc. of Struthers, which handled the second phase of the project that diverts sewage from the river. Rudzik’s base bid was ...
Billed as a “conversation,” the “Mahoning Valley Civic Forum: State of the Arts” recognized the abundance of talented visual, performing and literature creatives in the area but, just as importantly, acknowledged the obstacles that keep the culture and entertainment scene from fully ...
Laughter, games, playground activities and meaningful connections filled the air at Austintown Township Park on Wednesday evening as families gathered for the Autism Society of the Mahoning Valley’s “Hello to Summer Family Fun Night.” Hosted at Stacey Pavilion, the event welcomed ...
POLAND — At Tuesday’s Poland Village Council meeting, Kurt Hilderbrand gave an update on the beautification project with coverings for traffic control boxes and said the first box was set to receive a covering very soon. “I am here to seek approval for the design on the first box,” ...
