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Elections board told rent is less at Bottom Dollar building

YOUNGSTOWN — The cost of rent at the former Bottom Dollar store in Youngstown would be significantly less for the Mahoning County Board of Elections that is looking to relocate its offices than it would be at the Patriot Building in Austintown. The analysis was done on behalf of the Western Reserve Port Authority, which owns the Patriot Building and would take ownership of the former Bottom Dollar if the city is willing to accept $1 for the latter structure, said David Betras, the election board’s chairman. The WRPA shared the information Tuesday with the board of elections. The ...

City schools consider busing contract with Cincinnati company

YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Board of Education has proposed awarding a contract to a longtime bus company in an effort to ease the district’s ongoing transportation challenges. During its regular meeting Tuesday at Youngstown Rayen Early College High School, Superintendent Jeremy ...

Small South Avenue bridge to undergo work starting Monday

YOUNGSTOWN — The rehabilitation of a small bridge on South Avenue, which starts Monday, will mean a 3-mile detour for those who travel on one of the city’s busiest corridors. The bridge goes over the Youngstown and Southeastern Railroad Co. train line, just south of the larger Peace Officers Memorial Bridge that crosses the Mahoning River. That will force the closure of South Avenue between the Interstate 680 exit and Williamson Avenue. The $1,635,232 project includes a new deck and rehabilitating the bridge. The board of control awarded the contract May 8, 2025, to Marucci & ...

Meaning of Memorial Day marked

BOARDMAN — While many Americans either traveled over the three-day weekend, had cookouts and enjoyed the unofficial start of summer, the 122nd annual Boardman Memorial Day service reminded its more than 100 attendees Monday morning that those good times are only made possible by those who ...

Regulate AI, pope urges

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV called Monday for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war. “Magnifica ...

Campbell honors its fallen war heroes

CAMPBELL — Gina Sferra vividly remembers when she was 6 and was among the children asked to line up in the family’s living room near the front door to say goodbye to a beloved relative who was leaving to fight in the Vietnam War. U.S. Army Pfc. Robert G. Stanko never returned home, ...