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Administration pulls SOBE law firm legislation

YOUNGSTOWN — The city administration decided not to move forward with a request to have city council authorize up to $130,000 to hire a law firm to assess the functionality and long-term viability of SOBE Energy Solutions LLC, the beleaguered downtown utility company. The item, sponsored by Mayor Derrick McDowell, was pulled Wednesday before council could consider it in order to discuss it prior to a vote. The ordinance would have permitted the board of control to sign an agreement with Roetzel & Andress to assess SOBE’s functionality and “identify financially sustainable ...

Boardman OKs 1-year data center moratorium

BOARDMAN — Under pressure from residents, Hubbard city officials on Monday agreed to draft legislation for a moratorium on data centers in the community. Mahoning County’s largest urban township also recently took steps to prohibit the facilities, and one official explained why. “We don’t want someone to shoehorn something in and then suddenly somebody has a data center in their backyard, making noise, sucking up energy, elevating water and electrical costs,” said Boardman Township Trustee Matt Gambrel. “It’s not good for Boardman.” Gambrel said he can’t see ...

Zac Brown Band members pay visit to Boardman High

BOARDMAN — Creating an immediate connection between a successful musician who plays nightly to sold out arenas and awestruck students, Zac Brown Band percussionist Daniel de los Reyes walked among the members of the Boardman High School Rock Orchestra, Project Mayhem, to shake their ...

Elections official eyes Glenwood building

YOUNGSTOWN — Having serious concerns about the Mahoning County Board of Elections current location, board Chairman David Betras said he wants Youngstown officials to give the former Bottom Dollar store at no cost to the Western Reserve Port Authority, which would sign a lease to have the board relocate there. Betras told The Vindicator after a Tuesday board meeting, “There’s a lot of work to be done to that building, so as long as the city doesn’t kill us on the price, it’s going to work. But if they’re going to kill us on the price, I mean, the dollars have to make ...

Graphite One chooses Ashtabula site over Trumbull

Staff report The company that wanted to build a $435 million manufacturing plant in Trumbull County to produce essential material for electric vehicle batteries has instead chosen to locate in Conneaut in Ashtabula County. The new location is still within the boundaries of Lake to River Economic Development, which is a private, nonprofit organization and the official JobsOhio network partner for Ashtabula, Trumbull, Mahoning and Columbiana counties. Graphite One in May 2024 said it was developing project labor agreements with local construction unions and had received letters of ...

Officer: Driver failed field sobriety tests, slurred words

YOUNGSTOWN — Coitsville Township Police Sgt. Charles Butch testified for nearly two hours Tuesday in the aggravated vehicular homicide trial of Robert C. Powell, 25, of North Carolina, in an April 10, 2025, crash at U.S. Route 422 and Hubbard Road that killed the driver of another vehicle, ...