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Sale of South Fieldhouse site finalized

YOUNGSTOWN — The city’s board of control voted to finalize the sale of the former South High Fieldhouse site, create an energy improvement district for the Mahoning National Bank Building developer and pay a $651,976 bill for the emergency replacement of melted sewer lines on Wick ...

Kirkmere school floated as site for board of elections

YOUNGSTOWN — The future of the Mahoning County Board of Elections has been hotly debated in recent months, and the future of city school buildings is also being discussed. It is a possibility, although remote for now, that the two interests may coincide. Mahoning County Commissioner Carol ...

Liberty police probe deaths

LIBERTY — Township police are investigating the deaths of two people at their residence Thursday afternoon. Police Chief Ray Buhala said officers responded to a mobile home on Tuttle Drive in the Vintage Village Estates Mobile Home Park for a welfare check. Upon entering, a man and a ...

Answer is: Mahoning Valley firsts

Taking an enjoyable dive into the area’s past, the Mahoning Valley Historical Society hosted its January “Bites and Bits of History” lunchtime program with a focus on “Made in the Mahoning Valley: Local Firsts” Thursday afternoon at Tyler History Center. The event corresponds with ...

Ohio AG rejects pot referendum to kill changes in Senate Bill 56

Staff report COLUMBUS — The Ohio Attorney General’s Office rejected the summary language for a proposed statewide voter referendum aimed at repealing Senate Bill 56, which authorizes many changes to the state’s medical and adult-use marijuana laws. The Attorney General’s Office ...

Talk addresses blacks’, Jews’ shared history

YOUNGSTOWN — As she scanned her audience, Cryshanna Jackson Leftwich was pleased to see diversity staring back at her. “We are bonded by similar exclusions by American society,” Jackson Leftwich, a Youngstown State University professor of politics and international relations, ...