HUBBARD — Just as students and teachers prepare for the new school year, so are the Hubbard Exempted Village School District’s bus drivers, aides and mechanics. Members of the Hubbard Fire Department helped with hands-on training exercises with realistic bus-emergency simulations Tuesday ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Tax-incentivized development projects across Mahoning County are operating as they should, county officials say. At a recent meeting of the Board of Mahoning County Commissioners, the panel approved a resolution accepting the report of the county’s Tax Incentive Review Council, completed in 2025 for tax year 2024. The council meets annually to assess the effectiveness of economic development projects born out of tax incentives such as abatements or Tax Increment Financing districts. When a company is given a tax abatement to open in any part of the county, the entity ...
Tim Ryan, who spent 20 years serving the Mahoning Valley in the U.S. House, has opened Unlikely Majorities, a consulting firm that touts it “runs campaigns that make the politically and culturally impossible possible.” A Democrat, Ryan left the U.S. House after 10 two-year terms at the end of 2022, after losing a Senate race to Republican J.D. Vance by 6.1%. Since then, Ryan has advocated for the natural gas industry and cryptocurrency through his Celtic Consulting firm. He considered a run for Ohio governor for this election, but said in November he would not seek the ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Demolition work for the long-closed West Avenue Bridge, across the Mahoning River, won’t be done until summer 2028 despite the city getting a grant for the work more than three years ago. This is the latest delay for the work to the 97-year-old, 286-foot-long bridge that ...
WARREN — Trumbull County’s eight SCOPE senior centers have temporarily stopped providing cash prizes as its leaders determine the best ways for the individual centers to handle money. Trumbull County Commissioner Rick Hernandez discussed the issue at the commissioners’ weekly workshop Tuesday because he said he received more than a dozen phone calls from seniors who want cash prizes restored. In addition to the calls, Hernandez noted the other commissioners also received complaints about the change in policy from seniors who attend various centers. Jeff Rasile, who recently ...
LIBERTY — A Youngstown man who Liberty police noted was acting “belligerent” with them after being found unresponsive a short time before is set to return to court next month. Luke Scudier, 20, pleaded not guilty to DUI, offenses involving underage persons and open container in front of Girard Municipal Court Judge Jeffrey Adler Tuesday morning. According to a police report, officers were called to the area of Arabian Lane and Warner Road on Monday afternoon for a man unresponsive behind the wheel of a motor vehicle, who dispatchers said was slumped back in the seat and showed ...
