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Patching vests & lives

HUBBARD — A local nonprofit is expanding an innovative outreach program that combines a practical service for motorcycle enthusiasts with a mission that reaches far beyond sewing patches onto leather vests. Grief and Loss In Motion, a nonprofit organization dedicated to suicide postvention, ...

Trial sheds light on misplaced stop sign in Coitsville

COITSVILLE — It’s not often that a criminal trial results in a discovery that a stop sign is in the wrong place and it is moved to meet regulations. But that is what happened in one instance in Coitsville Township. On May 20, a jury in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court found Robert C. ...

Project for city safety campus is likely dead

YOUNGSTOWN — City officials allocated $1.5 million of American Rescue Plan money in 2024 for the study and design of a safety campus, which almost certainly will never come to fruition. Strollo Architects, the Youngstown-based firm hired for the design work, has received about $1.16 ...

Mahoning County Republicans reelect McCabe as chairman

BOARDMAN — The Mahoning County Republican Party reelected Tom McCabe as its executive committee chairman and returned him to head the central committee after a yearlong experiment to split the two positions. The committee unanimously elected McCabe as chairman of both committees at a ...