YOUNGSTOWN — Thousands of Youngstown State University students knew her as a kind, passionate and compassionate journalism instructor and adviser, but Tom Martindale remembered her more simply. “The woman I knew, I knew as Mom, and she was the finest person I have ever known,” ...
YOUNGSTOWN — The city’s board of control approved two major contracts with the same Youngstown company for work to design and then remove three low-head dams in the Mahoning River and for a pump station addition that distributes water to most of Austintown and Canfield townships. The board of control voted 2-0 Thursday in favor of both contracts with Marucci & Gaffney Excavating Co., a Youngstown company that does extensive business with the city. The board includes Mayor Derrick McDowell, Finance Director Kyle Miasek and Law Director Adam Buente. Buente was absent from ...
YOUNGSTOWN — With disconnection notices sent to two downtown residential buildings, the Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel is “very concerned about Youngstown residents who could lose heat and hot water because their building owner has not paid bills for steam service.” Among the four buildings that recently received disconnection notices from SOBE Thermal Energy Systems LLC for failure to pay their bills in at least the last 60 days were Wick Tower and Erie Terminal Place. They each have 40 residential units in addition to commercial space. The other two are the former ...
YOUNGSTOWN — The efforts underway to revitalize the Belmont Avenue corridor were on display Wednesday evening during an open house at the Mahoning County Veterans Service Commission. “Youngstown and Liberty Township have been working together to study the Belmont Avenue corridor (from ...
BOARDMAN — The contractor accused of taking money from a Boardman woman without completing the work is not the same man whose name and face have been plastered across local news lately. A report in Thursday’s Vindicator outlines the complaints from an Applewood Acres resident who told ...
McDONALD — While village residents thanked council for placing a one-year moratorium on data centers, they want officials to next prepare a strategic plan and have an independent environmental assessment done on the former U.S. Steel property to determine what business would best be suited there. Oppidan officials last week conducted a presentation at McDonald High School and showed proposed plans of wanting to locate several data centers on the property off Ohio Avenue. Residents are now asking for an environmental assessment to explore the effects that many data centers would ...
