CANFIELD — Attendance at this year’s Canfield Fair fell below 2025 figures, but not by much. Fair officials reported the 2026 attendance for the six days of the fair at 264,538. The five-year average is 267,615, making this year only 1.16% below that average. The opening-day attendance ...
YOUNGSTOWN — With SOBE Thermal Systems LLC’s receiver saying the troubled utility company will be out of money and out of business no later than November without an infusion of money or a buyer, talks started back up with the state treasurer to help its downtown Youngstown customers. Treasurer Robert Sprague’s office reengaged in discussions in the past week with SOBE customers, including the city of Youngstown, Laura Martine, the treasurer’s spokeswoman, said Wednesday. Andy Resnick, the city’s spokesman, said: “The SOBE matter remains a top priority for the ...
YOUNGSTOWN — At the request of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel and the city of Youngstown, a Public Utilities Commission of Ohio administrative judge canceled a Monday hearing to hear arguments against a significant rate increase for downtown steam heat customers. Instead, legal briefs will be filed by the OCC and the city in an effort to overturn the PUCO’s June 24 decision to increase rates for SOBE Thermal Systems LLC’s 23 customers, which make up most of downtown. Jacky Werman St. John, the PUCO administrative judge who was to hear the case in Columbus, agreed to the OCC and ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Police do not often get to catch their suspects in the act, but that appears to be the case in an alleged Sunday burglary. A Youngstown police report states that after surrounding a house on Breaden Street and forcing Dashawn Harmon out at gunpoint, police had to shock him with a stun weapon when he tried one last time to avoid arrest. The report states that Harmon, 45, tried to climb out of a second-story window when police surrounded the house. He later allegedly spat at police when they arrested him. The report states police responded to an alarm about 3:15 p.m. ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Police are searching for a Pennsylvania man who disappeared Tuesday evening on the city’s West Side. A Youngstown police report states that William Maine disappeared hours after reportedly being released from a hospital following the partial amputation of his right foot. Maine was last seen outside CSL Plasma near the corner of Mahoning Avenue and Meridian Road sometime before 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. The report states that Maine is white, about 6-foot-3 and weighs about 240 lbs. He has green eyes, brown and gray hair and a boxing-glove tattoo on his right forearm. He ...
YOUNGSTOWN — A city man is accused of striking a woman in the head with a glass ashtray after she refused his request for sex. Police arrested Bernard A. Hasley, 57, early Wednesday on a first-degree misdemeanor charge of assault. A Youngstown police report states officers responded shortly after 12:30 a.m. to a fight at a home in the 2500 block of Oak Hill Avenue. They found a woman bleeding from her forehead. The woman told police that Hasley had invited her to the home and then led her to his bedroom, and pursued a sexual favor. The report states Hasley became angry when she ...
