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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 ...

Austintown school board to auction property

AUSTINTOWN — The Austintown Board of Education at a special meeting earlier this month approved a resolution declaring that a vacant 9.1-acre parcel of land on Woodridge Drive is no longer needed for school purposes. The property, which has an estimated value of $109,320, will be offered ...

New jobless claims rise in Ohio

Staff report Initial unemployment claims statewide jumped 1,613 last week, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services reported Thursday. Ohioans filed 7,719 initial unemployment claims May 31 through June 6. Ohioans filed 41,073 continued unemployment during the period, which was 1,483 ...