YOUNGSTOWN — On certain occasions, neighborhood-stabilization and blight-remediation efforts, along with efforts to improve overall quality of life, feature a 15-foot rectangular hole filled with a large load of stones. “It badly needs to be done,” Mary Krupa, 70, said. Krupa was ...
YOUNGSTOWN — The city’s board of control signed an option agreement for the potential development of a business technology park on Exal Court as well as deals to install gas and electric lines there. The board voted 2-0 Thursday on the three items regarding the potential economic development project. The board consists of Mayor Derrick McDowell, Finance Director Kyle Miasek and Law Director Adam Buente. Buente was absent. The board agreed to approve an option agreement with Top Property Holdings LLC of North Lima and the Western Reserve Port Authority that permits the city to ...
More than $300,000 in Ohio Arts Council grants are coming to Mahoning County. Nineteen grants totaling $314,687, about $20,000 more than last year, will go to 19 recipients. They are among more than 1,000 grants totaling $23,196,364 the OAC announced Wednesday. Seven of those grants will ...
WARREN — Trumbull County commissioners during their Wednesday meeting approved using $1,955,000 in Trumbull Senior Levy funding to provide services to the county’s senior residents. The county’s senior levy board provided recommendations to the commissioners on how the money should be allocated among organizations that submitted bids for service contracts. Direction Home of Eastern Ohio in Youngstown was awarded $135,000 per year to provide ombudsman services for seniors. Guardianship and Protective Services Inc. of Mineral Ridge received a $135,000 per year contract. Four ...
Staff report YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County Coroner’s Office has identified the child who died in a Tuesday evening crash on Route 224 in Poland and the man who was shot to death Wednesday evening on Youngstown’s South Side. A Thursday press release states that the child who died was 4-year-old Cassis Huddleston, a passenger who was transferred to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital after he was involved in a single vehicle accident at U.S. Route 224 and Poland Way in Poland Tuesday. An autopsy was conducted at the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office, and the ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown police arrested a 39-year-old man in a Wednesday morning incident on West LaClede Avenue on the South Side after a neighbor called the homeowner to tell him someone was taking items from his house. The homeowner came home and saw the suspect running out of his house and down the driveway while carrying items from his house. The 911 call reporting the burglary gave a specific description of the suspect: tie dye jeans, gray shirt, Ohio State hat, according to a Youngstown police report. When two officers responded to the neighborhood, one officer spotted the ...
