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On the record | Struthers City Council meeting

Struthers WHAT: City council meeting Wednesday PRESENT: Michael Patrick, Bob Deagan, Richard Bayus, Dallas Bigley, Lori Gomon, Megan Pingley, James Baluck, Megan Shorthouse and Mayor Catherine Cercone Miller ABSENT: Robert Burnside Council: ● Approved an ordinance redefining the boundaries of city council Wards 1, 2, 3 and 4. ● Heard the mayor’s report detailing upcoming events in Struthers. ● Was informed the last Struthers Farmers Market of the season is Sunday. ● A bedding drive hosted by Brandy Eisenbraun and Councilwoman Megan Pingley is scheduled Oct. 10. ...

Journalists, media pioneers receive awards, enter HOF

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,” ...

City OKs contracts for 2 major water projects totaling $8.5M

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 ...

Ohio agency sounds off on SOBE

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 ...

Corridor project looks to better Belmont Avenue

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 ...

Different contractor named in Boardman theft allegation

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 ...