YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Skatepark Association organized its annual city park cleanup Saturday at Lincoln Park on the East Side. YSA’s park cleanups are part of its overall goal of establishing a permanent public skate park in Youngstown. According to Zack Felger, chairman of YSA’s ...
Staff report YOUNGSTOWN — The following people were indicted Thursday by a Mahoning County grand jury: • Jay’Onne A. Price, 22, West Maryland Avenue, Sebring, child endangering and misdemeanor domestic violence. • William M. Robinson, 33, Samuel Avenue, cocaine possession with a specification of forfeiture of money in a drug case. • Melvin Howell, 49, East Philadelphia Avenue, kidnapping with a firearm specification, being a felon in possession of a firearm and cocaine possession. • Nelfonda D. Lynch, 34, Southern Boulevard, failure to comply with an order or signal ...
LORDSTOWN — Everything was working like a well-oiled machine when Samm Lewis moved into her unit designed for those of middle income, but after the COVID-19 crisis, not so much. “Services have disappeared, and the carpets are threadbare,” Lewis, 74, of Warren, said about conditions at ...
YOUNGSTOWN — City Council will consider legislation Monday to allow the board of control to spend $120,000 to buy the former Mary Haddow Elementary School for potential economic development. The school district closed the building, 2800 Oak St. Extension, to classroom instruction in 2008 and then used it for record storage. It’s been empty for years. The city wants to use the East Side building for senior citizen housing with the hope that will spur other housing projects to be built nearby, said DeMaine Kitchen, the city’s director of community planning and economic ...
YOUNGSTOWN — The city-owned Covelli Centre, Youngstown Foundation Amphitheatre and Wean Park entertainment complex had its fourth-worst financial second quarter ever, losing $111,549 during the three-month period. “It’s always been a mixed bag for the second quarter; it’s tough,” ...
WARREN — Former Warren police Chief Eric Merkel’s personnel file may not benefit him and the city as they defend themselves against three pending federal lawsuits seeking damages for the sex offenses former Warren police officer Michael Edwards Jr. committed against several women. The suits mention the conduct that got Edwards convicted of two counts of rape and other offenses at his 2024 trial. One of the lawsuits stated that Edwards “preyed on women who were vulnerable due to their life situations” while Edwards was on duty starting in 2019. Edwards was convicted of two ...
