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Mill Creek crews removing 400 trees from golf course

BOARDMAN — Stacie Butler, head golf professional at the Mill Creek Golf Course, which lost more than 400 trees in the July 5 microburst and EF-1 tornado, gave a tour of the worst hit parts of the golf course Thursday. About 16 golf course staff members and an outside firm have been working ...

Romantic wedding of ‘prominent Pittsburg couple’

125 Years Ago, 1901, transcribed as originally published in the Youngstown Vindicator “Romantic wedding in this city of a prominent Pittsburg couple. Started as a joke and ended in a call on the parson – the couple now at home receiving congratulations.” “Notice of the romantic marriage here of Robert W. Pinder and Miss Jessie Hallett was published in The Vindicator last Monday. The Pittsburg Times, today, published the following article regarding the couple: “Rumor has it that at least 18 couples from Pittsburg and vicinity were married while attending the excursion of ...

City man gets 15-year prison sentence on cocaine charge

YOUNGSTOWN — A 42-year-old city man was sentenced to prison recently for intending to distribute nearly 4 1/2 pounds of cocaine that was mailed to Ohio from Puerto Rico. Jean C. Martinez was sentenced to 188 months (15.6 years) in prison by U.S. District Judge Bridget Meehan Brennan in Cleveland federal court after Martinez pleaded guilty in April to attempted possession with intent to distribute cocaine. Martinez also was ordered to serve six years of supervised release after imprisonment. According to court documents, on Jan. 23, 2025, postal inspectors seized a parcel that ...

Child support amnesty programs offered

August is National Child Support Awareness Month and a time to highlight the critical role child support plays in the well-being of children and families in Ohio. In observance of Child Support Awareness Month, the Trumbull County Child Support Enforcement Agency, a division of the Department of Job and Family Services, will offer these amnesty programs during August for parents who are behind in making their child support payments: ● License Reinstatement Amnesty — Payers who have had their driver’s license suspended through the CSEA may request reinstatement in return for a ...

On the record: Girard Board of Education

Girard WHAT: Board of education meeting Thursday PRESENT: Vince Ragozine, Tammy King, Zachary Steiner, Joe Castor and Scott Strain The board: • Heard from Superintendent Bryan O’Hara that a food pantry and a Care Closet are in place at the K-6 building to provide items to students in need. O’Hara said the Care Closet is in connection with the United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley. He said space was also made at the school for special education offices behind the library. • Approved the elimination of the instructional educational assistant position at the high ...

Officials: $20M malpractice award among county’s highest

YOUNGSTOWN — Officials say the $20 million judgment awarded by a Mahoning County jury on behalf of the estate of a Youngstown man who died in 2021 after receiving treatment at the Hope Center for Cancer Care and St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital is among the highest in county history. The jury awarded a $25 million judgment June 30 to the estate of Ronald S. Dunn of Youngstown following a trial in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Magistrate Ross Smith issued an order in the case July 21, stating that certified nurse practitioner Kimberly ...