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Water issues flood Canfield council agenda

CANFIELD — City Council spent a good deal of its Wednesday meeting talking about water issues, including an EPA violation at the plant in Weathersfield where the city gets its water treated. “We are required to post a notice to residents of an Ohio EPA violation,” Public Works Superintendent John Rapp said. “We will be including it with the next three water bills.” Rapp said the violation came at the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District’s water treatment plant in Weathersfield. He said for a 15-minute period, the chlorine injection equipment stopped placing chlorine in the ...

Skatepark Association cleans up Lincoln Park

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 ...

Grand jury indicts 17

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 ...

Affordability crisis decried at Valley town hall

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 ...

City to acquire 7 Youngstown school district properties

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 ...

Covelli entertainment complex takes a hit

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,” ...