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Fitch choir gets ready for golf outing

AUSTINTOWN — It’s late summer, and that means it’s time to start planning for the Austintown Fitch High School Concert Choir golf outing fundraiser Oct. 17. The choir completed its 53rd annual tour in April, singing for two veterans hospitals in Virginia, and the fourth annual golf outing to support their next trip will be in October. The event will again be at Old Avalon in Warren, and funds will support the choir’s trip to New York and New Jersey in April. The choir plays concerts every spring at veterans facilities around the country, and Fitch Choir Director Bill Klein ...

Academy gets ready for school year

YOUNGSTOWN — When Akiva Academy middle schoolers return to classes Sept. 8, they will do so in a brand new school. An open house and ribbon cutting took place Monday morning at the Altschuler Akiva Academy Goldstone-Mirkin Family Middle School at the Suzi Solomon Campus. The new school is in the former Allen’s Pharmacy Building across Gypsy Lane from the Jewish Community Center of Youngstown, where the students in grades 5 through 8 formerly were in a hallway at the back of the building. The Youngstown Area Jewish Federation and Akiva Academy broke ground on the new middle school ...

Liberty board OKs five-year forecast

LIBERTY — The Liberty Board of Education learned that the district’s state funding will remain “pretty consistent” unless one or two variables change over the next few years, Treasurer Amber Shaeffer said. The board approved the district’s five-year forecast, a document given to board members ahead of time, at last week’s meeting. According to the financial summary portion of the forecast, expenditures are expected to exceed revenue, resulting in a shortfall in the final year of the forecast period. The district’s average annual revenue growth, which stood at 0.52% ...

Trumbull prosecutor’s office wants removed from county budget commission

WARREN — Trumbull County Commissioners are expected to consider placing one of its members on the Trumbull County Budget Commission to replace a representative of the prosecutor’s office at the request of Prosecutor Dennis Watkins. Watkins is seeking to remove his office as a voting member of the budget commission because his office represents county agencies that sometimes may be in conflict with decisions of the budget commission. As currently constructed, voting members of the budget commission include a representative from the auditor’s office, the treasurer’s office and ...

City man accused of swallowing drugs at Liberty traffic stop

LIBERTY — A Youngstown man faces evidence tampering charges after Liberty police noted there was evidence that he swallowed drugs during a traffic stop to avoid apprehension. Michael Tomlinson, 26, faces charges of possession of drug paraphernalia and tampering with evidence in Girard Municipal Court. According to a police report, an officer monitoring traffic near Fifth Avenue and Mansell Drive on Monday spotted a silver SUV traveling 42 mph in a posted 25 mph zone, noting the vehicle drifted left of center into an oncoming lane. A random registration check revealed the ...

McDonald man gets 3 years for stealing copper, other materials

WARREN — Brian J. Clay, 52, of West Fifth Street in McDonald, was sentenced to three years in prison Monday after being found guilty at trial of being a felon in possession of a firearm, misdemeanor theft and misdemeanor possessing criminal tools for stealing copper and other materials from a McDonald business. Clay’s trial lasted one day before Judge Cynthia Westcott of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court. The jury deliberated about 30 minutes before announcing its verdict. Wescott immediately sentenced Clay after that. The charges related to an Oct. 30, 2025, incident in which ...