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Cleanup set at Tod Cemetery March 16

YOUNGSTOWN — Tod Homestead Cemetery on Belmont Avenue in Youngstown, has set its annual cleanup on March 16. All decorations on graves, including solar lights and artificial flowers in cemetery vases, will be removed at this time. Anyone wanting to recover the decorations must do so before ...

Man accused of inducing panic in sword incident arraigned

YOUNGSTOWN — Dominic M. Jackson, 42, who allegedly walked into the Michael Kusalaba branch on Mahoning Avenue of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County with a sword July 25, was arraigned Friday in Youngstown Municipal Court on a charge of inducing panic. The charge is a ...

Lordstown students gain skills through carpentry

LORDSTOWN — Eighth-grade students at Lordstown High School are not only learning new skills through a new carpentry program, but have completed projects to benefit the school district. Kenneth Iser, instructor of the program, said the carpentry class is through the school’s career ...

Puddlers at Republic Iron & Steel went on strike for rule change

120 Years Ago, 1906 transcribed as originally published in the Youngstown Vindicator: “Puddlers are on a strike. They went out on Monday. The action due to the locking out of Michael McNally who violated a recently posted order relative to leaving mill between heats. Trouble at the Valley ...

Killing suspect in Youngstown found not guilty

YOUNGSTOWN — A jury found Danyo Sellers, 19, not guilty of murder and all three other charges Thursday at the end of a four-day trial in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. After almost three years locked up, Sellers was expected to be released from the Mahoning County jail as soon as ...

Successes at Goodwill heralded at breakfast

CANFIELD — Gary Vandetti recalled how his years in school were pockmarked by continual interruptions because of seizures, the result of having developed epilepsy as an infant. “I had brain surgery at Montreal Neurological Hospital in Quebec,” said Vandetti, of Youngstown. Despite the ...