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St. Vincent de Paul, church parish reach out to help Brier Hill residents

YOUNGSTOWN — More than a meal was served Saturday morning as the Society of St. Vincent de Paul Mahoning District Council joined volunteers from the Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel-St. Anthony of Padua Parish to welcome neighbors for a community outreach event at St. Anthony’s in ...

Canfield police blotter

Canfield Police activity reported July 3-12: July 12 — Cloeth Forde, 32, 4 Denmark Court, Huntington, New York, was arrested during a traffic stop on West Main Street on a Youngstown Municipal Court warrant for failure to appear on a traffic offense and was issued a summons for driving ...

Teen’s memory flies on the wings of butterflies

YOUNGSTOWN — When a butterfly is released, it typically soars through the air — in a real sense, the way E’Lexus Conner was soaring through her young life. “She was very vibrant and very beautiful inside and out. She loved to dance, and she wanted to be a CSI investigator,” her ...

More to a neighborhood than its name

LIBERTY — More than 50 people packed the Denny’s meeting room on Belmont Avenue on Saturday morning for the William Holmes McGuffey Historical Society’s Memories of a Lifetime program. Jacob Harver, Ph.D. candidate at Kent State University, shared his research on the historic Monkey’s ...

Collaboration cleans up Mill Creek Watershed

YOUNGSTOWN — A volunteer cleanup on Sunday was organized by the Mahoning County Soil and Water Conservation District and Mill Creek MetroParks with the purpose of cleaning trash out of the Mill Creek Watershed, specifically the area around Lake Newport. “We are a political subdivision of ...

Sprinkling in history at ice cream celebration

YOUNGSTOWN — Dante Bernard didn’t exactly follow the precise pattern in Big Joe Turner’s 1954 hit blues song “Shake, Rattle and Roll,” but he was content to do quite a bit of at least one of those. “It’s not too much of an exact science. It’s just a nice foundation,” ...