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Affordable housing complex coming to Youngstown

YOUNGSTOWN — Funding is lined up for a $35 million, 120-unit affordable housing apartment complex at the site of the former Woodside Receiving Hospital with construction expected to start in October. Wallick Development LLC of New Albany received approval from the Ohio Housing Finance Agency for the issuance of up to $21.5 million in Multifamily Housing Revenue Bonds and a $10 million Ohio Low-Income Housing Tax Credit — one of only 10 projects selected for the 4% tax credits out of 48 applications — with the rest of the money coming from banks for the housing project, called ...

Boardman couple weathering the storm

BOARDMAN — Greg Steffey and his realtor were standing in the kitchen of his Mill Trace Drive home, discussing the open house. Eight prospective buyers had just left as the July 5 thunderstorms moved in. His wife, Hope, decided to bring the dogs down to the basement. Then. … “It sounded like a bomb,” he said. One oak tree at the back of his property was toppled by straightline winds, which reached more than 100 mph that day. It crashed into another oak tree about 30 feet up the backyard. That tree crashed into the roof right above the kitchen where Greg and his realtor were ...

Alliance man pleads guilty to murder of Valley woman

YOUNGSTOWN — Nicholas Cunningham, 34, of Alliance pleaded guilty to aggravated murder Friday in the October 2023 killing of Gena M. Wade, 44, at Wade’s rural home on Courtney Road in Smith Township, just north of Beloit. The plea followed a third determination recently that Cunningham ...

YSU trustees OK contracts with 2 unions

YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State University’s board of trustees has approved a pair of new three-year contracts for two of the university’s unions. During a special meeting Friday morning in Tod Hall, the board unanimously approved the contracts for YSU’s Ohio Education Association and its Association of Classified Employees unions. The OEA represents the university’s faculty members; the ACE union represents various administrative, maintenance and support staff. The OEA ratified their contract July 17 and ACE just ratified their contract Thursday. The OEA agreement includes ...

City man convicted in bomb threats indicted in robbery

YOUNGSTOWN — Dion L. Taylor, 32, of East Lucius Avenue, was indicted Thursday on two counts of aggravated robbery with firearm specifications, two counts of kidnapping with firearm specifications and single counts of escape, grand theft of a motor vehicle and felony theft in the alleged armed robbery of a cell phone store on Mahoning Avenue in the city June 24. Taylor is also the same man who was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison in August of 2021 for making multiple bomb threats regarding downtown Youngstown buildings Dec. 2, 2019, leading to the evacuation of one of the ...

Canfield Township dedicates pickleball courts

CANFIELD TOWNSHIP — Local, county and state officials cut the ribbon Friday on the new pickleball courts at Township Park. “We wanted to open it right after the Fourth of July, but the bad storms delayed that opening,” said trustee Joe Paloski. “Now it is officially opened.” The ...