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Today at 180th Canfield Fair | Schedule, prices

Admission prices Youth (7-12): $4 Adult (13+): $6 Senior Citizen (62+): $4 Schedule of events 9 a.m. — Rabbit Meat Pen Judging, Junior Fair Small Animal Barn No. 35 10 a.m. — Adult Saddle Horse Pleasure Classes, East Ring 10 a.m. — Carcass Lamb Ultrasound, Junior Fair South ...

Judge rejects part of prison wrongful-death lawsuit

YOUNGSTOWN — A federal judge has dismissed part of a wrongful-death lawsuit stemming from a fatal drug overdose at a private Youngstown prison. In an Aug. 20 ruling, U.S. District Judge Benita Y. Pearson dismissed a federal claim alleging that CoreCivic and former Northeast Ohio ...

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 ...