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Medical Wellness and Education Center opens at Mahoning County Career Center

Staff report CANFIELD — The Mahoning County Career and Technical Center, with grant funding from the Appalachian Community Innovation Center (ACIC), has completed the $7 million, 13,000-square-foot Medical Wellness and Education Center. A dedication and ribbon cutting took place Friday ...

Lawyers’ Fund awards $2,000 to past client of former area attorney

Staff report The board of commissioners of the Lawyers’ fund for Client Protection reimbursed $96,262 to 12 victims of attorney theft at its September meeting, including $2,000 to a past client of former attorney Robert J. Rohrbaugh II of the Youngstown area. The former client was reimbursed for Rohrbaugh failing to provide the requested services, according to a press release from the Ohio Supreme Court. Rohrbaugh was suspended indefinitely from the practice of law in Ohio on Oct. 29, 2024. Rohrbaugh had a law office on Belmont Avenue in Liberty and lived in the Youngstown area at ...

Centenarians honored at Trumbull County luncheon

WARREN — Attendees provided the secret for a long life at a luncheon, “Celebrating Our Centenarians,” Friday morning at the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library. Sponsored by the Trumbull County Commissioners and organized through the Trumbull County Senior Levy office, the event ...

Lordstown begins school year with reopened planetarium

LORDSTOWN — The Lordstown Local School District has begun the 2026-27 year with the opening of the former planetarium at the high school. Superintendent Greg Bonamase said the planetarium was used years ago and then closed in 2000. “We are very excited about opening the planetarium after ...

Blast destroyed grocery store after owner received threatening letter

100 Years Ago, 1926 transcribed as originally published in the Youngstown Vindicator: “Blast rocks city. Blame black hand for $500,000 loss.” “A blast of terrific force, suspected to have been caused by blackhanders or business rivals, shattered the three-story brick wholesale grocery establishment of the Youngstown Grocery Co., 340 E. Front St., destroyed the ruins by fire which followed the explosion, will probably cause the death of at least one man, injured five others seriously and scores slightly, blew out thousands of windows in downtown buildings and East Side ...

Choffin honors life of student killed in crash

Staff report YOUNGSTOWN — Students and staff at Choffin Career & Technical Center gathered recently to honor the life and memory of E’Lexus Conner, a Public Safety Academy student who was killed in a crash July 12 at Market Street and East Myrtle Avenue on the South ...