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Girard reviewing funds for Wellman Theater

GIRARD - City officials said they will check to see if nearly $70,000 in American Rescue Plan funds that need to be used by the end of the year can be used for work at the Wellman Theater. Auditor Julie Coggins told officials Monday the Wellman Theater fund has $41,500, mostly from speed ...

Dustin Ruiter’s rape convictions affirmed following second trial

YOUNGSTOWN — The Seventh District Court of Appeals has affirmed the convictions and sentence of Dustin Ruiter, 51, of Youngstown, in his rape trial in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court earlier this year. It is a much different ruling than the one the appeals court handed down in 2023 ...

YSU, Niles get federal grants

Youngstown State University is receiving $1.5 million and Niles is getting a $402,500 grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission. The ARC funding comes through the federal Partnership for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization (POWER) initiative to help address coal-related job loss in the Appalachian region. Both Mahoning and Trumbull counties were added to the ARC jurisdiction in 2008 as part of a congressional bill that allows them to qualify for federal economic development funding, job training and money for manufacturing. The two grants were announced Tuesday ...

New industrial park is Class A attraction

A North Lima company is driving the development of top-tier industrial sites throughout the Mahoning Valley. Top Property Holdings marked the start of construction on the Youngstown Technology Park, a new speculative building development in Youngstown, with a formal groundbreaking ceremony ...

Struthers wards redefined

STRUTHERS — City council at its meeting last week had the second reading of a proposed ordinance to redefine the boundaries of all four city wards after city leaders were informed by the League of Women Voters that the current ward boundaries violate the Ohio Revised Code. The third and ...

ODOT money not an option for possible gas holiday

Republicans in the state Legislature abandoned plans to use Ohio Department of Transportation’s nonexistent cash reserves for a proposed 90-day gas holiday and instead will try to pass a bill with money from the general revenue fund paying for it. The change is the result of ODOT’s largest fund, for highway operating, not having money to cover the cost, which increased from an estimated $678 million to $726 million in just five days to cover the loss from the proposed 90-day state gas tax suspension plan. Identical bills, with the changes, were introduced Monday by Republicans in ...