McDONALD — Village council is seeking applicants to fill an opening on village council as Councilman Don Smith will be moving from the village after his final meeting July 15. Any resident interested in filling the remainder of Smith’s term can submit a letter of interest to the municipal building by Friday. Council will review the applicants at the July 15 meeting. Smith served as chairman of the finance and levy committees.
High winds and heavy rains whipped through Mahoning County on Sunday afternoon, causing heavy damage to portions of Austintown, Boardman and Canfield. As of 5 p.m. Sunday, about 27,000 county residents were without power, according to Ohio Edison. Six hundred outages were reported in Trumbull ...
WASHINGTON — The 250th anniversary of American independence is colliding with a country gripped by political polarization and a heat wave bearing down on millions of people across multiple states as celebrations got underway Saturday throughout the United States. The signing of the ...
In the spring of 2023, after the state’s new texting and driving law went into effect, officials including Gov. Mike DeWine and news media gave it a lot of attention. The Vindicator asked the commander of the Canfield Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol about it in May of 2023, and he ...
Taxes and tax relief remain the hot topic in Ohio and Mahoning County politics. Levies are being discussed ahead of the filing deadline for the November general election. County commissioners have imposed an increase on the owner-occupied tax credit that will pull just over $4 million from school, township and local agency budgets. And Mahoning County Auditor Ralph Meacham is once more explaining why property values — and likely property taxes — are going up yet again. After he explained the triennial property revaluation to commissioners June 25, the board decided in special ...
YOUNGSTOWN — The apparent low bid for a sanitary sewer improvement project that initially drew concerns from some city council members is significantly lower than the estimate. Four bids were opened Thursday for a sewer pump station project on Exal Court in the Salt Springs Road Business Park. The apparent low bid from Marucci & Gaffney Excavating Co. of Youngstown of $1.19 million is much less than the $1.7 million engineer’s estimate as well as the $1.95 million city council agreed to spend up to during a June 3 meeting. The other bids came from J.S. Bova Excavating Co. of ...
