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Easterseals camp supports children and caregivers

YOUNGSTOWN — A summer camp offered to local children by Easterseals of Northeast Ohio is not only benefiting them but the grandparents, aunts and uncles taking care of them. Called “Kinship Summer Camp,” the program held for seven weeks four days per week in June and July, has children spending four hours at the camp while their caregivers are given time to spend on their own. McDonald resident Jody Klase, CEO of Easterseals, said the children who attend are being raised by an older adult relative who is not a parent, typically a grandparent or other family member. “We want ...

Grants, ARP funds to help with $3.4M Weathersfield sewer project

NILES — Trumbull County Commissioners said they have secured as many grants and other funding for a $3.4 million sanitary sewer improvement project in the Crain Drive neighborhood in Weathersfield as they could, but residents will still have to pay their share to tap into the system. Commissioners hosted a public hearing Wednesday at Niles McKinley High School where the project, which is set to begin in October, was explained to more than 40 residents. “This project has been planned and worked on for the past five years,” said Trumbull County Sanitary Engineer Gary Newbrough. ...

Tuesday twister graded EF-0

Little more than two weeks since a tornado damaged homes in Canfield and straight-line winds battered Boardman, another twister touched down in the Mahoning Valley. On Tuesday evening, a tornado landed near the county line between Youngstown and Hubbard Township. Authorities have reported no ...

Liberty couple loses about 10 trees

LIBERTY — Ziba and Christina Watson of Youngstown-Hubbard Road lost about 10 trees in Tuesday night’s tornado, with two of them across their driveway. The National Weather Service asked them not to move or clean up the damage until after the agency viewed their property Wednesday to ...

Clerk of courts sued for racial discrimination, retaliation and hostile work environment

YOUNGSTOWN — A woman who contends Mahoning County Clerk of Courts Michael Ciccone fired her after she reported to the human resources department that he called her a racial slur, is suing him for racial discrimination, retaliation and having a hostile work environment. Thais Scott of Girard, a former clerk of courts’ administrator who is black, filed the lawsuit in common pleas court. Represented by attorney Corey J. Grimm, Scott is seeking back pay, lost future wages, restoration of lost benefits, emotional distress damages and damages to her professional reputation. The lawsuit ...

Woman arraigned on burglary count

YOUNGSTOWN — Ishia Milledge, 40, was arraigned Wednesday in Youngstown Municipal Court on burglary, a low-level felony, following an incident Tuesday afternoon at a home on Oxford Avenue on the North Side in which she was found inside someone’s home — a problem that the homeowner has had with Milledge in the past. Officers were called to the home regarding a burglary in progress at 2:32 p.m. Tuesday. The resident told dispatchers that her neighbor contacted her to say that the front door of her home was open. A police report called this an “ongoing issue with Milledge” ...