A $1.7 million no-bid contract awarded to a company owned by J.J. Cafaro to install a water-purification system for the iconic Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is the source of controversy, but the businessman said he isn’t surprised. Cafaro, a close friend of and political donor to ...
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio will consider Wednesday a staff-recommended emergency rate hike of 145% for most SOBE Thermal Energy Systems LLC’s downtown Youngstown customers during the six months when steam heat is most used and 75% during the rest of the year. A report filed ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Ask Ronald Shaklee what it feels like to receive a prestigious award, and he will be quick to defer the credit beyond himself. “You work for excellence,” Shaklee, Youngstown State University emeritus professor of geography, said. Shaklee, who joined the university in ...
LAKE MILTON — Working with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and the Mahoning Valley Law Enforcement Task Force, deputies with the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office conducted a crackdown on lawbreakers at Lake Milton last weekend. Deputies, agents and ODNR officers, some working undercover, arrested or cited 15 people for various infractions. The operation was conducted at the behest of the ODNR, the sheriff’s office stated in a press release. Officers conducted foot and vehicle surveillance in the beach area, and deputies in marked cruisers and task force unmarked ...
YOUNGSTOWN — The city’s board of control approved a series of change orders to a phase of a project that diverts sewage from the Mahoning River that resulted in a $321,737.52 decrease in the total cost. That decrease is somewhat deceptive as most of the reduced costs were for an add-on that the city received a waiver for before the project began. The board voted 3-0 Thursday for the change orders, which were packaged as one item, for Rudzik Excavating Inc. of Struthers, which handled the second phase of the project that diverts sewage from the river. Rudzik’s base bid was ...
Billed as a “conversation,” the “Mahoning Valley Civic Forum: State of the Arts” recognized the abundance of talented visual, performing and literature creatives in the area but, just as importantly, acknowledged the obstacles that keep the culture and entertainment scene from fully ...
