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On the record: Austintown Board of Education, Lowellville Board of Education

Austintown WHAT: August Board of Education meeting PRESENT: Katie Berdis, Fred Marcum, Don Sherwood, Kim Smrek and Harold Porter The board: ● Approved the June and July monthly financial/expenditure activity report and forecast report. ● Approved the submission and projections of expenditures, revenues and fund balances for fiscal year 2027, and for the three succeeding fiscal years ending 2028, 2029 and 2030. ● Approved purchase orders over $15,000 and transfers for the month as submitted. ● Approved donations of $1,883 from the Fitch Volleyball Boosters to Fitch ...

Warren judge responds to call for disqualification

By ED RUNYAN Staff writer WARREN — Warren Municipal Court Judge Natasha Natale has filed a response to an affidavit filed by an attorney with the Ohio Public Defender’s Office asking that the Ohio Supreme Court disqualify Natale from hearing a criminal case. Assistant Public Defender Shawna Merkich, who works in the Trumbull County public defender’s office, filed the affidavit regarding a criminal case involving a 19-year-old Youngstown man charged with misdemeanor criminal trespassing at Warren G. Harding High School on Aug. 21, 2025. The case involved several people seen ...

Local man among dead in airship explosion over London

105 Years Ago, 1921 transcribed as originally published in the Youngstown Vindicator: “Airship explodes; 44 dead. Local man reported safe. Report of Esterly’s death denied later. ZR-2, which U.S. was to have brought from Britain for $2,000,000 explodes over river at Hull, England....” “London, Aug 24 (Associated Press) — The giant airship ZR-2, purchased by the United States from Great Britain, exploded over the city of Hull today, according to advice received here shortly after 6:30 o’clock this evening. The airship is a wreck in the River Humber.... “A Hull ...

YSU ignites the semester

YOUNGSTOWN — Incoming Youngstown State University freshman Adrianna Holden hopes to major in studio art, and she wasted no time cutting to the colorful chase. “I hope someday to become a storybook artist,” Holden, of Youngstown, said. “I really like the art program here.” She was ...

YSU provost promotes collaboration as semester commences

YOUNGSTOWN — Higher education is facing a slew of unknowns and challenges, but through it all, Youngstown State University continues to rely heavily on a collaborative spirit to rise to whatever challenges may come its way, an official says. “It shows how deep trust and accountability run — happy faculty leads to happy students,” Jennifer Adams, YSU’s provost and vice president for academic affairs, said. That was among the primary themes on which Adams spoke while delivering the university’s annual State of Academic Affairs presentation Thursday morning in the Williamson ...

SOBE hearing set for Sept. 14

A Public Utilities Commission of Ohio judge will hear arguments Sept. 14 from the city of Youngstown and the Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel urging the commission to revisit its decision to greatly raise steam heat rates for most of downtown Youngstown. Jacky Werman St. John, a PUCO administrative law judge, on Thursday issued an order for the Sept. 14 hearing at the commission’s office in Columbus. Her order came a day after the PUCO voted 5-0 to grant requests for a rehearing on its June 24 approval of emergency rate hikes to the 23 downtown customers that receive steam ...