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Library board OKs contract with firm for assistance with 5-year plan

YOUNGSTOWN — The Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County board of trustees has voted to accept a proposed contract with a firm to assist the library system with assembling and implementing its five-year, 2027-31 strategic plan. During its service and personnel committee meeting Tuesday afternoon at the Newport branch on the South Side, the board voted 6-0 to hire Fort Collins, Colorado-based ReThinking Libraries, in partnership with HBM Architects and Interior Designers of Cleveland, to work with the PLYMC on the plan to see what long-term improvements and changes the ...

Poland trustees OK budget for 2027 by 2-1 vote

POLAND TOWNSHIP — At a special meeting Tuesday, trustees voted 2-1 to approve a 2027 budget to submit to the county auditor. The vote came after a 90-minute discussion over how to solve a deficit problem in the police and zoning departments next year. “We need to cut $700,000 from the (2027) budget,” Township Fiscal Officer Paul J. Canter said. “The only way to do that is to make cuts.” He said it is too late to place a levy on the November ballot. He added that putting it on the May ballot could cost the township $23,000. Even if it were placed and passed next May, it ...

Trumbull: 2 cases of measles confirmed

The Trumbull County Combined Health District confirmed two cases of measles in the county with the two people unvaccinated and the cases unrelated. During the infectious period, one person was at the Walmart on Goldie Road in Liberty on July 29 and at Akron Children’s Mahoning Valley emergency department on Market Street in Boardman on Aug. 2. The health district stated it is working with Akron Children’s Mahoning Valley and the Ohio Department of Health to investigate and notify anyone who may have been exposed. Vaccination clinics will be 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. today at ...

Trumbull commissioners discuss combining courts

WARREN — Trumbull County Commissioners are considering passing a resolution to ask the Ohio Supreme Court to do a study to determine if the county’s central and eastern district courts should be consolidated into one court. Bazetta Trustee Michael Hovis, who is running for Commissioner Denny Malloy’s seat in November, during Wednesday’s commissioner meeting sought to convince commissioners to pass a resolution asking the high court to conduct a study to determine if the two courts should be consolidated because of the declining number of cases going to each. Previous efforts ...

Review of Trumbull budget continues

WARREN — Trumbull County Commissioners are weighing budget concerns of the heads of general fund departments to ensure they will be able to complete 2026 without going into deficit. The commissioners last month received the amounts each of the departments estimate they will need to finish the year. Several departments noted they will require more money than was allocated to them at the beginning of the year. Thirteen of the 16 departments are projected to need an additional combined $3,732,163 to complete the year. The commissioners over the past week have been reviewing the ...

Review of Trumbull budget continues

WARREN — Trumbull County Commissioners are weighing budget concerns of the heads of general fund departments to ensure they will be able to complete 2026 without going into deficit. The commissioners last month received the amounts each of the departments estimate they will need to finish the year. Several departments noted they will require more money than was allocated to them at the beginning of the year. Thirteen of the 16 departments are projected to need an additional combined $3,732,163 to complete the year. The commissioners over the past week have been reviewing the ...