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Patching vests & lives

HUBBARD — A local nonprofit is expanding an innovative outreach program that combines a practical service for motorcycle enthusiasts with a mission that reaches far beyond sewing patches onto leather vests. Grief and Loss In Motion, a nonprofit organization dedicated to suicide ...

Trial sheds light on misplaced stop sign in Coitsville

COITSVILLE — It’s not often that a criminal trial results in a discovery that a stop sign is in the wrong place and it is moved to meet regulations. But that is what happened in one instance in Coitsville Township. On May 20, a jury in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court found Robert C. ...

Project for city safety campus is likely dead

YOUNGSTOWN — City officials allocated $1.5 million of American Rescue Plan money in 2024 for the study and design of a safety campus, which almost certainly will never come to fruition. Strollo Architects, the Youngstown-based firm hired for the design work, has received about $1.16 million of that ARP money from the city to date, said Gregg Strollo, its owner. “What we did is worth more than that, but no one thinks we did anything worthwhile,” Strollo said. “What we’ve done so far is a pretty good start. But the city, near as I can tell, isn’t interested in the ...

Mahoning County Republicans reelect McCabe as chairman

BOARDMAN — The Mahoning County Republican Party reelected Tom McCabe as its executive committee chairman and returned him to head the central committee after a yearlong experiment to split the two positions. The committee unanimously elected McCabe as chairman of both committees at a Thursday night meeting. McCabe, who is also director of the county board of elections, was first elected party chairman in February 2019 to fill the remainder of an unexpired term after the retirement of Mark Munroe, who led the party for nine years. McCabe was elected in 2022 to a full four-year ...