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City council OKs $130K SOBE study

YOUNGSTOWN — City council agreed to pay up to $130,000 to a law firm for a study that will offer long-term solutions for SOBE Thermal Energy Systems LLC, a troubled utility company that provides steam heat to a majority of downtown buildings. Council also voted 7-0 Wednesday in favor of a ...

Vote for appraisal contracts set for Chill-Can parcels

YOUNGSTOWN — The board of control will vote Thursday on contracts for appraisals of the two remaining parcels the city doesn’t own at the dormant Chill-Can site as well as the former Anthony’s on the River property. The city owns all of the Chill-Can property but those two parcels, ...

Vote for appraisal contracts set for Chill-Can parcels

YOUNGSTOWN — The board of control will vote Thursday on contracts for appraisals of the two remaining parcels the city doesn’t own at the dormant Chill-Can site as well as the former Anthony’s on the River property. The city owns all of the Chill-Can property but those two parcels, ...

Boardman police stop theft after residents report trespassing

BOARDMAN — A Canfield man is facing charges in Mahoning County this week after police arrested him for allegedly stealing scrap materials from private property. Clinton D. Booth, 55, of New Buffalo Road, appeared Tuesday in Mahoning County Boardman Court, where he pleaded not guilty to ...

Youngstown council OKs new union contracts

YOUNGSTOWN — City council approved new contracts with its water department and emergency police dispatchers union as well as gave permission to spend up to $650,000 for a storage building for the Covelli Centre. Council voted 7-0 Wednesday for all of the legislation. The agreements call ...

Man, 19, gets 31 years to life in death of Youngstown teen

WARREN — Ashaud Johnson, 19, was sentenced Wednesday to 31 years to life in prison in the Feb. 11 shooting death of Da’Mar McKinney, 17, of Youngstown, by firing about a dozen times with an automatic handgun into the parking lot of the Packard House Apartments on Mahoning Avenue where he ...