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Ohio agency sounds off on SOBE

YOUNGSTOWN — With disconnection notices sent to two downtown residential buildings, the Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel is “very concerned about Youngstown residents who could lose heat and hot water because their building owner has not paid bills for steam service.” Among the four buildings that recently received disconnection notices from SOBE Thermal Energy Systems LLC for failure to pay their bills in at least the last 60 days were Wick Tower and Erie Terminal Place. They each have 40 residential units in addition to commercial space. The other two are the former ...

Corridor project looks to better Belmont Avenue

YOUNGSTOWN — The efforts underway to revitalize the Belmont Avenue corridor were on display Wednesday evening during an open house at the Mahoning County Veterans Service Commission. “Youngstown and Liberty Township have been working together to study the Belmont Avenue corridor (from ...

Different contractor named in Boardman theft allegation

BOARDMAN — The contractor accused of taking money from a Boardman woman without completing the work is not the same man whose name and face have been plastered across local news lately. A report in Thursday’s Vindicator outlines the complaints from an Applewood Acres resident who told ...

Residents want an independent assessment of McDonald Steel property

McDONALD — While village residents thanked council for placing a one-year moratorium on data centers, they want officials to next prepare a strategic plan and have an independent environmental assessment done on the former U.S. Steel property to determine what business would best be suited there. Oppidan officials last week conducted a presentation at McDonald High School and showed proposed plans of wanting to locate several data centers on the property off Ohio Avenue. Residents are now asking for an environmental assessment to explore the effects that many data centers would ...

Trumbull strengthening rules preventing added work on projects before commissioners’ review

WARREN — An effort is being made by the Trumbull County Commissioners to encourage department heads to send change orders on projects to the commissioners for review before allowing work to be done. Due to this directive, Sanitary Engineer Gary Newbrough on Wednesday warned the commissioners that he would be bringing resolutions next week for three sanitation department projects that will cost the county more than the amount that was originally contracted. The additional work on one of the three projects has already been done. The projected cost of the additional work on the other ...

McKinley Birthplace Memorial is site and a subject for author talk

Bill Clevlen’s latest book was inspired by empty ChapStick tubes and some wires. Clevlen is a former radio host turned travel writer, and his eight books include “100 Things to Do in America Before You Die” and “The Ultimate American Music Bucket List.” His latest is “Presidential Road Trips: 100 Places to Explore and Experience the History of American Presidents,” and he will talk about the book at noon Saturday at one of the locations featured in it —- the National McKinley Birthplace Memorial & Museum in Niles. “Had I known how popular presidential trivia and ...