YOUNGSTOWN — The Paul and Yetta Gluck School of Visual Arts at the Jewish Community Center (JCC) opened in 2020 thanks to benefactors Paul and Yetta Gluck of Youngstown. The JCC’s former racquetball court was converted into an art classroom that soon filled with tables, supplies and ...
AUSTINTOWN — At the request of defense attorney Mike Yacovone, Mahoning County Area Court Judge Scott Hunter on Wednesday ordered a competency evaluation for Laronda Mitchell, 38, of South Raccoon Road in Austintown, before he will rule on whether she should be bound over to a Mahoning ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine will not bail out the beleaguered downtown Youngstown utility company on the brink of financial collapse with funding from the state’s capital budget or its rainy day fund, his spokesman said. Dan Tierney, DeWine’s spokesman, said while the governor is monitoring the situation with SOBE Thermal Energy Systems LLC, which is responsible for providing steam heat for most of downtown, neither the capital budget nor the state’s Budget Stabilization Fund, referred to as the rainy day fund, are options to help the struggling company. Both were ...
YOUNGSTOWN — In addition to tenants at Wick Tower, SOBE Thermal Energy Systems LLC sent 10-day disconnection notices to two other downtown Youngstown customers for failing to pay bills though the troubled utility company isn’t seeking to turn off anyone’s steam heat or hot water. SOBE receiver John C. Collins and Michael Moran, his court-appointed attorney, told The Vindicator on Wednesday that it won’t be until the middle of next week before a formal filing will be made in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court on the disconnection issues. However, both said they would like to ...
YOUNGSTOWN — The Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County has responded to another challenge from the group opposing relocation of the Poland branch. A news release distributed to local media on Tuesday calls for the PLYMC Board of Trustees to reconsider its decision to build a new library along Denver Drive near state Route 170 and close the 25-year-old building at 311 S. Main St. in Poland Village. The Save Our Library committee asserts that new information has come to light that would make the project cost prohibitive. The library states that most of the costs and ...
HUBBARD TOWNSHIP — Township officials and residents received updates about the road department’s activities, as well as where things stand with improving worn down infrastructure in the community. During his road report on Tuesday, on the heels of trustees placing a 1-mill renewal levy on the ballot for November’s election, Trustee Eric Lamb said he did the math and some measurements on Regina Drive, a joint city and township road he deemed the worst in the township. Lamb said the road department is still waiting on the Trumbull County Engineer’s Office to give him an exact ...
