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Ax tax drive stalls again

A proposed constitutional amendment to consider abolishing property taxes in Ohio won’t be on the Nov. 3 ballot because the group collecting signatures has again failed to get enough people to sign petitions. This is the second year in a row that the Committee to Abolish Ohio Property Taxes, also called AxOhioTax, tried to qualify for the ballot as it failed to do so in 2025. Brian Massie, a leader of the group, announced Friday on Ohio Political News, a right-wing political podcast, that not enough signatures were collected. The group had to submit petitions with 413,488 valid ...

Outgoing Boardman Township administrator preps for kidney transplant

BOARDMAN — As Jason Loree prepares to end his career as Boardman Township administrator, he is also preparing for a new beginning. After years of declining kidney function and an increasingly urgent search for a donor in recent months, Loree is scheduled for a transplant June 30. While ...

Leadership Mahoning Valley celebrates 41 new graduates

Leadership Mahoning Valley has developed more than 1,400 leaders through its annual program spanning 41 years. During a ceremony Wednesday at The Grand Resort in Howland, 41 participants were recognized for completing the nonprofit’s latest leadership development curriculum. “Although ...

3 indicted in robbery on city’s North Side

YOUNGSTOWN — Three men have been indicted on aggravated robbery with a firearm specification in an April 21 incident on Hammaker Street on the North Side in which they are accused of robbing a man at gunpoint and taking his backpack/cross-body satchel, which contained a handgun, paperwork from his job and his wallet. The three men indicted are Keanu D. Shelton, 31, of Alameda Avenue; Darrell Haynes, 60, whose address is listed as the Mahoning County jail; and Wayne Kerns, 36, of Volney Road. In addition to the aggravated robbery charges and gun specifications, Haynes and Kerns were ...

Sister of slain officer wants parole denied

NILES — It’s been 44 years since her brother’s death, but Joanne Robbins still vividly remembers hearing the news for the first time, saying it’s something she’ll never forget. “I was in high school, I was 17 years old, and my guidance counselor came down to the band room to get me, and I didn’t think too much of it because we started to talk about college and post-graduation life,” Robbins said. “(I) came into the principal’s office and there were detectives there from my brother’s — the police department, Niles Police Department — and they told me something ...

Property transfers for June 6

Property transfers recorded May 26 to 29 in Mahoning County and portions of Trumbull County: Austintown Caitlin M. Shea to Megan C. Shea, 4195 New Road, $28,000 GREH LLC to S&P Legacy LLC, 4390 Mahoning Ave. and 25 Idlewood Road, $405,000 Sarah A. Swisher to Timothy Ray Carr II, 35 S. Kimberly Ave., $189,900 Alyssa Pandrea to Leah Gregory and Michael Cohn, 50 N. Main St., $107,000 Rick J. Zubil to Shawn Willmitch and Jodi Willmitch, 4102 Barkey Road, $120,000 Donna J. Bean to James Walker Jr. and Romona Walker, 5682 Baylor Ave., $201,900 Dianna S. Mullins to ...