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Patrol: Memorial Day fatalities lowest in 18 years

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Staff report Provisional data from the Ohio State Highway Patrol is reporting six traffic fatalities over the four-day Memorial Day Weekend — the lowest number in 18 years. This year’s reporting period began on Friday and continued through Monday. During the reporting period, troopers ...

Girard hears of plans for a mountain bike trail near lakes

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GIRARD — Wanting to make use of the Girard Lakes property, city officials are considering adding a mountain bike trail to the area and plan to visit next month a similar trail at Lake Milton. Girard resident Tonya Carpenter, who works for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, told city ...

Youngstown woman charged in Liberty stabbing case

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LIBERTY — A Youngstown woman accused of stabbing her boyfriend is set to return to court June 17 on her charges. Takayla James, 24, faces charges of felonious assault and domestic violence in Girard Municipal Court. According to a police report, Liberty officers were dispatched to St. ...

Youngstown Press Club awards $16,000 in college scholarships

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Staff report YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Press Club has awarded $16,000 in scholarships, comprised of a $4,000 scholarship to each of four students, all of them enrolled at universities in Ohio and majoring in journalism or a related field. Scholarship recipients are Joslyn DelSignore of ...

Valley spellers eliminated from National Spelling Bee

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Staff and wire report WASHINGTON — About 80 of 247 spellers competing in the Scripps National Spelling Bee were eliminated in the first round Tuesday, including two local champions from the Mahoning Valley. Genevieve Ramey, an eighth-grade student from Lincoln PK-8 School in Warren, ...

West Virginia born amid chaos of Civil War

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EDITOR’S NOTE: In the spring of 1861, the United States stood at its breaking point. For years, tensions between North and South had deepened. Nowhere was that more felt than in Virginia. While leaders in Richmond voted to join the Confederacy, many residents in the mountainous western ...