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Libraries set delayed openings

Local News

Both the Public Library of Youngstown-Mahoning County and the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library will delay opening until 11 a.m. today due to the extreme cold temperatures. The Youngstown library and its branches will also open at 11 a.m. Saturday. Closings will be at regular scheduled ...

Community news

Community News

COIN CLUB: The Wheatland Mercer County Coin Club will hold its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Wheatland Community Center, formally called the Wheatland Borough Building, 71 Broadway Ave., in the Wheatland neighborhood of Hermitage. All are invited, and there is light food and ...

West Virginia Senate considers historical Bibles in classrooms

Local News

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Some lawmakers in the West Virginia Senate want to put copies of the first Bible printed in revolutionary America in certain classrooms, but an effort by others to amend the bill to include the Catholic Bible failed. Senate Bill 388, requiring public elementary or ...

Community news

Community News

PUMPKIN GROWING: The Ohio Valley Giant Pumpkin Growers Club is offering its annual Beginners Giant Pumpkin Growers seminar 9:30 a.m. to noon Saturday at Parks Garden Center in Canfield. The free seminar will be led by Tim Parks, who will discuss the arts and sciences of growing giant pumpkins. ...

AAA: Gas prices in area jump

Business News

Staff report Gas prices are 10 cents higher in Northeast Ohio this week at $2.898 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report released Monday. As winter weather grips much of the nation, the national average for a gallon of regular unleaded has gone up six cents over the ...

SOBE customers lose heat, hot water

Local News

YOUNGSTOWN — With temperatures dipping below zero and wind chills even lower, SOBE Thermal Energy Systems LLC’s 28 customers in downtown Youngstown were without heat and hot water because the beleaguered utility had to shut down its boiler. SOBE informed its customers, who make up most of ...