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Boardman voters reject safety services levy

BOARDMAN - Township officials will now have to look at alternative funding for safety services after voters on Tuesday thumbed down a five-year, 2.75-mill levy that would have generated $3,772, 795 annually and would have cost taxpayers $96 for each $100,000 of property value. According to ...

AAA: National average tumbles as crude oil prices decline

Gas prices are 25 cents lower in Northeast Ohio this week at $4.185 per gallon, according to Monday’s AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline fell 14 cents over the past week to $4.16. Crude oil prices are currently below $100 per barrel, and pump prices are reflecting that decline. The national average is 23 cents less than a month ago but $1.13 more than a year ago. The average price of unleaded self-serve gasoline Monday in Niles was $4.099 while Youngstown was $4.117. A year ago, the average in the region was $2.948 per ...

Scouts, DAR members beautify historic landmark in Boardman

BOARDMAN - A historic landmark in the township was given some much needed TLC on Sunday with the help of dozens of volunteers. Scouts from BSA Troop 55 in Youngstown and Cub Scout Pack 101 in Warren, members of the Mahoning Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Mahoning ...

Brown defeats Husted to flip Senate seat

COLUMBUS — Former Sen. Sherrod Brown defeated Republican Sen. Jon Husted in Ohio on Tuesday, flipping a seat that was crucial to Democrats’ strategy to retake the chamber and providing a ray of hope for the party’s longer-term prospects in a former swing state that had turned sharply to ...

Democrat Rock scores win for Trumbull commissioner

WARREN — Democrat Kristen Rock appears to have scored a win over her more well known and experienced opponent, Michael Hovis, with 51% of the vote, according to incomplete and unofficial results from the Trumbull County Board of Elections. “I had a very supportive team,” Rock said. ...

McDonald voters support safety services levy

McDONALD – Village residents showed their support for the fire and police departments by supporting a 4.5-mill, five-year emergency safety services levy on Tuesday's general election ballot. Unofficial and incomplete results from the Trumbull County Board of Elections had the levy passing ...