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Vote for appraisal contracts set for Chill-Can parcels

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YOUNGSTOWN — The board of control will vote Thursday on contracts for appraisals of the two remaining parcels the city doesn’t own at the dormant Chill-Can site as well as the former Anthony’s on the River property. The city owns all of the Chill-Can property but those two parcels, ...

Boardman police stop theft after residents report trespassing

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BOARDMAN — A Canfield man is facing charges in Mahoning County this week after police arrested him for allegedly stealing scrap materials from private property. Clinton D. Booth, 55, of New Buffalo Road, appeared Tuesday in Mahoning County Boardman Court, where he pleaded not guilty to ...

Man, 19, gets 31 years to life in death of Youngstown teen

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WARREN — Ashaud Johnson, 19, was sentenced Wednesday to 31 years to life in prison in the Feb. 11 shooting death of Da’Mar McKinney, 17, of Youngstown, by firing about a dozen times with an automatic handgun into the parking lot of the Packard House Apartments on Mahoning Avenue where he ...

Youngstown council OKs new union contracts

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YOUNGSTOWN — City council approved new contracts with its water department and emergency police dispatchers union as well as gave permission to spend up to $650,000 for a storage building for the Covelli Centre. Council voted 7-0 Wednesday for all of the legislation. The agreements call ...

Democrats make switch in Ohio House race

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With Lorna J. Westlake withdrawing as the Democratic candidate for the 65th Ohio House District, John Barbo, Geneva City Council president and longtime high school science teacher, is replacing her on the Nov. 3 ballot. Westlake, of Austinburg, was the lone Democrat to file for the seat. But ...

Juneteenth events set in Warren, Youngstown

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Staff report There are several Juneteenth events planned in Youngstown and Warren this week and over the weekend. Juneteenth (a combination of “June” and “nineteenth”) commemorates June 19, 1865, the day enslaved black Americans in Galveston, Texas, were finally informed of their ...