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On the record: Girard Board of Education

Girard WHAT: Board of education meeting Thursday PRESENT: Vince Ragozine, Tammy King, Zachary Steiner, Joe Castor and Scott Strain The board: • Heard from Superintendent Bryan O’Hara that a food pantry and a Care Closet are in place at the K-6 building to provide items to students in need. O’Hara said the Care Closet is in connection with the United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley. He said space was also made at the school for special education offices behind the library. • Approved the elimination of the instructional educational assistant position at the high ...

Judge OKs SOBE receiver to kill appeal on gasification permit

YOUNGSTOWN — A judge permitted SOBE Thermal Energy Systems LLC’s receiver “to take any action necessary to dismiss” an appeal by the company’s CEO, who abandoned the steam heat utility, to a state agency’s decision to revoke a permit for a controversial waste gasification ...

GabbaCamp named Charity of the Year

The Newcomers of Mahoning Valley has officially named GabbaCamp as its “Charity of the Year,” presenting the organization with a generous donation to support its ongoing mission. Located just outside Youngstown in Coitsville, GabbaCamp is a year-round respite and camping facility. The ...

Romantic wedding of ‘prominent Pittsburg couple’

125 Years Ago, 1901, transcribed as originally published in the Youngstown Vindicator “Romantic wedding in this city of a prominent Pittsburg couple. Started as a joke and ended in a call on the parson – the couple now at home receiving congratulations.” “Notice of the romantic marriage here of Robert W. Pinder and Miss Jessie Hallett was published in The Vindicator last Monday. The Pittsburg Times, today, published the following article regarding the couple: “Rumor has it that at least 18 couples from Pittsburg and vicinity were married while attending the excursion of ...