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Many Valley groups share $921K in grant funds

The Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley has awarded $921,603 in its second grant cycle of the year to support nonprofits meeting the needs of local residents. With support from fundholders and the foundation’s discretionary funds, $382,145 was awarded through the CFMV General ...

Valley couple marks 75 years of marriage

YOUNGSTOWN — When John Anderson and Marion Owens met on the campus of Ohio University in the late 1940s, they did not realize that on July 12, 2026, they would celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary. A party honored them Friday at the Inn at Christine Valley, where they now live. They ...

Local woman was declared best balloonist of the world

110 Years Ago, 1916 transcribed as originally published in the Youngstown Vindicator: “M’lle Zeno ready to race any one, so her manager states. Letter to this paper states how a match can be arranged. M’lle Zeno will travel abroad.” “The many friends of Mlle. Alice Zeno in this city and Hubbard, will no doubt be more than pleased to learn that after years of experience as an aeronaut, she has at last reached the goal on which all her energies have been concentrated from the first aerial flight and parachute jump she undertook some ten years ago. She is now the champion ...

Property transfers

Property transfers recorded June 29 to July 2 in Mahoning County and portions of Trumbull County: Austintown Brooke Johnson to Morgan L. Ainsworth, 4445 Burkey Road, $130,000 Richard and Staci May to Amir William Saffaelan, 5137 Pine Shadow Court, $283,000 David W. Mann and Diane L. Mann to Jeremy Scott Large and Leah Mae Halatek, 3955 Dunbar St., $210,000 Martha A. Meikle to Cierra Anzeimo, 3441 Bent Willow Lane, $214,900 The Estate of James E Bunosky to SRA Investors LLC, 341 Benton Ave., $135,000 Wilma L. Wilson and Jesse F. Wilson Jr. to Anthony Potkonicky, 2189 Woodgate St., ...

Council shifts $1.4M to Inspiring Minds for community center

WARREN — City Council on Wednesday approved redirecting more than $1.4 million in previously allocated community project funds to Inspiring Minds for a community center. Council voted to move $1,425,000 from the Western Reserve Port Authority project to Inspiring Minds. Further details will be discussed during a meeting in the coming weeks when Inspiring Minds will be present. It also approved $50,000 to the Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership as fiscal agent for the South Eastside Community Association, or SESCA. A remaining $25,000 will stay with the WRPA for a waterline ...