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YSU to host history speaker series

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Staff report Youngstown State University’s History 4820 course, “History in the Headlines,” will host a public speaker series this fall examining major issues in the news and their effects on people in the Mahoning Valley. The programs will be at 6 p.m. at the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor, 151 W. Wood St. The series is designed to make history accessible and relevant while encouraging community conversation about contemporary issues. The 2026 schedule includes: •Sept 15: “How have political party divisions in the U.S. become so vast, and can they ...

New dog warden at county pound plans outreach

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YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County Dog Warden’s office has a new leader. Overseeing the office is not what Lisa Hill expected when she began volunteering as a dog walker in 2009, and her path to the job was not exactly a straight line. Still, a little more than two months since ...

President McKinley shot at Buffalo Exposition by anarchist

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120 Years Ago, 1901 transcribed as originally published in the Youngstown Vindicator: “The president may recover. An Anarch fires upon the Chief Executive at the Buffalo Exposition this afternoon. Two bullets take effect. The wounds are in the stomach and his condition is serious – the assassin is a stranger – the president now lies in the hospital at the Pan American grounds in a comatose condition. Assassin caught.” “Buffalo, Sept. 6. – 4 p.m. – President McKinley was shot twice in the stomach here this afternoon in the Temple of Music. Condition is serious. Two ...