​The year 2024 in the city of Youngstown has started off with a bang — far too many bangs, to put it bluntly. Gunfire over the first six weeks of this year snuffed out the lives of four people within city limits, and at least a dozen shootings have injured many others. In retrospect, ...

Thousands of often undervalued and overlooked fire hydrants dot the landscape of the Mahoning Valley, the state and the nation. Too often, however, these critical tools for ensuring public safety are not given the proper respect and care they deserve. Some, alarmingly enough, cannot even ...

ORCHID: To the Canfield Board of Education for displaying exemplary fiscal responsibility by deciding to slash the amount of a bond issue this fall for school district improvements. Last November, voters overwhelmingly rejected a 7.5-mill bond levy that would have brought in $105 million for ...

Plans to follow through with the demolition of the historic Robins Theatre in downtown Niles first came to light in October and Mayor Steve Mientkiewicz walked our reporter Mason Cole and photographer R. Michael Semple through the dilapidated building. Cole described the inside of the ...

Ohio lawmakers cannot ignore the will of the people much longer. Gov. Mike DeWine was right this week to ask them to stop dragging their feet on implementing rules for legalized recreational marijuana, which voters approved more than three months ago. “What we don’t want to do is see a ...

The old Roosevelt gym at Roosevelt Elementary School in Hubbard has been cherished by a select few programs as a place that they were able to call home. After being used primarily by local athletic teams within the Hubbard Exempted Village School District, the Hubbard Board of Education is ...