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Main breaks plague county

BOARDMAN — Extreme cold means water line breaks, and Aqua Ohio had crews responding all over Mahoning County on Tuesday. As of 6 p.m., the company was attending to eight water main breaks, said spokesman Jeff Larue, but he could not say exactly where they occurred. At least two happened in ...

Retired judge to hear city’s lawsuit

YOUNGSTOWN — The Ohio Supreme Court chief justice appointed W. Wyatt McKay, a retired Trumbull County Common Pleas Court judge, to hear Youngstown’s $834,608 civil lawsuit against ex-city Finance Director David Bozanich, property developer Dominic Marchionda and two of the latter’s ...

YARS receives 2nd new aircraft

VIENNA — The second of eight new C-130J-30 Super Hercules aircraft that will come to the Youngstown Air Reserve Station through mid-2026 recently had its first local flight. The aircraft landed at the Vienna base in December and took its first local flight Jan. 14, said Senior Master Sgt. ...

Poland man pleads guilty to OVI crash in Boardman

YOUNGSTOWN — Patrick S. Paris, 58, of Indian Trail in Poland, pleaded guilty Tuesday to felony OVI for a 5:37 a.m. crash July 11 at the intersection of U.S. Route 224 and Market Street in Boardman for which he tested positive for several substances. Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge ...

Reaching a milestone

CANFIELD — One of Canfield’s oldest continuous lodges is gearing up for a special anniversary later this summer. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge 155 will turn 175 in August and is still going strong. “The Odd Fellows started in England,” said Lodge member and Noble Grand ...

Senior center available to warm residents

AUSTINTOWN — The Austintown Senior Center is closed, but that doesn’t mean it is unavailable for those who really need it. During this extreme cold, the facility has halted regular operations, but it serves as a warming station for the township and Mahoning County. “I remember that ...