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Banking on learning

YOUNGSTOWN — Children at a local preschool will have a fun new classroom to enjoy, although their parents and teachers will want to wait for the weather to improve before they use it. Cold winds and snow flurries did not stop the kids and officials at Alta Head Start McCartney Learning ...

$222.6M budget for 2025 in Youngstown adopted

YOUNGSTOWN — City council approved a $222.6 million budget for 2025 that includes $10.6 million in capital improvements and equipment purchases. Council voted 6-0 Wednesday in favor of the budget at a special meeting. Councilman Jimmy Hughes, D-2nd Ward, was absent. Council annually ...

Youngstown appeals decision on fired police officer

YOUNGSTOWN — City officials are asking a Mahoning County Common Pleas Court judge to modify and vacate an arbitrator’s decision that the city must reinstate Brian Flynn, who was fired in December 2022 as a police lieutenant after being accused of dereliction of duty. In a Wednesday ...

Butler acquires two Alfred Leslie paintings

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story has been updated to correct erroneous information, provided by Butler Institute of Art, about its acquisition of two Alfred Leslie paintings. In Thursday’s story about Butler Institute of American Art acquiring two Alred Leslie paintings, incorrect information was ...

Victim of Sunday homicide on West Side ID’d

YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown City Schools Athletic Department posted its condolences and “heartfelt sympathy” this week to the family of Keondre Lewis, 20, who graduated from the school district last year and was found Sunday with a fatal gunshot wound. The post is on the ...

Hubbard official blasts Hernandez, urges him to quit

WARREN — Hubbard Township Trustee Jason Tedrow accused Trumbull County Commissioner Rick Hernandez of repeatedly lying to township residents about his knowledge of the activities that were happening at 180 Youngstown Hubbard Road, which is a building the commissioner owns in the ...