YOUNGSTOWN — The United Pastors, Clergy and Community Leaders of Greater Youngstown Against the Violence will be hosting their first “Stop the Violence” March and Prayer Walk at 2 p.m. Sunday. Participants will gather at Grace Evangelistic Temple Church, 2214 Mahoning Ave., at 1:30 p.m. and then begin the march and prayer walk at 2 p.m. They will be praying for peace for the city and against the violence that has infected its neighborhoods.
The city of Youngstown requested the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio vacate or modify an order that granted significant rate increases to SOBE Thermal Energy Systems LLC, which provides steam heat for most of downtown, and grant it permission to intervene in the matter. Law Director Adam Buente, on behalf of the city, made the requests in a filing Friday with the PUCO. The city’s request — like one made June 16 by the Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel — to intervene will be considered by the commission or by a PUCO administrative judge. The OCC is the statewide legal ...
YOUNGSTOWN — About a year from now, Barb Ewing hopes to have additive manufacturing companies move into the new Youngstown Innovation Hub for Aerospace & Defense, located downtown in the former Vindicator building. Thursday was the symbolic shovel-turning in front of the ...
A bill, sponsored by state Rep. Tex Fischer, would prohibit public officials from putting their name or likeness on any signs, markers, building exteriors or other public locations. Fischer, R-Canfield, said: “It’s one of the many small things I see that help incumbent state and local ...
Staff report A former Warren G. Harding High School athlete was reportedly killed Wednesday in an officer-involved shooting in Indianapolis. Reports indicate that Dalys Jett, 21, died in the shooting after police said he had fired a gun at a group of police officers. Jett was a 2023 Harding ...
More than two weeks after the July 5 storms, Mahoning County and local communities were still staring up a mountain. Now, a regional cleanup effort is making a big difference and even running ahead of schedule. Mahoning County EMA Director Conner O’Halloran said more than 12 agencies and 100 people have been working in teams across much of the affected area to clear large piles of debris that were overwhelming individual townships. “We had an increasing amount of debris collecting on the right of way, it was getting dry, just piling up. Townships were offering to chip it, but ...
