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This week in history: Youngstown man got pilot’s license after lessons with Orville Wright

115 Years Ago, 1911, transcribed as originally published in the Youngstown Vindicator “Local man, Wright pupil, will fly over this city. Albert Elton had displayed unusual ability as a bird man and has interested Orville Wright, who has been giving him lessons at Dayton — Exhibition will be given here on Labor Day — will be given a pilot’s license.” “Youngstown has a real bird man. He is Albert Elton, one of the best known automobile dealers of the city. “Mr. Elton is at present in Dayton, Ohio, learning the fine points of running an aeroplane from the famous ...

‘Stop the Violence’ march set Sunday in Youngstown

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.

City to PUCO: Change or ax heating hikes

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 ...

Hubbub surrounds groundbreaking for Innovation Hub

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 ...

Ohio bill seeks to ban free ads for politicians

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 ...

Ex-Mahoning Valley athlete shot, killed by Indianapolis police

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 ...