Go-Go owner says he wants to be a good Austintown neighbor

YOUNGSTOWN — Sebastian Rucci, owner of the Go Go Cabaret, says he wants a better relationship with Austintown Township.

“I feel very humbled,” he said. “I believe in the business doing well, but my relationship with the community was poor. That was an extreme error on my part.”

Rucci said he looks forward to mending his ties with the township trustees and police department to make his business better. Judge Lou A. D’Apolito of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court won’t issue a judgment until early next week on whether the business should remain closed. But Rucci said his own work begins today.

“I need to sit down and have dialogue with them,” he said of township officials. “I’ll start by doing things they’d like to see, like removing the satellite dish.” The club’s large dish featuring the silhouette of a woman’s face is now covered with a tarp.

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