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Angry residents confront Boardman trustees
Continuing a nearly two-month streak of vitriolic public meetings, township residents and officials sparred again Wednesday over recent flooding.
Youngstown fire chief proposes cutting 2 battalion chiefs
The city administration is proposing the elimination of two of the fire department’s six battalion chiefs through attrition with the money saved being used to improve its radio system.
Trumbull prosecutor trying to resolve murder case without trial
The Trumbull County Prosecutor’s office and the attorney for Dareontai Carmichael are “in discussions” to determine whether they can resolve Carmichael’s murder charge without a trial.
Ryan praises House passage of act to save pensions
Ryan praises House passage of act to save pensions
Ex-Youngstown mayor to be tried separately in corruption case
Ex-Youngstown mayor to be tried separately in corruption case
Bindi Irwin is engaged to marry longtime boyfriend
Bindi Irwin is engaged to marry longtime boyfriend
Pa. sports authority worker accused of stealing from ex-employer
Pa. sports authority worker accused of stealing from ex-employer
As the nation's opioid crisis grew, the pills got stronger
As the nation's opioid crisis grew, the pills got stronger
Police: Man fatally shoots another man in Cleveland library
Police: Man fatally shoots another man in Cleveland library
Driver cited after metal spill flattens hundreds of tires
Driver cited after metal spill flattens hundreds of tires
Allergan recalls textured breast implant tied to rare cancer
Allergan recalls textured breast implant tied to rare cancer
Trump, allies frame Mueller testimony as win for White House
Trump, allies frame Mueller testimony as win for White House
Judge won't block US asylum restrictions at southern border
Judge won't block US asylum restrictions at southern border
Actor Rutger Hauer, of 'Blade Runner' fame, has died at 75
Actor Rutger Hauer, of 'Blade Runner' fame, has died at 75
GM's Cruise delays autonomous ride service beyond 2019
GM's Cruise delays autonomous ride service beyond 2019
Meek Mill's conviction thrown out, granted new trial
Meek Mill's conviction thrown out, granted new trial
Texas Rapper Tay-K gets 55 years in prison for man's killing
Texas Rapper Tay-K gets 55 years in prison for man's killing
Senators want to rename NASA facility after Armstrong
Senators want to rename NASA facility after Neil Armstrong
Window World chief will parachute into Canfield Fair
Window World chief will parachute into Canfield Fair
Ground will be broken on events center at Canfield fairgrounds
Ground will be broken on events center at fairgrounds
UPDATE | Spokesman: Puerto Rico governor hasn't resigned
Spokesman: Puerto Rico governor hasn't resigned
Pa. gov. seeks to streamline public contact with state agencies
Pa. gov. seeks to streamline public contact with state agencies
Investigators seek $4.5M from Met-Ed after man electrocuted
Investigators seek $4.5M from Met-Ed after man electrocuted
Black voters say they won't forget Trump's racist tweets
Black voters say they won't forget Trump's racist tweets
Competency exam ordered for suspect in Ohio fires that killed 9
Competency exam ordered for suspect in Ohio fires that killed 9
ICE releases US citizen, 18, wrongfully detained near border
ICE releases US citizen, 18, wrongfully detained near border
Suicide bomber detonates devices in Somalia offices
Suicide bomber detonates devices in Somalia offices
Employee assaulted in Warren Family Dollar robbery
Employee assaulted in Warren Family Dollar robbery
Columbus council OKs reduced penalties for marijuana possession
Columbus council OKs reduced penalties for marijuana possession
Authorities: Baby falls into river in Ohio and dies
Authorities: Baby falls into river in Ohio and dies
FTC fines Facebook $5B, adds limited oversight on privacy
FTC fines Facebook $5B, adds limited oversight on privacy
MUELLER HEARING | UPDATE Mueller condemns Trump's praise for WikiLeaks
Mueller condemns Trump's praise for WikiLeaks
TODAY'S VINDICATOR HEADLINES
Youngstown school board took no action at its meeting Tuesday to place a renewal of the school district’s 10.7-mill property tax levy on the November ballot. Board President Brenda Kimble said she expects to call a special meeting within the next few days to further discuss the four-year levy, which generates more than $5 million per year and costs the owner of a $50,000 home $164 annually. “We need to be able to justify the levy renewal to the community. We want to do right by our children. But we need to be better informed before we act.” The new Amazon delivery station in North Jackson employs about 200 part- and full-time associates and will be hiring more warehouse employees and delivery van drivers. Amazon spokesmen gave a tour of the 43,000-square-foot station to area media and community members Tuesday afternoon. The facility, which opened in June, is hiring seasonal associates and leadership positions. Pay starts at $15 an hour, and there are varying benefit packages for both part- and full-time positions. Local Gold Star families shared tears and received salutes during a ceremony Tuesday in Austintown honoring their husbands, brothers and sons who died in the line of duty. Austintown trustees and local veteran activists dedicated six benches that will remain outside Quaker Steak & Lube restaurant. They’re engraved with the names of servicemen from Austintown, Boardman and Champion townships who died in three conflicts: World War II, the Vietnam War and the Iraq War. The benches will be spread out around the restaurant for patrons to sit and reflect, said Ken Jakubec, a veteran advocate and longtime Quaker Steak employee who helped organize the dedication alongside veteran Leo Connelly Jr. The Ohio Democratic Party will have a Thursday event at 1:15 p.m. outside the former Northside Regional Medical Center on Gypsy Lane in Youngstown to criticize the economy under Donald Trump on the two-year anniversary of the president’s speech at the Covelli Centre in which he vowed to return the area to its steel-mill glory days. “Don’t sell your house. ... Do not sell it. We’re going to get those values up. We’re going to get those jobs coming back, and we’re going to fill up those factories or rip them down and build brand new ones. It’s going to happen,” Trump said. Since then, Northside closed, the GM complex in Lordstown idled – which caused other companies on its supply chain to go out of business – and The Vindicator announced it would shut down Aug. 31. The event is being coordinated with the Democratic National Committee as part of a campaign in eight states, including seven that Trump won in the 2016 election. The race is on to provide a temporary and then permanent fix to get about 55 people back into their homes near Kinsman Lake after ia causeway washed out Saturday morning. The rain-induced washout eliminated the only road in and out of the Lakelands neighborhood and damaged homes. The Trumbull County commissioners signed a resolution Tuesday declaring a state of emergency because of the flood damage. The declaration will be sent to Gov. Mike DeWine and the Ohio Emergency Management Agency in hopes it will lead to financial assistance for repairs. The Youngstown State University Foundation on Tuesday announced The Marjorie Hartman Foundation established a scholarship and endowment to benefit YSU students enrolled in the pre-veterinary track in biology and chemistry. Applicants are required to live in Mahoning, Trumbull or Columbiana counties or Mercer or Lawrence counties in Pennsylvania, and be a full-time YSU student with at least a 3.0 GPA. Hartman, who lived in Austintown, created the foundation shortly before she died in 2008 to help fund and promote animal welfare in the Mahoning Valley. Poland Municipal Forest Board is on track to add an additional deer exclosure to the forest to preserve a section of land to allow plants to thrive unhindered by deer grazing. Forest board member Ian Renne, a professor at Youngstown State University, will give a talk on white tail deer at 7 p.m. Aug. 15 at Poland Library. The board also will be advertising for bids for the Mauthe Bridge restoration project Wednesday. The judge in the corruption trial of ex-Youngstown Mayor Charles Sammarone, former city Finance Director David Bozanich and downtown developer Dominic Marchionda is requiring the prosecutor to provide grand jury testimony from two key witnesses to the defense. Meanwhile, Sammarone’s attorney filed a response to the prosecutor’s objection to the former mayor’s motion to separate his trial from the other defendants. Sammarone, Bozanich, Marchionda and 10 companies owned by the latter were indicted Aug. 20, 2018, on 101 counts, including engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, bribery, aggravated theft and tampering with records involving city development projects. The trial is scheduled to start June 1, 2020. Washington Prime Group, the company that owns Southern Park Mall, plans to demolish the former Sears Auto Repair Center. Renderings of the company's mall redevelopment were published exclusively in The Vindicator April 28 and involve green space for outdoor events and exterior-facing retail, dining and entertainment. An agreement to sell Campbell’s water treatment plant and its customers to Aqua Ohio is being fine-tuned, officials said. The agreement was to be completed by Tuesday, but Jennifer Johnson, Aqua Ohio area manager for the Struthers Division, confirmed the entities were still refining the terms. Aqua Ohio has offered the city $7.5 million. And in sports, Youngstown boxing trainer Jack Loew has returned to his former South Side Boxing Club location at 331 Erie St. Loew said he wants to remain in the sport as either a manager or promoter, but realizes his days as a trainer are numbered. He said his current location at 1714 Market St. was paid for, but had turned into more of a fitness place serving only 10 boxers. “I was paying $1,200 monthly when you include utilities, insurance and taxes, and wasn’t bringing in that amount each month,” he explained. He sold the current facility to Corrections Corporation of America. For more details on these and other news and sports, subscribe to The Vindicator by calling 330-746-6561 or visit Vindy.com
6 benches outside Quaker Steak honor fallen soldiers
Veteran advocates Ken Jakubec, left, and Leo Connelly Jr. helped organize a dedication ceremony Tuesday for six benches honoring local servicemen at Quaker Steak & Lube in Austintown.
Ohio Dems to commemorate two-year anniversary of Trump’s ‘don’t sell your house’ speech with Youngstown event
The party will criticize the economy under the Republican president
YSU Foundation announces scholarship, endowment for pre-vet students
New scholarship, endowment to benefit YSU pre-vet students
Judge permits Youngstown corruption probe defendants to get grand jury testimony from two key witnesses
Ex-Youngstown mayor still wants a separate trial
Trumbull commissioners declare state of emergency as flood-damage estimates reach $3.5 million
Trumbull commissioners declare state of emergency as flood-damage estimates reach $3.5 million
Trainer Jack Loew returns his boxing gym to Erie St. locale
Jack Loew stands inside his South Side Boxing Club, which he moved back to its former location at 331 Erie St. on the city’s South Side.
Area media, community members tour N. Jackson Amazon facility
Mary Jackson, an Amazon associate, sorts packages at the facility. The station employs about 200 part- and full-time workers, and is hiring seasonal associates and leadership positions.
BIRTHS
Births St. Elizabeth boardman hospital Scott Yungen and Stephanie Bartscher-Yungen, Salem, boy,
Poland forest board plans to add new deer exclosure
Staff report POLAND Poland Municipal Forest Board is on track to add an additional deer
Selected local stocks
Selected local stocks STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE Alcoa Inc., 22.95 ‚àí0.030 Aqua America, 2.13
Butler centennial concert
Butler centennial concert Norman Rockwell’s painting “Lincoln the Railsplitter” is one of the
Roundup targets 2,100 but nets 35
Associated Press WASHINGTON An immigration enforcement operation that President Donald Trump
Associated Press
Associated Press LOS ANGELES In just 21/2 years, the Trump administration has put its stamp on
Mueller to be joined by aide during his testimony
Ex-special counsel to appear before Congress today Associated Press WASHINGTON Former Trump-
“Cooking Ethnic- american style”
“Cooking Ethnic- american style” HOLY APOSTLES PARISH St. Stephen of Hungary Altar and rosary
Scacchetti’s brings Experience and Taste to Canfield
Youngstown food with attitude
Scrap metal flattens tires on I-77
Associated Press CLEVELAND Scrap metal from an overturned tractor-trailer flattened dozens of
YEARS AGO FOR JULY 24
Today is Tuesday, July 24, the 205th day of 2019. There are 160 days left in the year. ASSOCIATED
SPORTS digest
Sprint, stock cars come to Sharon Speedway Hartford Saturday’s racing at Sharon Speedway will
METRO DIGEST || MetroParks parking lots closed
Britt set for hearing LIBERTY Mark D. Britt Jr. of Youngstown is scheduled for video arraignment
Blue Jays’ Justin Smoak singles to defeat Indians
Justin Smoak tied the game with a homer in the ninth inning and knocked in the winning run
Former Southern Park Sears Auto Repair Center to be razed
The demolition will be done in two phases.
Food sales and dinners through Aug. 31
THURSDAY Lord of Life Church, 550 N. Broad St., Canfield, will offer drive-through spaghetti
3.1M could lose food stamp benefits
Associated Press WASHINGTON About 3.1 million people would lose food stamp benefits under the
Doherty to appear in ‘Riverdale’ opener
Doherty to appear in ‘Riverdale’ opener NEW YORK Shannen Doherty will guest star in the season
Facility for youths will close; was open 1 month
Associated Press HOUSTON The U.S. government’s new holding facility for migrant youth will close
Johnson’s chaotic path to power pays off
Associated Press LONDON Boris Johnson aspires to be a modern-day Winston Churchill. Critics fear
Antitrust probe of big tech launched by Justice Department
Associated Press The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a sweeping antitrust investigation of
Second deadline in Aqua Ohio and Campbell water deal passes, deal expected soon
The deadline was July 23
MCJFB hosts meets, plans for Canfield Fair
MCJFB hosts meets, plans for Canfield Fair CANFIELD The Mahoning County Junior Fair Board
Co-defendant asks for separate trial in murder case
Video of the crime could be prejudicial toward a co-defendant.
Trump threatens Guatemala over asylum deal
Associated Press WASHINGTON President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened retribution against
AROUND THE NFL Tuesday’s news & notes
WASHINGTON REDSKINS LB Mason Foster let go on eve of camp RICHMOND, Va. The Washington
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