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Amazon a long shot for the Valley

The Regional Chamber, in partnership with Trumbull and Mahoning county commissioners and the mayors of Youngstown and Warren, submitted Enterprise Park to Amazon for consideration


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Valley man launches social network for those dealing with addiction

‘Heroes of Heroin’ gives people struggling with addiction a safe place to share.


Should health agencies in the Mahoning Valley give needles to addicts?

Public health officials from other communities tout needle exchange benefits.


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East Side church raising funds for bell tower renovation project

St. Angela Merici Church members are seeking donations for a bell tower and bell preservation project.


Owner said Braking Point would treat Medicaid clients for free if permitted

Braking Point Recovery Center owner Ryan Sheridan responded to notification of suspension of Medicaid payments for alleged fraud, saying that “such incidents were unknowing and inadvertent.”


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Woman at center of feud that led to deaths in Hamad case expected to testify

As the facts begin to emerge from the witness stand Monday in the Nasser Hamad aggravated-murder trial, jurors will focus their attention on what Hamad did Feb. 25 to get himself charged with shooting to death two young men and injuring three other people.


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‘Hammering it into their minds’

Children at OH WOW! The Roger & Gloria Jones Children’s Center for Science & Technology learned a little about hammers, nails and woodworking skills.


Legislators want Austintown bridge renamed to honor female veterans

State Reps. John Boccieri of Poland, D-59th, and Michele Lepore-Hagan of Youngstown, D-58th, last week announced the introduction of a bill to officially designate the bridge on Mahoning Avenue spanning state Route 11 in Austintown the Women Veterans Bridge.


METRO DIGEST || Bird seed for sale

Bird seed for sale YOUNGSTOWN The Mahoning Soil and Water Conservation District, 850 Industrial


METRO DIGEST || TCBDD adult transportation

TCBDD privatizing adult transportation NILES Because of state and federal mandates, the Trumbull


Agenda Monday

Agenda Monday Austintown Township trustees, noon, town hall, 82 Ohltown Road. Boardman Township


Windsor House cares for ‘the least of these’

Words in the Bible struck the late John Masternick Sr. to the point that he had to do something to change the care offered to the sick and elderly.


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‘Breaking Boundaries’ HOWLAND The Youngstown Business Incubator’s Women in Entrepreneurship


Christie hosts event for short story writers

Celebrate short fiction salem Nancy Christie, author of “Traveling Left of Center and Other