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Youngstown Blues Festival
A Blues Festival was held at the Covelli Center in Youngstown. Local Blues promoter Cornel Bogdan says people in Youngstown support the blues.
Peregrine Falcon Chicks Banded
Three Peregrine Falcon chicks from a nest outside a fourth floor window of the Mahoning County Courthouse were banded today. Courthouse workers named the chicks Jurist, Magistrate and Marshall.
Potato Cannon
Potatoes were fired from a cannon as part of YSU's Summer Honors Institute for high school students.
Junior Golf Kelly Fleming
Greatest Junior Player? The Greatest Golfer of the Valley tournament sponsored by Farmers National Bank and The Vindicator adds the “Greatest Junior Golfer in the Valley” in 2011. All players will get to compete for part of $5,000 in scholarships provided by PowerBilt Golf and Golf Headquarters in Boardman and Niles. The Greatest will be crowned on July 31 at Trumbull Country Club. But to get a chance at the Greatest and the scholarships, players must enter one of the qualifiers:
Jr. Golf in the Valley
Greatest Junior Player? The Greatest Golfer of the Valley tournament sponsored by Farmers National Bank and The Vindicator adds the “Greatest Junior Golfer in the Valley” in 2011. All players will get to compete for part of $5,000 in scholarships provided by PowerBilt Golf and Golf Headquarters in Boardman and Niles. The Greatest will be crowned on July 31 at Trumbull Country Club. But to get a chance at the Greatest and the scholarships, players must enter one of the qualifiers:
Ed Port
Ed Port of Austintown who suffers from a rare condition called type 2 neurofibromatosis will undergo a series of corrective surgeries.
Gladys Melnick Church Organist
Gladys Melnick has been the organist at Good Hope Lutheran Church in Boardman, OH for 50 years.
Six Dead in Warren Fire
WARREN — A family of four plus two children spending the night died in an early-morning house fire on Landsdowne Avenue Northwest today. Firefighters don’t know yet what caused the fire or where it started but believe it had been burning quite a while before a neighbor became aware of it and called 911. Firefighters performed CPR on several of the victims, but it’s possible all six were dead when they were removed from the Cape Cod-style house. The four children were found in the attic, where the fire caused the majority of its damage, while the two adults were found on the first floor.
Dogs Sweep Mahoning County Jail
For a brief time this week cells usually reserved for prisoners in the Mahoning County jail went to the dogs — highly trained and specialized dogs. K-9 officers and their prospective handlers from Mahoning County Sheriff’s Department, Youngstown, Boardman, Liberty, Canfield, McDonald and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification converged on the county jail with nose to the ground in search of illegal drugs and other contraband inside the facility.
Scrappers 2011
The Mahoning Valley Scrappers are back in town for the 2011 season. Catcher Moises Montero grew up playing baseball in the Dominican Republic.
Micro Cars : Mini Wonders
An exhibit at the National Packard Museum in Warren, Ohio shows that the quest for fuel efficient cars is not just a present day endeavor.
Unique Moore
Unique Moore was remembered during Mill Creek Children's Center's graduation Friday in Youngstown. The 5-year-old drowned June 6 in a swimming accident.
Police seek ID of woman caught on camera
Poland village police are asking for the public’s help to identify a woman who racked up more than $250 of fraudulent charges in two hours last week. A 25-year-old woman told police her debit card was taken at Gas and Food Mart on North Main Street, near Walgreens, around 8:45 a.m. June 1. Police said security video footage from several Boardman stores shows a woman using the stolen card. Here she charged $106.75 at the Perfume Collection. She is described as being about 5-foot-4-inches, 130 pounds with long brown hair and a tattoo on her right ankle. She was driving a silver four-door Chevrolet Impala with a sunroof. Anyone with information about the case should call 330-757-2717.
