NILES — A multimillion dollar restoration project is under consideration for Eastwood Field with dollars being sought through the state capital budget for support. The stadium, which broke ground in 1998, is owned by the city and leased to the Cafaro Co. for $1 a year under a 200-year ...
NILES — When interior work is completed this spring on a two-story home on Cedar Street, The Avenue and Main Inc. will have finished the first of four planned home renovations and upgrades in the city as part of Project HOPE (Home Ownership Provides Everyone HOPE). Jeff Crowley, a member of The Avenue and Main, said a goal of the group is to renovate a house in each of the city’s four wards. The house at 205 Cedar St. is in the third ward. Project HOPE has received funding to transform blighted homes into the city for families to live in. The organization received $58,500 to ...
The time has come again for the Tribune Chronicle and Trumbull 100 to pay tribute to the very best examples of community service and the people who perform those outstanding acts. Now in its 17th year, the Community Stars program celebrates volunteers who go above and beyond to make a significant impact in the lives of others. Previous honorees include a local teen who repaired and gave away bicycles to local kids at Christmas, a breast cancer survivor who began a nonprofit to raise money to help cancer patients cover medical expenses, a woman who started an organization that would ...
NILES — People most likely have seen him running somewhere in the area during the past 20 years because he hasn’t missed a day. Bo Marchionte, 45, who lives in Niles, where he also works as a wastewater operator, started running on Jan. 4, 1998, after he and his wife, Wendy, traded barbs over who could run the longest and farthest. Well, Bo proved his point, and as a result the city declared Jan. 4, 2018, as “Bo Marchionte Day” and issued him a proclamation during a City Council meeting on Jan. 3. “He’s as respectable of a husband and father as he is a runner,” Wendy ...
NILES — The shuttered Gander Mountain store will reopen this spring as Gander Outdoors, according to an announcement made Jan. 3 by the company’s CEO, Marcus Lemonis, who also serves as CEO of Camping World Holdings, Inc. Lemonis posted a video to social media in which he named nearly 70 store locations that will re-open. The Niles Gander Mountain closed in June and held liquidation sales into August, according to Joe Bell, director of corporate communications for the Cafaro Company, which owns the building the sporting goods store occupied for about a year. In the video, Lemonis ...
Police activity reported Dec. 19- Jan. 3: Jan. 2, 9:57 p.m. — A man, 43, reportedly hurt his foot kicking shelves during a fight with his girlfriend at 631 1/2 Fenton St. 7:09 p.m. — Welfare check at 729 Mason St. 6:49 p.m. — Welfare check at Marc’s, 6024 Youngstown Warren Road. 5:27 p.m. — A resident found a cat frozen to a porch at 1405 McKinley Ave. 4:43 p.m. — Footprints reported in the snow around a house at 459 Bonnie Brae Ave. 4:22 p.m. — Hit / skip accident reported at 5555 Youngstown Warren Road. 3:08 p.m. — Report of a woman assaulting her teenage ...
