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100 years ago in 1924:
A large number of students entered the elimination contest to decide on the team which would go to Columbus to enter the State Memory Music Contest. In the city and exempted village contests, the team from North Avenue School in Girard won the distinction of having the perfect score. This team was to go to Columbus to represent this class for Trumbull County. The team from Dickey Avenue School in Warren claimed second place. In running off the eliminations for the enlarged teams in the elementary class a tie existed between two students with a score of 50 points. The county elementary contest was won by Johnston School and the Johnston high school team also showed a perfect score thereby winning the high and elementary grades. The Johnston school was to represent the county in the contest.
50 years ago in 1974:
Initial work on Niles city footbridges, in the talking stages and planning stage for the past year and a half, was to get started in the next week. City Engineer Edwin Campbell reported city crews were expected to begin clearing land for a 180-foot long bridge across Mosquito Creek in Kennedy Park next week. The first of the month City Council gave approval to advertise for construction bids on the bridge and also a bridge near the high school ball field. The bridge construction would represent in part city cost share to match the $109,000 grant approved by HUD for the open space program here. The idea to renew the bid for the footbridge building came in October 1972, when the city received for free four 100 foot beams from the U.S. Route 422 bridge reconstruction project. Mayor William Thorp at that time asked council for its preference on bridges and they chose a foot instead of a car bridge.
25 years ago in 1999:
What was missing from Gov. Bob Taft's State of the State address worried superintendents -- Taft promised more money than ever for education but area superintendents said his big mistake was not addressing the recent court decision that Ohio's school funding system was still unconstitutional. Superintendents said they had learned not to count on the money lawmakers promised them, so they were hesitant to applaud Taft for his promises of increased spending on schools."It sounds great but it goes back to the Jerry McGuire movie -- show me the money, Governor," Howland Superintendent Rich Baringer said. Taft said 50 cents of every dollar of new state spending was to go to schools, and the entire budget surplus of $400 million was to be spent on school buildings and technology. Lakeview Superintendent Matthew Chojnacki said the governor was moving in the right direction, but he remained skeptical, "The last governor also wanted to be the education governor, but he probably did more to destroy education in this state than any other individual."
Compiled from the archives of the Tribune Chronicle by Emily Earnhart.