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100 years ago in 1924:
Warren housewives were preparing to attend The Tribune's Home Service School which opened on the third floor of the Electric block. Many inquiries were received relative to the school and the interest was great. The home service school was put on for four days by the Tribune to benefit the women of Warren and Trumbull County entirely at the cost of the Tribune with no expense to those who attended.
50 years ago in 1974:
Warren man, Robert Powell, owner of Audiax electronic shop on Hall NW had built an electric car designed for intra-city use. Using a Fiat body and only a 1 1/2 horsepower electric motor powered by three 12-volt batteries, the vehicle could travel almost 20 mph, about 40 mph without recharging its batteries. Recharge took about seven hours, however, he was working on a device to use the power of the motor to recharge the batteries, and along with a larger, 7.9 horsepower electric motor to be incorporated into the vehicle, Powell expected to propel the vehicle to around 40 mph, all the speed needed inside the city. The advantages of the vehicle -- it was practically silent, needed no transmission, speed was regulated by controlling the flow of power to the motor, had no exhaust system to rust out, emitted no pollution and used no gasoline.
25 years ago in 1999:
Warren City schools stood to reap hundreds of thousands of dollars from a first-time federal program to reimburse Ohio schools for the cost of medical and mental health testing. Under the Ohio Medicaid Outreach Program, ordered by Gov. Bob Taft, school districts were to receive quarterly reimbursements from Medicaid. The money would account for about 70% of the amount spent on testing that the schools were required to do, the city school board announced. The administration said some of the money was to be used to hire more full-time nurses. The program was expected to generate about $100 million for Ohio schools.
10 years ago in 2014:
On the heels of five confirmed earthquakes that hit the Mahoning Valley in 25 hours, a group studying seismic activity in the area claims the problem was greater than most realized. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded four earthquakes, the largest at 3.0 magnitude, tracked by USGS to directly below Lowellville's Carbon Limestone landfill, the site of oil and gas drilling. The other shocks ranged in magnitude from 2.2 to 2.6 and were clustered east and west of the initial epicenter. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources shut down all drilling "until further assessments" could take place. A fifth 2.1 magnitude tremor recorded just south of Lowellville halted oil and gas operations at the site.
Compiled from the archives of the Tribune Chronicle by Emily Earnhart.