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Youngstown parade, tree lighting Friday

Staff report A full slate of activities will lead up to downtown Youngstown’s tree lighting ceremony on Friday. OH WOW! The Roger & Gloria Jones Children’s Center for Science & Technology will have extended hours with free admission from 3 to 8 p.m. Santa’s Workshop will be set up on OH WOW’s third floor, and free photos with Santa Claus will be available from 3 to 5:15 p.m. A special Youngstown Flea on Phelps will feature local vendors at the Phelps Street Gateway starting at 4 p.m. The Public Library of Youngstown & Mahoning County will have a pop-up library ...

Tickets stub: Blippi tour booked for Powers

Blippi tour booked for Powers The Be Like Blippi Tour comes to Powers Auditorium in Youngstown at 6 p.m. March 4, 2026. The tour is based on the YouTube show for toddlers and preschoolers and is described as an energetic, educational and laughter-packed adventure with music and dancing. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster. An online-only presale runs 10 a.m. today to 10 p.m. Thursday with the password: ORANGE. Ventriloquist coming to Warren Ventriloquist and comedian Terry Fator performs at the Robins Theatre in Warren on March 1, 2026. Fator won season ...

Boone to light up Packard

Debby Boone had some great teachers available to her as a performer. She grew up watching her father, Pat Boone, and she did several tours with her mother-in-law, Rosemary Clooney. Performing with her father and sisters, Boone learned to be prepared and professional, to deal with the rigors of the road and still be warm and receptive to the people she met. She described listening to the simplicity of Clooney’s vocal phrasing as, “a master class and a gift to me that I will be eternally grateful for.” But those aren’t the only lessons that she’ll put to use when she brings ...

Locally shot ‘Brier Hill’ movie premieres tonight

Jimmy Taaffe takes audiences back to Youngstown in the 1970s with his movie “Brier Hill.” The movie started as a novel, also written by Taaffe, a Canfield native who now lives in Struthers. The idea came from his fascination with the Mahoning Valley’s organized crime history. “I always think to myself, it's amazing that a town with so few people was able to be so corrupt,” Taaffe said. “This isn’t New York or Chicago or Pittsburgh or Cleveland, it's Youngstown, yet somehow we managed to be such a corrupt city.” What makes “Brier Hill” unique is that the main ...

Gray Areas: Glass Harp’s Carnegie Hall gig released on vinyl

Fifty-four years ago this month, Youngstown natives Phil Keaggy, Daniel Pecchio and John Sferra were making music on one of the most prestigious concert stages in the world. Glass Harp fans traded bootleg recordings of that Nov. 21, 1971, Carnegie Hall concert for years. In 1997, the band gave the show its first official release on CD, and now those fans can spin the set on vinyl, the dominant format when it was recorded and the one that now generates the most physical sales in 2025. A mobile recording unit captured the performance by the power trio — Keaggy, guitar and vocals; ...

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Howland library hosts holiday event A holiday celebration is planned from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library Howland Branch, 9095 East Market St. Festivities include children’s crafts, performances by members of the Howland School District Chamber Choir (directed by Mark Semrau) and the arrival of Santa Claus at 7 p.m. Refreshments will be available courtesy of the Friends of the Howland Library. Admission is free. ‘End Is Nigh’ set for Darlene Lounge “The End is Nigh (And Yet, So Far)” will be the next offering in Kent State University ...