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Surveying the damage

LIBERTY — Ziba and Christina Watson of Youngstown-Hubbard Road lost about 10 trees in Tuesday night’s tornado, with two of them across their driveway. The National Weather Service asked them not to move or clean up the damage until after the agency viewed their property Wednesday to ...

Valley records 2 tornadoes in same month

Little more than two weeks since a tornado damaged homes in Canfield and straight-line winds battered Boardman, another twister touched down in the Mahoning Valley. On Tuesday evening, a tornado landed near the county line between Youngstown and Hubbard Township. Authorities have reported no ...

Commissioners approve reappropriating TNP funds

WARREN — The Trumbull County Commissioners on Wednesday approved moving $325,000 from Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership’s demolition funds to its Emergency Home Repair program. TNP received $1 million from Trumbull County’s allocation of American Rescue Plan funds for its emergency home repair program and another $2 million in ARP funds for demolition and brownfield remediation in conjunction with the Trumbull County Land Bank. TNP Executive Director Matt Martin during the commissioners workshop on Tuesday told them his organization in December requested $900,000 be moved from ...

Warren council tables data center ban

WARREN — City Council on Wednesday unanimously tabled legislation introduced by Councilwoman Helen Rucker, D-at Large, that would have permanently banned new data centers within city limits. The measure would prohibit the granting or issuing of any new permits for data centers inside Warren’s corporate boundaries. Council members voted to table it Wednesday after discussions in caucus ahead of the regular meeting to have meetings during the August break before reconvening when council is back in session. “It’s important to me that we know more about data centers. ... The ...

EPA rejects blanket permit for data centers

Citing public opposition, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency rejected a request for a blanket permit for data centers to discharge wastewater and decided to consider each project individually. In a Tuesday ruling, the state EPA wrote: “After carefully reviewing the significant volume of public comments received on the draft National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System general permit for data centers, Ohio EPA has decided not to move forward with finalizing the general permit” that would have allowed data centers to dump wastewater into the state’s waterways. The EPA ...