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‘Right under our noses and nobody was able to help them’

HAMDEN (AP) — Just days after authorities removed 16 children from a squalid home and arrested four adult relatives, the question looms over their southern Ohio village: How could this have happened, for years, unnoticed, right here? Neighbors of the family in tiny Hamden, employees at ...

Phantoms’ Logan Anderson: ‘It’s my time to shine’

Following his rookie campaign, Youngstown Phantoms forward Logan Anderson is excited to be back for year two. The team’s 2025 tender signing recorded 17 points (5 goals, 12 assists) in 59 appearances with the Phantoms last year while bringing a physical element to the team’s bottom six. ...

Girard brings back teacher who was laid off

GIRARD — The Girard City Schools Board of Education this week approved bringing back an intervention specialist whose job was among three positions that the board cut at its May meeting. The board on Tuesday rescinded its previous motion from May and approved Maria Jarvis as an intervention specialist for the 2026-27 school year. The board also approved transferring Grace Swertfager from intervention specialist to ED/MD intervention specialist for the upcoming school year. In May, board members, citing financial issues facing the district, voted 3-2 to cut three teaching ...

Water board discusses $3.2M maintenance plan

VIENNA — A proposed $3.2 million maintenance plan to bring the county’s seven water tanks up to code cannot be proposed to the Trumbull County Commissioners until a quorum is present. The 12-person Water Advisory Panel hosted a recent meeting at the Trumbull County Sanitary Engineer’s Office. The panel is only able to bring recommendations before the county commissioners for their approval, but it couldn’t vote to bring any before them at the meeting because not enough representatives were present to have a quorum. Sanitary Engineer Gary Newbrough said Bob Maiorano, the ...

Wollitz: Catching smallies remains an ‘unforgettable’ delight

It is noteworthy that my favorite fish these days is one I had never caught until I had already logged more than a dozen species on my catch list. Toward twilight on a long, hot early July day, I tossed a tiny Roostertail spinner toward the head of a long run on a wide creek, engaged the reel and retrieved the lure a few feet before it came to a dead stop. I gave the instinctive jerk and was rewarded with a showery leap of a fish silhouetted against the sun setting toward the hills. I was no stranger to fishing that day. I’d been an angler since I was a youngster, enjoying family ...