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99 years ago in 1920
Burglars entered three Warren homes through windows, stole money, diamond rings, watches, clothes and other items and made their getaway without being caught.
Entrance to one home on North Tod Avenue and to two West Franklin street homes was gained through back windows left unlocked when the families retired for the night.
Christ Cook, 327 North Tod, reported a thief had stolen a Burlington open face watch, size 16, from his home and a Swiss Ogden watch plus $25 cash.
The thieves who entered two Franklin street homes evidently worked together robbing the home of W.J. McConnell at 26 W. Franklin and then going across the street and burglarizing the residence of R.W. Keeber at 27 Franklin.
At McConnell's home the thieves got away with $19.72 in cash while at Keeber's home they made a bigger haul, taking a ladies' diamond ring valued at $100, a ladies' amethyst ring valued at $50 and a gold hunting case watch valued at $50. They also made away with a pair of gray trousers.
50 years ago in 1969
Dr. Joseph Swartz, dean of education at Youngstown State University, was to speak and members of the Boardman High School band were to perform at the 169th anniversary of the birth of educator William Holmes McGuffey to be held at the site of his boyhood home, the Laurie farm at 4405 McGuffey Road.
Sponsored by the William Holmes McGuffey Historical Society, the program was to begin with a band concert.
Also participating were Tom Rogers, president of the historical society; Ted Conner, WKBN; Dr. Fred Miller, senior minister of the First Presbyterian Church; Bob Fleming, well-known local educator and Mrs. James L. Fisher.
McGuffey spent most of his formative years at the site of the birthday observance. There Anna, his mother, taught William and his sister Jane "reading and ciphering." When she taught them all she knew, it was from the Coitsville farm that the children walked to school in Youngstown, which was conducted in a cabin just east of Central Square by the Rev. William Wick, a Presbyterian minister.
25 years ago in 1994
Sprint / United Telephone Co. customers in the Mahoning Valley were told they must dial the 216 area code even when making a long-distance call inside the home area code.
All telephone users would need to dial 0 or 1, the area code, then the seven-digit phone number.
Dialing an area code within an area opened up extra number sets for new customers, Sprint / United spokeswoman Chriss Harris said.
She said the growing use of fax machines, pagers, cellular phones and other telecommunications devices caused a rapid decline in the pool of available phone numbers.
Customers with programmable telephone services, such as call forwarding and speed dialing, would need to reprogram the affected numbers. The change was not to affect local calls.
Ameritech, serving part of Trumbull County and Mahoning County, previously announced to its customers that they would also have to dial 216 when making long-distance calls within the area code.
In another announcement, Sprint / United said it would offer a free service that would allow customers to get updated information about their bills and long distance calls over the phone.
10 years ago in 2009
The bulk of the discussion at a Howland Board of Education meeting saw parents working to interpret a rule that did not allow students to wear "outdoor" hoodies in class and also was being applied to lightweight hoodies on the back of shirts, which parents had previously thought were tucked into shirts.
The school board had said it would talk at length about how to enforce the ban and communicate what kids could and couldn't wear to school.
Annette Ciletti, the mother of a sixth-grader, brought some of her daughter's hoodies as visual aides. She and other parents and school board members talked about what kinds of hoodies were permissible, whether they could be altered and how the interpretation of the rule was ultimately subjective.
"I had no notification that this was being implemented until five days before school started. I can't afford to re-clothe my child," Ciletti said.
Superintendent Josh Sheets said the ban had been in effect for years and was meant to stop students from hiding cell phones, hiding faces from security cameras and hiding a set of headphones underneath the hood.
"We are trying to enforce a rule that is not black and white," Sheets had said about the issue.
-- Compiled from the Archives of the Tribune Chronicle by Emily Earnhart