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100 years ago in 1924:
The city of Warren was having a building boom as figures on permits issued by City Building inspector Charles K. Harris made public proved.
In the month of April, $284,000 in construction was authorized in permits. In that total, 40 permits were for new dwellings, an average of three every two working days in the month. The valuation on building permits issued was $120,000 which represented from $0 to $5 per cent of actual cost. Four permits were issued for business structures at a total valuation of $96,200 and 120 permits for garages and minor additions and repairs at a valuation totaling $38,110. In April of 1923, only 19 permits were issued. The month of April in 1924 therefore showed twice as many homes started. The total for April 1923 was $120,310. That building costs were less, it was indicated, though not proven, by figures showing that in April 1923, 19 dwelling permits totaled $71,100 and in April 1924, 40 dwelling permits totaled $130,100, about $12,000 less than the total would be if costs averaged the same.
50 years ago in 1974:
The Mahoning Chapter Royal Arch Masons celebrated 150 years of the fraternal order. The chapter was chartered in 1824 only 25 years after the settlement of Warren which was marking its 175-year anniversary this year (1974). York Rite Masonry was one of the two branches of Freemasonry in which a Master Mason, having completed the three degrees of Blue Lodge Masonry, progressed. The other was the Scottish Rite. Royal Arch Masons of the York Rite of the local lodge are holding an anniversary banquet at Avalon Inn. Cecil W. Bray, grand high priest of Royal Arch Masons of Ohio was to be a special guest and address members of the Mahoning Chapter, Master Masons, visiting chapter members and their guests. Chapter members were holding a dedication ceremony at the Masonic Temple within the week.
25 years ago in 1999:
A 12-year-old Housel Craft Road girl was undergoing treatment for rabies after being bitten by what might have been the first rabid chipmunk ever recorded in Ohio, a health department official said. Trumbull County Health Department Rabies Information Consultant Dawn Thomay called the incident "Extremely rare" because smaller animals like chipmunks, squirrels and rats typically do not carry rabies. Smaller, more defenseless animals usually don't survive an attack by a larger rabid animal, she said.
Thomay said the girl was infected after she picked up the hurt chipmunk and it bit her on the finger. Her father struck the animal in the head with a shovel. Tests indicated the animal appeared to have rabies.
Tissue samples were sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta for further analysis. The girl received a series of six injections to protect her from the disease. The Health Department was dropping pellets containing rabies vaccinations from aircraft in an attempt to curtail the disease.
10 years ago in 2014:
Less than stellar drilling results in northeast Ohio and opportunities elsewhere were two of the reasons cited by BP about its plans to sell off the 85,000 acres of mineral rights it held in Trumbull County and pull out of the Utica Shale. BP's announcement, anticipated for some time by those related to the industry, came as part of the company's first-quarter earnings report to investors. The company was to begin marketing the mineral rights it spent more than $300 million to lease in 2012. Promises of royalties upward of 18 percent on the national gas and oil minerals retrieved from the Utica Shale formation, however, had fallen by the wayside.
BP Has drilled six experimental wells in northern Trumbull County within the last year, and four were producing. Ohio's quarterly results, released by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, indicated poor results. The company was the second horizontal drilling operator to pull out of Trumbull County. Halcon Resources, which had three Utica Shale wells producing in Trumbull County, also announced the month prior it was pulling out with no immediate plans to return.