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City considers sewage rate hike

WARREN — City leaders discussed plans Wednesday to raise sewer rates to fix aging wastewater systems and meet federal guidelines. The Water and Water Pollution Control Committee met with experts from the engineering firm AECOM. They explained why rates need to go up and how much more ...

Braceville committee to review options for cabin

By BOB COUPLAND Staff writer BRACEVILLE — A group made up of local officials and members of the historical society is being considered for formation to review options for a historic log cabin located off Nelson Mosier Road. Terry Shavers, with the Braceville African American Heritage ...

Trumbull County grand jury indicts 30

WARREN — A Trumbull County grand jury returned 30 indictments Wednesday, three of which were secret or sealed, and two that were sent back to lower courts because the charges are misdemeanors. The cases will go before a Trumbull County Common Pleas judge over the coming weeks: • ...

Man killed in Austintown apartment explosion ID’d

AUSTINTOWN — Steven D. Smith is the lone fatality in the Nov. 22 Phoenix House explosion. Records from the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office show that the 63-year-old man died Tuesday at Cleveland MetroHealth Hospital. He was flown there from St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital on ...

Newton Falls native earns nursing awar

Newton Falls native Jeanne Bryner recently received the Daniel J. Pesut Spirit of Renewal Award from Sigma, the International Nurse Honor Society, at Sigma’s biannual convention in Indianapolis. She earned a diploma degree in 1979 at Trumbull Memorial Hospital School of Nursing and a ...

YSU gets new scholarship

J.D. Williamson II, former president and CEO of WKBN, has made a $100,000 gift to the Youngstown State University Foundation to establish a scholarship in memory of Doris Saloom for her dedicated service to WKBN and the Williamson family. The Doris Saloom Memorial Scholarship will be annually ...