YOUNGSTOWN — President Donald Trump celebrated his 80th birthday Sunday with an Ultimate Fighting Championship cage fight event that included boxing on the White House’s South Lawn. Even without the $60 million spectacle, however, Trump and others in his administration are continuing to ...
A $1.7 million no-bid contract awarded to a company owned by J.J. Cafaro to install a water-purification system for the iconic Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is the source of controversy, but the businessman said he isn’t surprised. Cafaro, a close friend of and political donor to ...
CHAMPION — The Ohio Department of Transportation awarded $500,000 toward the replacement of a bridge that leads to the $30 million Mercy Health-Champion Emergency Center under construction. Trumbull County Commissioner Rick Hernandez said: “This is absolutely beneficial. This project will definitely enhance that area with the emergency center. We hope that once Mercy is up and running with the emergency center that they build a hospital there in the future. The ultimate goal is to have Mercy take the area they have there and build a hospital.” The $500,000 is critical to the ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Ask Ronald Shaklee what it feels like to receive a prestigious award, and he will be quick to defer the credit beyond himself. “You work for excellence,” Shaklee, Youngstown State University emeritus professor of geography, said. Shaklee, who joined the university in ...
McDONALD — Members of the village administration traveled recently to New Albany to meet with officials there regarding the data centers located in the community near Columbus. Mayor Ray Lewis, Village Councilman Brian Bosheff and Tom Colarich, a member of the board of zoning appeals, visited New Albany and shared the information they learned about data centers at Wednesday’s council meeting. The three went as part of the Lake to River Economic Development, which had a group from Ashtabula, Trumbull, Mahoning and Columbiana counties traveling to gain information on data centers. ...
GIRARD — This summer’s reading theme at Trumbull County libraries is “Unearth a Story.” So it was appropriate to have Matt O’Mansky, Ph.D., Youngstown State University associate professor and program coordinator for the anthropology and sociology department, discuss archaeological ...
