YOUNGSTOWN — Dante Bernard didn’t exactly follow the precise pattern in Big Joe Turner’s 1954 hit blues song “Shake, Rattle and Roll,” but he was content to do quite a bit of at least one of those. “It’s not too much of an exact science. It’s just a nice foundation,” ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a weekly series on our region’s history coordinated by the Trumbull County Historical Society. In this 1920s interview excerpt, Miss Elizabeth Iddings, granddaughter of Thomas Denny Webb, recalls the magnificent flower garden that once surrounded the old Edwards home: “There were about one hundred different kinds of flowers in the yard of this old home, all the old-fashioned kinds and lots that we still see each summer. Miss Iddings at one time could recall all the 100 kinds, but many of them have gone from her memory now, and she can remember at ...
WARREN — Fire department crews on Friday helped rescue a man stuck in a ravine along the Mahoning River below the Summit Street dam. Reports state crews conducted a water rescue by putting a boat into the Mahoning River to get to the man who is believed to have fallen down an embankment into the water. The man was on land by the water and was able to be reached and taken on a raft across the water and then placed into an ambulance and transported to the hospital, a fire report states. A spokesman at the fire department did not have further details on the man’s condition or identity.
The Ohio Department of Transportation has announced new road adjustments related to the Interstate 80 resurfacing project in Austintown and Jackson townships. Starting Sunday, the ramp from Interstate 80 west to state Route 11 south will be closed through July 29. The detour will be I-80 west to state Route 46 to I-80 east to Route 11 south. Starting July 27, I-80 westbound between Salt Springs Road and Route 46 will be reduced to one lane. Starting July 29, the ramp from I-80 west to Route 46 will be closed through Aug. 1. The detour will be I-80 westbound to I-76 westbound to ...
BAZETTA — Lily Welton, 13, said she initially got into 4-H because her parents decided it would be a good experience, but she considers 2026 to be her favorite year in the program thus far. “I’ve had three years total — this has been the most calming, most hot, but least stressful ...
U.S. Reps. Dave Joyce and Michael Rulli, the two Republicans who represent the Mahoning Valley, have significantly more money in their campaign accounts than their Democratic challengers. After contested primaries for the Democratic and Republican nominations in both districts, Joyce, R-Bainbridge, had $3,121,594 in his campaign fund as of June 30 while Rulli, R-Salem, had $284,711. In comparison, Maria Jukic of Euclid, who won the Democratic primary in the 14th Congressional District to face Joyce in the Nov. 3 election, had $33,692 in her campaign fund while Elizabeth Kirtley of ...
