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Weathersfield Trustees to install protocols

WEATHERFIELD — The township has joined other communities in placing a 12-month moratorium on fiber optic installation along township roads. Trustee Ed Whittaker said at the August meeting there is nothing against any specific company that has done the installation work in the township. However, there is a concern about the way the fiber optics have been installed. “We want to make sure protocols are in place and are being followed,” Whitaker said. Trustees this week passed legislation under emergency measures that impose the 12-month moratorium on the installation of underground ...

Missing Vienna teenager found

VIENNA — A search for a teenager missing for days has concluded with him being safely found. According to township police Chief Dan Adkins, first responders found Landyn Zagorski, 17. He was last seen Sunday in an RV on an adjacent property approximately 100 yards behind his home. Regarding an early morning barn fire that the fire department responded to, Adkins said it happened at the rear of the residence, too. “Some cardboard was set on fire in there — it looks like that’s where he’d been staying the last few days,” Adkins said. “So the fire department came, we ...

Valley Medicaid provider indicted on fraud charges

A Youngstown woman and a person who operates a business in Austintown are among those indicted this week by a Franklin County grand jury for allegedly stealing a combined $558,383 from Medicaid, the government healthcare program for the needy. “Fraud against Medicaid is fraud against Ohio taxpayers,” Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson stated in a news release. His office filed the charges. “We will continue to investigate suspicious billing behavior and hold offenders accountable.” Yvette Johnson‑Woodall, 58, of Youngstown, faces charges after allegedly defrauding Medicaid of ...

Suspect dead in Howland standoff

A standoff between law enforcement and a fugitive concluded Wednesday with the man committing suicide. According to an email from the U.S. Marshals Northern District of Ohio office, the agency’s violent fugitive task force received information that the man who has been on the run since 2022 was hiding in a house in the 3900 block of Highlawn Avenue SW, Howland. The subject was noted to have an extensive violent criminal history and was wanted by the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office on charges of attempted murder, felonious assault and aggravated burglary. The representative ...

Penguin Kickoff offers taste of YSU Steubenville

STEUBENVILLE — Having access to classes at Youngstown State University Steubenville is important to students from the tri-state area. That includes Hayden Martin of Steubenville. A senior at YSU, Martin said being able to finish her education in her community is important. ...

Niles, Howland get state school sidewalk grants

The state awarded $500,000 to Niles and $77,000 to Howland for sidewalk work as part of a program to make it safer and easier for students to get to schools. The two Trumbull County communities were among 17 that received a total of about $8.8 million from this year’s Ohio Department of Transportation’s Safe Routes to School program. The funding was announced Thursday. The grant for Niles is to upgrade and install sidewalks, crosswalks and traffic signals by the middle school. It will be done in 2029. The Howland grant is to construct 5,931 linear feet of sidewalks along the ...