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Niles Community Services has new leader

NILES — Abigail Roberts has taken the helm as director of Niles Community Services and is working with former director Jean Williams, who served 40 years for NCS. The agency, located in Niles, serves residents of Niles, McDonald, Mineral Ridge and Weathersfield and the families of children ...

Champion man helped keep USAF planes flying

EDITOR’S NOTE: To suggest a veteran for this series, which runs weekly through Veterans Day, email Metro Editor Marly Reichert at mreichert@tribtoday.com or call her at 330-841-1737. CHAMPION — Terry Austin wanted to serve his country in the military after his 1963 Maplewood High School ...

Property tax legislation presentations planned

Staff report WARREN — The Warren-Trumbull County Public Library is partnering with the Trumbull County Auditor’s office for a series of educational presentations about recent property tax legislation passed by the Ohio General Assembly. Trumbull County Auditor Martha Yoder will lead the sessions to help residents better understand five key pieces of legislation: • House Bill 96 — Enhanced owner occupancy and homestead exemption. • House Bill 186 — Inflation cap on the 20-mill floor for school districts. • House Bill 335 — Inflation cap on inside mills. • ...

Child rapist denied parole

WARREN — A Trumbull County sex offender serving a 10-years-to-life sentence for the 1996 rape of a female juvenile has lost his bid for parole. Jenna Maze, coordinator of the Trumbull County Prosecutor’s Victim/Witness Advocacy Office, learned that the state’s Adult Parole Authority late last month denied freedom for Ronald Harris, 61, who is incarcerated at Marion Correctional Institution. Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins applauded the work of his office’s Child Assault Prosecution Unit headed by Gabe Wildman, which is in its 40th year of operation. He also ...

From Vienna to Fort Lauderdale

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a weekly series on our region’s history coordinated by the Trumbull County Historical Society. Frank Stranahan was born on Aug. 21, 1865, in Vienna to Rev. Robert Stranahan and Sarah McFadden. After briefly working in a steel mill in nearby Youngstown, ...