YOUNGSTOWN — During a quiet ceremony Tuesday afternoon, a mezuzah was placed at the entrance of the newly renovated Schwartz Judaic and Holocaust Resource Center inside the Jewish Community Center (JCC). A mezuzah is a handwritten scroll on parchment paper, called a Klaf, that contains ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Lindsey Graham, the son of pool hall owners who rose to become one of his generation’s more influential U.S. politicians at home and abroad, was eulogized Tuesday as “a true American original” during memorial services in Washington. Graham’s flag-draped ...
WARREN — Trumbull County Commissioners are expected to review the general fund budgets of all the county departments next week to determine what will be needed for the departments to complete the year based on 2026 budgets assigned to them at the end of 2025. The commissioners at their weekly workshop Tuesday received an overview of 2026 budget requests from 30 county departments that added up to $82,084,057.38. When making this year’s budget, the commissioners had a projected general fund budget of $67,038,260 to provide the departments. Sixteen departments made just over ...
• WARREN BOARD OF CONTROL will meet at 9:30 a.m. today at the city law department. • BRISTOL TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES will have a workshop at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the township hall. • LIBERTY TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES will have a special meeting at 8:15 a.m. Thursday at the township administration building to accept resignation of a police officer, promote an officer to sergeant and hire a probationary police officer. • WARREN TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES will have a special meeting at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the township administration building to engage in contract negotiations with OPBA and discuss ...
NILES — Ann Marie Thigpen’s administrative career has kept her in one place for the past decade, and she’ll be able to continue that thanks to a series of moves Tuesday night. The Niles City Schools Board of Education approved Thigpen’s retirement-resignation as the district’s superintendent, effective Saturday, then approved her employment to the same position in a five-year, 240-day contract, effective Aug. 4 through July 31, 2031, per the terms and conditions of the employment contract. Thigpen’s base salary will be maintained at its 2025-26 rate for the contract’s ...
LIBRARY PICNIC: The Friends of the McKinley Memorial Library will host a community picnic at 5:30 p.m. Thursday on the lawn of the McKinley Memorial Library in downtown Niles. Cin City and the Saints will perform classic rock, motown and oldies music at 6:30 p.m. The event will include food and a basket raffle. EASTERSEALS OPEN HOUSE: Easterseals of Northeast Ohio, 200 Edwards St., Youngstown, will have an open house from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today. The public will have the opportunity to see client artwork, meet the staff, visit program tables and have a chance to win raffle prizes. For ...
