POLAND — For an athlete, it’s not all about the wins and losses. Sure, you want to win, but a lot of the drive is to test yourself. To feel the adrenaline of athletic competition. When that ability to compete is taken away from an athlete, it can be devastating. Girard’s senior Nic Bengala has […]
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YOUNGSTOWN — An East Cleveland man went on several profanity-laced tirades during sentencing Monday, which saw him get 26 to 31 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to raping a female Mahoning County corrections officer in 2022. At the time of the attack, on May 5, 2022, Rondell Harris, 34, was being held in […]
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BOARDMAN —Johanna Morrison, of Boardman, passed away peacefully on Friday, April 28, 2023, with her daughter at her bedside. She was 66. Johanna was born Dec. 8, 1956, in Youngstown, the daughter of John and Catherine Nagy Wayne. She was a loving homemaker. Johanna was very creative and enjoyed painting, drawing, and coloring. She also […]
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YOUNGSTOWN — During its heyday, the McGuffey Plaza was a thriving indoor shopping center on the city’s East Side. But the shopping center, built in 1954, fell on hard times. It lost tenants until it was vacant and deteriorating by 2007. It was demolished in 2014. The Western Reserve Port Authority purchased the property last […]
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Ohio lawmakers are a step closer to beginning an important process after a provision that could lay to rest thousands of Native American remains passed the House of Representatives. In fact, according to The Associated Press, Ohio History Connection has more than 7,100 remains and funerary objects in its possession that should have been returned […]
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YOUNGSTOWN — In what could be seen as the next level of the uneasy relationship between Youngstown Mayor Jamael Tito Brown and Clerk of Courts Sarah Brown-Clark, city Law Director Jeff Limbian filed to run for the clerk of courts’ job against the incumbent’s handpicked successor. Limbian, who is one of Brown’s closest friends, filed […]
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POLAND — Some athletes concentrate on just one sport in order to hone in on the skills necessary to excel at that sport. Other talented athletes seamlessly transition from one sport to another with a high level of success. Salem junior Rylee Hutton is the latter as she has enjoyed success in all three sports […]
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TORONTO (AP) — Gordon Lightfoot, Canada’s legendary folk singer-songwriter whose hits include “Early Morning Rain” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” has died at age 84. Family representative Victoria Lord said the musician died at a Toronto hospital early Monday. His cause of death was not immediately available. The Orillia, Ontario native rose to […]
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VINCENT ARQUILLA JR., 89, Poland. CALLING HOURS: 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, Rossi Brothers and Lellio Funeral Home, Boardman. VIRIGINIA BENEDETTO-BOLDT, 88, Austintown. SERVICES: 11 a.m. Monday, Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Austintown. DAVID W. COFFEY, 70, Youngstown. SERVICES: 4 p.m. Monday, Burton Quinn-Scott Funeral Home, Downtown, Erie, Pa. CALLING HOURS: 2 to 4 p.m. […]
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YOUNGSTOWN — Daniel T. “Dan” Rydzak, 73, of Cortland, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital. Dan was born on Jan. 27, 1950, in Flint, Mich., a son of Anthony Thomas and Kathrine Kocsis Rydzak. Dan was a 1968 graduate of Northwestern High School in Flint, Mich. At age […]
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