No one knows better than residents of this Mahoning Valley about picking ourselves up after being knocked down.
We all remember that dark day, Sept. 19, 1977, when thousands of steelworkers lost their jobs with the shuttering of Youngstown Sheet & Tube’s Campbell Works, following by a domino effect of other area steel mills.
Our region survived and rebuilt, ultimately turning our manufacturing focus to automaking.
Another big blow came with the 2005 loss of nearly 5,000 Warren-based Delphi Packard Electric hourly and salaried jobs after the nation’s largest auto parts supplier declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Then, General Motors, which just a few years ago employed more than 4,500 workers here, eliminated shifts and eventually announced it would close its local complex in March 2019 after sales of the Chevrolet Cruze declined and the Detroit automaker determined the future of the industry no longer was in small cars but in larger vehicles like trucks and SUVs and in elec
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William Gambino, foreground, is charged with felonious assault, aggravated robbery and having weapons under restrictions. Gambino is on trial for the Oct. 7, 2020, shooting of William Blake at a Youngstown Kingsville Road address in Fowler. He is with his attorney, Michael Partlow.
WARREN As the trial of an Eastlake man got underway in Trumbull County Common Pleas court, a Fowler man shot Oct. 7, 2020, in the driveway of his home testified Monday about his thoughts after being hit.
“I knew for a fact I was gonna die,” gunshot victim William Blake told a jury. “I had lost a lot of blood.”
YOUNGSTOWN Damon L. Irby Sr., 44, will remain in the Mahoning County jail as he awaits action by a federal grand jury on allegations that he threatened to take revenge on those responsible for killing his son March 5 on Market Street.
During a hearing Monday in U.S. District Court, Magistrate Judge Carmen Henderson ruled that Irby Sr., 44, must remain in federal custody because “by clear and convincing evidence that no condition or combination of conditions of release will reasonably assure the safety of any other person and the community.”
The ruling stated that Irby Sr. has a prior criminal history, has participated in criminal activity while on probation, parole or supervision, has a “history of violence or use of weapons,” and the weight of evidence against him is “strong.”
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A permanent COVID-19 memorial will be erected at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, in observance of the global pandemic and representing a tribute to the loved ones lost. A central element of the memorial will a be a bronze sculpture by Timothy Schmalz, a world-renowned artist. The sculpture, titled âWhen I Was Sick,â is part of a series by Schmalz.
YOUNGSTOWN St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital will be home later this year to a large memorial to remember and honor those directly affected by the novel coronavirus pandemic.
This Mercy Health memorial “is a testament to the continued generosity rooted in those living in the Mahoning Valley,” said Paul S. Homick Jr., Mercy Health Foundation-Mahoning Valley’s president.