YOUNGSTOWN A nearly $16 million improvement project to numerous downtown and nearby streets will begin this spring.
The city’s board of control approved a $15,791,100 contract Thursday with Marucci and Gaffney Excavating Co. of Youngstown for the work. The other bid of $18,350,100 was submitted by S.E.T. Inc. of Lowellville.
The city’s estimate for the work was $18,390,500.
The contract runs through 2023.
Projects this year include paving Fifth Avenue from the Madison Avenue Expressway to Park Avenue, Park Avenue from Fifth Avenue to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, and Phelps Street from Federal Street to the Youngstown Foundation Amphitheatre.
In 2022, Front Street from Vindicator Square to South Avenue will be addressed.
Plans have a way of changing even in the best of years.
No one would call 2020 the best of years, and few people had their plans disrupted as much as musicians, whose profession includes all sorts of behaviors that are discouraged and banned during a global viral pandemic.
But acts unable to play crowded bars, festivals and other venues didn’t sit at home and pout. They channeled their talents into writing and recording new music and developing other new projects they “plan” on releasing in 2021.
Ticket reached out to area performers about what they have on tap for 2021, and the response was great enough that the answers will be spread out over two weeks (at least).
For 40 years, Patsy Palombo lived a double life.
By day he was the director of development and stewardship with the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown.
At night he was the drummer for Left End, a rock act beloved and renowned for its live show and the outrageous antics of lead singer Dennis T. Menass (real name Dennis Sesonsky).
“I could be playing with Left End for a really rowdy rock crowd at the Arcade or another club in Youngstown or Warren, get home at 3:30 in the morning and then have a 9 a.m. meeting with the bishop and a group of priests,” Palombo said. Palombo, 69, tells the music side of that double life in his book “Tenacity: The Left End Story,” which he released in late November.