If you missed the 68th anniversary concert of Packard Band, you missed a spectacular work of music. Musicianship of these people led by the executive director i
More than a year has gone by without Trumbull Commissioner Niki Frenchko attending a single county commissioners weekly workshop meeting. For years these pre
rfox@tribtoday.com WARREN — Trumbull County commissioners said they will not entertain a request from county Engineer Randy Smith to be reinstated as sanitary engineer. As the elected Trumbull County engineer, Smith heads the highway department. For about five years, commissioners also placed Smith in the position of sanitary engineer, an appointed post heading up the county’s sanitary department. In November, however, commissioners moved to replace him with deputy sanitary engineer, Gary Newbrough. Smith wrote a letter to commissioners asking to be reinstated and appears to threaten litigation if he is not. The letter also requests an investigation into personnel matters at the sanitary engineer’s office, complains about conversations last year with commissioners Mauro Cantalamessa and Frank Fuda, and dredges up complaints about an attorney he used in the highway department who still works for the sanitary engineer’s department.
Undoubtedly things are different in the Trumbull County commissioners office these days. Admittedly, we weren’t quite sure how many times newly elected commissioner Niki Frenchko’s legal eligibility to serve as a Trumbull County commissioner was going to be questioned, but now that a judge dismissed the latest case — that one brought by former Commissioner Dan Polivka, whom Frenchko beat — and Frenchko officially has taken office, we are eager to see the new board get down to work. Frenchko made a lot of promises to the electorate during the heated campaign, and now we are all waiting with great urgency new beginnings.
Countdown We are looking back at 2020’s Top 10 stories, as chosen by the newspaper staff. Today’s story on the 2020 election ranks No. 4. Here’s the list so far: 10: Fans and supporters worked to save the Mahoning Valley Scrappers. 9: Two big Black Lives Matter rallies took place in the Valley over the summer. 8: Liberty firefighter death prompts investigation. 7. Three convicted in public corruption probe of Youngstown government. 6. Diocese of Youngstown loses its shepherd; new bishop named. 5: 4-year-old Rowan Sweeney slain in Struthers. 4. Donald Trump won Mahoning, Trumbull counties in historic election Though Donald Trump failed to win re-election, he was only the third Republican presidential candidate to win Mahoning County since 1936.