Press Coverage


About $400,000 worth of improvements will be made to two of downtown’s busiest streets that will keep them closed to vehicular traffic for about two weeks in August.

City council members say they have some concerns with how Youngstown uses water and wastewater funds for economic development projects.

Nearly every house the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. rehabilitates has the same problem, Ian Beniston says: Thieves stripped the plumbing for the copper pipes.

City council will consider legislation Wednesday authorizing the board of control to pave six main streets that the mayor says are in “horrific” condition.