Press Coverage


Banks filing expedited foreclosures on abandoned and vacant properties will no longer be able to use plywood to board up those houses.

There are concerns about what exactly a new statewide ban on plywood for certain vacant properties will mean for the Mahoning Valley. One nonprofit in Warren is worried that it could cost them astronomically more to board up homes but a state lawmaker says that won't be the case.

Longtime Mill Creek MetroParks board member Dr. Robert Durick, whose term expired Dec. 31, opted at the last minute not to seek reappointment to the board.

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