Press Coverage


Anyone contemplating installing solar panels should view them as an investment in many decades of energy cost savings, according to a local solar-panel installer and a local user of this technology that offers free fuel from the sun.

Phil Kidd was serving in the Army when he first heard of the Youngstown 2010 plan being put together more than a decade ago.

The city is requesting proposals from those interested in buying the vacant former Bottom Dollar grocery store at 2649 Glenwood Ave., with preference to be given to plans to reopen it as a grocery store.

Members of the Western Reserve Port Authority received an update Wednesday from representatives of the Youngstown Air Reserve Station and the local commission established to help preserve the airbase and other local military assets.

City Council President Charles Sammarone said it was a “sad day” because four council members were at their last meeting in that official capacity.