Press Coverage


The annual holiday parade and Christmas tree lighting in downtown Youngstown has been getting bigger every year, and this year’s event promises to be the best yet.

Innovations Conference 2018: Collaborating for a Healthier Mahoning Valley will take place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Jan. 18 at the Jewish Community Center.

Larry Graham purchased the house at 9904 Anderson Avenue in 2015, according to public records. But on a recent chilly fall afternoon, he wasn’t there. In fact, the house he’d tried to buy for $13,000 looked as if it had been abandoned months ago.

After losing his job Oct. 30, Jason Ray, a resident of the East Side, is looking for a new direction in the workforce. “I have a lot of experience in industrial work and at warehouses,” he said Thursday.

The city of Youngstown received a two-part grant totaling $1 million to help combat crime for the South Side Revitalization Project.