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'Better Block' Event - YOUNGSTOWN

A “Better Block” program on Midlothian Boulevard between Sheridan Road and Irma Avenue with pop-up businesses, outdoor cafes, performances and exhibitions and other activities will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 25.

The Ohio CDC Association today announced its 2015 Member Awards during the Association’s 31^st annual conference at the Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center.

Mayor John McNally would like to see a grocery store and pharmacy go into the former Bottom Dollar Food store on Glenwood Avenue, he said today.

On Friday afternoon, over a short two block stretch of Elm Street between Madison and Park avenues in Youngstown, men were on ladders, sidewalks were being cleaned and crosswalks created with duct tape, all in preparation for the weekend’s unveiling of a new group, North of Madison Avenue Association, or NOMA.

The Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. and the Raymond John Wean Foundation won three of the seven statewide awards given by the Ohio Community Development Corp. Association at its annual conference in Kent.