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The city of East Liverpool is cleaning up both the neighborhoods and downtown, tackling blighted homes, painting murals and securing grants for revitalization — all to attract more residents and businesses.

City council plans Wednesday to approve $684,685 in American Rescue Plan-funded projects from the $14 million allocation it gave its members, but administration officials said they won’t authorize the work without first determining whether the expenditures are permissible under federal law.

And the city of East Liverpool is tackling the vacant homes crisis head on through its Blight Remediation and Demolition Project.

The owner of Voyager Specialty Coffee & Teas acknowledged he is being optimistic when he says that Voyager and his new Trek Coffeehouse will be operating in new locations in December.

When the Foster Theatre opened in 1938, it was the second movie theater on Youngstown’s South Side.