21 WFMJ archives / June 4, 1972 | St. Columba School, adjacent to the cathedral, discontinued classes at the end of the school year 51 years ago. Msgr. Glenn W. Holdbrook, the rector of St. Columba Cathedral, took the opportunity to have a last chat with four students from left, Robert Hodge, James Cerimele, Reginald Milliner, and Matthew Matta. St. Columba was the first parochial school in Youngstown, opening in 1860.
 
June 5
 
1998: Trumbull County Democratic Party precinct committeemen give Chairman Nick Melfi a four-year term and elected his slate of officers. Melfi became chairman in June 1997 after Pat Sebastiano resigned.
 
Civil War re-enactors give eighth-grade students at Jackson Milton High School an insight into the people and culture of the Civil War era. 
 
Production at the General Motors Assembly plant in Lordstown will resume after a shutdown of nearly a week that followed an explosion in the paint shop that killed one worker. 
 
1983: Youngstown Tax Commissioner  William Bucci says the city is going after tax delinquents who owe some $200,000 in unpaid income tax. 
 
Millions of tons of coal underlying much of Ohio may hold the key to the reindustrialization of the Buckeye State, writes Vindicator business editor George Reiss. 
 
Tri Thuong Nguyen, who came with his parents from South Vietnam to the United States in 1975, is the salutatorian of Hubbard High School's class of 1983.
 
1973: Three defeated primary election candidates raise questions about whether the disappearance of 240 keys to voting machines in March 1972 affected the integrity of this year's primary. 
 
The Hunter administration proposes a $200 annual "good attendance" bonus for Youngstown police and firemen. 
 
A single shot fired from ambush in his own yard kills Toby Gibson, 39, of Niles-Canfield Road in Austintown.
 
1948: Top honors in the graduating class at Youngstown College go to Lawrence A. Blazina of Girard. Two other students, Warren Pritchard, and Mary Vesy, win coveted YU pins. 
 
The Vandergrift Pioneers shellac the Youngstown Colts, 13-6, in the "rubber game" of their Mid-Atlantic Baseball League series.