December 2

2000: The Ursuline High School football team wins the state Division IV state championship, defeating Coldwater, 49-37. Coach Jim Vivo said this might be the greatest squad the school has ever had.

Mahoning County elections director Michael V. Sciortino says Mahoning County voters will eventually cast their ballots electronically. Still, he doesn't know when, since an all-electronic system costs about $3.5 million, while the tabulating machines used to read paper ballots cost $60,000 to rent. The ongoing dispute over tabulating punchcard ballots in the Bush-Gore presidential election could cause new rules nationwide.

 

1985: A former minor league baseball team owner, Alan Mintz, tells  Mayor Patrick Ungaro that he would like to bring a team to Youngstown within the next two years. Mintz, president of a Cleveland heating and cooling company who formerly owned a Red Sox affiliate in Elmira, N.Y., says he wants a team closer to his home. 

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. offers to mediate a strike by meatcutters and retail clerks against the Tamarkin Company, which threatens the future of as many as 12 supermarkets in the district. 

About 75 production workers who bottle milk and other products at the Borden Dairy plant on Market Street strike after 10 negotiation sessions fail to produce a new contract. 

Superintendents of 27 public school districts in Lawrence, Mercer, and Butler counties are considering establishing a new type of charter school under Pennsylvania law. This cyber school would provide alternative education to students who work from home. 

 

1975: A Trumbull County Common Pleas Court ruling upholding the dress code and regulations on hair length at Hubbard High School is being appealed to the 11th District Court of Appeals by Ed Mann, on behalf of his son, Timothy.

The Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority has its longest waiting list in five years, with 665 elderly applicants and 420 families applying for low-income housing.

Common Pleas Judge Clyde W. Osborne will hear a contempt-of-court complaint filed against Sheriff Ray T. Davis at the request of the Mahoning County grand jury, which criticized the sheriff's oversight of the county jail. 

 

1950: Snow removal in Mahoning County is expected to cost $100,000 from the Thanksgiving blizzard.  About $60,000 of that will be borne by the city of Youngstown.

The weight of melting snow split the roof of the building housing the State Liquor Store at 34 N. Chestnut St. For a while, it was feared the building would collapse.

Mina Warren, 17-year-old daughter of California Gov. Earl Warren, returns home, having survived a battle with polio.