Vindicator file photo/March 6, 1989 | Supporters of the Second Amendment gathered on Federal Plaza on March 6, 1989, to show their opposition to a proposed ordinance that would ban some semi-automatic weapons in Youngstown. Using a bullhorn to address the rally was Vince DeNiro, a Boardman gun dealer.

March 5

1995: A year after Charlotte Nagi Pollis, 28, disappeared from her Girard home; her family has hired a private investigator in a search for answers. Her mother, Charlotte Nagi, says Girard police initially "blew off" the woman's disappearance.

A fire set by vandals destroyed the 116-year-old Miller Road covered bridge in Center Township, Columbiana County, making it the second covered bridge destroyed by arsonists in a year and leaving only three covered bridges in a county that once had the highest number in Ohio.

Richard Scarsella, a former Idora Park Historical Society trustee, says Mt. Calvary Pentecostal Church, which owns the park, is ignoring requests to allow an archeological dig to confirm if there is an Indian burial ground on the site. 
  
1980: Youngstown Mayor George Vukovich asks the Environmental Protection Agency in Chicago for help in addressing the city's inability to collect and dispose of garbage in the city. 

Former Howland High School and Kent State standout Jack Lazor is signed as a free agent by the New England Patriots 

Named to the Mahoning Valley Conference girls’ all-star team are Mindy Main of Canfield, Tammy Bailey of Salem, Teri Birch of Struthers, Colleen Karnes of Struthers and Dot Phillips of West Branch.

1970: A $5 motor vehicle license fee proposed to City Council by Councilman William Bryant is given a first reading. It will take three readings and a 30-day waiting period before it takes effect. 

The first financial contribution toward keeping Youngstown Transit Co. buses on the street for at least four months is made with council's appropriation of $7,250.

Atty. Nathaniel Jones, a Youngstown native who is general counsel for the NAACP in New York, says there is a growing trend, supported by the federal government, toward separation of black and white segments of communities.

1945: Three women -- Mary Strange, Ida Capo and Margaret Davis -- are robbed by the "silk stocking bandit" at Chestnut and Commerce streets. A man, Gilbert Kidd, reports being robbed twice within a half hour. 

The names of 2,000 Lawrence County, Pa., voters are removed from the permanent registration files after they failed to vote for two years. 

Four graduates of St. Elizabeth Hospital School of nursing are commissioned second lieutenants in the Army nurses corps: Mrs. Katherine Coyne, Helen Sofranko, Virginia Lorenz and Genevieve Kollar.