Vindicator file photo / Feb. 21,  1981 | Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Clyde W. Osborne ordered Youngstown public school teachers back to work after the first day of what turned out to be a long strike  40 years ago. He rejected the arguments made by Anthony Sgambati, the lawyer for the Youngstown Education Association.
 
February 22
 
1996: Twenty-two acres of land on Herbert Road being considered for annexation to Canfield is the likely site of a new building for Old North Baptist Church. 
 
Kathy Price of Austintown is preparing to take a team of volunteers to Chetumal, Mexico, where they plan to lay the groundwork for building a medical clinic and a school for 920 poor Mayan Indian families. 
 
Entertainment giant Time Warner Inc. targets Youngstown to debut its high-speed on-line computer service because northeast Ohio is one of only a few U.S. markets with the advanced cable system it requires is already in place.
 
1981: Youngstown Superintendent Emanuel Catsoules says the school district faces a $352,722 deficit in 1981, but Margaret Davis, president of the striking Youngstown Education Association, says that $1 million, and possibly as much as $2.4 million, is hidden in the budget and could be used for teacher raises. 
 
The owner and employees of Joseph Painting Contractors Inc. spend Saturday giving the Mahoning County Jail a facelifting. Joe Joseph, a Cardinal Mooney classmate of Sheriff James A. Traficant, said he did the $3,000 job as a favor to Traficant.  
 
Members of the ICL Girls All-Star basketball team: Karen Wetter, South Range; Danielle Carson and Beth Sedlar, Springfield Local; Netta Kenner, McDonald, and Cris Grace, Western Reserve.
 
1971: The cries of James McLaughlin Jr., age 1, alert his parents to a fire at the family's farmhouse in Rogers. Mrs. and Mrs. McLaughlin grabbed their child from his crib and fled to safety.
 
Frank Leseganich, director of District 26, United Steelworkers of America, says the union will investigate the death of Floyd McGinnis, 64, who fell from a trestle at the Brier Hill Works of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. 
 
A 23-year-old Poland man sentenced to 30 days in jail for two traffic deaths has not yet begun serving his time and Judge Elwyn Jenkins says he may suspend the sentence. 
 
1946: Miss Thodora Raptou, a junior at Youngstown College, will preside as sweetheart of the Fourth Annual Panhellenic Sweetheart Ball. 
 
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. the nation's fifth-largest steelmaker, earned a 1945 profit of $7.5 million, $432,000 less than in 1944.
 
The Rev. Glenn W. Holbrook, former pastor of St. Ambrose Church, Garrettsville, assumes his duties as principal of Ursuline High School.