Vindicator file photo / May 7, 1980 | Richard Zitto, left, a four-year physics teacher at Boardman High School was named outstanding science teacher in the area by Sigma Xi Chapter of the Scientific Research Society.  Presenting the award were officers of the society, Dr. Frederick Koknat, center, associate professor of chemistry at Youngstown State University, and Dr. Lauren Schroeder, YSU professor of biology.
 
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1997: Homicides are down almost 50 percent in the city of Youngstown with 15 so far in 1997, compared to 28 at the same time in 1996.
 
Pediatrician Madeleine Ortiz is the medical director of the health clinic at Austintown Fitch High School. The first such school-based clinic in the state has registered 343 student visits so far this year, the last year for which funding for the clinic is assured. 
 
The 911 call center in Trumbull County wants all 18 departments it services to use the same code numbers when referring to incidents. 
 
1982: At least 60 employees of the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services in the Youngstown District receive registered letters telling them that their jobs are being eliminated. 
 
The athletic field at the Intermediate School is dedicated in memory of John David Grantz before a crowd of 500 prior to the Springfield Township Baseball Association's Preview Day. John was fatally injured in a dirt bike accident shortly before his 13th birthday. 
 
Alberta McDonough Palmer is honored as the first life member of the Mahoning Valley Camp Fire Council and Josephine Godward receives the group's Luther Halsey Gulick Award for outstanding and distinguished service. 
 
1972: Silent marches and anti-war speeches mark the second anniversary of the deaths of four students killed during a demonstration at Kent State University. 
 
Plans are made to build new juvenile detention facilities in Mahoning, Trumbull, and Ashtabula counties that will cost $3.5 million.
 
Two students are suspended for 10 days at Hayes Junior High School. One set off a firecracker, the other, a false fire alarm. 
 
1947: Some 700 members of Local 171, Carpenters and Joiners Union, walk off the job demanding a raise to $2 an hour. They now make $1.75.
 
The Pennsylvania Railroad seeks to block the state highway department from taking the Pennsylvania Station in Youngstown by eminent domain. The state wants to demolish the station to clear the way for reconstruction of the Spring Common Bridge and has offered $94,000 for the station, which the railroad rejected. 
 
Firemen recover the body of Billy McCaffrey, 11, from the pool below Lanterman Falls in Mill Creek. The third grader at St. Patrick School climbed over a fence and onto a rock overhanging the falls, before slipping and falling into the water.