Vindicator file photo / August 30, 1994 | Veteran Struthers band member Robbie Baber, 15, gives some words of encouragement to 1st year member Ryan Coffey, 13, before the band takes the field at Canfield’s Band Night 28 years ago.
 
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1997: A "significant" number of employees at the 93-bed Hillside Hospital in Howland are being laid off because of a decline in patients. 
 
The Salem Board of Education gives Supt. Randy Engle authority to take steps to keep schools open if teachers go on strike.
 
The Army Corps of Engineers concludes that the dead channel catfish that washed up at the Route 88 causeway at Mosquito Lake was caused by stress or disease.
 
1982: J. Charles Abernathy, manager of General Motors assembly plants in Lordstown, predicts more stable production and higher employment at the complex.
 
Youngstown State University President John J. Coffelt complains in a letter to Edward Q. Moulton, chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents, that many of the upper-level courses being added to the curriculum at the Trumbull Branch of Kent State University are already available at YSU.
 
The Youngstown City School District, which has seen enrollment drop from 25,000 to 16,250 and faces further losses in years to come, seeks help from Youngstown State University in drafting a 10-year plan.
 
1972: General Motors announces that it may offer the Wankel rotary engine in the Lordstown-built Vega.
 
Burke Lyden, the chief engineer of Youngstown's Department of Water, is suspended for four days without pay for "insolent disrespect" during a telephone conversation with water Commissioner David A. O'Neill.
 
Youngstown experienced a 13.7 percent drop in major crimes in 1971, according to FBI statistics. Murder and non-negligent homicide dropped from 25 to 23 during the year. 
 
1947: A large, cigar-chewing man has a run of good luck at the Jungle Inn dice table, drawing a crowd that watched him run up winnings of $7,000.
 
Three South Side youths admit three holdups in Youngstown and tell police of wild flights in stolen cars after their crimes. 
 
Mill Creek Park, already haven to 27 monkeys that escaped from Idora Park, is the scene of a cattle round-up as six Hereford steers missing from Sam J. Henry's farm on Tippecanoe Road are sighted in the park.