21 WFMJ archives / March 22, 1987 | Youngstown radio personality Pete Gabriel was riding in style and obviously enjoying himself in the St. Patrick’s Day parade 36 years ago.
 
March 17
 
1998: The League of Women Voters has resurrected a 13-year-old proposal by the county bar association that the county's courts be consolidated.
 
Seven new Youngstown firefighters are sworn in: Frederick Beeler, John Casey, Eugene Cook, Jason Daily, Michael Durkin, April Edwards, and Eric Swanson. 
 
The Creative Cuisine classes taught by Connie David at Mathews High School raised $2,382 on their fund-raiser, Coins for Kids, to benefit St. Jude Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. 
 
1983: Gary Goldner, 28, of Cortland, is in St. Elizabeth Hospital after being overcome by an oily substance that leaked from a tanker truck at the weigh station on I-80 in Hubbard Township.  The truck sped away after Goldner told the driver to park it behind the station.
 
U.S. Rep. Lyle Williams, R-Lordstown, offers to debate Ohio Senate President Harry Meshel, D-Youngstown, anywhere in the state as part of an effort to repeal a recent state income tax increase. 
 
Thousands of Mahoning Valley residents who have been ignoring their utility bills since December because of a statewide moratorium on disconnections will soon have to pay their past bills or face disconnection.
 
1973: Earnest Holmes, Pittsburgh Steelers defensive tackle is in custody after a highway shooting spree that began on I-80 in Girard, sparked a two-county manhunt, and ended with an Ohio State Highway Patrol helicopter being shot down and Holmes under arrest in Goshen Township.
 
An OSP Pilot, Sgt. Larry Myers landed his copter safely and was then hospitalized for a bullet wound in his leg.
 
Dan Maggianetti Jr., 65, former Boardman police chief and chief of the Youngstown vice squad, dies of a heart attack. 
 
1948: The Rev. Thomas Kelly, assistant pastor of St. Columba Cathedral, and Rev. John Lyons, an assistant at St. Ann Church, observe their first St. Patrick's Day in the United States. 
 
Harry L. Rownd, a former official of Republic Iron and Steel, who was known locally and nationally for his service to the Red Cross, dies at 80. He is survived by his father, who is 103 and a Civil War veteran. 
 
U.S. Rep. Michael Kirwan, D-Youngstown, distributes more than 250 green carnations to members of Congress to mark St. Patrick's Day.