21 WFMJ archives / May 17, 1957 | Walter Paulo, vice president of the Isaly Dairy Co. and a long-time supporter of Junior Achievement, chats will teenagers at the JA "future unlimited" banquet 66 years ago.  From left are Henry Frazzini, Paulo, JoAnne Pursell, Todd Powers, Tom Stanchek, Sally Harmon, and Emily Harris. 

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1998: A subgroup of the state Board of Education gives preliminary approval to Youngstown's first charter schools, Eagle Heights Academy, a 500-student kindergarten-through-eighth grade program, and Youngstown Community School, a 36-student kindergarten at the Mill Creek Children's Center. 

Mary McCutcheon, a Boardman woman whose 15-year-old daughter was killed by a hit-skip driver, tells the Ohio Senate that the penalty for leaving the scene of an accident should be dramatically increased. The driver who killed her daughter received 6 months for negligent vehicular homicide but only a $500 fine for fleeing the scene. 

Youngstown's three Municipal Court judges approve a plan to move their offices and courtroom from City Hall to the third floor of the city hall annex in the old post office building at Front and Market Streets.

1983: Ohio Civilian Conservation Crops officials take a driving tour of Mahoning County looking for a suitable spot that would house up to 60  unemployed men and women between 16 and 23 to do reclamation work.

Beverly Lindsay, the secretary at St. John's Episcopal Church for 46 years, is retiring. When she first took the job in 1937, she worked seven days a week, but a new pastor, the Rev. Dr. William Kinder, gave everyone one day off a week. 

Groundbreaking is held for a $2.3 million, 7,500-square-foot cardiac care addition to North Side Hospital. 

1973: Sen Richard Schweiker, R-Pa., introduces a bill to ban the sale of horses for human consumption in the United States. 

David Curry of Cub Pack 119 at New Springfield Evangelical Lutheran Church wins the Mahoning Valley Council's first district pinewood derby. Randy Williams of Boardman is second; Mark Wheeler of Greenford is third.

1948: At the request of Youngstown Police Chief Edward Allen, Western Union and Ohio Bell Telephone withdraw service to Empire News at 31 N. Walnut St., a communications center for horse racing and allied gambling. 

A Struthers airplane pilot is reprimanded by Police Chief Neil K. Gordon for buzzing rooftops in the Nebo district.