21 WFMJ archives / May 25, 1998 | The Rev. Doug Boquist of New Hope Community Church, dressed as Elijah Boardman, arrives with his family at Boardman Park on a wagon pulled by draft horses to mark Boardman Township’s Founders Day 25 years ago.

May 26 

1998: Niles police arrest two Detroit women accused of spending $600 in counterfeit $50 and $100 bills at the Eastwood Mall. They had another $1,100 in phony currency on them or in their car. 

Airman 1st Class David Petrolla, a New Middletown native, is stationed at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida, where he is responsible for monitoring 8,000 square miles of air space for intruding aircraft when the space shuttle and other rockets launch from Cape Canaveral. 

Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins says Atty. Sarah Kovoor, who has been working as an intern in his office, has been hired as an assistant prosecutor. 

1983: Trumbull County has its newest police force after Chief Frank Lesho swears in three full-time members of the Warren Township Police Department. The department also has 14 reserve officers. 

Youngstown water commissioner Carl Pilin threatens legal action against political subdivisions that have contracts with the city and allows the unauthorized use of fire hydrants. The threat came after an apartment complex in Austintown filled its swimming pool with water from a hydrant using a hose belonging to the fire department.

U.S. Rep. Lyle Williams says Congress has allocated $10.6 million for the construction of a federal courthouse in Youngstown, and it will be built in 1984, even though the Sixth Circuit Judicial Council questions the need for a permanent courthouse in the city. 

1973: Mrs. Delores Thompson takes off from Youngstown Municipal Airport for New Orleans for a reunion with her 103-year-old grandmother, whom she found through an Associated Press photo that ran in The Vindicator in April. 

Gov. John J. Gilligan proclaims Judy Kolesar Day in Youngstown to mark the 19th birthday of the Youngstown State University student and karate champion. 

1948: European steel concerns are advertising steel for sale in the United States at gray market prices while U.S. producers are required to export steel to Europe, says Walter E. Watson, vice president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. 

Delason Avenue School, the subject of a bitter court battle between a group of parents and the Youngstown Board of Education, will not be abandoned until Judge John Ford hears the case. 

A group of Youngstown businessmen headed by William Lyden, president of Lyden Oil Co., purchases the Mansfield Radio Co., which has applied for a license for TV station 13.