21 WFMJ archives / June 10, 1982 | Guiding a 140-foot girder along the final few blocks to the construction site of the Market Street Bridge was no small task 41 years ago. Traffic was stopped in all directions to allow the truck to turn onto South Phelps Street from Front Street, one of the last turns on a trip that began in Cleveland.

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1998: Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge announces a $1 million grant to New Castle for the development of West Side Riverview Commerce Park, which is expected to create several hundred jobs. 

By virtue of an alphabetic roll call, Daphne Wyatt is the last of 120 graduates to receive a diploma at East High School and the last graduate in the history of the school, which opened in 1926 and closed at the end of the 1998 school year. 

A study of more than 14,000 Ohio high school graduates shows that only 1 in 14 has the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in college, get a good job, or enter a top-notch vocational training program.   

1983: Eight Youngstown school buildings are found to have friable asbestos material in them, which, if released into the air, is a potential cause of cancer. 

Lisa Conn, a 17-year-old Niles High junior studying auto mechanics at the Gordon James Career Center, wins a state title in vocational education and will represent Ohio in the national competition in Louisville, Ky.

Charles Saulino, Youngstown's economic development specialist, says Youngstown State University's proposed high-tech complex would enhance the city's revitalization efforts if it were built closer to downtown.

1973: Natalie DeLallo, a 1971 graduate of Cardinal Mooney High and a student at Ohio State University is named Mahoning County Dairy Princess. 

"Born Yesterday" opens at the Kenley Players in Warren, starring Ed Asner, Karen Valentine, and Lyle Waggoner. 

Ernie Holmes, Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end, pleads guilty in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to three counts of assault with a dangerous weapon. A probation hearing is set for June 21. 

1948: The Mahoning County Board of Health orders the shooting of all dogs running loose who do not have a rabies tag by July 1. 

Judge Stanley Struble, a Cincinnati common pleas judge, finds that nudity in a magazine is not obscene because it depicts the human body and "there cannot be obscenity in God's own handiwork."