21 WFMJ archives / August 27, 1983 | Getting in a late summer bicycle ride in Mill Creek Park before starting classes at Austintown Fitch High School 40 years ago were these incoming freshmen, Lori Anker, Marianne Waerass, an exchange student from Norway, and Jennifer Riefler. 
 
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1998: Low pay, stressful conditions, and lack of job security are causing people to shy away from a career in education, spurring an acute shortage of substitute teachers in area schools.
 
Lawrence County District Attorney Mathew Mangino says he is committed to a crackdown on domestic violence.  The county has already doubled the number of prosecutions over 1997.
 
Campbell Municipal Judge John Almasy dismisses gambling charges filed by police against a CD-106 FM disc jockey who invited people to "Come to Campbell and Gamble" by spinning a wheel for prizes. Some city officials and police took umbrage at the gag. 
 
1983: Youngstown Thermal Corp. says it has cut pollution by 90 percent since it took over the Belmont Avenue steam-making plant in 1980.
 
AM-Care Inc. of Akron submits the apparent highest of seven bids for the Mahoning County Nursing Home on Kirk Road at $3.1 million.  
 
Mrs. Stavroula Nyktas and her son, George, closed the Ohio Bar and Grill, a family-run neighborhood bar in Salem since 1926.
 
1973: Lucille Ball comes to Warren to attend a Kenley Players production of "Once Upon a Mattress," starring her daughter, Lucie Arnaz. 
 
Youngstown is second on the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency's list of clean-up priorities. Cleveland is first. 
 
1948: Police Chief Edward J. Allen tells the Youngstown Rotary Club that he wants to build the best police department in the United States.  He will ask city council for funds for 13 additional officers. 
 
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