Years Ago | September 10th

21 WFMJ archives / September 12, 1958 | Past lieutenant governors of the 21st division of Kiwanis Clubs were honorees at a dinner 65 years ago at the Hotel Pick-Ohio. From left, seated, Fred M. MacLean of Girard, Roy Kimpel of Warren, George W. Brown of Youngstown, Atty. Lewis L. Guarnieri of Warren; standing, W.J. Moore of Girard, R.J. Wilson of Niles, Lee Lenard of Austintown, O.D. Metzler of Youngstown, Lewis M. Nauss of Boardman and Vic Junius of Newton Falls.
September 10
1998: Two Mahoning County judges sanction Special Prosecutor Robert A. Ruggieri. Judge Maureen Cronin bars him from her courtroom forever because she said he lied to her. Judge Jack Durkin fines Ruggieri an amount to be determined, but at least $100.
TCI Communications Inc. has agreed to turn over its 75,000 customers in Trumbull County to Time Warner Cable, which operates the cable TV franchise in Youngstown.
Warren City Council amends its water and sewer regulations to require any property owner who seeks city water and sewer service to agree to annex to the city within a year.
1983: U.S. Steel Corp. announces that it will close three plants and lay off as many as 10,000 employees in Chicago, McKeesport, and Duquesne, Pa.
Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr. heads a corps of deputies in a general sweep of Youngstown's South Side, bringing blistering criticism from Youngstown Police Chief John E. Lynch III.
Ohio Secretary of State Sherrod Brown rejects a return to voting machines in Mahoning County, assuring that voters will be marking paper ballots in the November general Election.
1973: Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Clyde Osborne directs the Youngstown School board and bargaining units for striking employees to resume bargaining aimed at reopening schools.
An East Side Youngstown man walking to get gasoline for his car is accosted and stabbed by five youths who demanded money.
1948: Three veterans Youngstown lawyers, David Shermer, William Barnum, and Clyde Osborne, challenge the validity of Youngstown's "suspicious persons" ordinance under which Jasper Fats Aiello was arrested.
Mahoning County had its first polio case of 1948, a 10-year-old Boardman girl being treated at St. Elizabeth Hospital.