21 WFMJ archives/Associated Press / September 19, 1983 | Miss Ohio, Pam Rigas of Canfield, at left, was fourth runner-up in the Miss America Pageant held in Atlantic City 40 years ago.  Others, from left, were Pam Battles, Miss Alabama; Vanessa Williams, who was the first black woman crowned Miss America; Suzette Charles, Miss New Jersey; and Wanda Geddie, Miss Mississippi.

September 18

1998: Megan Herman of Sharon, a Pittsburgh native, is the first woman sworn in as a member of the Sharon Police Department. Mayor Bob Prices says only one other woman ever applied and was offered a patrol job, but she wanted to be a detective. 

Eastwood Village Apartments on Youngstown's East Side, previously known as McGuffey Terrace, are open to tenants after being bought and rehabilitated by Caritas Communities, a member corporation of Catholic Charities Housing Opportunities and Humility of Mary Housing Inc. 

Seventy-five pianos are up for sale at Stambaugh Auditorium, with proceeds of the sale benefiting the Dana School of Music at Youngstown State University. 

1983: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' refusal to go along with the plan for a hydroelectric power plant at the Shenango River Dam at Grove City, Pa., could doom the $4.9 million project. 

Pamela Helean Rigas, 22, of Canfield, is the fourth runner-up in the Miss America Pageant, which was won by Vanessa Williams of New York, the first black woman to wear the Miss America crown. 

Joseph Bucheit & Sons is awarded the general contract for building the new clubhouse at the  Tippecanoe Country Club, which will replace one destroyed by fire in March. 

1973: Youngstown City Council prepares a resolution that would shift ownership and operation of Mill Creek Park from a board of commissioners to the city of Youngstown. 

The 88-year-old Old Furnace Road Bridge in Mill Creek Park is closed to traffic in preparation for razing and replacing it with a new $400,000 span.

1948: Joe Kocur, 53, is shot three times as he confronts three bandits at his bar, Joe's Tavern, 104 N. Meridian. He is in fair condition at St. Elizabeth Hospital. 

The name Kirkmere Home Owners Inc. has been selected for the 150-home development for veterans that will be developed on a 90-acre site at Kirk Road and S. Meridian.