21 WFMJ archives / September 19, 1993 | A WFMJ crew films Youngstown Board of Education spokesperson Eugenia Atkinson outside the board offices while she was addressing parents during a protest over a strike by city school teachers 30 years ago.

September 22

1998: Thomas Fee, Lawrence County Commissioner, says the county has brought in $480,000 by charging Butler and Mercer counties $45 per day for empty beds in Lawrence County's $14 million jail. He says a regional jail could be a sound investment for the three counties. 

Ralph Zerbonia, general manager of CBoss, says the Boardman Internet provider had 18,000 hits in one day when it posted a transcript of President Bill Clinton's grand jury testimony about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. He predicts the Internet will change politics forever, allowing politicians to speak directly to the people. 

Officials of the five Trumbull County schools that send their students to the Gordon James Career Center in Lordstown say a takeover by the Trumbull County Joint Vocational School in Champion appears inevitable. 

1983: Home Savings & Loan Association of Youngstown files a $10.5 million foreclosure action against Commuter Aircraft Corp. after CAC defaulted on loan payments on the airplane plant it built at the Youngstown Municipal Airport. 

Showing its usual divisions on economic matters, the Ohio congressional delegation supported a $3.5 billion jobs bill by the narrowest of margins, 11-10, with Lyle Williams. R-17 th, the only Republican to join the delegation's 10 Democrats. Williams said the private sector is not creating jobs in his Mahoning Valley district. 

Mahoning County commissioners have finally removed a $2.2 million yoke from their necks, transferring the debt-ridden county nursing home on Kirk Road to AM-Care Inc. of Akron. 

1973: A 16-year-old Rayen School student who frequently carried a gun to school is sentenced to the penitentiary until he is 21 for wounding three fellow students. 

1948: Sixty farm workers are flown from the Bahamas to Youngstown Municipal Airport so they can work the harvest of apples, potatoes, and corn in Columbiana County, which is facing a labor shortage. 

Builders and real estate salesmen are warned by Youngstown Building Inspector Robert Findlay that they face prosecution if they sell single-family residences as duplexes in neighborhoods zoned for single-family occupancy.