21 WFMJ archives / June 3, 1995 | The last graduation class of eighth graders at St. Patrick School in Youngstown was a bittersweet event. Graduates Tia Underwood, Ivory Willis, and Keia Brandon couldn't hold back the tears during the event 29 years ago.

June 12

1999: Youngstown State University trustees approve a $96.5 million general fund budget that contains no tuition increases for freshmen and sophomores and assumes a stable enrollment of about 12,600 students. 

After 15 no-parking signs disappeared along Clarencedale Avenue in Youngstown over a period of two weeks, Carmen Conglose Jr., deputy director of public works, ordered that curbs on the street be painted traffic yellow to indicate parking is prohibited. But after neighbors complained about the ugly shade, Mayor George McKelvey ordered the curbs repainted with a cement shade. 

The Ohio Railroad Commission will spend more than $500,000 to remove the rails, ties, and crossing signs and repave the roads at 18 abandoned crossings in the city of Warren. The crossings are on neighborhood streets and main streets, like Youngstown Road.

1984: Brian Jarrad, 13, of Wellsville, is among 21 Americans and Canadians honored by the Carnegie Hero Commission. He received a Carnegie Medal and $2,500 for saving Michael Oates, 8, from drowning in the Ohio River in September. 

The Trumbull County Board of Education's non-administrative staff workers are seeking to unionize under Ohio's new collective bargaining law. 

Two boys drown while swimming in the Mahoning River under the Market Street Bridge. The body of Ervin Harden, 12, was recovered. A search continues for Andomarlo G. McKinney, also 12. 

1974: The Howland Board of Education repeats its refusal to fire a junior high teacher who distributed a sex survey to her ninth-grade health class. Twenty parents and students who spoke at the board meeting were evenly divided between critics and supporters of the teachers. 

The Akron regional office of the National Urban League announces a nonpartisan voter education project aimed at the South Side of Youngstown.  

1949: St. James Episcopal Church of Boardman, the oldest Episcopal Church in the Western Reserve and Ohio Diocese, marks its 140 anniversary. Although the church was organized in 1809, there is evidence of services in the homes of Episcopalians in Boardman as early as 1798.

The Ohio General Assembly is expected to last into July or August, making it the longest session in more than 10 years.  The House continues to balk at the "Youngstown Plan," which would provide $6 million more to local governments and $15 million more for schools. 

A day after announcing that his downtown store would close until the bus strike ends, Grocer George Oles changes his mind and says the store will stay open.