21 WFMJ archives  / October 15, 1990 | Students at Lordstown Vocational School were learning from experience how to repair small engines 34 years ago.  Here, Marty Boag of Niles and Wayne Osborne and Shawn McKelvy, both of Howland, examined one of the school’s engines.

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1999: Dr. Jerri Nielsen, a Salem native and National Science Foundation physician stationed at the South Pole, was extricated by the crew of a New York National Guard LC-130 so that she could undergo cancer treatment in Ohio. The mission had to wait until the temperature climbed above -58 degrees.

Construction has begun on a Rite Aid pharmacy in Boardman, at Market Street and Indianola Road.

Lawrence County district attorney Mathew Mangino is joining state Attorney General Mike Fisher, Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association, and six other Pennsylvania district attorneys to unveil "Hard Time," an initiative to crack down on felons carrying handguns.

1984: The Brookfield Board of Education is negotiating to buy Sacred Heart Elementary School on the Ohio-Pennsylvania line. The school closed at the end of the last school year due to dwindling enrollment. 

Warren Mayor Daniel Sferra vows to fight any move by the City Council to cut funding for the Warren Redevelopment and Planning Corp. over some council members' opposition to a new pay package for WRAP executive director Daniel DeSantis. 

The Sharon Zoning Hearing Board rejects a request that the Shenango Inn be permitted to stabilize a horse at the rear of the property. A horse is used to pull a custom-built carriage along streets in the area of the inn. 

1974: Calling the state and federal environmental protection agencies "arrogant" and "devious," an official of the Western Reserve Economic Development Agency threatens a court fight to block hearings on Mahoning River pollution. 

Jeff  Davis, 22, of Meadow Street, is shot and killed by an intoxicated friend who was toying with a rifle. 

Youngstown public school enrollment fell from 23,731 in September 1973 to 21,829 at the opening of the 1974-75 school year. The loss of 1,900 pupils will mean the district receives $384,000 less in state funding. 

1949: The steel strike seriously curtailed work on the Williamson Avenue and Elm Street schools. The contractor says floor joists are needed before more work can be done. 

Glenn E. Adams of Ashtabula and George  R. Smith of Diamond, two Vindicator entrants in a national snapshot contest in Washington, win $25 honorable mention awards. 

Mary B. Erwin, retiring president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, warns more than 600 delegates at the Diamond Jubilee state convention being held at First Baptist Church in Youngstown that Ohio is seeing "a rising tide of women alcoholics and habitual drunkards."