21 WFMJ archives  / November 5, 2003 | The returns in the race for Warren Mayor were looking good for Michael O'Brien on election night 21 years ago, so much so that he held up a desk nameplate during the campaign celebration at DiVieste's Banquet Hall. The nameplate had been given to him by a friend. 

November 3 

1999: Mahoning County voters approve a half-percent sales tax by almost a two-to-one margin. Three members of the Accountability Tax Force that opposed the measure, Debbie Taylor, Andy Hamady, and Bruce Paulette, say they are considering running for county commissioner in 2000.

Columbiana County voters reject a 1 percent sales tax for the second time by about 2,300 votes.

The Columbiana County Board of Elections will investigate a possible mishandling of 36 write-in ballots by a poll worker whose mother was running in a village council race. 

Trumbull Common Pleas Judge Wyatt McKay rules that Martin Petersime, 45, of Warren, who is serving a 12- to 40-year sentence on numerous sexual abuse charges, will be labeled a sexual predator if he is ever released from prison. 

Sarah Brown-Clark easily defeats Sam Rafidi in the race for clerk of Youngstown Municipal Court. She will replace Rosemary Durkin, who is retiring after 24 years. 

1984: Vice President George Bush visits New Castle, Pa., and presents an $800,000 grant to the city and Ellwood City Steel Forge Co. at the old Mesta Machine plant on Moravia Street. 

The Sharon code office gives James E. Winner Jr. seven days to remove a horse and a mule from a pasture behind the Shenango Inn on Kimberly Road. The city has no objection to Winner providing carriage rides at the Inn but says the animals can't be housed there 24 hours a day.

A 92-year-old North Garland Avenue woman was stabbed 13 times and left for dead by two men who broke into her home. Angeline Mosco is in guarded condition in St. Elizabeth Hospital. 

1974: Citing a projected deficit of $700,000, Warren school officials say schools will close in early December unless a 6.8 mill issue on the ballot is approved. 

Youngstown Masons are inducted as Knights of the York Cross of Honor during the 25th-anniversary celebration of the Ohio Priory in Lancaster. 

Youngstown's premier sports banquet, the Curbstone Coaches Hall of Fame, will draw 700 people to the Idora Ballroom. Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds will be the speaker. 

1949: Thirteen people claiming to be members of the Civil Rights Congress of Youngstown picket outside the Youngstown Post Office demanding that bail be set for Communists sentenced to prison in New York, including two with Youngstown ties. 

A 44-year-old East Alliance man is found guilty in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court of torturing and neglecting his six children, who were taken from the family home in September near starvation. 

The Sisters of the Oblates of the Sacred Heart arrive at Youngstown Municipal Airport from Italy to find their order's first convent in the United States. The motherhouse will be in McDonald.