21 WFMJ archives  / November 28, 1995 | Move Over Broadway Productions presented  "The Nutcracker" at Canfield High School 29 years ago. Cast members included, from left, Nikki Mariotti and Mary Ellen Cleary in front; Bob Smallwood, Ryan Detter, and Mark Landers, back row. 

November 30


1999: Warren Mayor Hank Angelo said that though it is possible strategic planning could have lessened some of the city's financial woes, there is no way administrators could have anticipated the drop in income tax revenue in recent years.

Mahoning County Sheriff Randall Wellington says deputies are back to regular patrols in Canfield, Ellsworth, Green, and Berlin townships, with three- to eight-minute response times.

Northeastern Ohio University College of Medicine will receive $2.83 million in federal funds to build a new medical education conference center. 

Retired Trumbull County Deputy Sheriff Delbert Shade, who died after being struck by a car on Elm Road in Warren, is buried with full honors from his fellow police officers.
 

1984: A leaking chemical tanker on I-80 created a dangerous cloud that caused at least 200 Girard and Liberty Township residents to be evacuated from their homes. When titanium tetrachloride comes in contact with moisture, it becomes hydrochloric acid. 

The unexpected resignation of D. Bradley Jones as chairman of LTV Steel Corp., the country's number two steel maker, is seen as another blow to the Mahoning Valley, of which Jones was a historic supporter.

Kenneth E. Murphy of North Jackson receives the first $20,000 maximum suggestion award at the GM Lordstown complex. He suggested a design change in a part of the tailgate of several models that saved the company $125,000.


1974: General Motors is switching its California plant from Chevrolet Vegas to other models. The company also announced an additional week of shutdown at the Lordstown plant, which produces Vegas and Pontiac Astres. 

Off-duty Patrolman Robert Pavelko is punched and pistol-whipped when he attempts to break up a fight between two men at the Ohio Hotel coffee shop.

Cyndy Meserve of Pratt Institute became the first woman to play in an NCAA men's basketball game, playing one minute and 45 seconds in a game against Baruch College. 


1949: Dr. Robert E. Rappoport, a pathologist at the Youngstown Hospital Association, tells the League of Women Voters that "people can die as a result of pollution in the air."

The Youngstown Municipal Airport is scheduled to get its first regular airline service with four-engine planes when Capital Airlines changes its schedule within a week. 

One of the nation's great orchestras, the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of George Szell, gives a concert at Stambaugh Auditorium.