WFMJ archives  / March  2,  2003 | Jason Ulrich, 17, of Boardman, worked on a module for the building construction and remodeling competition at the SkillsUSA-VICA championships at the Mahoning County Career and Technical Center.  Students from 17 vocational schools in the northeast region competed 22 years ago. 

March 3

2000: Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell predicts that Ohioans will go to the polls on March 7 in record numbers of between 2.6 and 3 million.  The record for a primary was set in 1984 at 2.4 million. 

Delphi Packard Electric Systems is testing components in a new, specially designed Electromagnetic Compatibility Lab in Champion Township.

The Vindicator's pre-election poll shows that U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. and state Sen. Robert Hagan are in a virtual dead heat for the Democratic nomination in the 17th Congressional District. 

 

1985: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. will ask the Army Corps of Engineers to update its studies on a shipping canal linking Lake Erie and the Ohio River.

Four area high school students, Staci Kamil, Todd Stratford, Chris Seaman of Austintown Fitch, and Tim Crish of John F. Kennedy High in Warren, won top honors at the Ohio High School Speech League tournament in Cincinnati. 

Forty-three Mahoning Valley educators are among more than 10,000 nationwide who have applied to NASA to become the first "teachers in space."

 

1975: Two men are shot and killed after an argument at a party on the South Side of New Castle. The dead are Franklin Moyer, 35, and Thomas Borders, 42. 

Daniel Riddle, winner of the Youngstown Symphony Society's 1974-75 Piano Concerto competition, entertains and delights more than 1,200 people at a concert at Powers Auditorium.

 

1950: Federal officials stress that Youngstown must draft a master plan of proposed civic improvements before receiving a grant of $882,780 for slum clearance. 

A fire began in the boiler room of the 53-year-old McKinley grade school in Lisbon, destroying the nine-room school. The loss is estimated at $100,000.