21 WFMJ archives  / March  18, 1987 | Cheryl Fimognari, Brookfield Junior High reading teacher, posed with two of her seventh-grade students, Erin Hennessy and Melissa DeCost, who were honored for the short stories they submitted in the national competition. Erin was one of 100 students who had their work published in "Rainbow Collection."

March 18 

2000: Columbiana County library officials are given a demonstration on "e-books" by Harriet Clem, director of the Rodman Public Library in Alliance. 

Downtown Youngstown businesses are becoming exasperated with recurring power outages, but Ohio Edison officials say they are doing everything possible. 

Students in teacher Bonnie Auletta's sophomore English class at Lordstown High School have turned their classroom into a replica of the island described in "Lord of the Flies," the novel about 17 British boys who struggle to develop their own society after being stranded.  

 

1985: The Youngstown Revitalization Foundation, which has an option to buy the Higbee Building and Parkade, hires three consulting firms to study redevelopment and traffic patterns on downtown Youngstown's west end.

Dr. Donna DiBlasio is the new supervisor of the Ohio Historical Society's Youngstown office and chief planner of a proposed industrial history museum. 

Metropolitan Savings Bank in Youngstown applies for coverage by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp., a step toward reopening as early as March 20.

 

1975: City Council President William A. Holt and Mrs. Dolores Cummings, president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians Auxiliary, are honored as the Irish Man and Irish Woman of the Year. 

An empty tractor-trailer crashes into the Standard Slag Co. research lab at 510 E. Main St., Canfield, causing an estimated $100,000 in damage to the building and contents. 

Named to the first team of the MVC basketball squad: Joe Skelton, Canfield; Tom Glenn, Liberty;  Dave Moore, Howland; Andy Ligget, Poland; and Jeff Woods, West Branch. 

   

1950: A few hours before her planned wedding, the proprietress of a South Avenue Hotel is arrested by Youngstown vice squad officers on charges of operating a house of ill repute. 

Paul Robeson, an opera singer turned Communist, performs in Campbell before an audience that includes many Youngstown supporters of the Progressive Party. Police Chief Paul Putko, who did not know about the performance in advance, warns local church leaders who hosted Robeson that he'll break up any future Communist meetings and make arrests.

Youngstown Police Chief Edward J. Allen says the first purchase he will make to modernize his department is a $2,000 lie-detector machine.