21 WFMJ archives / March 22, 1995 | Paul McConnell warmed up the Rayen School Choir before a performance at Stambaugh Auditorium 30 years ago. 

March 23

 2000: After six weeks of a strike by members of Teamsters Local 377, the Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital, which opened on the North Side in 1953 as Cafaro Memorial Hospital, announces it will close.  

Sixth Grade Teacher Linda Robb talks a 12-year-old boy at McKinley Elementary in Lisbon into handing over a loaded pistol he was using to hold teacher Dan Kemats and about 25 students hostage in a classroom. 

Struthers High Senior Rick McFadden, who made the All-Ohio First Team as a quarterback in football, repeated the honor in basketball. The Ohio State football recruit was named first team on the 2000 Division II Associated Press All-Ohio boys basketball team. 

 

1985: Metropolitan Savings and Loan of Youngstown will reopen after getting approval for a merger with FNB Corp. of Hermitage, Pa.  

Carmen E. Turner, general manager of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, urges Youngstown State University graduates to be "catalysts for productive, constructive and creative change in society." Dr. Neil Humphrey, YSU president,  said the speaker broke barriers as a black woman. 

The Rayen High Tigers will be heading to Columbus for a shot at the state championship after capturing the Class AA regional title, beating Warren John F. Kennedy, 50-37.

 

1975: Four young adults and a juvenile from Columbiana County draw six-year prison terms in Spain following a trial on drug charges. 

Scuba divers Michael Howe and Jack Phelps of Jack's Auto Marine at Ashtabula Harbor recover the 28-foot long rudder from the wreckage of the schooner "James F. Joy" that sunk in Lake Erie near the harbor in 1887.

Some 200 young volunteers from the Mahoning Chapter of the America Red Cross and St. Elizabeth Hospital received awards at a joint recognition ceremony. Receiving Clara Barton Awards were Barbara Adojan, Peggy Bindas, Deanna Caccamo, Coleen Carney, Lark Galey, William Hayes, Robert Osiniak, Mary Beth Patrick, Cheryl Siemons, and Ken Stinson. 

 

1950: The Sherwin-Williams Co. plans to build a $250,000 paint can plant in Hubbard, says Mayor Joseph Baldine. 

Mrs. Marjorie Lansing Brimner, mother of three children who has been continuing her education at Youngstown College since her husband died a year ago, is awarded the President and Mrs. Howard Jones Scholarship. 

The U.S. Public Housing Commission approved 935 low-cost housing units for Youngstown and dropped 400 units for Campbell and Struthers after their city councils failed to pass resolutions of cooperation.