21 WFMJ archives / March 27, 1985 | To mark Warren's 150th birthday, members of the City Council dressed in period costumes when they met 40 years ago.

March 29

2000: Sean Devlin, president of Rolling Thunder of Ohio, Chapter 4 in Youngstown, spends 48 hours in a bamboo cage on Federal Plaza to protest federal plans to curtail the search for prisoners of war and MIAs in Vietnam by the end of 2004. 

Hagstrom House, which has been providing community services, primarily to Westlake Terrace residents for 60 years, will be razed along with 289 Westlake housing units as part of a $1.5 million redevelopment grant to the Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority. 

The Youngstown-Warren Chamber of Commerce is assisting in the search for a Trumbull County site to accommodate an additional 200 call-takers that Infocision says it will hire.  The Akron-based company's Austintown location, which has been open for five years, has 500 employees. 

 

1985: The Youngstown district is inundated with 2 inches of rain, flooding streets and roads and forcing the evacuation of a mobile home park near New Castle, Pa. Austintown, and some other areas are pelted with pea-sized hail. 

New Castle  City Council is appealing for cooperation with Lawrence County to raze the former Johnson Bronze Co. complex, which has been vacant since it was forfeited for back taxes years ago. 

Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro wins an enthusiastic endorsement from Mahoning County Young Democrats, a group not affiliated with the Mahoning County Democratic Party. 

 

1975: The Mahoning County sheriff's office is holding a 55-year-old Canton man and 24-year-old Malvern man in an attempted arson of a light airplane stored at the Miller Airport in Smith Township. 

Dr. Leonard Skeggs Jr., a Youngstown native investigator in the hypertension research lab at Veterans Hospital in Cleveland, urges Youngstown State University graduates to aim high.

The Youngstown Park and Recreation Commission hires Gerald Stone as the new manager-patrolman at Lake Milton. 

 

1950: Officials of Halls Corners, the tiny Trumbull County hamlet home to the darkened Jungle Inn gambling den, are waging a heavy campaign to save their jobs. Voters will decide if the village should revert to being a part of Liberty Township. 

Police believe jewel thieves who robbed Youngstown Salesman Philip Kraver on Feb. 2 are part of a precision theft ring operating out of Chicago. 

The Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania railroads planned new multimillion-dollar piers in Philadelphia for shipments of foreign iron ore needed at inland plants, especially in Pittsburgh and Youngstown.