21 WFMJ archives / April 19, 1972 | Three-year-old Schon Howard caught the eye of Democratic presidential candidate Edmund S. Muskie with his sign that gave a new reading to the Maine senator's initials as Muskie arrived in Youngstown 53 years ago.  Looking on, from left, Frank Leseganich, Mrs. Jay Morris, Michael Pope, and Michael McCullion. 

April 22

2000: A Mahoning County grand jury indicts one of two men accused of firing gunshots outside Choffin Career Center. 

For only the second time in the award's history, two city school students, Derek Dixie and Vanessa Sabo, will share the Darian Award, which honors the best musician in the city schools. Both are seniors at Wilson. 

William Phillis, director of the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy in School Funding, says Gov. Bob Taft's proposal to spend $23 billion on school buildings over 12 years is stretched out over too many years. 

 

1985: Youngstown Superintendent Emanuel Catsoules recommends that the Board of Education furlough 107 teachers to adjust for declining enrollment.    

Mahoning County court reporters, with between eight and 30 years of experience as stenographers, say they see no need for computerized transcription. 

Jim Sarvas of Jim Sarvas Dodge pledges $50,000 toward the $200,000 goal for restoration of the Columbia Theater in downtown Sharon. 

 

1975: Two brothers are among the four top winners in the annual chess tournament conducted by Youngstown Public Schools. The winners are Tim and Len Timko, Herbert Mitchell, and Edward Thomas. 

Austintown Township residents voted overwhelmingly in favor of a juvenile curfew during a town hall meeting hosted by trustees at the middle school. 

 

1950: Mahoning Sheriff Paul J. Langley says county commissioners forced him to buy big, expensive cars even though he wanted smaller cars. He has added two Chryslers, two Studebakers, a Buick, a Hudson, and a DeSoto to his fleet in little over a year.

Frost hits the Youngstown area for the second successive day, with temperatures dropping to 23 degrees in Canfield and 29 at the airport.