21 WFMJ archives / May 17,  1989 | The Youngstown Police Department Honor Guard fired a salute to slain officers during the police memorial observance downtown 36 years ago. 

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2000: For the first time in nine years, Lake Newport in Mill Creek Park will open to boating. 

Columbiana County commissioners are discussing a "pay to stay" program that would bill inmates in the county jail for their days of incarceration. 

Dr. Leslie Cochran, retiring president of Youngstown State University, and his wife, Linda, are each honored as "Person of the Year" by the Mahoning Valley Economic Development Corp. 

 

1985: The Ohio Department of Youth Services agrees to turn over $4.2 million and all contracts to Trumbull County officials so that the county can take over construction of the much-delayed Family Court building. 

Thirty-four Trumbull County residents are welcomed as new citizens by Judge Mitchell F. Shaker in what Clerk of Courts Violet C. Whitman says may be the last such local ceremony. Whitman, who has administered the oath to every new citizen since 1947, says citizenship classes that once numbered in the hundreds have shrunk over the years, and the ceremony will likely be moved to Cleveland. 

Thousands of trucks carrying hazardous chemicals traverse the highways of western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, but local officials say the area is ill-equipped to respond to chemical spills. 

 

1975: A threatened deregulation of the airline industry, coupled with the FAA's efforts to heap on "user charges," could sharply cut service at Youngstown Municipal Airport and other airports like it. 

The Ohio High School Athletic Association is planning its first girls' track and field championship, which will be held at Ohio State. 

Struthers High School seniors, under the direction of Dr. John R. White, assistant professor of anthropology at Youngstown State University, will spend the summer excavating the Hopewell Furnace, the first blast furnace in the Western Reserve. 

 

1950: Chester W. Bailey, veteran Youngstown 5th Ward councilman, is elected chairman of the Mahoning County Republican Central Committee, succeeding Byron Wade. 

Youngstown police cruisers get a new look. They're painted black and white and have "Police" in large letters on each side. Chief Edward Allen says well-marked cruisers are part of the "progressive police tactics of today."

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