21 WFMJ archives / May 26,  2000 | Komar Croom, a first grader at Mary Haddow Schol in Youngstown pointed skyward with his classmates at a hot air balloon that lifted off from the school grounds 25 years ago as part of the school's second annual "Flight Festival" that had the students studying the history and science of flight. 

May 28 

2000: Analysts say a sinking stock price may force Phar-Mor to sell out. The pharmacy chain's stock, which was $11 two years ago, is now $1.75 per share. 

The Youngstown Catholic Diocese will add two additional school days to its calendar for 48 elementary schools and five high schools in the next academic year. 

Youngstown Bishop Thomas Tobin ordains three new priests, Dennis Bliss, John-Michael Lavelle, and Joseph Rudjak. 

1985: The Ward Beecher Science Hall on the campus of Youngstown State University sustains thousands of dollars in water damage throughout the building's six levels during a Memorial Day downpour. 

An estimated 5,000 people lined the streets of Sharon for the city's Memorial Day parade. 

Seven area residents, including three members of a Boardman family, are injured in a propane gas explosion inside a camper near the Berlin Reservoir. 

1975: Tuition in the six Youngstown Diocesan high schools will be $400 for the 1975-76 school year, a $50 increase.

A survey of seatbelt usage reveals that 93 percent of all children riding in cars are not buckled.

1950: Wellsville plans to mark its 155th anniversary with a pageant dramatizing the events of 1863, when rebel Gen. John Hunt Morgan and his raiders were stopped about seven miles south of Lisbon, the northern-most point that Confederate forces reached during the Civil War. 

Two Youngstown natives get top spots in the Pittsburgh Steel Corp.  Joseph H. Carter is chairman of the board, and Avery Adams is president. 

A century and a half of First Presbyterian Church history is recalled during a fellowship tea that was part of the congregation's sesquicentennial celebration.