21 WFMJ archives / June 9, 1991 | The South Range High Academic Challenge team defeated 90 other schools during the year but fell to Parma in a sudden-death playoff for the state championship 34 years ago. Seated from the left are Nick Bush, Isaac Molnar, and Joy Goodwin. Standing, adviser Sandra Mink and alternate Kyle Hoff.

June 9 

2000: In a 3-2 vote, the Springfield Board of Education allows seven seniors who had not passed all parts of the state's mandatory proficiency tests to participate in commencement ceremonies. 

A Lake Milton man who has criminal convictions for assault, using weapons while intoxicated, possession of marijuana, and furnishing intoxicating beverages to a minor files suit after being denied permission to buy a gun under Ohio law. His lawyer says none of those convictions should negate his constitutional right to buy or possess firearms. 

The second annual Mature Workers Job Fair, geared to connect people 50 and over with jobs, attracted 500 at the MetroPlex in Liberty Township. 

 

1985: Vindicator reporter Bertram de Souza visits Xenai, Ohio, for a firsthand look at how a community recovers from a devastating tornado. Eleven years after a deadly and damaging tornado struck the city, Xenia considers itself rebuilt. 

Atty. Paul Dutton is elected chairman of the Youngstown State University Board of Trustees. 

A federal judge in Cleveland ruled against a Youngstown janitorial and window cleaning contractor who claimed that a Youngstown State University policy setting aside 15 percent of its contracts for minority bidders caused him to suffer reverse discrimination. 

 

1975: Chester H. McPhee, a 28-year football coach at Chaney High and a former president of the Youngstown Board of Education, dies at South Side Hospital. He was 78. 

Warren police are continuing their investigation into the shooting death of a prominent Cortland insurance man, C. Howard Hector, outside the El Rio restaurant. 

Dr. Donald B. Swegan, formerly of Girard,  is named vice president for college relations and program development at  Ashland College. 

 

1950: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. announces that it is building a large addition to its electric welded pipe mill near Girard and appoints two new executive assistants to the vice president, Dr. Karl Fetters and William H. Yeckley. 

Sheriff Paul Langley says criticism of his department by township trustees and clerks is unfair, and he stands ready to investigate and remove any slot machines found in Mahoning County. 

Mahoning County Engineer Samuel Gould Jr. proposes a special 1-mill tax levy on property in Boardman and Austintown to finance the construction of storm sewers.