21 WFMJ Archives / March 5, 1987 | Members of the Howland High School Latin Club took second-place honors at the state convention of the Ohio Junior Classical League 39 years ago.  From left, Grant Cook, Brian Seiden,  Robin Cordell, Mrs. Bernice Marino, Latin teacher, and Erica Reinard.

March 3

2001: It appears U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. will be the only member of the House to have no committee assignments after  Democrats refuse to give him a committee assignment because he broke ranks to vote for Republican Dennis Hastert of Illinois as House speaker. 

Youngstown State University trustees are considering a policy that would require the university to send a notice to the parents of students younger than 21 who are disciplined for violating YSU's rules on drugs and alcohol. 

A Trumbull County jury spared Ronald Shaffer, 19, of Newton Falls from the death penalty, recommending life in prison without parole. The same jury had found him guilty of killing Garry Bell and Charley Mathey III, both 40, and the attempted murder of  David Harper, 38.

 

1986: Three employees of Tamco Distributors Inc. were injured when a Tamarkin employee drove through a picket line at the company's plant on Victoria Road. The driver was arrested on three counts of assault and one count of carrying a concealed weapon. 

Sharpsville, Pa., transfers the last two full-time firefighters to other borough jobs, leaving the fire department with a full-time chief and only part-time firefighters as a cost-saving measure. 

Nine months after the tornado destroyed the Convenient store on Vienna Avenue in Niles, owners James Prezioso and John Ameen say it is ready to reopen. 

Owners of the Avalon Inn break ground for a $2.2 million, 54-room addition.

 

1976: Mrs. Nettie Ashelman is appointed to the Trumbull County Board of Elections, filling a spot on the board vacated after Al Sisk, a Democrat, was named board director, and Orval Waldron, a Republican, was named assistant director. 

The Postal Service, alarmed by the drop in mail use, is considering a nationwide advertising campaign urging people to write more letters. 

 

1951: Burglars ransack three Wick Avenue churches but escape with little money from First Presbyterian Church, First Christian Church, and Pilgrim  Collegiate Church. 

Seventeen people clad only in night clothes flee into the street after fire breaks out in a three-story frame apartment house at 1116-18 Wabash Street in Youngstown. 

The Muskingum College basketball team wins the Ohio Conference championship under Coach McCoy Mariner, a former student at Scienceville High School ( now Youngstown North High). He is in his seventh year at the helm of the Muskies. Don Simon of Boardman is on his squad.