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City schools remain under Academic Distress Commission oversight
1+ hour, 47+ min ago (888+ words) YOUNGSTOWN " The top Youngstown City School District official and others met Wednesday via Zoom with Ohio Department of Education and Workforce officials regarding having the Youngstown City School District removed from Academic Distress Commission oversight. Despite the conversations, however, Superintendent…...
Thousands of nurses go on strike at several major New York City hospitals
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (592+ words) The strike was taking place at The Mount Sinai Hospital and two of its satellite campuses, with picket lines forming. The other affected hospitals are NewYork-Presbyterian and Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. About 15,000 nurses are involved in the strike,…...
27 teachers in Boardman score awards
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (1096+ words) Among the 2025-26 Boardman Schools Fund for Educational Excellence winners are world language teachers Katelyn Kridler (Spanish and English language learners), left, and Gianna Pishotti (Italian). They won $8,400 to purchase approximately 12 Meta Quest 3S virtual reality headsets for their department. BOARDMAN " The…...
National Packard Museum planning $1M+ expansion
1+ week, 5+ day ago (511+ words) WARREN " More and more automobile collectors want to donate their vintage Packard vehicles to the National Packard Museum. It's a good problem to have, but it comes with a legitimate dilemma " where to store them? To accommodate its growing collection,…...
Ancient art of Peking opera works hard to keep flourishing
1+ week, 5+ day ago (724+ words) From more than 100 spectators in a modern Beijing theater, cheers and applause rise. It is a Sunday afternoon in early September, and Zhang is leading "The Masked Heroine," a signature play from the Song School of Peking opera, founded in…...
Explosions, plane crash, mayorâs race top Valley news in 2025
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1791+ words) EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a brief synopsis of the top 10 stories from The Vindicator as chosen by the newspaper staff. Metro Editor Marly Reichert It was a year of disasters, scandals, political surprises and honors in the Mahoning Valley, and…...
Daughter writes about family and physical challenges
3+ week, 1+ day ago (612+ words) It's Thursday morning. Daniel just left for work at 3:45 a.m. I feel so lucky that I get to stay home where it's cozy while he goes out to work and provides for us. It's 6 a.m. now, and I just got done feeding…...
Police busy after responding to altercations at Chaney-East game
3+ week, 2+ day ago (634+ words) YOUNGSTOWN " Several incidents were reported Friday night following reports of students at Chaney High School fighting after a Chaney-East High School basketball game. The initial report was from 8:19 p.m. at the high school at 731 S. Hazelwood Ave., for crowd control after officers…...
Humans and dogs treated to Christmas feasts in 1915
3+ week, 4+ day ago (519+ words) 110 Years Ago, 1915 transcribed as originally published in the Youngstown Vindicator: "Ready for Christmas. Ham and Bread club will distribute six hundred baskets." "The Ham and Bread club of the Anti-Prohibition League has in readiness the 600 baskets to be distributed among…...
Valley leaders seek to oust clerk of courts
3+ week, 6+ day ago (449+ words) YOUNGSTOWN " The heads of the Mahoning County Republican and Democratic parties today will launch a bipartisan effort to start the process of collecting signatures to seek the removal of embattled Clerk of Courts Michael P. Ciccone from office through legal action....