Vindicator file photo / September 24, 1969 | Marking the opening of the Republican Party Headquarters in Youngstown at Front and Market streets 73 years ago were, from left, Mrs. Elsie Dieter,  president of the Mahoning County Republican Women; Elton Luckhart, Mahoning County  Republican chairman; William Shranko, 4th Ward  Republican Council candidate;  Carl Spence, Republican  2nd Ward candidate; Mrs. Dorothy Manos,  chairwoman of the Americanization Committee of Republican  Women; Judge Charles P. Henderson, Judge Nicholas Manos, and  Atty. Joseph E. Vouros, candidate for municipal court judge.

September 27 

1997: The Jewish Journal, a biweekly paper edited by Sherry Weinblatt in the basement of the Youngstown Jewish Community Center, marks ten years of publication. It is the successor to the Jewish Times, published for 41 years by Harry Alter. 

Thirty-three of the 39 past Homecoming Queens of United Local High School returns for the 1997 homecoming parade. Among them were three sisters, Robin DeVille Stewart, 1987; Dawn DeVile, 1989; and Brook DeVille, 1994.

Mill Creek Park officials will hold a forum at the Mahoning County Experimental Farm in Canfield to discuss the problem of the overpopulation of deer in the park. The most likely methods will be opening the park to bow hunting or using sharpshooters to cull the herd. 

1982: Republic Steel Corp.'s Mahoning Valley Division has laid off 200 white-collar workers. 

The Shenango Valley Chamber of Commerce wants to host a debate between Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidates Republican Gov. Dick Thornburgh and his Democratic challenger Allen Ertel.

Stanford upends Ohio State, 23-20, and Cincinnati mauls Youngstown State University, 57-3.

1972: Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter announces a meeting of Mahoning and Trumbull county officials to discuss enforcement of  Sunday closing laws that have created a legal quagmire.

A 16-year-old youth arrested for suspicion in the $15,000 robbery of the Hubbard  Branch of Mahoning National Bank has admitted his involvement in more than a dozen armed robberies since the spring. 

Shareholders of the General Fireproofing Co. call a special meeting for November to rename the company  G.F. Business Equipment Inc. and to change its state of incorporation from Ohio to Delaware. 

1947: James P. Griffith, director of District 26, United Steelworkers of America, says the union is halfway toward its goal of unionizing all steelworkers in the Youngstown District. 

A killing frost hits eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, with losses mounting into the six figures.

The Youngstown contingent of the Ohio Fire Safety Committee launches a program for Fire Prevention Week that it hopes to convert into a year-round effort.