21 WFMJ archives / November 26, 1961 | Christmas shoppers 62 years ago in the costume jewelry department of the downtown Youngstown McKelvey's store examined their gift choices beneath a canopy of sparkling metallic snowflakes.

December 9
1998: Ohio House Democrats vote to replace state Rep. Michael Verich of Warren with his younger brother, Christopher Verich after Michael Verich resigns to take an appointment to the state Employment Relations Board. 
A small live Christmas tree donated by a city resident and decorated by one of Mayor George McKelvey's secretaries was ordered removed from City Hall due to fire regulations. Laurie Ohl will take the tree home for her daughters to enjoy. 
Stoneridge, a Howland-based maker of electronic products, agrees to buy Hi-State Manufacturing Co. of Lexington, Ohio, for $362 million in cash, the company’s biggest acquisition yet. 
 
1983: The auditorium of Woodrow Wilson High School is jammed with students and parents who told the Board of Education that they were opposed to the proposed closing of the school.  
One of three men who robbed the Newport Branch of Society Bank of Eastern Ohio is arrested by Boardman police on the shore of Lake Newport off Kiwatha Road. 
The Youngstown Park and Recreation Commission is discussing closing the North Side Pool. Commission member Dr. Frederic D'Amato says the pool's land on Belmont Avenue is valuable and could be sold as the site of a medical facility, nursing home or apartments. 
 
1973: Youngstown district industrial firms are hoping for a mild winter, which would allow East Ohio Gas. Co. to provide for the area's energy needs. 
Five athletes are named to the Vindicator's  All-City team for the second year in a row: Greg Glover, East; Ben Norris, Rayen; James Diehl and Don Butler, South; and Matt Cavanaugh, Chaney's quarterback. 
President Nixon made a $117,000 profit on a 1970 land deal but paid no taxes because he was told by lawyers and accountants that there was no capital gain.
 
1948: Louise Fordyce Mudgett, a prominent Youngstown woman who rose to fame in the 1920s as one of the country's leading female golfers, dies at her North Carolina home. 
Three people, including a 13-year-old Lake Milton boy roller skating on a highway, die in area traffic accidents.
Claire Booth Luce, in town for a lecture at Stambaugh Auditorium, charms Vindicator columnist Esther Hamilton.