21 WFMJ archives  / November 29, 1978 | Students from Ursuline High School were involved in a variety of community projects 46 years ago, including helping at Colonial Manor Nursing Home. Betty Raich, activities director, watches as students Christina Hernandez and Tony D'Eramo help residents with craft projects. Anna Braunstein, Ruth Becker, Ruby Thomas, Lucille Waltman, and Ann Dzubak are seated from the left.

November 29


1999: Youngstown police want the Ohio Liquor Control Board to examine the license of 13 bars in the city where police have been called multiple times for disturbances.

This holiday season, children can pet four reindeer—Vixen, Donner, Blitzen, and Prancer—at Noah's Lost Ark Animal Park in Berlin Center. 

Chains such as Rite Aid and CVS are building hundreds of stores and buying up corner lots at busy intersections to attract aging baby boomer customers. 


1984: The pipe organ in the Liberty-Paramount Theater, which hasn't been played regularly since the days of silent films, will be auctioned to raise funds that might finance the restoration of the rest of the theater. 

Warren residents will vote on a proposed 1.8 mill tax levy to finance public bus service in the spring. 

Speaking out for the first time since his firing as head coach of the Cleveland Browns on Oct. 22, Sam Rutigliano says he bears the team no ill will and acknowledges that the Browns need a fresh start. 


1974: Three armed men invade the Farrell police station, take a policeman's gun, and handcuff him to a dispatcher. Minutes later, six armed men rob the nearby liquor store, escaping with $4,700.

Trumbull County Judge David McLain issues an injunction barring all annexations in the county in a test of the state's annexation laws.

During a three-month trial, computerized cash registers will track sales and inventory at eight central Ohio liquor stores. 


1949: Youngstown City Council renews the city's 0.3 percent income tax for two years.

A blood-stained truck links a West Side man and his wife to the gangland-style slaying of George "Slim" Davis, whose body was found in a shallow grave in Austintown.

Truscon Steel Co. will build a large addition to its office building on Albert Street, centralizing management and engineering personnel near the plant.