21 WFMJ archives  / January  12, 1971 | The Mahoning Valley was well represented at the inauguration of Ohio Gov. John J. Gilligan 54 years ago. Mahoning County Democratic women posed for a Vindicator photographer in the lobby of the Neil House in Columbus before the inauguration.

January 11

2000: Three Trumbull County Christian schools -- Warren Christian School, Life Christian Academy, and Victory Christian School in Kinsman -- propose construction of a $3.5 million high school in Howland to serve all three. 

Traci Winbush, the newest member of the Youngstown Board of Education, says board members should be required to take drug tests in light of board member Don L. Hanni III's arrest for driving under the influence and drug abuse. 

The parents of a 14-year-old Boardman Middle School student arrested for making bomb threat phone calls to Boardman schools are suing the Boardman Local School District for $2 million, claiming their son only made the calls because he was being bullied at school and the district did nothing to protect him. 

 

1985: Harold Nichols, shop chairman of IUE Local 717 at the Packard Electric Division of General Motors, said he believes Packard has a good shot at providing parts for the new Saturn Corp. 

Responding to a request by Youngstown City Council, U.S. Sen. John Glenn asks the Senate Labor and Human Relations Committee chairman to investigate the federal government's method of calculating unemployment rates. The federal government calculated the city's unemployment rate at 15.2 percent, but the YSU Center for Urban Studies pegged the rate at 29 percent. 

After meeting with Gov. Richard Celeste, Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro said he hopes to break ground within a year on a new city-county jail. 

 

1975: Charges of robbery, abduction, and criminal assault are filed against a 33-year-old Rittman man accused of attempting to throw a 21-year-old Wadsworth man over the Berlin Reservoir bridge on Nov. 19.

Father John Marmureanu, an orthodox priest who fled Romania in 1969 after the Russians invaded Czechoslovakia, arrives in Youngstown as pastor of Holy Trinity Romanian Orthodox Church. 

Juan Brantley, 17, a senior on the Struthers basketball team, dies after collapsing during the Struthers-Campbell game at the Struthers Fieldhouse. 

 

1950: Mrs. Maria Eva Duarte Peron, wife of Argentine President Juan Peron, is reported to have suffered an attack of acute appendicitis while opening a taxi union headquarters in Buenos Aires.

The Better Films Council of Greater Youngstown asks theater owners and operators to sponsor special children's matinees featuring films that the screening committee has approved. 

Two Trumbull County men sought in the $2,500 robbery of Modern Manor tavern in Youngstown are captured a week later in Long Beach, Calif.