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Bite of Paying $325,000 Up Front Eased for Youngstown"
Wednesday, July 14, 2004YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- The city of Youngstown will avoid paying up front the $325,000 needed to raze the vacant buildings in Federal Plaza West where the courthouse for the state 7th District Court of Appeals will be built.Instead, the Youngstown Central Area Community Improvement Corp. has reached an agreement with Mahoning County for the county to issue short-term bond anticipation notes (BANs) to be purchased by the city and retired over several years.The two-story courthouse, to offer 13,500 gross square feet and scheduled to open Jan.
$53 Million to Defend Doctors Dropped from Lawsuits
Wednesday, July 14, 2004BOARDMAN, Ohio -- Area physicians and their insurance companies spent as much as $53 million over three years to defend medical malpractice claims that were dismissed, accordingly to new research.The research, commissioned by the Tri-County Physicians for Patients' Rights, was conducted by a local law firm in May to determine how many medical malpractice cases filed in a four-year period -- from 2000 through 2003 -- were dismissed because they were found to be without merit.
Financial Planners Schedule Book Signings
Wednesday, July 14, 2004LIBERTY TOWNSHIP., Ohio -- A special book signing will take place at two local bookstores July 23. Sheryl Garrett, certified financial planner and founder of The Garrett Planning Network, and Steven Shagrin, CFP, member of The Garrett Planning Network and founder of Planning For Life, will appear at the events.The first book signing will occur from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 381 Boardman-Poland Road, Boardman, and the second will take place from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Borders, 2102 Niles-Cortland Rd.
Points of View
Wednesday, July 14, 2004New York was Still New Amsterdam, a Dutch ColonyWe are about to commemorate an important anniversary in American history. It was 350 years ago, at the end of July 1654, that the bark St. Catherine arrived at the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. The tiny, three-masted ship carried 23 passengers: four adult men, six women, and 13 children.Their journey from the southern Caribbean Sea had taken several months, with pirates intercepting them along the way and stopovers at Cuba, Jamaica and Martinique where Dutch colonists bound for North America joined them temporarily.
Journal Opinion
Wednesday, July 14, 2004Keep the 910th Airlift Wing HereFor most who live and work in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys, the 910th Airlift Wing at the Youngstown Air Reserve Station could just as well have been in Vienna, Austria, as Vienna Township.Its role in the defense of the United States and its impact on the health of the economy of eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania were best known to the Air Force reservists who serve there, the residents of Vienna and Fowler townships and the few who concern themselves with economic development.Even the 1995 round of Base Realignment and Closings seemed remote because mo
Success Story
Wednesday, July 14, 2004No Time to Rest on Its Products, Tiger Sales GrowsSharon company makes foam cushions for seats and lumber spacers for furniture makers. With Tiger Sales Inc. looking to expand, Mark S. Cabraja has no timeto sit back and relax in one of the seat cushions his company makes.Tiger Sales serves furniture makers in the Northeast and on July 8opened a new facility in High Point, N.C., to serve that state andadjoining markets. "It's a learning process every day," says Cabraja, president of TigerSales. "I'm not here to tell you that we've made it.
"Bite of Paying $325,000 Up Front Eased for Youngstown"
Tuesday, July 13, 2004"YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- The city of Youngstown will avoid paying up front the $325,000 needed to raze the vacant buildings in Federal Plaza West where the courthouse for the state 7th District Court of Appeals will be built.Instead, the Youngstown Central Area Community Improvement Corp. has reached an agreement with Mahoning County for the county to issue short-term bond anticipation notes (BANs) to be purchased by the city and retired over several years.The two-story courthouse, to offer 13,500 gross square feet and scheduled to open Jan.
Wire Service
Tuesday, July 13, 2004"Internet Makes Travel a BreezeVacation season is in full swing, but there's still plenty of time to make plans even for this year. If you want a tour package that includes special events and sights or you, or you aren't comfortable unless you talk to someone in person, you'll be better off working with a travel agent.
Points of View
Tuesday, July 13, 2004"New York was Still New Amsterdam, a Dutch ColonyWe are about to commemorate an important anniversary in American history. It was 350 years ago, at the end of July 1654, that the bark St. Catherine arrived at the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. The tiny, three-masted ship carried 23 passengers: four adult men, six women, and 13 children.Their journey from the southern Caribbean Sea had taken several months, with pirates intercepting them along the way and stopovers at Cuba, Jamaica and Martinique where Dutch colonists bound for North America joined them temporarily.