'3 Minutes With' Bryan DePoy, Dean, YSU College of Creative Arts
Thursday, September 25, 2014YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – In today's “3 Minutes With” video, Bryan DePoy, dean of the College of Creative Arts at Youngstown State University, discusses the exhibition in Bliss Hall’s Judith Rae Solomon Gallery by Pulitzer Prize winning photographer David Hume Kennerly. A friend of YSU graduate and actor Ed O’Neill, Kennelry donated the photographs to YSU, which will be sold to raise funds for an art department scholarship. He will be at YSU Oct. 3 reception, gallery talk and fundraiser.
SBA Economic-Injury Disaster Loans Available
Thursday, September 25, 2014ATLANTA -- Federal economic injury disaster loans are available to small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and most private nonprofit organizations of all sizes in Ohio as a result of the freeze from Jan. 2 through April 17. Counties that qualify include Ashtabula, Geauga, Mahoning, Portage and Trumbull.
Ryan's New Book Calls for 'Real Food Revolution'
Wednesday, September 24, 2014YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Tim Ryan says he loves to eat. Like many of us, he starts every week vowing to abstain from junk food, make better nutrition choices and control what he calls his "addiction" to chicken wings and ice cream.
But like all Americans, Ryan and his family often are held captive by a food system that profits from tax dollars that make “fake food cheaper” and consumers sicker, he writes in his new book, The Real Food Revolution.
Traficant Critically Injured in Accident at Greenford Farm
Wednesday, September 24, 2014YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Former U.S. Rep. James Traficant is being treated in the intensive care unit at St. Elizabeth Medical Center following an accident last night at his daughter’s farm in Greenford. He is said to be in critical condition.
A farm tractor he was driving reportedly hit an object that caused it to overturn and trap the former congressman. According to news accounts, Traficant was administered CPR by emergency responders from Goshen Township. He was taken to Salem Regional Hospital then transferred to St. Elizabeth.
YSU Launches Senior-Youth Mentorship Program
Wednesday, September 24, 2014YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- When he was 35, Joseph Lyons wanted to volunteer his time and join a mentoring program. But the director of the College of Health and Human Services graduate program at Youngstown State University didn’t have the time, he said.
Work and his two children took precedence after working and spending time with his two children.
Now 67, he has the time, along with a new perspective that can come only from a lifetime of learning. The extra three decades of experience he gained drove Lyons to establish the YSU Senior-Youth Mentorship Program.
Drilling Interest Again Rises in Columbiana County
Wednesday, September 24, 2014YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Oil and gas exploration in Columbiana County is gaining renewed momentum in the wake of positive production results from this area of the Utica shale.
Two weeks after the Ohio Department of Natural Resources released second quarter production numbers that showed favorable output from wells in Columbiana County, two energy companies appear to be stepping up interest there.
NTB to Build Store at Old Putt-Putt Site
Wednesday, September 24, 2014BOARDMAN, Ohio -- Work could get underway as soon as today on a new National Tire & Battery store on the site of the former Putt-Putt miniature golf course on South Avenue, a company official says.
NTW LLC purchased the site, at 7204 South Ave., from Sweet Pea Land LLC for $485,000, Edward J. Lewis Inc. in Youngstown announced Tuesday. The 1.6-acre site has been vacant for about 10 years, estimated Jim Grantz, the Lewis broker associate who represented Sweet Pea in the transaction. “It’s been a long time,” he said.
Last CEO of First Place Named COO of Talmer
Wednesday, September 24, 2014TROY, Mich. -- The Board of Directors of Talmer Bancorp Inc. appointed Thomas C. Shafer, age 55, as chief operating officer of the bank holding company and president of Talmer Bank and Trust effective Monday.
He will be paid $350,000 a year, a continuation of his current base salary. Shafer joined Talmer in 2010 and has served as vice chairman of Talmer Bancorp since 2011.
Eastern Gateway College Reaches Enrollment Record
Wednesday, September 24, 2014STEUBENVILLE, Ohio -- Eastern Gateway Community College reported Tuesday that its fall enrollment is 3,155, a record.
Headcount is up 9% from fall 2013 when Eastern Gateway enrolled 2,904 students. The new-student count is 1,242, up from 1,197 a year ago. Continuing and returning students show the largest increase, going from 1,707 in 2014 to 1,913 this fall.
Another milestone in enrollment reporting was made with the unduplicated headcount for the 2013-2104 academic year when 4,338 unduplicated students registered. This is the first time enrollment broke the 4,000 mark.
'3 Minutes With' U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio
Wednesday, September 24, 2014YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – In today's “3 Minutes With” video, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, discusses factors voters consider in elections and shares his thoughts on how President Obama is handling the threat of the Islamic State terrorist organization. Brown visited Meridian Community Care Monday to discuss his legislation that would increase the number of addicts a physician is allowed to treat. (READ STORY.)