#mahoning river

[livefromyoungstownohio]

Embrace future potential of Valley, area mayors urged

WARREN — The overall message to the Mahoning River Corridor Mayors Association on Friday was the importance of cooperation among communities. “One of the advantages we have in this community is that we are very well connected with each other,” said U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Howland, the keynote speaker at the annual legislative meeting, which […]

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Growing Up in Working Class Youngstown -- Great Flood of 1913

Growing Up in Working Class Youngstown — Great Flood of 1913

Flooding of Republic Steel Mills along the Mahoning River, Photo from Mahoning Valley Historical Society Archive

The Great Flood of 1913 is an event probably no one reading this remembers. But my grandparents, and those of their generation, talked about it. It rained for four days and nights between March 23 and March 26, 1913. Similar to the Thanksgiving snowstorm of 1950, three different…

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Growing Up in Working Class Youngstown -- John Young

Growing Up in Working Class Youngstown — John Young

John Young Memorial, photo by Jack Pierce. (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Flickr

Did you know that Youngstown gets its name from the first European-American to settle on and acquire the land?  Youngstown is literally “Young’s Town.” Sure, you knew that! That’s Youngstown history 101. What was interesting to me was to find out a bit more history about Young. Along the way, I discovered that his presence, on…

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A Pleasant Spot on the Mahoning, Punxsutawney, Pa.

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Growing Up in Working Class Youngstown -- The Mahoning River

Growing Up in Working Class Youngstown — The Mahoning River

One thing I’ve noticed in conversations about Youngstown is that, at least in my experience, we rarely talk about the Mahoning River. And yet the Mahoning is a defining feature of the city and surrounding area. The city literally grew up along the River and extended outward from it. The steel industry would not have existed without it. And it lent its name to the region around Youngstown,…

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Toxic Fracking Wastewater Dumped into Sewer, Why No Arrest?

Do we have two different systems of justice—one for the wealthy businessperson and another for the common folk? Well it sure seems so, as the Ohio governor and business interests joined hands in the latest incident where at least 20,000 gallons of toxic and potentially radioactive fracking wastewater was dumped into a storm drain that empties into a tributary of the Mahoning River in Youngstown, Ohio.