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What's up Youngstown! Let's start this morning right by getting caught up on what's going on around town. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • How many Youngstown neighbors the Rescue Mission sheltered and fed this year
  • What will replace Youngstown’s historic South High Fieldhouse?
  • Will Youngstown keep this crucial school-area traffic light?

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Weather forecast:

  • Thursday: Cloudy and breezy; p.m. rain, with a high of 52 and low of 30 degrees.
  • Friday: Snow showers; windy, colder, temps: high: 39, low: 20.
  • Saturday: Cloudy, with a high of 43 and low of 29 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Report: Rescue Mission provided meals, beds to more than 1,000 in Youngstown (wfmj.com) — A Youngstown-based Rescue Mission provided nearly 58,000 shelter nights and more than 130,000 meals to over 1,000 people in the Mahoning Valley over the last fiscal year. The organization, serving Youngstown since 1893, is planning more emergency family rooms and transitional homes to meet rising housing needs. Leaders are now seeking community support to fund these expansions.
   

2. City of Youngstown sells South High Fieldhouse (wkbn.com) — Youngstown City Council has approved selling the former South High Fieldhouse site to Valley Christian for $64,000, clearing the way for a new athletic complex on the South Side. School leaders envision a football field, six-lane track, and a new entrance honoring the building’s history, with a $5 million project funded by an upcoming capital campaign.
   

3. AUS students express concerns with traffic light removal at city council meeting (wkbn.com) — Youngstown students from the Academy of Urban Scholars are urging City Council to keep a traffic light at Market Street and Auburndale and to make the area a designated school zone. City officials are weighing whether to remove ten signals citywide, fund upgrades themselves, or leave them in place, with any construction unlikely before May 2027.
   

4. Holiday concert raises funds for food bank (vindy.com) — A free Holiday Concert of Giving at Youngstown’s Stambaugh Auditorium this Sunday at 2:30 p.m. will collect monetary donations for Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley. The Youngstown Area Community Concert Band and Stambaugh Chorus will perform classic holiday pieces, celebrate longtime conductor Joseph Pellegrini’s final season, and ensure all funds raised go directly to the food bank.
   

5. Many hearing what Binder has to say (vindy.com) — Youngstown music fans can trace blues singer Leanne Binder’s journey back to her early opera training with instructors from Youngstown State University’s Dana School of Music. Now gaining national attention with her EP “I Got Something to Say,” she’s focusing shows around her original songs while using her classical technique to guide both her own performances and her local voice students.
   

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