Category: Youngstown
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Obama at YSU
Obama came to Youngstown State University to speak to a crowd of 6000 today. I was down in the pit with a couple of friends, about ten feet from the stage, and had a good view of him. Took some pictures (and also some video, but I held the camera up and down instead of…
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Art Youngstown
Art Youngstown Inc. is pleased to announce: Call to Artists for the The Second Exhibition Artists (18 y.o. and older) may deliver their paintings, sculptures, films and other mediums of art for on Saturday, March 1st, 2008 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm & Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 from noon to 4:00 pm. Artists are…
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Okay, I laughed
Hillary Clinton was in Youngstown yesterday, speaking to workers at a nearby GM plant. One reason why I always love to read local and regional blogs during political periods is to see what the politicians face from the locals, who are not all that impressed and loverly with politicians due to trust issues we have…
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Cruddy
Our hometown middleweight champion of the world Kelly Pavlik goes back to the ring this Saturday to defend the belt he won this past autumn. In an article in the LA Times about him, he refers to Youngstown as “cruddy,” but as the reporter contextualizes, with Pavlik that’s a sign of honesty and affection. Which…
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Totally excellent
I came across this video via the blog “I Will Shout Youngstown” this afternoon, and thought it was really representative of the spirit that’s been taking over Youngstown in the past couple of years, and that community spirit seems to be growing more and more over time now. To be completely honest, it feels strange…
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Imagining a future
From CoolCleveland.com’s email list today, a video report from Hunter Morrison about Youngstown, the history of its loss of an economic way of life, the progression of its decline, and the strategies for imagining a future with a new identity that the thirty-something and lower crowd here have begun to bring to life in recent…
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Alicia Delvaux
Alicia Delvaux is one of my favorite bloggers, ever. She moved to Cleveland this year, but she still blogs for Valley24.com, a regional online hub for the Mahoning Valley, where I live. She recently posted a really wonderful entry about the things that have been occurring here in Youngstown in the past few years, recounting…
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The Stage, Halloween Style
Come to it and get up there!
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A Glorious Sunday
Not only did Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik win the middleweight championship in seven rounds tonight, giving it up to Youngstown in the interview afterward, the town that sent him off with a pep rally which people talked about on TV as if it were not as sophisticated as it should be, you know, pep rallies…
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Another Youngstown Ghost
There’s a boxer here in Youngstown who is taking on Jermain Taylor for the Middleweight Championship on HBO. Kelly Pavlik has been working hard for what he wants. I’m not a fan of boxing, but I’m a fan of people who chase their dreams. He’s the talk of the town right now, and with good…