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Yahoo
10-05-2025
- General
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First Fridays event celebrates YSU graduates downtown
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — First Fridays Downtown Youngstown took place Friday night after it was postponed from last Friday due to rain. Thirteen vendors and organizations lined Phelps Street. This week's theme was celebrating YSU graduates. First Fridays are held on the first Friday of every month through October. Each month brings a different theme, but every time, it's a chance to get outside and enjoy the new Designated Outdoor Refreshment Area downtown. 'We really want to have more vendors and activities and activate the whole Phelps corridor gateway here. That way it's a nice vibrant alleyway and with the different music going on and finish it with the shows that are happening at the amphitheatre,' said Adam Lee with Youngstown CityScape. The next First Fridays celebration is June 6 with Chalk the Walk. You can register for First Fridays on their website. Tino DiCenso contributed to this story. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
21-03-2025
- General
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Youngstown CityScape looking for Planting Day volunteers
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — Youngstown CityScape is thinking spring. Friday was the kickoff breakfast ahead of the 28th annual Streetscape's planting day, where volunteers clean up and beautify downtown. The theme for Streetscape 2025 is 'Peace, Love & Flowers.' Last year, about 1,000 people participated in planting day. 'As a gardener, it's fun to see the city transformed in a day, to see all the plantings that happen,' Youngstown CityScape Executive Director Sharon Letson said. Planting day is May 31 this year. For more information on how you can volunteer, visit this page. 'Our Valley is full of people that really care,' Letson said. 'And I think it's fun we have many families who come and plant and then return back downtown to watch their flowers grow for the rest of the season.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
14-03-2025
- Business
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Mahoning Valley Historical Society honored at local event
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — Every ticket was sold Thursday for an event in Youngstown honoring a man and his organization that has done so much for the area. Youngstown CityScape awarded Bill Lawson and the Mahoning Valley Historical Society with this year's 'Sweet Grass Roots Award.' Since becoming executive director in 1991, Lawson has expanded from the society's offices on Wick Avenue to opening the Tyler History Center, where the event took place, and the soon-to-be-opened addition in the former IBM building on East Federal Street. 'We're very happy to host this event but also for all the love and honor that we're getting out of it too for the Historical Society, which we're coming up on our 150th anniversary and again we have been very much engaged in downtown and the university district and this is very sweet for us,' said Lawson. Lawson was presented with a commissioned art piece by artist Daniel Rauschenbach depicting the three buildings owned and operated by the Mahoning Valley Historical Society. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
